Bush is turning out to be a pretty bad liar (Star-Ledger)

[kurth]

December 08, 2005
Bush is turning out to be a pretty bad liar
Paul Mulshine, THE STAR-LEDGER OF NEWARK, N.J.

People say with assurance that George W. Bush is a man of his word, a man who means what he says and says what he means. Well, that's the spin. In reality, he's a politician. In other words, he's a liar. That doesn't bother me. I admire a good politician, which is to say I admire a good liar.

What bothers me is that of late Bush's lies are so obvious that even the boobs can see through them. I allude, of course, to his recent attempts to placate his base with an alleged "crackdown" on illegal immigration. That's a great idea. The problem is, even the boobs can see he's lying. Here's what he said while wearing a Border Patrol jacket in Tucson, Ariz., last week: "We want to make it clear that when people violate immigration laws, they're going to be sent home, and they need to stay at home." And here's what he said in his Saturday radio address: "Our immigration laws apply across all of America, and we will enforce those laws throughout our land."

There are more than 10 million people violating our immigration laws at this moment. Bush hasn't the slightest intention of enforcing the immigration laws against them. His goal, obvious to anyone with ears, is not to enforce the laws but to suspend them. He wants an amnesty. And he's lying about that, too. "I oppose amnesty," he said Saturday. "Rewarding lawbreakers would encourage others to break the law and keep pressure on our border." But Bush does indeed plan to reward those who broke the law. He wants to give them guest-worker permits good for six years. That's an amnesty. And consider the Bush administration's push to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens. If he's going to send home all those who are violating our immigration laws, why will the violators need driver's licenses?

I suspect that even the dimmest of the dim bulbs out there in the red states can see through this spin. But many of them are still buying the spin on the Iraq war. Bush made a speech about that last week as well, this time in Annapolis, Md. He somehow refrained from dressing up in that Navy flight suit again, but the speech was full of the usual lies and evasions that have followed since the unraveling of the mission his spin doctors once portrayed as accomplished...

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/12/8bushspin_edit.html

[jbfam4]

1. posted yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x177969

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2. grand headline