From Pine View Farm

Lies and Lying Liars, Reprise 3

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I had a 2-S and was damned glad I did. I remember sophomore year sitting in a dark dorm room with several of my friends listening to the first modern draft lottery on the radio. We all wanted to know our numbers.

Mine was 349. I could relax for the first time since I registered (somewhere I still have my card).

No one wants to die for a lie, and that’s what the Vietnamese War was, a Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie.

Not the first, certainly not the last, just another of many.

The old lie; the young die.

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3 comments

  1. George

    June 10, 2012 at 11:31 am

    My attitude toward all this may be shifting toward resignation that Romney has to be president. I didn’t think any man like him could possibly win. However, it’s now obvious that Romney knows he’s a pathological liar and doesn’t care because he also knows it no longer matters in this country if you even show someone in instant video doing it. A lot of people who vote and the entire Republican Party simply does not care — the latter viewing it as an asset. If being a pathological liar is an asset and a big one then what value is there in being anything else? If the polity sees no difference or value in being that anything else then we must have Romney as president. And until the Democratic Party adopts these tactics it can disband.
    It’s not that he lies about some things, he lies about everything. I find that stupefying but no one seems to know how to grapple with it. It would occur to me to make a campaign ad saying simply: Mitt Romney is a pathological liar. What’s more, he views it as proper, as a mark of good character. He’s proof. [60 seconds of fast cuts of Romney lying about everything.] If you think the country should have someone who can’t tell the truth about anything, the opposite of George Washington, please vote for Romney, not for me.” 

     
  2. George

    June 10, 2012 at 11:47 am

    That clip is a devastating takedown. There have been a lot. I saw Paul Krugman on some news segment being asked to respond to some statement of Romney’s on the economy and he just said something like, “Where to begin? Everything Mitt Romney says is a lie including the words ‘a,’ ‘and’ and ‘the.’ From where I sit now none of this matters, ever. Tomorrow he’ll be on television, smiling and lying about something else and there will be a whole new bunch of savage deconstructions which have no effect at all.   

     
  3. Frank

    June 10, 2012 at 10:22 pm

    . . . and his lies get repeated without critique by the (forgive the expression) mainstream media  because he-said-on-the-other-hand.

    There really is no there there.  No conscience, no conscious.  Just today’s front, to be replaced by tomorrow’s front.  The ultimate medicine show.

    I am becoming glad that my time is short.  One more decade, maybe two, and I shall no longer have to witness the Republican debasement of the American dream, aka, the Triumph of Ignorance and Hate.