The Once and Present Liar
It is a common mantra of the Left that President Bush has lied about a good many things. Of course, when actually called upon to prove a lie, as the word is actually defined, they can’t. That the President has said things that turned out to be untrue or followed the advice of people who were found later to be wrong is not in question. There’s a long road between saying something that turns out to be wrong and flat-out lying.
As linked to all over the blogosphere (the right-leaning side of it, anyway), the Washington Times has a story out this morning that directly refutes the claim made repeatedly by John Kerry that he met with UN Security Council to discuss Iraq and Saddam Hussein before voting to authorize military operations there. Security Council members who were asked have said they never met with him. Between 9 October 2002 and 8 October 2004 Kerry has stated, on the record, no less than 7 times that he met with the Security Council to discuss the matter. Not so. Just like his “Christmas-in-Cambodia” claim, this assertion is a textbook-definition lie.
Redstate.org has a complete set of the quotes, with links to original material, of the assertions by the Democratic candidate regarding his meetings. These aren’t misunderstandings, as much as the Left wants to paint them that way. Kerry’s not claiming that someone else had those meetings and that he was just told about them. You can’t say he took it on good faith that the meetings happened and he’s being undermined by someone else not telling the truth. He said those meetings occured. He supposedly attended them. Just like Cambodia, he claims to have been at a certain place with certain people at a certain time and it’s now confirmed that he certainly wasn’t. There’s no interpretation going on here: the man is lying to us all. This is the guy some people think would make a good President? The Left can justify all they like about how other Presidents have lied but I’d point out to them that they themselves are almost guaranteed to be the crowd howling the loudest for those past President’s history of lies to be spread across the country. (Barring Bill Clinton, of course. His lying seems to have been OK.)
Well, it’s not OK. It’s far from OK. And the Left, who have been merciless in their onslaught of President Bush’s alleged “lies” should have the decency to be consistant in their ire. They won’t, of course, but they should. I don’t expect it from the party who now feels that vandalism, violence, and intimidation are their best cards to play. But when their ploys don’t work and the lies fail them, I’m not going to be in any mood to put up with the whining. Dems, your boy’s a confirmed liar and by your own standards, that’s supposed to be enough to keep him out of the White House.
