Stretching the Ebay Truth

Jason Linkins said it best: Politicians lie. They all do.  Stretching the truth on experience, masking details of their backgrounds, we get it.  No one is a superhero.  I'd like to think we are past all of that anyways.  Nowadays we just want someone we can believe in.

So when politicians stretch the truth about things they don't really need to be talking about at all, it makes you question their judgment.  No one cares if Sarah Palin sold a jet on Ebay.  She made that a story, not us, not the wee bloggers or the media mavericks or even the mack daddy they are so mean to us so we just won't talk to them anymore mainstream.  So if she put the jet on Ebay and it didn't sell, and then the jet was sold to a rich Alaskan through a non-Ebay related broker, why not just say that instead? 

Why make it something it isn't? 

After these sorts of gaffes I suppose I'd stop answering questions too.  Perhaps the silent superhero type will work for some, but for us thinking types, we still prefer the truth.

Comments

[Annie]

Thank you - I was kinda thinking 'who the heck buys a jet off Ebay?' - totally trivial way of looking at it of course - but it was bugging me :)

[Lookingfortruthoneitherside]

Kind of like when Al Gore stated he "created" the internet [http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/03/18390] or Hillary Clinton told us she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary? http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52477 Enuf said.