Oh my! Suddenly we're concerned about lying! Seriously, after 10,000 plus lies from the current POTUS himself, it hard to believe that his supporters care about lying.
Hi DD,
Yes. that seems to be the point. If someone who favors the current leadership of our nation, can point out that someone else who wants the job has lied, then they can point their fingers and say, "See! Your person does it, too!!"
However, I'm a pragmatist, I believe. I'm also a believer in the one true and living God and His Son, Jesus. I know, yes I know, that we're all liars to some degree. I'm fairly confident that we've all lied about something in our lifetime. So, for me it's a matter of degree. Yes, we're all liars, but we're not all consummate liars. People who just continually and regularly don't tell the truth or shade the truth to push some position that we believe in.
So, when I see people try to push some agenda where they say that someone else told one or two lies, to get me to consider that they're just like the guy that lies pretty much every time his mouth is open, I say no. It just isn't the same no matter how much you'd like me to believe that it is. That's my understanding of this issue of lying in the political arena.
Secondly, not everything that turns out to be not true, was given as a lie when it was said, or was a lie when it was said. For example: Many point out that President Obama made the comment that everyone could keep their own doctor under the new ACA. However, in President Obama's defense, he made that claim before the legislature had cobbled together the entire bill. He likely believed that the bill that would eventually come to his desk for signing would allow everyone to keep their old doctor. I think the reason that people had to change doctors is because the doctor didn't want to keep them. He, for whatever reason, didn't choose to accept whatever new insurance his patients may have gotten after the ACA.
I was sharing with another poster on these boards in another thread about the ACA who said that was exactly what happened to one of his loved ones. They wanted to keep their old doctor, but the doctor decided that he wasn't going to accept the new insurance. So, I believe to be more correct, President Obama should have said that everyone will get to keep their old doctor so long as their old doctor accepted the new plans.
But nevertheless, I don't believe that when President Obama made the statement that he made concerning the issue, that it was a lie. Again, that's just my understanding and I know that a lot of folks will say that I'm giving President Obama a pass. Maybe.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
