According to the latest edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, a lie is defined as “A false statement deliberately presented as being true”, or “Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.”
Members of the Bush regime have been showering our airwaves with so many lies that responsible and astute citizens can no longer trust a word they say. Unfortunately, the lies are still effective on Bush’s most important constituency: America’s vast population of loud and gullible morons.
To say that “money is the root of all evil” is a tired old cliche. But it still seems that the easiest way to find evil is to follow the money.
This cannot be forgotten when analysing political constituencies these days. I remember a time early in my political life when political horse races were studied on the basis of constituencies… who had the blue-collar votes, women’s votes, black votes and so forth. Now the talking heads are saying, “this candidate will be difficult to beat because he has a huge pile of money,” or, “that candidate will have a tough time staying in the race without raising some more money.”