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- Bob Schieffer wrote: "Other than avoiding fruits as euphemisms"
Maybe we should just stop voting for fruits. - Reply to this comment
- It's our own fault. If politicians tell us the hard truth, we won't vote for them.
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- Hear, hear.
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- The Court of Angels in heaven has a solution. Anyone who lies to the angels sounds like a frog croaking. imagine if this happened when Congress is in session. Every lying scumbag would be on tape croaking without words. Their falsity would immediately be apparent and repeated for the next news cycle. To bad it doesn't happen until they die. But, happen it will. Croak!
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- An euphemism is an off the cuff, spur of the moment thought, usually spoken with out thinking first, just a reactionary response. Some times good and some times bad. Today's politicians can not get good euphemisms because they have to wait each time they speak so thier handlers can tell them what to say. ( See George W. Bush's debate with his box hid under the back of his coat. )For example, Romeny waited three days before he responed to the Supreme Court decesion on health care. THEN, he changed that responce ,what was it, four times.
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- Here, here to both of the above comments as well as Bob Schieffer's historical observations. Sometimes it's difficult to see the true nature of politics, which I've maintained for some time is really about advantage rather than solution. Ever wonder why they would rather attack the record, or lack of same of the opponent and or the "character worthiness" of the other? At times they call it "a game", at other times it gets serious enough to say that it's not "a game". If both parties were to remain consistent long enough for some of us to actually make a fair judgement, maybe the voters wouldn't have to be coaxed instead of convinced of the "evil" or misguided intent on the part of the "other guys". As stated above, let's get honest!
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- Its human nature for politicians to lie, cheat and steal. Its in their genes.
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- OVER-SOPHISTICATED LANGUAGE IS A FORM OF LYING: A GREAT DISSERVICE TO ALL
It must be our leaders' incessant attitudes of believing that their lies, their cover-ups, their distortions, their omissions, etc, can pacify and/or fool the masses.
Someplace, somewhere, perhaps in some parallel universe's moral, ethical, or legal disputation process, the function of truth (you know as in honesty, integrity, or probity?), has genuine, intrinsic value, which I'm afraid you'll have great difficulty finding in our current legal and our political mainstreams. - Reply to this comment
