“Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.” – William Shakespeare
America, when exactly did we come to tolerate politicians lying to us – bald-faced –about things that actually matter? When did we start to put up with being lied to by our elected officials and accepting it as the status quo?
When did we come to accept that disingenuous political spin was just part of the process; that deceiving the electorate was tolerable...at any level? I ask because as I try to reconcile the “hope and change” propaganda with the actions of the Obama Administration, well, let's just say the campaign rhetoric appears to have been crafted by P.T. Barnum.
Examples of intellectual malfeasance exist on both sides of the aisle but it is dramatically more prevalent on the political Left and since the Progressives have hijacked the Democrat Party it has gotten worse. There doesn't seem to be a day that goes by where news comes out of Washington DC that is literally unbelievable.
Transparency
When President Obama was running for office he promised unprecedented transparency. He maintained that not only would the American people be able to access information about every move his administration made via the Internet, he maintained that his administration would be a post-partisan administration and that he would value input and scrutiny from both sides of the aisle equally. In the realization of his presidency nothing could be further from the truth
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Frank Salvato also serves as the managing editor for The New Media Journal. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention.
