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By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives September 18, 2009

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Calling Barack Obama a liar isn't racist, but it is Gauche. Even in our rowdy romper-room that calls itself a parliament no member is allowed to call another member a liar.

However, Winston Churchill found a way around that restriction by accusing a fellow member of uttering a "terminological inexactitude." Then again, most of the vocabulary challenged politicians we send to govern us think marmalade is a big word. They have trouble expressing their thoughts without resorting to gutter-chatter. Even the late, great scholar Pierre Trudeau was unable to find a euphemism for the F word when he wanted an MP to quit annoying him. Fuddle-duddle to them all, I say. William Bedford