The Maddow Blog - MSNCB
By Steve Benen -Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:00 AM EDT
At a basic level, what bothers me about politicians who lie, especially at a national level, is that the deceptions are insulting. A candidate who knows the truth, but makes a deliberate decision to deceive, is working from the assumption that Americans are suckers.
And last night, Paul Ryan made painfully clear that he thinks we're all profound idiots who'll believe an endless string of lies, so long as they're packaged well and presented with conviction. Jonathan Cohn suggested last night's address may have been the "most dishonest convention speech" ever delivered, and I can't think of a close second.
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I watched,I listened
The only lie I heard was that our military protects freedom,thats not true our military is being used by Zionist madmen to conquer the planet for there Nwo. Other then that hes right Mic did his job as Governer and is a very successful biz, man, you might not like that hes good at that by following the laws in place but I think thats wht it takes to run this country,we gave Obama a chance and his lowlife tactics and numerous lies have turned us into a police state with so many people out of work and he nas had enough time to make some changes but the ones he hose were to put a noose around our necks for the Nwo police state,Im waiting to see what kinda false flag ne omes up with to stop the elections and this dirty rat pack will by any means fight as dirty as they can at the expence of anyone do so,He will not loose his chance to really bring this country to its knees and maintaine dictatorship and thats exatly what he is, wake up! I follow all this very close for sometime now and Im very aware that both are very corrupt and yes Im sure Mic will find his way to fill his bank act. as long as he shares the wealth who cares? Obama ot a payoff from Phiezer of 800,000 if he pulled off Obamacare, did you know that? Thats not doing biz thats an underhanded illegal payoff that because its him goes unnoticed, oh please that dirty party has to go!
Just for the record,Im neither Democrat or Republican so my loyalties are to neither,take off the blinders
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You, my poor dear friend,
You, my poor dear friend, have been horribly deceived. Check the facts. That speech was the most horrendous display of lies....