William Saletan has an article advising John Kerry on how to beat President Bush that threw me at first, specifically in this passage:
He’s been telling Democrats Bush is “the biggest say-one-thing, do-another” president ever. Yesterday Kerry’s campaign responded to Bush’s ads by accusing the president of “unsteady leadership.” In the Democratic primaries, this accusation worked for Kerry, because liberals think Bush is a liar. But most voters don’t, for a good reason: It isn’t true. If Kerry makes the election a referendum on Bush’s honesty, Bush will win.
I’m a liberal, so I had trouble with this. It seemed to me that President Bush lies all the time. Saletan’s argument is that Bush doesn’t lie — he really believes the things he says. He’s probably right, and what President Bush does is worse than lying.
The trouble with Bush
William Saletan has an article advising John Kerry on how to beat President Bush that threw me at first, specifically in this passage:
I’m a liberal, so I had trouble with this. It seemed to me that President Bush lies all the time. Saletan’s argument is that Bush doesn’t lie — he really believes the things he says. He’s probably right, and what President Bush does is worse than lying.
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