When You Lie and believe it.... e.g. Politicians

Winston Churchill once said ‘’ Politics is a dirty game’’ I can add confidently ‘’and depends on how much you can lie’’ look at the coming article which was published last Thursday in the Guardian news paper - G2- By Julian Glover:-




Quote: 'If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon I'd have it tinned. With vinegar," Harold Wilson once claimed. He might as well have added that he bathed in coal dust, slept in a bucket and changed his socks once a month. The real Wilson went to Oxford, drank brandy and smoked cigars - but he needed working-class votes. Hillary Clinton needs votes too, which is why she has started misremembering her past. First, she claimed to have played a big part in the Northern Ireland peace process, which came as news to David Trimble. This week she described a dramatic arrival in Tuzla during the Balkan wars. "I remember landing under sniper fire," she said. "We just ran with our ######### down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." All very impressive and just the sort of experience a future president needs. Except that it didn't happen. TV footage shows her strolling off the airplane to be greeted by a small girl and (weirdly) the singer Sheryl Crow. At least Clinton made it to Tuzla. Tony Blair once told Des O'Connor that he had been a child stowaway on a flight from Newcastle to the Bahamas - implausible, since the route didn't exist. Back in the US, John McCain has been editing his history, too. His autobiography describes the heroic moment he survived an airplane crash in North Vietnam. It omits to mention Mai Van On, the peasant who saved his life by dragging him from the water and driving away an angry mob. Lyndon Johnson always wore the Silver Star he won for bravery in the second world war but he was only in combat for 13 minutes, as an observer. His medal, writes his biographer, was "one of the most undeserved" in history. Gordon Brown once tried a New Labour piece of reinvention, declaring that business was in his blood. His mother had even been a company director, "one of a small number of women who were company directors". Except that wasn't really true. "I don't know why Gordon is saying all this. It's all a bit embarrassing. I was not a working director at all," Gordon's mum said when a journalist rang her. She added that his dad had "no time for business" either. The moral of that is keep your parents under wraps. It would be nice to say that the wider lesson is don't lie. But most of the time, politicians probably get away with it.




Link :- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/27/h...nton.uselections2008

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