| "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time." Lincoln said, but also, this Election Day just might demonstrate that you really can fool all of the people -- or at least enough of them -- in the time it takes to win the White House."
"... the line between fact and fiction in politics has always been fuzzy, a confluence of factors has strained our civic discourse, if it can still be called that, to the breaking point." "As Daniel Patrick Moynihan reportedly said, 'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." " To be sure, the Obama campaign has certainly had its own share of dissembling and distortion" "But win or lose, the Romney campaign has placed a big and historic bet on the proposition that facts can be ignored, more or less, with impunity." |
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