<div>I assume your inaccurate hyperbole is deliberate, and that you really don't believe all politicians lie. </div>
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<div>I was discussing this issue recently, and offered former Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords as an example of an honest politician. When Jeffords woke up to the scams of the Bush administration in 2001, he left the Republican party and became an independent, though voting with the Democrats, tilting the US Senate balance in the Democrats favor.</div>
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<div>If you follow someone around with a microphone for years, many people will contradict themselves, though this is often not deliberate lying. People change their minds, sometimes for good reason, or sometimes people phrase issues differently at different times, or make mistakes and misspeak. But Jim Jeffords, given what I know about him, was an example of a honest politician.</div>
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<div>However, all newspaper editors are liars (not really, of course)! </div>
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<div>To illustrate this claim, here's an example of ridiculous obfuscation, obscurantism and ad hominem nonsense, regarding one of the most critical problems facing humanity, that seriously misrepresents the nature of the in depth and carefully balanced scientific research on this issue that has been presented by yours truly to Vision2020:</div>
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<div><a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2008-August/055486.html">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2008-August/055486.html</a></div>
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<div>We were talking about a storm warning. You turned it into yet another take on global warming.<br>Dandelions blooming early? Global warming.<br>Dandelions blooming late? Global warming.<br>A feather fell off a duck's butt? Global warming.<br>
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<div>Kai Eiselein</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kai Eiselein</b> <<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>News Flash!<br> <br>Politicians lie!<br> <br>All of them!<br> <br>Every single one!<br> <br>If it wasn't for politics, we'd have a lot more used car salesman in cheap suits standing around the "bargain lot".<br>
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