[Laura Heidy-Halberstein]

Originally posted by Jerry Glenn Hartwig:



I kind of feel that way about Palin. Several things she supported (the bridge to nowhere / the state owned industry) she later came back on and said she was wrong and changed her position.

That's true enough, Jerry, but why, then, does she keep repeating them in the manner she does? Each speech she gives she reuses the same, "I said no to the bridge to nowhere" without even mentioning that she had once said "yes to the bridge to nowhere" and, in fact, parlayed that "yes position" into being elected govenor?

I'd respect her a lot more as a woman and as a politician if she'd not keep having such a selective memory and for telling such half-truths.

There's nothing wrong with reversing a decision or changing an opinion - there is, however, something wrong with conveniently and consistantly forgetting that you did so and/or neglecting to say so.

Lo

P.S. Thank you for the grudging crow. At least I didn't demand you eat moose instead.

Let it serve as a warning, tho, that often we all read things that are being quoted from "bad sources" and not get too attached to believing that they're true. Therein lies the source of all things evil - If a lie gets repeated often enough it becomes the "truth."

My fear is that not only does the McCain campaign (probably with some distant guidance from Karl Rove) know this - but that they are capitalizing on it. To use it occasionally is expected - to rely on it to win an election is downright Machiavellian.



[This message has been edited by Laura Heidy-Halberstein (edited September 11, 2008).]