Comments on: Barack Obama’s Selma Truthiness

By: Tano

Tano — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:40:11 +0000

I agree with Markwell. It seems rather ridiculous to call this a "lie". HE was obviously speaking of the effect of the civil rights movement on his family life, using Selma as an example of the movement as a whole.

Is there any surpise that you get over-the-top nonsense from those kind of sites?

By: Markwell

Markwell — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:24:39 +0000

Portion of comment in violation of site policies deleted. He was obviously referring to the entire civil rights movement when he spoke of his parents. After 8 years of GWB mangling every other sentence it seems strange that such an obvious (and true) statement by Obama gets declared a "lie." His statement may have been innaccurate in a purely technical sense, but it was in no way a "lie."

By: Edgardo

Edgardo — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:34:14 +0000

A necessary but not sufficient condition to be a politician is to be a liar. To get elected they have to sell lemons. Unfortunately the demand side of the market is full of irrational voters (cf. Bryan Caplan, forthcoming).

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