The Huffington Post ran a piece detailing how the story about Cindy McCain adopting a baby at the personal request of Mother Theresa appears to have been fabricated during later interviews. That is, Mrs. McCain at first said she was asked to adopt the baby by nuns, later said it was by Mother Theresa herself, and now appears to have backtracked to saying it was just by nuns.
It is true that she adopted the baby from Sisters of the Poor, but the Huffington Post is concerned about what the embellishment says about the McCains' characters.
Add to that accusations that Senator McCain might have lifted his touching story about the cross in the dirt from an author describing gulags, and you start to get a view of the McCains telling campfire stories to the nation.
The Democrats, of course, see this as a potential death blow to the McCain campaign...despite the fact that Obama has just signed on one of Washington's most famous plagiarists as his Vice President according to The Washington Post.
Honesty is, of course, a good thing, but at the risk of sounding like a mindless zombie or an evil Republican, is this kind of lying really serious enough to change my vote? (Reading the comments section on the Huffington Post gives one the sense that its readers really do think that Republicans are inherently dishonest, vile, liars...as opposed to straight talking, forthcoming, and honest Democrats like Bill and Hilary).
As I've said before, I pretty much assume any politician is lying to me at this point. All I'm looking for is the liar who at least tells me what I want to hear.
Even if Obama is the more sincere and honest candidate (and even if he can remember where all of his money goes), the fact of the matter is that I won't be voting on him because he doesn't agree with what I believe in. You can be a very honest person (which I'm not sure Obama is), but I'm still not going to vote for you if you are recommending that we take the country in a direction I don't want to go in.
I didn't stop celebrating Christmas when I found out that my vision of Santa Claus was generated by an advertising campaign. I'm not going to start voting Democrat because of exaggeration by a political campaign. I might, however, be persuaded to vote for Obama if he turned around and said he suddenly understood the Pro-Life position, would do his best to eliminate abortion entirely from the nation, and would make the practice illegal.
Of course, then he'd be a liar.
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