SOME POLITICIANS MISSPEAK, WHILE OTHERS TELL BARE-FACED LIES

…”The Donald” & Carly at the 2^nd Debate

 

A Network Cameraman tells the truth about what he has been recording.

 

Even more than expected, when dealing with so many GOP candidates in the campaign, it’s difficult to only be writing about one candidate that may have misspoke.  Actually, misspoke is not the right word.  To be as blunt as one NBC cameraman stated off-the-record, “So far about 95% of all that I have recorded from Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Dr. Carson has been a big pile of crap!”

I think that perhaps the only thing incorrect about what this cameraman said may have been the suggestion that it was only about 95% of what they said.

So let’s look at what this third party observer was referring to:

Carly Fiorina’s dishonesty is long-term, flagrant and unapologetic.  The reporters are trying not to offend her by using words like “misspoke”, but in Carly’s case, many of her statements are out-right B.S..

For example, her comments about seeing the video of the live aborted Planned Parenthood fetuses is totally false. 

First, the videos weren’t from Planned Parenthood.  Factcheck.org has confirmed that the abortion "sting" video she was referring to was from a different anti-abortion group and they are not able to determine where and when it was filmed.  The video also does not come close to fitting the description that Carly gave.  Yes, the audio is very disturbing, but the audio also doesn’t fit what the actual video shows. 

The video that Carly saw is called “refeo0:37Live Video” which has nothing to do with Planned Parenthood.

But Carly just looks into the camera and flat lies, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, ““I didn’t misspeak, I have seen those images.”

Then on Fox News, Chris Wallace asked her, “Do you acknowledge what every fact-checker has found . . . there is no actual footage of the incident that you just mentioned?”   She responded: “No, I don’t accept that at all. . . . I haven’t found a lot of people in the mainstream media who have ever watched these things.”

That’s because there was no sting video from Planned Parenthood to see.

But dishonesty is not new to Carly.  Fiorina’s story of going from a grass-roots beginning as an office worker admin to becoming a chief executive, that is also B.S..  In fact, she was not from grass-roots, she was instead from a well-to-do family whose father was a Stanford law professor, a former Duke Law School dean, and a deputy attorney general and federal appeals court judge.  Not exactly the daughter of an Detroit autoworker or a high school janitor.

But let’s move on from Ms. Fiorina’s lack of honesty to Donald Trump’s questionable statements.

First we have the sexist comment from Mr. Trump about Ms. Fiorina when he said about her face: ““Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?”

Then after being berated in the press and being continually asked exactly what he meant, he said his statement was not about her face, it was her “persona”.  Yeah, right!

Finally, during the TV debate, he totally backpedaled as only Trump can only do, as he blurted out: “I think she’s got a beautiful face, and I think she’s a beautiful woman.”

I guess some people never change.

But then again, we don’t stop here.  Let’s move on to Dr. Ben Carson’s comments.

As Americans, we all should know that a person’s faith has nothing to do with their running for President of the United States.  You might not be elected because of your faith, but you can run for the office regardless of your religious faith.

One would think that anyone running for the highest office would understand that situation.

When Dr. Ben Carson was asked by NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press”, as to whether a president’s faith should matter. The simple answer, the correct one, should have been to just cite the Constitution.

But with Dr. Carson’s well known political inexperience, he stated that he would not “advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”   He said that the Islam faith was inconsistent with the US Constitution.

He then tried to clarify that he could support a Muslim if he denounced Sharia law. 

Sorry, but that’s not what the US Constitutions says.  He either doesn’t know what the Constitution says, or he totally missed the point.

Faith, or the lack of faith, has no bearing on whether a person is qualified to run for or to be a US president.  As Americans, we do tend to prefer people who share our fundamental values, but the voters will draw those conclusions with their ballots.

Basically, Dr. Carson blew it, just as Trump blew it when the bigot at his town meeting said, “We have a problem in this country, it’s called Muslims.  We know our current president is one. You know, he’s not even an American.”  The man then insisted that the country is loaded with Muslim training camps, “growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question: When can we get rid of them?”

Trump should have done as John McCain did in 2007, when a woman in the audience called Barack Obama “an Arab”.  McCain took the mic and told the woman that Mr. Obama was not an Arab, just a man with whom McCain had disagreements.

But no, Trump instead said, ““A lot of people are saying that, and we’re going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.”

Both Trump and Dr. Carson totally missed the chance to show that they understand the US Constitution and what it means to run for the most important office in the world.  They both should have set the situation right and made it understood that regardless of a person’s religion, or of some idiots ideas about the president, it’s all of the candidates jobs to bring honesty to all the areas of their campaigns.

It’s bad enough that we have such idiocy in our American population, it inexcusable that it’s also with those running for office in America. 

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