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Boston Globe: Mike Pence's lies don't make him a winner.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/10/05/mike-pence-lies-don-make-him-winner/Tp9icZmzP4OA23NBIkswMO/story.htmlPence’s statements on Russia were some of the most bizarre of the evening. He repeatedly criticized Putin as a “small and bullying leader,” which stands in stark contrast to Trump’s constant praise of the Russian president. He said the Russian provocations must be met with American “strength” and that the United States should consider attacking Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria. On both issues, Trump has said the opposite.
What was perhaps most striking about Pence’s performance is that he simply denied Trump said things that’s he clearly said. Though Kaine got ahead of his skis when he said that Trump wanted to get rid of NATO, he pointed out that Trump has called NATO “obsolete,” which Pence said wasn’t true (nope, Trump said it). He denied that Trump said more countries should have nuclear weapons (yup, Trump said that). He called Kaine’s claim that Trump wants to deport all undocumented immigrants “nonsense” (actually, it’s one of Trump’s few policy positions).
He even criticized Kaine for voicing an avalanche of insults after Kaine had literally listed many of the insulting things that Donald Trump has said about women, immigrants, and others.
But there were so many untruths from Pence that it was hard to keep track. He criticized Hillary Clinton for failing to negotiate a new status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government in 2011 to keep American troops, even though this was not her job as secretary of state. He repeated the oft-stated, and false, GOP charge that a $400 million payment to Iran earlier this year was a “ransom payment.” He said the Clinton Foundation spent only 10 percent of its proceeds on charitable giving — a long discredited argument. He said that Clinton supports overturning the ban on partial-birth abortion (she doesn’t). He said a Trump-Pence administration would never look to “punish women” who had abortions, even though Trump has said exactly that — and even though Pence would repeal Roe v. Wade, which would in effect punish women who wanted to have abortions by forcing them to carry a fetus to term or seek an illegal, possibly dangerous, procedure.
What was perhaps most striking about Pence’s performance is that he simply denied Trump said things that’s he clearly said. Though Kaine got ahead of his skis when he said that Trump wanted to get rid of NATO, he pointed out that Trump has called NATO “obsolete,” which Pence said wasn’t true (nope, Trump said it). He denied that Trump said more countries should have nuclear weapons (yup, Trump said that). He called Kaine’s claim that Trump wants to deport all undocumented immigrants “nonsense” (actually, it’s one of Trump’s few policy positions).
He even criticized Kaine for voicing an avalanche of insults after Kaine had literally listed many of the insulting things that Donald Trump has said about women, immigrants, and others.
But there were so many untruths from Pence that it was hard to keep track. He criticized Hillary Clinton for failing to negotiate a new status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government in 2011 to keep American troops, even though this was not her job as secretary of state. He repeated the oft-stated, and false, GOP charge that a $400 million payment to Iran earlier this year was a “ransom payment.” He said the Clinton Foundation spent only 10 percent of its proceeds on charitable giving — a long discredited argument. He said that Clinton supports overturning the ban on partial-birth abortion (she doesn’t). He said a Trump-Pence administration would never look to “punish women” who had abortions, even though Trump has said exactly that — and even though Pence would repeal Roe v. Wade, which would in effect punish women who wanted to have abortions by forcing them to carry a fetus to term or seek an illegal, possibly dangerous, procedure.
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of what flew out of his dirty pie hole was actually TRUE or not.
Unfortunately, neither do his supporters.
Not lying is something we are taught as children (or should have been).
He's caught lying, yet it's okay with some of the media, and it's okay to put him into office?
