CanIgonow
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:03 PM
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Is it possible any longer for a person to be a truth teller and be |
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President?Our first President George Washington was supposed to have said I cannot tell a lie.Our current WH occupant appears to have stood that on its head by saying I cannot tell anything but a lie.What do you all think?
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:10 PM
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1. George Washington never told a lie? |
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Do you honestly think that Washington never told a lie?
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CanIgonow
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:12 PM
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3. I don't really know.I am just mouthing off the mythology presented |
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to us in our history textbooks.
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Warpy
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:28 PM
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8. That story never happened, been debunked every place |
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but elementary school text books.
Personally, I don't particularly want a compulsive truth teller as president, he'd be a diplomatic disaster.
I'd prefer one who can tell the truth, though, which the present occupant of the White House can not.
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parasim
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:11 PM
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2. I always thought the "I cannot tell a lie" meme was... |
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the very first disinfo campaign.
Gee... I'm getting pretty cynical in my old age...
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Ms. Clio
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:15 PM
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4. Um, the whole George Washington, "I cannot tell a lie" thing |
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is a fable that was invented by one of Washington's early biographers, Parson Weems.
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CanIgonow
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:19 PM
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5. I have to say it comes in handy for an old guy like me to tell my teenage |
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kids what our founding father was like and how they should pattern themselves after him.
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Ms. Clio
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:25 PM
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6. Why would you think a fable--a lie--is useful for anything of the sort? |
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Yours kid will learn, if they ever take a college history course, if not before, that it was always a lie?
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CanIgonow
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:27 PM
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7. I stand corrected.Misplaced patriotism has a way of skewing your |
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Mon Aug-23-04 05:30 PM
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9. Presidents, like all human beings, are complex |
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George Washington can be admired and perhaps emulated for other, very real, personal characteristics and deeds.
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