To be
exact, there are many problems with lying. God doesn’t like it, for one thing. But one big problem is that if one
wishes a lie to remain believed, one may have to tell additional lies to cover
for the earlier lie. For example…
President Barack Obama told his
enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video
recordings show him promising at least 29 times.
The videos show Obama promising
300 million Americans that “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able
to keep your health-care plan, period.” [ed.
To be exact, Obama did use that exact wording. I am not sure he used that exact wording 29 times.]
But that’s not what he really
said, Obama announced Monday in a speech to about 200 Organizing for Action
supporters, gathered at the St. Regis hotel in D.C.
“What we said was you could keep
it if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed,” he told Obamacare’s
political beneficiaries and contractors.
And
Obama’s lie upon a lie is verified by Politico reporter Reid Epstein:
Obama adds a clause to "you can keep it" - "What we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed."
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) November 4, 2013
Another
problem with lies is that when they are discovered, people who trusted them and
acted on them, say, by voting for you, might become unhappy.
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