Yeah, absolutely. I really was trying to say that if we accept the premise, that politicians “lie” because they say things that are of questionable veracity, and do so “all the time” because they do so with regularity, albeit rarely, there’s still a significant difference between Trump and even the most weaselly of run-of-the-mill politicians. But the degree of his untruths are on a completely different level as well - to the point where, when he makes a statement, the odds are good that the opposite is true. Either one of these is rare outside of corrupt, 3rd world dictatorships, but both together is almost unknown.
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Mmmmm, spoiler, Mr Cohen it’s been a circus since election day.
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What the heck does “Walk Back” mean? This seems like more mealy mouth double speak.
Shouldn’t it be “Trump administration tries to weasel out of Obama wiretapping claim”?
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Let me try to explain. When the horse has left the stable you don’t close the stable door after it, you try and walk the horse back into the stable. The fact that the horse is by now over the hills and far away while Mr Spicer et al are ruefully looking at yet another open stable door (kicked to smithereens so that you couldn’t close it if you tried) and nowhere near enough to the horse to get a rope on it and walk it anywhere, should not be allowed to get in the way of Mr Spicer et al walking anything they claim to be walking, back to where it will never be again. Hope that’s clear. 
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“emptying the stables” may become the new “draining the swamp”. In both cases the implied subject may have been misinferred.
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You think?
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Mainly, it’s a simple lack of curiosity about the world
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Back in the 2016 primaries: “I guarantee you there’s no problem in that department.”
#No. Problem.
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Based on every other one of Trump’s “guarantees”, I’m expecting a photo of his Viagra pill bottle and/or penis enlargement pump to pop up any day now.
Comfortable in the totally plausible belief that an aged reality-TV “billionaire” who’s never even one engaged in any manner of public service has left his retirement to steer the country out of troubled waters for no personal gain whatsoever?
Not just curiosity they’re lacking…
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Well, he is a Republican after all.
All you have to do is look at national surveys of how much people trust their leaders and compare them to quality of living and happiness measurements. Sure, that sounds backwards - the intuitive causation is that people trust their governments because the governments do a good job. But we’re talking about democracies. People who don’t trust governments elect governments that can’t be trusted.
In this case, as far as I can tell, it means they are still accusing Obama of committing a felony. I don’t understand in what sense this was walked back at all.
Reporters need to do some negative-option billing with question evaders like Spicer and Conway. Instead of asking “Do you think Obama ordered surveillance of Trump?” say, “Sean, tomorrow I’m planning to go with the headline, ‘Sean Spicer will not back up Trump’s claim that Obama ordered surveillance of Trump’ unless you do, in fact, say that Obama ordered surveillance of Trump.”
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yes, anyone who says ‘its both sides’ is either hopelessly disengaged or in on the con.
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It’s Aristotle’s Golden Mean. How much heroin should I take today? None or 50g? I guess 25g!
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A collapsing wave function. It’s only possible to determine whether he meant what he said literally after the claim is proven one way or the other.
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