Hi Mal
I have looked at hundreds of reports, speeches, articles and books and have found about a thousand blatant, obvious, vague, hidden, half truths and just about any form of deceptive remarks, answers and press corps releases from Harding to Obama this year, and how sad it makes me. Harding, Nixon, Roosevelt, Johnson, Reagan, Bush-1, Clinton, and Bush-2 were history's worst. You posted a ways back that I would find about a 50-50 split and it was close though the dems. were worse congressionally. But you were spot on about the executive branches. The scandals perpetrated by the Repubs were three to one. I liked Ron Paul too back when. He had little respect for those in the Bush-2 admin. and told it like it was.
Though we cannot 100% claim Bush lied that much, we can say he didn't tell the truth often enough once all the layers were removed. The yellow cake scandal was a blatant lie. He absolutley violated the constitution backed by FISA. He knew it wasn't true the moment he stood before the cameras and said Sadam was attempting to buy that yellow cake. The rest was like the smoking gun sort of lies. But in our hearts we ALL know there was endless deception by GWand Cheney. We all know that our financial crisis wasn't an accident, they just didn't misplace some trillion plus dollars that eight years. So among liars and thieves, GW takes the cake for me. I still get a chuckle out of the meaning if "IS" though. Gotta give that guy credit, when he gets to wantin:::well you know, he'll find a way. Poor Hilary:::That's a real addiction I think.
It's so disheartening that our elected leaders Dems and Repubs and their appointees get away with so much. That they rarely have any integrity or in some cases even a soul. They only think about the end game for their own wealth rather than why they were elected in the first place. The day we have a government that does what it's truly supposed to do will likely be the day the whole earth is run by one man, his name? Christ. Then we will truly be a socialist world to the likes many who profess to love God will knash their teeth over::: to have to give up their great wealth of gold and power in that ALL will have the same.
Lucy