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Geithner: White House Wanted Me to Lie on Sunday Shows

Sababa said:
except for the fact that you guys ignored this kind of politics until Obama became your President.
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Oh, so politics is supposed to suspend when Obama took over? Are you kidding? You libs were ruthless during the Bush years, and now all you have is deflection, and excuse....Live in the here and now, or be labeled a hypocrite.

I never said it was okay because someone else did it.
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You most certainly did...And continue to do so.

I said it was and doesn't rise to the level of things that you give a pass.
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That is an ideological opinion, and we will never agree on this. But, just as you found conservatives blind for backing Bush, and backing things like the Patriot act, we now find you just as blind in the face of a change to an authoritarian, crony capitalist, socialist redistribution hybrid that Obama is doing and lying about right before your eyes....So, I guess we all only see what we want.
 
votemout said:
He is not an elitist he is just a slave working for them, he is kissing butt cheeks hoping to get into the graces of the elite.
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You need to do a Google search on him. He very much an elitist.
 
WCH said:
You need to do a Google search on him. He very much an elitist.
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Believe me when i say the most elite you do not know their names.
 
mak2 said:
At the time I beleived it too. But then again, I was not issuing the order for thousands of people to die. Are you trying to say those democrats were for the war? What history are you trying to say was rewritten?
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Again, Mak, revisionist history. Bush took his arguments for the Iraq invasion to Congress, where the resolution was passed overwhelmingly.

Congress presumably acted on the same information that Bush had, or at any rate should have. So that makes it everybody's war.

Bush had been in office less than a year. Most of the information had been gathered during previous administrations. IMO, the US had been sold a complete lie by Saddam since Kuwait, and the government bought it all.
 
JasperL said:
Back to Geithner, SS at that point had reduced deficits and debt by cumulative $trillions, and wouldn't actually contribute on net to the deficit for another two decades. That's a "lie" to say SS isn't the issue?
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I'm not the one who said the WH told him to lie. He is.
 
tres borrachos said:
GTFO! Politicians lie? :shock:
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Me too...Why I never! Gheeze, I remember the chants of "Bush lied, people died", and the infamous wanting to see him and Cheney "frog marched" across the WH lawn....Now I guess lying is just business as usual...Not so much outrage over lies these days....
 
votemout said:
Believe me when i say the most elite you do not know their names.
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Regardless, Geithner, Summers, Paulson, Rubin etc...all foot soldiers for the wealthiest in the world...saving Wall street and the too-big-to-fail banks at the expensive of the American taxpayer.
 
I think the key thing is that Geithner was told to lie, and he did. Pretty convenient that now he's a little upset about it. Since leaving government he's developed principles. I'm deeply impressed. Okay. Maybe not. I think he could use a nose job, too, BTW.
 
votemout said:
Geithner: White House Wanted Me to Lie on Sunday Shows | The Weekly Standard

Timothy Geithner, the former secretary of the Treasury Department, says the White House wanted him to lie in scheduled appearances on the Sunday TV talk shows. As Geithner writes in his new memoir:

“I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn’t contribute to the deficit. It wasn’t a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute. Pfeiffer said the line was a ‘dog whistle’ to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.”

Of course, Geithner would not have been the only official from the White House to have misled the American people on the Sunday talk shows. Susan Rice famously came under fire for blaming a terrorist attack on a YouTube video in appearances on the shows.




LOOKs like that is all the admin knows how to do is TELL BIG FAT LIES.
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The question begs to be asked, Has there ever been a more corrupt administration?
 
Navy Pride said:
The question begs to be asked, Has there ever been a more corrupt administration?
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Well i am sure there have been but this one has been by far the most transparent!
 
Navy Pride said:
That is because of their ineptitude.
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Notice the lack of Obama supporter comments on this thread. Even supporters have to be embarrassed by this Administrations lack of competence, lies, and terrible economic results. We tried to tell them how incompetent Obama was but they didn't listen, twice. Guess you can fool some of the people all of the time.
 
Sababa said:
yes because it never happened before, but this is not so much a lie as a way of not focusing on the unimportant. It is like saying that when I pick a flower from a bed I contributed to its destruction even though the neighbor's dog tore up the other 30 flowers.


A lie on a Sunday would be for example: Saddam as WsMD and we know where they are or they will treat us like liberators or the fundamentals of the economy are strong.....
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Even the Democrats beleived he had WMDs.

The Distinction from this administration to any other is this administration doesn't know when to stop lying.

From Benghazzi to the IRS scandal to Fast and Furious to God knows what else

You people elected a bunch of incompetent low lifes and pushed them onto the rest of America.

You owe this Nation a huge apology and it would be real nice if you didnt vote again.

Until your not so susceptible to lies and false promises
 
[ / QUOTE ]Notice the lack of Obama supporter comments on this thread. Even supporters have to be embarrassed by this Administrations lack of competence, lies, and terrible economic results. We tried to tell them how incompetent Obama was but they didn't listen, twice. Guess you can fool some of the people all of the time.[/QUOTE]

Yes we did !

Democrat corruption as a integral part of their ideology rears its ugly head everytime they get into positions of power for a extended period of time until they reveal themselves to the American voter.

Then a Republican takes over and they spend their time using the media to gin up false outrage over their manufactured false narratives.

Like "Bush lied people died "

Remember how corrupt Tom Daschle was? The Clinton administration ?
 
votemout said:
Well one thing for sure the left always has that one lie bush told. The right will have 65 Outrageous Lies by President Obama. SInce this video has been created i am sure we are well over 100 by now.
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One lie? lol
 
The Weekly Substandard writes a hit piece on the Obama Administration? Stunned I tell you!

Kristol needs some attention does he?

The next time Kristol is right about something will be the first. Guy is a total garden tool.
 
Top Cat said:
Cough, cough, mission accomplished, cough, cough, WMD, cough, cough...
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You liberal folks really need a refresher course in the meaning of the word "lie".
 
jmotivator said:
You liberal folks really need a refresher course in the meaning of the word "lie".
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We certainly can look to conservatives for guidance on how to do it. You have me there.
 
Top Cat said:
We certainly can look to conservatives for guidance on how to do it. You have me there.
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No, no, liberals are awesome at telling ACTUAL lies (where you know the information you are giving is false), but saying something that all the major intelligence agencies believed to be true is not a lie, it's just wrong.
 
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