There's a difference between incorrect information and maliciously lying for personal or political gain.
Do politicians, as well as everyone else, get their facts wrong on occasion? Sure. However, that's not at all like claiming to want the convenience of a one device before the public, all the time known that you are carrying around several devices, in other words malicious intent to deceive.
We could look at the whole uproar about 'death panels' for example.
Some would call this a lie on Palin's part, but if you go and read the legislation, which has no section on death panels per say, but does have a section specific to the
Independent Payment Advisory Board who's purpose is to "achieving specified savings in Medicare". Now granted, it's supposed to happen without impacting coverage or quality, but one needs to ask if that's realistic or not. How much cost savings can be had before coverage or quality
is impacted. We have yet to see.
Lie or exaggeration? Hyperbole to make a political point? I recall that around the same time there was a Democratically led talking point about the Republicans wanting to drive grandma and her wheelchair off of the cliff, which of course they never said. Lie or exaggeration? Hyperbole to make a political point? Or just to score some points?
Somewhere someone is making decisions if continued supportive care is warranted for a terminally comatose patient, as I'm sure they are now. To my thinking the attending and the family need to struggle with this decision, not some bureaucrat. With the law it is, I'm not so certain that this isn't going to creep in someplace, but we can hope that it doesn't.