Before we get started with this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, a final noteworthy thought or two on last week’s RNC in Tampa.
The first comes as Twitter battles continue over the truthiness of VP nominee Rep. Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech last Wednesday, with trolls continuing to insist, somehow, that Ryan wasn’t lying about one thing after another. The trolls will be disappointed to learn that George W. Bush’s Chief Political Strategist, Matthew Dowd, disagrees with them. Yes, Ryan lied, said Dowd on ABC’s This Week on Sunday…
DOWD: Paul Ryan, what he did in his speech, I think so stretched the truth. And I like Paul Ryan, have a lot of great respect for Paul Ryan, but the elements that he said about closing the GM plant which closed before Barack Obama took President [sic], about the Simpson-Bowles bill which he opposed and then all of a sudden he faults Barack Obama for. At some point, the truth should matter…He was trying to convey that Barack Obama was responsible for the closing of that GM plant and that isn’t true.
The second and, for now, last point in RNC wrap-up, was this response to it all from President Obama on the stump, Saturday in Iowa…
The president recalled the GOP convention as a look backward. “It was a re-run — we’d seen it before,†he said. “You might as well have watched it on a black-and-white TV.â€
He often says that Romney is the boss, and so the boss defines policy.
That could lead to the reason for his disdain of truthiness:
(The Homeland…). Sometimes things get curiouser and curiouser …
How can one have “great respect” for a liar, and what appears to be a serial liar. Liars are supposed to be outed, shamed and disdained, not garner “greatl respect.” And yes, Obama lies too.