In business it is called resume enhancement. The Team Leader in the Reproduction Department becomes the Vice President of Graphics and Important Customer Presentations. A Sales Representative becomes an Account Executive and of course we have the well known Sanitation Engineer.
Of the three the latter is most deserving, and the most important to society. But I digress.
Al Gore was laughed at over his claim of inventing the Internet, but only because he had been caught claiming to have been in two places at once. Some say it cost him the election. I don't think we take our politicians that serious. A tiny lie such as that is good for a laugh, but that's about it.
Quyale was nailed for lecturing about babies and a Gollywood TV comedy, plus he was caught spelling tomato as tomatoe or was it tomatoe as tomato... Yes, I have my Quayle moments...
In this election we have had Palin banning books, calling Hussien "Sambo" and talk show hosts reprimanded by McCain for calling Hussein, Hussein. Of course the first two have been proven wrong and the latter just another mistaken action by McCain's belief that you can be civil to Hussein and his supporters. You can't.
And then we have had Palin claiming to have birthed her daughters child, being an AIP member and now a panel in Alaska has decided she unlawfully fired one of her direct reports for failing to fire a state trooper for shooting a moose out of season, drinking on duty, threatening to kill someone and tasering a 10 year old boy.
If what she did was anything but common sense I don't see it. And this just proves why Washington trembles at the thought of her heading up McCain's "Investigation and
Reform Task Force." But now we will argue over who called who when in state government and other such junk. The Left is expert at reframing things, just as they reframed Clinton's perjury into discussions of the meaning of what "is," is.
Of course we did have Saturday Night Live put out
one negative skit but NBC took it off their website.
In the meantime we have had Hussein's Public Relations Organization, previously known as ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times and The Others Who At One Time Had a Reputation and Were Known as Journalists ignoring such things as Hussein's associations with self-identified terrorists, wacko preachers, convicted felons, ex-Fannie executives who became rich with the help of Dodd, Franks and Hussein and, of course, giving $800,000 to ACORN who is rapidly become a synonym for voter fraud.
Heck, they couldn't even mention Hussein visiting 57 states, his lack of knowledge that Russia can block any Security Council action and his self-identification as a Muslim.
If McCain had called himself a Communist we would have been treated to lengthy tomes opining that he was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and obviously in need of commitment for treatment.
Hussein is now on his seventh version of "Why I associated with William Ayers." It took him three tries to firm up why he associated with the Reverend Wright and, to my knowledge, no one has asked him how many states there are in the US. He and his minions have become adroit in playing the race card by blaming the McCain campaign for playing the race card.
This, of course, is a well known tactic, something another Democrat, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was known for. Accuse the other side of something despicable and watch them try to disprove it. In fact, Johnson is reputed to have said of an opponent that the opponent had sex with a pig. When chastened by his staff that he knew that it wasn't true Johnson supposedly said, "Yes, but watch them trying to disprove it."
Biden hasn't been a slouch in this. His claim to CBS anchor Perky Katie Couric that President Roosevelt that went on TV after the stock market crash of 1929 to comfort the public was calmly accepted by her. I did a comment someplace on this in which I mentioned that TV wouldn't be around for years and years and some Leftie chastised me noting that TV was first displayed at the NY World Fair in (?) 1930.... Note the attempt he made to reframe and obscure..
In case you are unsure, Hoover was President, not Roosevelt and commercial TV was years away delayed by WWII.
And actually, in this one, I don't think Couric was shilling for Biden. I think she didn't know. And that is even more frightening than if she was shilling!!
I now return to resume enhancement. Another example is the well known, "I walked to school bare foot in the snow every day and it was six miles up hills both ways."
A similar one, again by Biden, is pointed out by Ann Coulter. It is the attempt to be a "common man."
These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years."
It turns out that Katie's restaurant, where Biden gets his feel for the average American, closed 20 years ago. The only evidence that he spends any time in Home Depot is that it appears that a pipe wrench fell on his head one too many times.
And getting past that one, this one is even worse.
In the same answer, Biden went on to claim that "John McCain voted against a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that every Republican has supported."
The last nuclear test ban treaty the Senate voted on was the one Clinton signed in the '90s. As The New York Times editorialized on the Senate vote a few years later: "Last week, Senate Republicans thundered 'no' to the nuclear test ban treaty, handing the White House its biggest defeat since health care in 1994." Forty-nine Republicans voted against the treaty; only four liberal Republicans voted for it. That's the treaty Biden says "every Republican has supported."
Quotes from Ann Coulter 10/8
