However, when people ignore or deny the relevant facts, bad things tend to happen as a consequence, which ends up hurting people even more. It is possible to live in ignorance and denial, but I don’t recommend it. Ultimately, reality wins, no matter what people want to believe.

I feel great indignation when people make up facts to suit their positions, and when they suppress real facts to protect their interests. I am a realist: people will lie, and they do lie. But it seems to me that people who lie (let’s call it what it is) demonstrate contempt for the people to whom they lie.

This is particularly important in politics, because politics involves the exercise of power, and that implies the ability to hurt people. At its worst, we have seen regimes for whom lying is an essential part of their ethical set and tactics leave large numbers of bodies on the ground.

If anything, there should be greater sanctions for lying in politics than for lying in your private life, as the number of people thereby injured is much, much larger. For my part, I can’t see how utilitarian lying in pursuit of material goals could ever be anything other than profoundly unethical and damaging to the health of society. Perhaps you will make the counter-argument.

So at best, Ymarsakar, I think you have a half-truth, and I continue to share Neo’s sense of outrage over the systematic lying and misrepresentation in the Ayers Affair.

Correction: three people died: Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins, also guilty as hell.

People matter more than facts: both for the good and the evil. The facts, thus, only matter because it concerns people and their fates.

Neo-Neocon, Ayers matters because the facts matters. Lawrence Duggan, Ed Murrow’s friend, matters because the facts matters.

Ayers still matters, as I wrote before, because of his influence on American education. His connection to Obama matters at this point only insofar as Obama might do things as President to further that radical agenda for education, as Obama did in the past when he served with Ayers on Annenberg. Ayers also matters in terms of the question of how it is that this guy could become an authority on education, of all things, and a respected member of the academic community.

“Here’s the Zogby poll from HowObamaGotElected dotcom.”

The really funny one was the Obamabots thought Palin said ’57 states’. Because it fits the media narrative that she is an idiot…

you OBVIOUSLY took the evilyn woodhead sped redding curse…

i responded to a person who said that obama gets to look at everything. i informed them that no he doesnt. i didnt say that this was armor against him knowing something, but that it was showing that he doesnt get EVERYTHING.

you agree with me that he doesnt get everything. i never said that this was protection, only that its not as bad as if he got everything.

so who is the dumba&& now?

you would have been better off keeping your mouth shut and not letting us know who the real dumba&& is.

reading comprehension is a key skill, pleasue use it and things will go a lot smoother for everyone.