I should know better than to plant myself in front of the TV and watch yet another effort on the part of the political candidates to catch, wrestle, twist and bend truths simply to sway voters in their directions. And last night's (yawn) stirring and rousing second debate was filled with snide pokes and prods at each other's integrity and honesty with one hand, while the other rested behind their back, fingers tightly crossed, as they made references to numbers, historical actions or plans on their part or that of their opponents. Once again I would recommend readers visit the non-partisan factcheck.org, or google "presidential debate fact check" and read at least three takes and reviews of the facts, one for each party and one you believe to be neutral, such as this summary from the associated press. The bottom line here is that statements are clearly being made that merit follow up evaluation and analysis. Not everything being said is completely accurate and some things are outright lies and intentional mis-characterizations.
Don't you just love our political process and system? Isn't it just great how one can't accept statements being presented as fact, and instead, must dig into them in order to find out who's the biggest liar or lacking the ethics that, uh, should kinda be a part of the office itself?
