Dear Declared Bush Hater; All politicians use forms of misdirection, deception and manipulation to get to power, stay in power and deal amongst all the rhetoric, lies and disreputable folks in human politics. It is a given. If you want only truth-tellers and complete honesty in government, you have to re-design the system. You cannot blame those who rise to the top in politics; the system is screwed up.

And I would like to point out philosophically, that the President of the United States of America is a lot more honest then these two-bit scoundrel dictators around the world or the John Edwards