Politics of Deceit: I long for Lincoln. I long for Washington. I miss the days when I knew that our elected leaders were honest. I am not talking about the kind of dishonesty like Eliot Spitzer who cheats on his wife or Kwame Kilpatrick who has been charged with 8 felonies (mostly as a result of cheating on his wife). I am talking about people who are so numb to their own lies that they don’t even realize when they are doing and when they are caught they don’t see anything wrong with it!

I delicately remind you of the questioning of Bill Clinton who wanted to redefine “sex” and said that a particular variety of it wasn’t. The world scratched their heads, but it sort of worked – at least as far as the trial. So it should be no surprise that Ms. Rodham-Clinton said that she “misspoke” when she said that she was under sniper fire on a visit to Bosnia. She responded today by saying “"I say a lot of things -- millions of words a day -- so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement," she said. Okay, I will give her that she says a lot of things in a day, but to characterize her visit to another country as being under sniper fire when it wasn’t isn’t misspeaking – its lying. And it is a part of her character. She wasn’t repeating something that someone told her that was wrong, she was trying to share a story about something that happened to her and she lied. She didn’t exaggerate, she lied. Here is what she said: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." But the AP photo (left) clearly shows a different story. She stops to greet people, and everyone is smiling. There is not one look of concern.

But I am not shocked by the lie, nor the pass that she gets from the press. Does anyone remember Ms. Rodham-Clinton’s response to 9/11? She said that she was a concerned parent because Chelsea had gone jogging around the towers and was missing. But according to Chelsea a couple of months later she says that she was nowhere near the towers and found out about the attacks by watching the TV.

These are people who will say anything for political expediency. If my candidate (who is no longer in the race) where to come out with such a total fabrication he would immediately be off my list. If they will lie about their family and experiences just to get a vote they will lie about anything. And that person has no place in leadership.