Following is the opening paragraph of one of my comments titled "Truth & Trust...Two Important Ingredients" that was made during the Primary campaign:
" The importance of truth in our electoral process is unquestioned. If the representatives of the people are to be selected based on falsehoods, what value is there to having the freedom to vote since the will of the people would be deprived by deception which is no better than depriving us of our right to vote in the first place."
The recent McCain/Palin campaign strategy of lies and deception makes this as much a significant issue today than at any other time. This issue goes to the heart of the very characteristics we, as citizens of the greatest free country in the world, should not only want but demand in our leaders. That is integrity and truth. If they do not rely on integrity & truth to gain the trust of the voters to win their elected positions, what reason do the voters have to believe that such deception will not carry forward into their policies and practices as elected officials?
Is not that what we have been suffering through these last 8 years, whether it be deception with regard to Iraq, unaccounted billions of dollars for war contracts to Administration friends, torture, unwarranted domestic wiretapping, as well as infringements of other civil liberties.
As Dennis Kucinich said at the DNC: "Wake Up America!"
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