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**pavelChe** · 10-19-2005, 02:54 PM

He's a damn politician, he can't lie? Come on people... It comes with the territory. It's a way to get things to go your way, and in Washington the good presidents are the ones that get things to go their way.

There's lying and there's lying. Nixon was, in the full psychological sense of the term, a "pathological liar."

Read some of the early interviews with the press when he was in California politics and you'll notice two things about Nixon's statements, cropping up on a regular basis: (1) He lied about things that could easily be checked independently and proved to be false, and (2) he never had to lie about any of those things in the first place! This is what pathological lying is.

Bush, on the other hand, doesn't actually lie nearly as much as he bullshits. He isn't trying to hide the truth because he simply doesn't care what the truth is. He just convinces himself that everything he says is true and tries to sound sincere about it.

10-19-2005, 02:54 PM	#6
pavelChe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	He's a damn politician, he can't lie? Come on people... It comes with the territory. It's a way to get things to go your way, and in Washington the good presidents are the ones that get things to go their way. There's lying and there's lying. Nixon was, in the full psychological sense of the term, a "pathological liar." Read some of the early interviews with the press when he was in California politics and you'll notice two things about Nixon's statements, cropping up on a regular basis: (1) He lied about things that could easily be checked independently and proved to be false, and (2) he never had to lie about any of those things in the first place! This is what pathological lying is. Bush, on the other hand, doesn't actually lie nearly as much as he bullshits. He isn't trying to hide the truth because he simply doesn't care what the truth is. He just convinces himself that everything he says is true and tries to sound sincere about it.
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