PANTS SUIT ON FIRE!

The Hillary camp, with the full throated endorsement of the MSM is desperately trying to paint Donald Trump as a serial liar.    Unfortunately, they have used this tactic before with great success.  Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.  It was never a question of whether or not he lied; it was whether Democrats considered this to be important. They decided it didn’t matter because it was just about sex. He was later disbarred because of this lie, because the ABA did not agree.  It is indisputable that Clinton lied under oath.

When George W. Bush ran with the slogan that he would return honor to the White House, Democrats were outraged.   They had to find a way to paint George W. Bush as an even worse liar in order to justify their willingness to continue supporting Clinton.  This is why they promoted the theory that Bush lied about the WMD in Iraq.  It is why people were chanting that Clinton lied but no one died. But the reality is that George W. Bush did not lie at all.  Rarely in the history of the U.S. President have we so much documentation proving that a President was telling the truth.  Every single word spoken or written by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld was reviewed word for word by a Senate committee that could not find a single statement inconsistent with the intelligence.  The most they could claim was that Cheney and Rumsfeld may have occasionally relied too much on poorly sourced intelligence. Sadly, a high percentage of Americans still believe that Bush lied about the WMD in Iraq.  I really wish he had fought back against this, but he didn’t.  Sometimes taking the high road allows thieves and bandits to soar ahead on the low road.

Donald Trump has said things that outrage liberals.  The MSM likes to call any statement they don’t like to be a lie.  A classic example is when Trump said 58% of African American youths are not working.  He is right about that by the way, but Politico calls that a lie because they say the unemployment rate is ONLY 15.7% and Trump is including people who gave up looking for work.  Trump also included students who aren’t working.  In other words, Trump is telling the truth, but liberals call it a lie because they consider it to be misleading.

Even by this tortured definition, Hillary still lies just as much as Trump.  But the real problem is that Hillary tells very different lies.   Most people understand that while all lies matter, some lies matter more than others.  That is why no one is going to threaten you with jail time for claiming to be a better athlete in high school than other people remember.  However you can definitely go to jail for lying under oath about something material.  Hillary has flat out lied about sending classified e-mails on her private server and she has done it under oath before congress.  My prediction is that although the MSM can’t seem to understand the difference, the American people will not have that problem.

All Trump has to do tonight is look like he can act like an adult.  He doesn’t need to challenge Hillary about anything.  He just needs to look like what he is; an executive capable of being a leader who makes rational decisions.  Trump just has to be himself. Hillary, on the other hand has to give carefully crafted lines trying to explain why things that are obviously true are actually false.  Good luck with that.  It will get even worse if she gets off script and things could go entirely off the rails if she has some kind of health related episode.

For humor purposes, just think about this.  The debate will last for 90 minutes with no breaks.  Odds are that Hillary will not drink anything liquid for a long period prior to the debate.  This is to avoid looking like she is desperately in need of a potty break.  However, she frequently has coughing spells and if you believe her campaign, recently fainted because of overheating.  In other words someone in desperate need of staying hydrated is also in desperate need of not drinking too much liquid. This reminds me of the man who took long strides to reduce wear and tear on his $60 shoes and ended up splitting his $80 pants.

TDM