Pinocchio Personified
President Obama was at his eloquent best this week at the U.N. when he said the strongest weapon against hateful speech "is not repression; it is more speech. … We cannot ban blasphemy.” He apparently was ignoring last week's White House’s request for Google to remove a Muslim film from You Tube (which they denied). The beloved cartoon character made popular by Disney is more and more human and Mister Geppetto’s head is spinning around. Mitt Romney’s no honest Abe Lincoln himself. The Washington Post actually has assigned the Romney/Ryan campaign 4 Pinocchio’s. At the Republican convention the campaign said “we won’t be dictacted by fact checkers.” Honesty seems to have no place in a Presidential campaign. There’s no Constitutional right for truth. CNN outlines how the half-truths are commonplace in this campaign on all sides. Americans used to aspire to truth and justice. Instead the n...