I don't think it's so much lying as just plain not knowing the truth anymore. Consider Dubya. His grandfather, Prescott Bush was a professional liar. His father, George H.W. Bush, was head of the CIA and a professional liar (but I repeat myself). Our current president was raised in a family culture of lying to the point where it is difficult to distinguish between the two. Many of the other career politicians are also the offspring of politicians or have been politicians so long they don't know much else. One of the precedents that George Washington wanted to set by only serving two terms as President is that this country wasn't supposed to have career politicians. A person was supposed to only serve a term or two and go home to live under the laws he legislated. What we have now is more akin to royal succession than elected representation. Career politicians stay in office in Washington, complete with certain perks paid for by special interest groups and lobbyists. Their children are raised not having to work and following the example set by their parents. By the time the child becomes an adult, he or she is not only corrupt, he or she is fully indoctrinated into the ways of a career politician. How is that person supposed to relate to you or me, who actually have to work for a living and be a good citizen? This is one of the reason I support term limits. But, the moral and ethical standards of this country have been shot to pieces since the early part of the 20th Century and 1962, when God was removed from the classroom, was really the last straw for this country's future. Abraham Lincoln said, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." The ills of our country and it so-called leadership, as well as the unwillingness of We the People to rise together to restore the Constitution, can be directly traced to 1962. _______________________________________________________ "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason." -Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612