The Bait and Switch

[daredtowork]

67. Let's look at this another way

Tea Party Republicans will say a Democrat is "lying for political advantage" when it suits them. But they will look the other way when their own candidate does the exact does the same.

What I am noting is that politicians don't always tell the truth as a matter of their jobs, so Tea Party Republicans are hypocrites when they call people on it. This is the phenomenon you are pointing out.

I am ALREADY positing that both parties will not always be honest in the course of their jobs, and I don't want to be a hypocrite about it and call a Republican on something I'm not willing to call a Democrat on.

The particular thing I'm calling Obama on is NOT in the course of his job of keeping State secrets, etc.

The particular thing I'm calling him on has to do with media strategy and tactics. As Woo Me With Science said, it is the sort of thing developed in corporate PR war rooms. I expect both parties are using these tactics as well. I don't want EITHER side to use them, and I don't think it is a NECESSARY part of the President's job.

Therefore, I am calling President Obama on it and saying I don't approve of that tactic. This frees me from being a hypocrite when I point to the GOP and say I don't like them using that tactic, either.

Get it?