Lies Elections and Marijuana!

David Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal?

Richard Nixon: I'm saying that when the President does it, it's *not* illegal!

David Frost: ...I'm sorry?

Do Politicians Lie?

YES!

But Why?

My point to all of this is that Politicians only lie based on what the public need to hear and know. The public doesn't necessarily always want to hear the truth. People want to hear what best suits them at the time. When two candidates are running and one of them tells the truth and the other says what the public wants to hear, the one who says what the public wants to hear wins the election. Thus;

If you want to win an election, start lying, because if your telling the truth you dont have a chance.

(Of course there are some exceptions!)

An example would be Bill Clinton in the 1992 election he ran against George Bush Snr. and won by telling the entire truth about the economic situation in America. However, the public didn't want to hear the 'whole truth'. When it came to smoking Marijuana, Clinton 'didn't inhale'. Now it doenst take a genius to honestly work out that, that is a massive lie and im almost certain he got completely stoned. But to admit to this would mean he is admitting to purposefully breaking the law, and how can the public possibly elect someone who has done that, and more importantly justify that election?

Personally, If I had been of voting age and American at that time, i cant say i would have cared if he would have experimented with that substance as half of Americans have, and which is arguably less dangerous than beer.

Simply put. If you want to get elected remember, you're expected to lie about smoking Green.

See the Article on Clinton trying marijuana here

And for Humourous reasons see this Urban Dictionary definition of the 'Bill Clinton Hit' :)