Truth Matters Not in an Election Year

Posted on March 6, 2006 | Filed Under Politics

As we get closer to the mid-term elections, I expect to hear reality spun into completely new stories as candidates on both sides clammer for votes.   Here is a great comment on this subject from syndicated talk radio host Neal Boortz (boortz.com)

Harold Ford is running for the Senate in Tennessee.   He is a Democrat; something of a lightweight Barak Obama.   Ford went to Maryland to film a commercial for his senate race.   He stood there in the Baltimore port and said:‚  “The president wants to sell this port and five others to the United Arab Emirates.”

Well, I guess that gives us a little insight into this particular Democrat’s senate campaign.   The truth won’t matter to Harold Ford if there’s a political point to be made.   The Port of Baltimore is not being “sold” to the UAE, and Harold Ford knows it.   Under the deal the UAE would only have the contractual right to operate certain facilities at the port for a specified period of time.

It’s 2006 election politics.   The truth doesn’t matter.   Inciting the voters does.

Is the UAE deal good public policy? Do I agree with the UAE deal?‚  No.   I think in the interest of national security it should be shot down.   But this kind of political spin used to make the Democrats look like they’re tough on terror…   well, that doesn’t fly with me either.


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