When are we going to get over Obama's lie and move on with picking up the pieces of this train wreck? When will the mainstream press stop acting like a jilted lover and get back to work covering news that's fresher than three years old? And when will the GOP stop throwing those rocks from the balcony of their greenhouse?

Here's a newsflash: Politicians lie. Presidents are politicians. Hence, presidents lie. In fact, going back over the last 50 years or so, it's hard to find one who hasn't.

But let's take a quick look, going straight back from what will haunt President Obama for at least the rest of his term.

George W. Bush had at least a pair of whoppers that, if they weren't outright lies were at least grossly premature presumptions. But take your pick: the weapons of mass destruction Saddam Hussein had down in his hidey hole or “Mission accomplished!” (Granted, you could easily argue Bush himself was lied to about those phantom weapons by politicians who just happened to be from other countries.)

Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman. Better not say any more than that.

George H. W. Bush told us flat out, “No new taxes.” Pretty tough to misunderstand that one. (Again, this has been written off as a president promising something he knew he couldn't deliver. The same could be said of Obama.)

Ronald Reagan got caught up in a third world country full of lies that swarmed around Iran-Contra.

Jimmy Carter. I'll get back to him.

Richard Nixon. Do you even need me to go here? When didn't he?

Lyndon B. Johnson lied into the escalation of troops that became Vietnam. Granted, he simply carried the lying torch of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, who lied our way there to begin with.

(A good friend of mine claims Carter and Bush Sr. were probably the most honest presidents we've had over the last half century. Which also might explain why they're our only one-termers.)

You get the idea. Presidents are strangers to truth. Or maybe they just believe the truth is whatever they say it is. After all, it was Lenin (a pretty good liar in his own right), who declared, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” And Obama certainly told his often enough.

And, no, I'm not trolling here. More than anything else, I guess on some level I'm revealing my painfully cynical distrust of all politicians.

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