Presidential dishonesty ain't always a bad thing.
The article is another vindication of you Southerners and your complaints about Lincoln. The one line historical reference that "He freed the slaves" is indeed misleading about his presidency.
Hopefully all the efforts to re-frame Reagan as a great president continue to be swatted into the seats.
FDR was a good liar too but note to proto-conks. Your most hated 20th century socialist-liberal villain was a champion AGAINST fascism. Not that fascism is a right wing phenomenon too. No...never...uh uhhhh.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/here-ar ... ge-w-bush/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The truth is, while we Americans profess to want honest leaders, what we really want are effective leaders, and sometimes lies are necessary evils if we want to get something accomplished. Machiavelli famously laid that argument out in The Prince:
“Everyone admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep his word, and to behave with integrity rather than cunning. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have considered keeping their word of little account, and have known how to beguile men’s minds by shrewdness and cunning. In the end these princes have overcome those who have relied on keeping their word.”
When we got a president who promised never to lie to us, as Jimmy Carter did in 1976, many thought he was not particularly effective and voters tossed him out on his ear in 1980, for a master Machiavellian prince named Ronald Reagan.....
