I'll tell you GUEST,Casual Observer. People are going to lie. Politicians are going to lie. It's a fact of life we can't change. But what we can do is to create a hierarchy of gravity for different kinds of lies. Sort of the way we do with crimes, ie: misdemeanors, felonies, capital crimes, etc.

I would think that a lie about one's personal life or sex-life would fall into a category similar in gravity to a misdemeanor, while a lie about reasons for waging a first strike war on another country would fall into a category similar in gravity to a felony or a capital crime.