GfS - Yeah...the profession of politics seems to demand a certain level of dishonesty, doesn't it? ;-) Perhaps this is because a politician is basically a salesman...on a very large scale. He's constantly trying to sell certain big ideas and proposals to a public who usually just want to be left alone. Thus he has to dress those ideas up in glorious language and make them sound probably a lot better than they actually are.

Then too, he's a fig leaf stuck on an endemically dishonest and money-driven system...so how the hell could he possibly remain honest and still function in that role?