why can presidential candidates flat out lie and get away with it?
how is it that we, the american people, are ok with our candidates lying to us. and ok, maybe i'll give us a little more credit and just assume that many of us are ignorant of certain facts. but rudy giuliani has been quoting around some utterly false numbers about the survival rates of men with prostate cancer in america vs. britain. so he's been saying that survival rates in america are ~82% (which is accurate according to medical journals) and that survival rates in britain are ~44% (this is completely untrue, but based on some conservative publication that he was reading). the actual survival rate in britain for men with prostate cancer is about 74.4%. so why aren't we actually hearing about that? also, mr. giuliani and his team have been enlightened that his figures are completely incorrect, yet his staff has said that they will continue to use the incorrect figures in his future speeches. how does this man resemble anything remotely similar to someone that our country would like to lead us? a man that will lie to us and not even admit his own mistakes. not to mention foreign policy, i mean it is actually quite offensive to britain to be misleading the public about their healthcare system. it would be one thing to be using accurate figures that may embarrass them but to use figures that are completely inaccurate is another thing. in fact i believe that it could be called slander. but hey, that's just me.
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