A liar. (Reuters/Darren Hauck) I'm not sure what it would take to get the press to notice this as being an overriding campaign theme, but it has to be said yet again: Mitt Romney is a huge liar. His newest full-tilt campaign push has been based entirely on lambasting Obama for something Obama never said. We saw it again in his VFW speech, which did away with any pesky notions of foreign policy in favor of the same (and I do mean the same) anti-Obama accusations that have served as the cornerstones of his thoroughly dishonest campaign. There's the "Obama apology tour" lie. It's been debunked six ways from Sunday, it was debunked long ago, the press has frequently noted its dishonesty, and the only evidence that the president ever did anything remotely resembling an "apology tour" was apparently plucked from the same place that Agenda 21 and other modern conservative fantasies come from. Still, Mitt Romney continues to repeat it. Why? Has it really not ever been pointed out to him that one of his main talking points is a fiction, or does he just not care? And what, if anything, has been the price extracted by the press for a presumptive nominee for the president lying repeatedly about something?
There's the lie that America is less well liked under President Obama than under President Bush. That's not just a lie, it's a freaking delusion. The Bush presidency was infamous for the pressure it put on otherwise stalwart allies, for the unwillingness to consider international opinion, for a bitter dispute with France over France not doing what we wanted them to do quickly enough or unquestioningly enough'Good Lord, I'm not sure there's been any administration in modern American history that caused more tension in the international community. But Mitt sticks to his guns, asserting sans-evidence that Obama is more disliked, merely because he says so.
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