Dissimulation: To hide or conceal one's true thoughts or motive.
Duplicity: Deceitfulness, double-dealing.
Subterfuge: Deceit used in order to obtain one's goal.
Chicanery: The use of trickery and hypocrisy to obtain a politic goal or purpose.
Now let's practice our logic!
If a political action causes anger when one politician does it, it should cause anger when another politician does the exact same thing. So let's look at the some of the biggest complaints against the Bush administration and see how those who adhere to sound principles (instead of every wind of rhetoric) would react! The current administration information has been collected from the front section of the last three months of the Deseret News... (not the opinions page, I don't read that).
1. The National Deficit increased during the Bush administration. (We were attacked and began a war .) So, those who complained about this should be outraged that Obama's initial one-year proposed budget is larger than all of the combined proposed budgets of the previous administrations and more than triples our National Deficit. Oh, and the increase is not related to warfare, it is related to welfare.
2. We are sending more troops into war! (Which could have been prevented if Clinton took down the Taliban when given that opportunity so many years ago or Bush Sr. downed Saddam) How many troops did Obama just ask to volunteer so they could be sent into Afghanistan? So is using subterfuge in Afghanistan better than openly declaring war in Iraq?
3. Bush curtailed some of our privacy liberties for national security. Obama and congress are curtailing our fiscal liberties for their political agenda. Which is worse? (Doctrine & Covenants 134:1,2,4 and 5 leave no room for debate.)
4. Bush is a poor public speaker but we always knew where he stood. Obama is almost as effective at dissimulation as Clinton was. It is apparent many did not know what his slogans really did (or will) mean. It is easy to hate something you don't like, but that does not mean you have a solution for the circumstance. In the history of the world, bigger government has never (that would be 0 percent) succeeded at solving social ills. To quote Mr. Regan, "government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them."
5. Bush's cabinet did not have to be accountable for some of their actions (i.e. torture, hunting accidents, etc.). Strangely enough, Obama's cabinet has not either (tax evasion, infidelity, etc...) but he and congress have upped the ante! They have eliminated accountability for private businesses and the stimuluses they have and are approving. By the way, wasn't one of Obama's major campaign promises, "I will not sign any legislation with pork barrel spending?"
6. Bush was accused of trying to scare the public into jumping onto his political agenda bandwagon. That is hard to swallow with how much negative media he received in the previous six years. In reality, chicanery is the current administration's biggest M.O.
This could go on, but this should be sufficient to make the point. If these were things you complained about Bush, in order for you avoid being duplicitous, you should be more angry at your current administration.
Train up a child when they are young...
Unless you do not want to be stimulated to work...
At least with one we control how our money is spent.
Funny how the Democrat's animal mascot is a donkey.
I swear I've been to this park, it's in Canada.
"The ignorant can always be culled with catch phrases and a slight padding of a pocketbook."
Robin Hood is still Telestial.
The phrase with "liberty and justice for all" is not a statement of fiscal entitlement.
"When the wicked rule... the people mourn"
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