If a child took cookies from the cookie jar on 4 occasions, but said they didn't...

[Levgreee]

and you found out they did, what would you call their deception? A misstatement, or a lie?

It is amazing how detached from reality things become in politics, just to try to gain every possible bit of semantic wiggle room.

[goldcanyonaz]

1. If the child is supposed to be Hillary it's a lie. If it's Obama it's an error in judgement.

What do I win?

A cookie?

[scheming daemons]

Find an occurrence where Obama uttered the same "mistatement" four times....

...and once when it was on his prepared remarks.


Then you have an equivalence.

[Yael]

2. Is this repeated behavior over a series of months?

[bilgewaterbill]

3. I'd call it political ambition.

[Cha]

4. Especially if you had it on

tape and they didn't fess up until you told them it was on tape. Sinbad couldn't even make it happen.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. That child would grow up to be Dick Cheney? n/t

[AllentownJake]

7. No

Dick Cheney would eat all the cookies than bake another batch of poisoned cookies to punish whoever tried to steal a cookie after he got all the cookies from the jar.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. And he would lie about it.

Over and over.

Have we forgotten that he still insists on saying that Iraq is aligned somehow with Al Qaeda and therefore behind 911.

Don't forget who the real enemy is!

[stillcool]

6. mis-remembering

[Georgie_92]

8. I wouldn't buy anymore cookies ;)