Now It's Okay

Remember when the left cried out that President Bush "lied" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction? It required you to believe that being wrong--in the same way that leading Democrats were also wrong about finding stockpiles of chemical weapons when we invaded--is the same as lying. Aside from that major flaw, the assumption in the rabid sputtering rage was that lying is wrong. Now the nuance requires us to understand that all presidents lie to us.

No worries that President Obama may have lied to us. All politicians do it!

Everyone knows politicians lie. Why don’t reporters say so?

The article isn't even bad, for the issue at hand. And it admittedly is about the media rather than Democratic opposition to Bush.

But I don't recall this level of explanation and context during the Bush administration. Then the left could cry "lies!" and there was no context given.

But now when cries of "you lie!" come from the right? Now context is important. Now we have to understand the nuance of lies, errors, and definitional ("collection," "is") issues that hide the truth.

I thought hope and change was supposed to be something way different than this.