Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. It is a serious business best left to professionals. Some entire professions, like law and accounting, are based on lying. An accountant devotes his entire life trying to figure out how to cheat the government and prepare tax returns to show a loss for businesses that earn 10 million dollars a year. Some occupations are not wholly based on lying, but a little lying helps matters.
All presidents lie.
Richard Nixon had the decency to twitch and sweat when he lied. President George Bush was uncomfortable with his lying so when he lied he never was able to make his hands move in unison to reflect the lies that came out as he spoke. Mr. Clinton, on the other hand, was comfortable with lying. But don't get us wrong he doesn't lie all the time only when he talks. One of the problems with Vice President Al Gore is that he lies even when he doesn't have to, and in a way that the press has, because they are now on a lie alert, been able to pin down, literally, in minutes.