"I can’t say it better than my friend Tim Shriver, the chairman of Special Olympics, did in a Memorial Day essay in The Washington Post: “So Dodge wants to sell you a car you don’t really want to buy, that is not fuel-efficient, will further damage our environment, and will further subsidize oil states, some of which are on the other side of the wars we’re currently fighting. ... The planet be damned, the troops be forgotten, the economy be ignored: buy a Dodge.”

It's a nice thought, an honest politician, but that's like saying miracles really happen, there is a tooth fairy or a pot-of-gold at the end of the rainbow; they're not real and neither is an honest politician.

I've often wondered what would happen if, when asked a simple question, like "Do you think that such-and-such a policy is the right approach", a politician would just say "yes" instead of launching into a long-winded, convoluted and noncomittal speech.