I’ve never been a big fan of Mark Kirk because of his total lack of leadership and his flip-flopping on most issues and his 90% lemming voting record with Bush and am glad to see him at last doing something well: shooting himself in the foot.  What is so interesting about that is Kirk’s generation lived through Lyndon Johnson and his lies (think: credibility gap), Richard Nixon and his lies (think: Watergate cover up), Bush and his lies (think: nearly anything) and it’s never the act that gets them; it’s the cover up.  And it doesn’t take a Woodward and Bernstein shoe leather investigation any more to expose the liars.  Anyone with a laptop can fact check in minutes.   Which brings us to the point.  Fools, liars and manipulators will always be who they are and will always be fools, will lie and will try to manipulate.  Something about leopards and spots comes to mind.  We need to look up from our own personal space and pay critical attention to what those who would be leaders try to slip down our throats.  If you really are paying attention, you may find that some of it doesn’t taste very good.  Some is bitter propaganda; some is poisonous lying; some is hemlock.   That’s probably enough of that metaphor.  Here is the point:Our sons, daughters, brothers, grandchildren and spouses are fighting in wars without end and without clear purpose and they are being killed and maimed at an increasing rate.Our economy has struggled and will continue to struggle for years and the recession has caused personal disaster for millions of Americans.We are faced with worldwide ocean contamination, the results of which may be catastrophic.

The list could go on at length, but the common denominator in all of them is that they were spawned by lies. In fact, every one of the lies was perpetrated by far right wing conservatives.  So, WAKE UP!  Get beyond your personal needs and face the truth, that your children and grandchildren are counting on you to prevent the fools, liars and manipulators from ruining our country and our world.