Joke???

From a June 3, 2009 NY Times interview
“We have a joke around the White House,” the president said. “We’re just going to keep on telling the truth until it stops working — and nowhere is truth-telling more important than the Middle East.”

Was this supposed to be funny? What do you do when it doesn't work? Lie? That sure seems to be the recipe for the attacks on gun ownership, one of the biggest examples of late are the reports on Mexican gun violence being a by product of US gun runners has been a lie. The numbers were directly disputed by reports from the FBI and those published by the Mexican authorities as well. I am not a fan of Bush's last term or his blatant disregard for the Constitiution, but if he would have made this statement the press would have blasted him and labeled him a liar; it would have been headlines across the country. Instead they use this to promote him as an honest President. Time is yet to tell; personally I distrust 99% of all politicians.