Democrats Intsitutionalize the Big Lie

Really, Democrats have been propagating many big lies over the last few years in their desperation to win back power. I could give so many examples: "Bush lied, kids died". Bush was responsible for Katrina. The U.S. military has murdered millions in an illegal war in Iraq. It goes on and on.

Now they've gone for broke in the Democratic National Convention. The new big lie is this:

"The Bush-McCain administration"

Almost every speaker at the convention seems required to utter this phrase.

It's a lie. It's a palpable lie. The last 8 years were the Bush-Cheney adminstration. Bush was President. Cheney was Vice-President. McCain was outside the administration as a Senator, and one who was a frequent critic of Bush-Cheney. That's a simple fact.

I understand that it's a political strategy to tie McCain, their opponent, to Bush, an unpopular war-President. I understand completely. It's a smart tactic. I don't begrudge them using it.

There are even acceptable ways to do it. I like Hillary Clinton's take on it in her speech at the convention, when she joked that she understands why the Republicans are meeting in the "Twin Cities, because it's so hard to tell them apart. Very funny. An acceptable partisan take on their opponents. Point scored.

On the other hand, it took Joe Biden exactly one speech, in Springfield Illinois when he was named as the VP pick, to begin using the "Bush-McCain administration" line.

I don't object to the tactic. I object to the lie. It's a big lie. In public. Stop it.