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Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Personally, I have to go way back to remember a president that wasn't. Bush Jr. is shifty (example: Kyoto treaty), Clinton was shifty (example: I did not have sex with that woman), Bush Sr. was shifty (example: read my lips, no new taxes).
I guess Reagan doesn't seem shifty to me, but I was too young to care about politics then. 
In an age where the most admired exec, Bill Gates, can get into an argument about the meaning of "is", I guess I've just come to expect it out of leaders and politicians.
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This is true, and it's also true that there are lots of reasons for opinions to change. I'm not saying Bush is much better, but at least I haven't heard him contradict himself within a single interview (granted, he doesn't do interviews now that he's president, so I suppose it's an unfair comparison). This is why I would have loved to see Lieberman or Edwards as the candidate - both of them are much better PEOPLE than Bush or Kerry IMO. Of course, I'm almost definitely going to vote 3rd party anyways provided I find a candidate there that I agree with more. It's a difficult time to be a centrist right now with Bush and Kerry as the candidates. Then again, maybe now that we're out of primary season, Kerry will stop taking so many cards out of the Dean playbook as it seemed he did then, slowly shifting more and more left. Maybe he'll self-corredct and move back towards the center again as the race goes on. Only time will tell, and that's why I couldn't possibly say who I'm definitely voting for at this point.