During the Vice Presidential debate last night, Dick Cheney had the gall to claim that John Edwards was so absent from Washington, DC that the night of the Vice Presidential debate was the first time he had ever met Edwards.
Of course, it turns out that Cheney was lying. There are at least two meetings on film: Cheney and Edwards sat down together for breakfast in February 2001, and came together to welcome Elizabeth Dole to the Senate in 2003. Mind you, these are only the meetings that are on film.
If Cheney’s going to lie about something like this, when can you trust him to tell the truth?
We shouldn’t be surprised that Dick Cheney is willing to stoop to this kind of bald-faced lie. After all, this is the same guy who voted against helping Meals on Wheels assistance for elderly Americas, against Head Start preschool education for kids, against a holiday to celebrate the work of Martin Luther King Jr., and against a congressional resolution urging South Africa’s apartheid regime to release Nelson Mandela from prison.
