When are we going to get over Obama's lie and move on withpicking up the pieces of this train wreck? When will the mainstreampress stop acting like a jilted lover and get back to work coveringnews that's fresher than three years old? And when will the GOPstop throwing those rocks from the balcony of their greenhouse?

Here's a newsflash: Politicians lie. Presidents are politicians.Hence, presidents lie. In fact, going back over the last 50 yearsor so, it's hard to find one who hasn't.

But let's take a quick look, going straight back from what willhaunt President Obama for at least the rest of his term.

George W. Bush had at least a pair of whoppersthat, if they weren't outright lies were at least grossly prematurepresumptions. But take your pick: the weapons of mass destructionSaddam Hussein had down in his hidey hole or “Missionaccomplished!” (Granted, you could easily argue Bush himself waslied to about those phantom weapons by politicians who justhappened to be from other countries.)

Bill Clinton did not have sex with that woman.Better not say any more than that.

George H. W. Bush told us flat out, “No newtaxes.” Pretty tough to misunderstand that one. (Again, this hasbeen written off as a president promising something he knew hecouldn't deliver. The same could be said of Obama.)

Ronald Reagan got caught up in a third worldcountry full of lies that swarmed around Iran-Contra.

Jimmy Carter. I'll get back to him.

Richard Nixon. Do you even need me to go here?When didn't he?

Lyndon B. Johnson lied into the escalation oftroops that became Vietnam. Granted, he simply carried the lyingtorch of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, who lied our way thereto begin with.

(A good friend of mine claims Carter and Bush Sr. were probablythe most honest presidents we've had over the last half century.Which also might explain why they're our only one-termers.)

You get the idea. Presidents are strangers to truth. Or maybethey just believe the truth is whatever they say it is. After all,it was Lenin (a pretty good liar in his own right), who declared,“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” And Obama certainlytold his often enough.

And, no, I'm not trolling here. More than anything else, I guesson some level I'm revealing my painfully cynical distrust of allpoliticians.