A politician misinform? Say it ain't so!

[missdiane]

Seems  Rand Paul's first two books are chock full of misquoted or misinterpreted Founding Fathers quotes

Huh, guess Rand-y went to the Facebook Meme school of finding smurt quotes

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[msdark.livejournal.com]

This crawls up under my skin. We fail, or at least severely punish students who do this in school (making up quotes and attributing them to people who didn't say them can fall under academic dishonesty). Meanwhile, a man who wants to run for President of the United States of America, who holds office, thinks it appropriate to just make things up that suit him? Grrr.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Rand Paul who...not even a consideration.

[threecee.livejournal.com]

Is it just an attack of the "good old day" or are presidential candidates getting stupider with every election?

[msdark.livejournal.com]

Or have they always been this way and it is just more obvious now that social media can spread it like wildfire?

[threecee.livejournal.com]

With the exception of Jefferson and Adams, and maybe Obama, I don't think the intelligence standard was ever set very high, but still...