Health Care BS

I have always been skeptical of public opinion polls, and I still take them with a truckload of salt, but the results of this Gallup poll warrant some attention. It would appear that the public regards John McCain as the most honest of the candidates:

It’s no surprise, of course, that Clinton comes in WAY behind McCain and Obama on this question. And Obama’s rating on this question is likely to erode after yesterday’s transparently disingenuous speech.

In fact, Thomas Sowell suggests that the speech confirms Obama’s essential dishonesty. He’s not buying the tale that the Illinois senator was shocked by Jeremiah Wright’s repeated exercises in hate speech:

There was no way that he didn’t know about Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American and racist diatribes from the pulpit.

Sowell goes on to say:

Someone once said that a con man’s job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe. Accordingly, Obama’s Philadelphia speech — a theatrical masterpiece — will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama supporters.

In the end, Obama is just as dishonest as Clinton. He is, however, a more convincing liar. It remains to seen if that talent will convince anyone other than hopelessly besotted Kool-Aid drinkers.

UPDATE:

And speaking of Kool-Aid drinkers, CNN’s political “analysts” responded to the Obama speech as if their lines had been written by the Senator’s speechwriters. Peter Chowka highlights some particularly nauseating excerpts at the American Thinker, including this cringe-maker from David Gergen:

In my judgment, it was the best speech of this campaign by anybody, eloquently and thoughtfully addressing the issue of race, and also showing us a great deal about Barack Obama as a leader.

This kind of gushing further vitiates CNN’s credibility as an objective news source, but it does provide one benefit for the erstwhile cable news leader: no one can accuse it of being the ”Clinton News Network” anymore.