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Originally Posted by Yosemite 
Has there ever really been an "honest" politician in any party? I think that would be considered an oxymoron. 
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American tradition has it that George Washington couldn't tell a lie, and Lincoln has been referred to as "Honest Abe". There are probably actually some people who believe it. There wasn't much in the way of media in those days, though.
Lincoln purportedly said:
"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
That statement has also been attributed to P.T. Barnum.