LYING is allowed. Especially when you run for president of the United States. It’s in the Constitution, first amendment, freedom of speech. There were people who asked the Supreme Court about it, but they were turned down: stop the whining, everyone is free to say what they want. As long as you don’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater. Or when you’re under oath.
Hence my bill proposal that requires every presidential candidate to be put under oath first. Throughout their campaign – they are allowed to say anything they want as long as it is consistent with the truth. Those who are shown to be lying will receive the prison sentence that comes with perjury, plus they will not be allowed to keep running. Watch what a difference that will make. Watch them come clean.
Suddenly no one will be lying about immigrants eating dogs and cats. Nobody can be exaggerating their military record, and no man can insist that he had such bad feet that that’s why he couldn’t go to Vietnam. No one can say that the current inflation rate of 2.5 percent is the worst ever, even though in 1980 it was 10 percent. And no one can blare with impunity that immigrants “poison the blood of the nation” after he himself twice married an immigrant and fathered children.
The VanderBus Act demands and guarantees that the voter be told only the truth, and nothing but the truth. Put every candidate under oath. Including me. No one has ever caught a kitty in a lie.
* VanderBus left home at the age of six weeks and went hunting for a city bus in Maine. He caught the bus. It cost him one eye, but he won a standing ovation from everyone who watched him do it. VanderBus, since then mayor of Bicker Hollow, is running for president of the United States.
