Subject: Re: Puffery and Lies
"using puffery rather than precision to communicate a general point.....Trump does this reflexively,BTW, this doesn't make what he's doing right. Unlike a real estate salesman, the words of a President are parsed very carefully and have enormous impact - there's a reason why the norm for Presidents is to choose their words equally carefully.

Perhaps.

"After Biden’s debate performance, though, the presidential race remains statistically unchanged, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. NPR’s Domenico Montanaro reports that we are in a "hyperpolarized landscape," with people having very fixed views of both men. But one thing that is notable in this latest NPR poll is this: two-thirds of Americans find it more concerning to have a president who does not tell the truth than one who is too old for the job.