Read my lips

When the first George Bush was running for president in 1987 he said, “Read my lips, no new taxes”, and then after he was elected in 1990 he agreed to raise taxes. He was defeated in his re-election for 1994, almost four years after the tax increase and seven years after his pledge. Looking back many analyst feel the breaking of his pledge cost him the second term. Now we have the case of Hillary Clinton who made the now infamous statement about those who died in Benghazi saying, “what difference does it make how they died”, and some say it will cost her the election in 2016 only 4 years after she made the remarks. Others say it will all be forgotten in 4 years and I believe they are correct because even in this short time the public attention span has gotten so much shorter.