Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Politicians often lie.
I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.