© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersDemocratic U.S. vice presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine shakes hands with Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee Governor Mike Pence
An honest politician can seem like an oxymoron, but
two vice-presidential contenders vying to promote their candidacy required some stretching of the truth at least a few times. Here's a look at whose version of their candidate is the closest to reality.
The vice-presidential debates may not command the attention of an audience the way that presidential debates do, but that didn't stop the Democratic nominee Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican nominee Indiana Governor Mike Pence from mudslinging like their lives depended on it. While the Wednesday debate in Virginia covered many different topics, three involved curious omissions of truth in particular: social security, the Iran deal and immigration.
ImmigrationKaine's view of a Trump presidency involves Children of Men-like mass deportations and said Trump and Pence, "want to go house to house, school to school, business to business and kick out 16 million people."
Meanwhile, Pence presented a borderless and lawless nation under a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Whose caricature of the other's campaign was the closest to the truth? Donald Trump has repeatedly made promises to expel illegal immigrants with a priority on criminals. But what exactly defines a criminal or how to find undocumented criminal has been vague at best.
Comment: There's no deep nor complex analysis that is needed for complete and utter garbage, which is what the US elections, debates, and it's entire political systems amounts to.