code of conduct - polics forum, page-42

"When someone has admitted to telling an untruth can they be correctly called a liar, or is that an insult?"

a person of your undoubted intelligence bacci will no doubt work it out.

If not then I guess the posts will become fewer and further between.

Did Gillard lie?

Did she knowingly tell the public something that she believed not to be true?

Because a person changes their mind (or has it changed for them) it doesn't make them a liar.

So is the word itself an insult? So many possible connotations to blanket answer that. However there are times when it can be 100% accurate. A pretty harsh word really but one that is associated with politicians so if the description is accurate it would be hard to deem it an insult. That said it would be far simpler to discuss the lie rather than make attempted sensational headings like 'LIAR'.

Howards gst...no lie unless it is proven that he always intended to introduce a gst
Gillards backflips are not lies unless of course there is proof that she said something that she didn't mean at the time.

Easy to call politicians liars all the time because they change their minds based upon changing circumstances but are they really lies?