"I'm not going to get upset that Obama said there were 57 states in the US, and you shouldn't get upset that politicos either contradict themselves or outright lie--unless of course, the politico is claiming that he or she will not be like the others, when in fact he or she is just like the others."

"I'm saying that if you want a new politics, it's going to require a new discourse. I'm hoping you'll be doing this. I know that you can."

There is a new politics, Naftali. It's called distinguishing between serious policy proposals like a gas tax and relating off-the-cuff, last-minute, irrelevant details to the press about how many states you've campaigned in. Of course, it's not surprising that such distinctions elude you when you assert some kind of moral equivocation between a contradiction and a lie.