Obama's Fog of Equivocation

What do you call a political promise delivered repeatedly and emphatically only to be broken deliberately? David Firestone, an editorialist at the New York Times, calls it an "unfortunate blanket statement." We suppose another example of an unfortunate blanket statement was "I am not a crook."

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/10/31/obama039s_fog_of_equivocation_319008.html
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