While skilled politicians can be effectively evasive, it’s not a communications model to emulate. In the long run, actions speak louder than words, and the truth comes out. That’s probably why politicians, as a group, are almost universally distrusted. As campaign season reaches a crescendo, please see my column in Knoxville News Sentinel for some thoughts about the rhetorical technique known as the pivot: Mansfield: Art of the pivot
