Central myths about Putin the healer of the nation and the supplier of giveaway budgets are collapsing.

With energy revenues screeching to a halt, Putin s regime will lose popularity. Central myths about Putin the healer of the nation and the supplier of giveaway budgets are collapsing.

Now if Bill Clinton had said, Well, to tell you the truth ... or Richard Nixon's favorite, In all candor ... he would have been a dead giveaway for any liespotter than knows that qualifying language, as it's called, qualifying language like that, further discredits the subject.