The speakers asserts that because of the impossibility of telling the truth all the time for an effecitive politican, complete honesty do no good to the politican. At the first glance, this contention seems to be somewhat convincing, but further refelction tells me that I cannot agree with that. In my point of view, politicans, in some special circumstances, may not to be telling the truth, but this does not mean that honesty is not useful for a politician.
 Politicians, considering the special career requirements, may have to shun speaking out the truth. For the interests of their party, nation or the public, the politicans leaders occasionally are forced not to talk about something as it actually happens. Even in some circumstances, not telling the true is essential as well as useful to the public.On the contrary, if telling the truth to the public all the time, it is quite possible to lead to something detrimental,like the panic in the public, politicians' loss of credibility or damaging the country;s interests and so on, to happen. Thus in some sense, avoiding to tell the truth may seems to be a white lie, just like what the Japanese authority did after the disastrous earthquake, with the magnitudes of 9.0, causing a terrible crisis of nuclear reactors. At that moment, if any of the nuclear plants were to release radioactive material, it might manufacture a new whole level of catastrophe. In this situation, instead of telling the public how serious the crisis of nuclear reactors were, the authority took actions to evacuate the people near the plats and try best to clam the public. It is rather unadvisable to accuse them of not telling the the truth about the nuclear reactors. So a lie is is like throwing dust in people's eyes, which prevents people from finding the ugliness hidden behind; but a white lie, just like our parents' keeping informed us of lots of bad about the Internet when we are at early age to protect us from having access to the scenes of violence and sex.In a word. Still another case is that when people just ask something about the privacy about an politician, should they tell the truth? Obviously, the answer is "No".In a word, considering the the interests of the nation or the public ,telling the truth all the time is impossible for an effective politician.
However,we can never infer hereby that honesty is useless for a politican.First of all, as we all know, we have observed many politicans to avoid telling the truth, but this does not deny the fact that they themselves take, others also agree , honesty as useful virtue for them. Moreever, we cannot equal "not to tell the truth" with "to lie", because a person can still keep silent, show partially the true color of the matter in question, or choose to tell the fact in a roundabout way rather than lie. In addition, when we say honesty as a useful virtue for a politican, we mention it as an ethical problem bottem line for anybody, including surely all politicans. Such an ethical rule is effecitve even all poticians under certain pressure choose to lie.Honesty, as an virtue, will never lose its usefulness and those who ignore the importance of honesty shall smart for their foolishness and lacking of foresight. Chiang Kaishek, the president of The Republic of China during 1927 to 1945, told lies to the public about the facts about the War of Resistance against Japan , the economy of China, and the coexist with the Communist Party peacefully. As a consequence, he lost the hearts and minds of the people and lost the status of China.
In sum, Avoiding tell the truth is based on the consideration of the interests of the whole nation and the public. And only in this way can be better to the development of the whole country,thus maximize profits of the country and its people.Meanwhile, there is no doubt that honesty is a good character a effective politician should own. A really effective politican is one who can always say calmly that "Yes, I'm honest before my conscience," but meanwhile skillful utters "No" before a fact at the call of special conditions.