Can you be "too honest"?

While trying to figure out who Ron Paul is (that's another story on my total disinterest in all things political, but I see the signs everywhere...kudos to that campaign). I came across a headline on whether or not Obama's drug response was "too honest". Isn't it the general complaint of people that politicians are...well political when "answering" questions. Has this become so much the norm that we now expect people to make up answers to things?

I think that the bigger problem in society in general is that in the age where information flows fast and free, no one can escape their past. The days of the Western loaner who travels to a new town for a new start, are long gone. Now, whatever you have done follows you wherever you go. Everyone has indiscretions or things that they would have done different. It is what shapes you and makes you the person you are today. That is what I am concerned about when looking at who I want to run the country, what kind of person you are now. If you are the kind of person who can honestly answer a question, that makes you a.o.k. in my book.