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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Obama’s Creative Clippings Part Deux
Posted on January 17, 2008 , Corrected on January 17, 2008
Summary The Obama campaign’s new ad uses an old trick and takes quotes from newspapers out of context. Once again, the campaign uses a quote from a news story to say Obama’s health plan would offer universal coverage. But the full article points out that his plan "does not guarantee" …
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Short Ads, Even Shorter on the Facts
Posted on January 16, 2008
Summary Two recent ads by the Edwards campaign are quick and to the point, but they miss the mark. One claims that Edwards is the "only" Democrat who "beats" the leading Republican contenders in "the recent" CNN poll. Actually, Edwards wasn’t even included in the most recent CNN poll; the …
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Stacking the Deck
Posted on January 16, 2008
Summary The three leading Democratic presidential candidates debated in Las Vegas and we noted the following: Clinton once again mischaracterized the 2005 energy bill, saying it had "enormous giveaways" to oil and gas companies. In truth, the measure raised taxes on those industries. Obama accused the Bush administration of failing …
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Sliming Obama
Posted on January 10, 2008 , Corrected on January 11, 2008
Summary If these two nasty e-mail messages are any indication, the 2008 presidential campaign is becoming a very dirty one. One claims that Obama is "certainly a racist" by virtue of belonging to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which it says "will accept only black parishoners" and espouses a …
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N.H. Debate: The Dems’ Turn
Posted on January 6, 2008 , Updated on January 8, 2008 , Corrected on January 8, 2008
Summary During the Democratic portion of the Jan. 5 New Hampshire debate: Obama claimed we are "back where we started two years ago" in Iraq. Actually, all indicators of violence show dramatic improvement compared with two years ago. Clinton repeated a misleading claim that the 2005 energy bill was "larded …
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Obama’s Creative Clippings
Posted on January 3, 2008
Summary Obama's ad touting his health care plan quotes phrases from newspaper articles and an editorial, but makes them sound more laudatory and authoritative than they actually are. It attributes to The Washington Post a line saying Obama's plan would save families about $2,500. But the Post was citing the …
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The Obamas’ Chicago Home
Posted on December 24, 2007
Q: Does Obama have a real estate problem? A: A political patron from whom he bought a strip of land is under federal indictment, but there’s no evidence Obama did anything improper.
Democrats Debate in Iowa
Posted on December 13, 2007
Summary In the final Democratic debate in Iowa, we found: Richardson claimed “enormous progress” in New Mexico education, when in fact the state’s eighth-grade reading scores have slipped and remain among the worst in the U.S. Richardson exaggerated the extent to which his state’s teacher salaries increased. Richardson said one-third …
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Stuck in Iraq
Posted on September 27, 2007 , Updated on September 28, 2007
Summary The latest Democratic presidential debate brought into sharp focus the candidates’ disagreements on how quickly the U.S. can disentangle itself from Iraq. Long-shot candidate Dennis Kucinich stood by his promise to bring all troops home within three months, and Bill Richardson said he could do it in a year …
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Tagged Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, Democratic debate, Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Joe Biden, mike gravel
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Twisting Facts in Spanglish
Posted on September 10, 2007
Summary The Sunday night debate, complete with interpreters, produced a few flubs or fibs from the Democratic field, including these: Rep. Dennis Kucinich gave a figure for health insurance company profits that was vastly overstated. He also made a much-disputed claim about NAFTA. Former Sen. John Edwards made his health …
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