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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Straining the Facts on Federal Spending
Posted on April 26, 2012
A TV ad by a conservative group gives some factually challenged answers to its own rhetorical question, “How exactly does President Obama spend your tax dollars?” It wrongly claims that the boss of the General Services Administration “couldn’t make it to Vegas because she had meetings planned … at Solyndra.” …
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Tagged american future fund, Barack Obama, Solyndra, stimulus
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Romney Misfires with EPA Anecdote
Posted on April 17, 2012
Mitt Romney railed against the “Obama EPA” and “how the Obama government interferes with personal freedom” — using as his example an EPA action taken in 2007, under President George W. Bush. Furthermore, it was a Republican-nominated federal judge who made the initial ruling — in EPA’s favor — that …
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Tagged Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Mitt Romney, supreme court
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Obama’s ‘War on Women’?
Posted on April 12, 2012
On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney has been hammering a statistic that “over 92 percent of the jobs lost under this president were lost by women,” evidence, he says, that President Obama’s policies amount to a “war on women.” Romney’s statistic is accurate, as far as it goes. But it’s …
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Obama Eats His Words
Posted on April 4, 2012 , Updated on April 5, 2012
President Obama is being forced to modify his absurdly wrong claim that it would be “unprecedented” for the Supreme Court to strike down the new health care law. He made that statement April 2 in a news conference: Obama, April 2: Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not …
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Tagged Barack Obama, constitutional, health care law, supreme court
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Misleading on Premiums
Posted on March 26, 2012
Both the Republican National Committee and the Obama administration are making misleading claims about health insurance premium costs. An RNC ad falsely implies that the federal health care law is responsible for all of the $1,300 average increase in family coverage premiums last year. But at the same time, the …
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Tagged Barack Obama, health care, premiums, Republican National Committee
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Obama Wanted Higher Gasoline Prices?
Posted on March 23, 2012
Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have repeatedly lifted several quotes out of context to allege that President Barack Obama and his administration actually wanted to drive up the price of gasoline, and have succeeded. Gingrich said Obama wants gasoline prices to get to the European levels of …
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Tagged Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, oil, Steven Chu
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Bogus Oil Claims by Crossroads GPS
Posted on March 22, 2012
Crossroads GPS is accusing the Obama administration of “bad energy policies” causing “prices we can’t afford.” But the Republican-leaning group makes some false and exaggerated claims. It says the president “limited development of American oil shale.” Actually, production of petroleum from shale formations is booming. What the administration slowed down …
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Obama’s Fake Hayes Quote
Posted on March 15, 2012
President Obama unjustly criticized a dead Republican president — Rutherford B. Hayes — by putting words in Hayes’ mouth that he never uttered. Obama, speaking about his energy policies at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md., said: Obama, March 15: There always have been folks who are the naysayers …
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Did ‘Elite Media’ Ignore ‘Infanticide’?
Posted on February 23, 2012
Newt Gingrich was wrong when he accused the “elite media” of failing to ask Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign about his votes “in favor of infanticide.” In fact, there were reams of mainstream media reports about Obama’s votes as an Illinois state senator on the “born alive” legislation to …
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Tagged abortion, Barack Obama, infanticide, Newt Gingrich
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Gunning Down the Truth in Michigan
Posted on February 15, 2012
With Rick Santorum polling well in Mitt Romney’s birth state, a high-stakes TV shootout has broken out in Michigan. But some shots are off the mark. An amusing Santorum ad features a Romney look-alike machine-gunning mud at a cardboard cutout of Santorum. But …
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