http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/22/12359704-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xxiii?fb_ref=.T-aRe5TkCjc.like&fb_source=home_multiline For those who are watching the 2012 presidential race closely, Mitt Romney's penchant for falsehoods is hard to miss. Michael Cohen summarized the issue nicely this week in
a piece for The Guardian:
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this statement is pretty darn ironic considering the purpose of your post.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/romney-auto-bailout-cheap_n_1610779.html
He's insisted throughout the 2012 campaign that the government never needed to bail out the auto companies, just shuttle them quickly through managed bankruptcy. But the argument ignores the role that government funds played in keeping those companies intact so they could make it to the managed bankruptcy process.
That would have effectively destroyed them...they would not have recovered without gvmt intervention - let alone as well as they did.
I dont think its ironic, nor a falsehod on the level of the itms on this list
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all your doing is propagating the same kind of misleading statements you accuse romney of making. it kind of defeats the purpose of the post.
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For that matter, if the Israelis' 1967 borders were indefensible, what exactly happened in the Six Days' War or in 1956?
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It's also Russia's route to the Mediterranean Sea.
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THE FACTS. Hardly. Presidents from George Washington through George W. Bush ran the national debt up to $10.62 trillion, the amount it was on the day Obama took office. Today, it is $15.67 trillion, according to the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Public Debt. So it has gone up by $5.05 trillion under Obama. That’s roughly half of the amount amassed by all the other presidents combined.
That's counting all the interest as debt put together by prior presidents. Romney didn't say "half the national debt was due to Obama".
Given that this is a person running for president, I'm guessing there are some valid items on this list, but there's some real crap in it.
"25" is hilarious.
"4. In the same interview, Romney said President Obama has "never had the experience of working in the private sector."
Actually, that's not true. Obama worked at a private-sector law firm before entering public service."
Ditto.
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We all understand that the spending crisis is extraordinary, with $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
So he said it.
Politifact:
Romney was trying to revive a talking point -- that by the end of his first term, Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined -- that was accurate enough to earn a Mostly True from PolitiFact. This time, though, he allowed small but significant changes to creep in and weaken its accuracy ( ... )
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I have that quote in my post. I never claimed he didn't say it. Try re-reading.
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You included the Romney statement about the PUBLIC debt; but not that quote Poltifact said was mostly false.
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