Palin mistakenly claimed that troop levels in Iraq had returned to “pre-surge” levels. Levels are gradually coming down but current plans would have levels higher than pre-surge numbers through early next year, at least.
Biden incorrectly said “John McCain voted the exact same way” as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. The two were actually on opposite sides.
Palin repeated a false claim that Obama once voted in favor of higher taxes on “families” making as little as $42,000 a year. He did not. The budget bill in question called for an increase only on singles making that amount, but a family of four would not have been affected unless they made at least $90,000 a year.
Biden wrongly claimed that McCain “voted the exact same way” as Obama on the budget bill that contained an increase on singles making as little as $42,000 a year. McCain voted against it. Biden was referring to an amendment that didn’t address taxes at that income level.
Palin claimed McCain’s health care plan would be “budget neutral,” costing the government nothing. Independent budget experts estimate McCain’s plan would cost tens of billions each year, though details are too fuzzy to allow for exact estimates.
Biden wrongly claimed that McCain had said “he wouldn’t even sit down” with the president of Spain. Actually, McCain didn’t reject a meeting, but simply refused to commit himself one way or the other during an interview.
Palin wrongly claimed that “millions of small businesses” would see tax increases under Obama’s tax proposals. At most, several hundred thousand business owners would see increases.
More like, “I avoid the media until I am competent and confident I can spout off platitudes confidently to any questions.” Debates are easy, getting pressed into answering questions you dodge, like from Couric, that’s a bit harder stuff. Poor Sarah, she was ‘annoyed’ at the fact that she was unable to think of a paper she’d read, and she was ‘annoyed’ at the ludicrous assertion that she ‘kept an eye’ on the Ruskies, by monitoring any incursions by their aircraft – of course the military advised there were NO incursions during her tenure as Governor. Yes, annoyed indeed – blame the MSM for being a tool, that’ll give you cover, or make you look weak. I’m thinking the latter.
However, JR, I concur entirely that both made up or spouted falsehoods. We live in poor times when we are given bailouts that contain no preventative for the reason for the bailout, and need ‘sweeteners’ to bribe Congresspeople into voting for the bailout. I have listened to Biden a long time, and I respect him much of it, I suppose I could simply be satisfied with the idea that you ‘HAVE TO’ do what he did, but I’m not. He could have answered Pallin on point without deception. It is interesting to hear/read people who embrace deception (like Mitch), decry it. We get what we accept, we are the architects of our own circumstances, in candidates, and in economics. Political will shapes the economy, not the other way around, and it shapes politicians, not the other way around. We wind up with career dissemblers like Biden, or poster-girl fantasy island policy light-weights like Pallin because we only demand that level of (in)competence. My reaction to all of this is ‘physiker, heal thyself.’
Factcheck.org is actually Annenberg Factcheck. And yes it is the same Annenberg’s that granted money to Bill Ayers for the Chicago Anneberg Challenge.
Check the who we are button.
So much for ‘end runs’
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/politics/main4499913.shtml
More like, “I avoid the media until I am competent and confident I can spout off platitudes confidently to any questions.” Debates are easy, getting pressed into answering questions you dodge, like from Couric, that’s a bit harder stuff. Poor Sarah, she was ‘annoyed’ at the fact that she was unable to think of a paper she’d read, and she was ‘annoyed’ at the ludicrous assertion that she ‘kept an eye’ on the Ruskies, by monitoring any incursions by their aircraft – of course the military advised there were NO incursions during her tenure as Governor. Yes, annoyed indeed – blame the MSM for being a tool, that’ll give you cover, or make you look weak. I’m thinking the latter.
However, JR, I concur entirely that both made up or spouted falsehoods. We live in poor times when we are given bailouts that contain no preventative for the reason for the bailout, and need ‘sweeteners’ to bribe Congresspeople into voting for the bailout. I have listened to Biden a long time, and I respect him much of it, I suppose I could simply be satisfied with the idea that you ‘HAVE TO’ do what he did, but I’m not. He could have answered Pallin on point without deception. It is interesting to hear/read people who embrace deception (like Mitch), decry it. We get what we accept, we are the architects of our own circumstances, in candidates, and in economics. Political will shapes the economy, not the other way around, and it shapes politicians, not the other way around. We wind up with career dissemblers like Biden, or poster-girl fantasy island policy light-weights like Pallin because we only demand that level of (in)competence. My reaction to all of this is ‘physiker, heal thyself.’