{"id":3401,"date":"2008-10-03T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2008-10-03T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:48:01","slug":"just-so-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Just so you know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<li>Palin mistakenly claimed that troop levels in Iraq had returned to \u201cpre-surge\u201d levels. Levels are gradually coming down but current plans would have levels higher than pre-surge numbers through early next year, at least.<\/li>\n<li>Biden incorrectly said \u201cJohn McCain voted the exact same way\u201d as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. The two were actually on opposite sides.<\/li>\n<li>Palin repeated a false claim that Obama once voted in favor of higher taxes on \u201cfamilies\u201d 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.<\/li>\n<li>Biden wrongly claimed that McCain \u201cvoted the exact same way\u201d 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&#8217;t address taxes at that income level.<\/li>\n<li>Palin claimed McCain\u2019s health care plan would be \u201cbudget neutral,\u201d costing the government nothing. Independent budget experts estimate McCain&#8217;s plan would cost tens of billions each year, though details are too fuzzy to allow for exact estimates.<\/li>\n<li>Biden wrongly claimed that McCain had said &#8220;he wouldn&#8217;t even sit down&#8221; with the president of Spain. Actually, McCain didn&#8217;t reject a meeting, but simply refused to commit himself one way or the other during an interview.<\/li>\n<li>Palin wrongly claimed that \u201cmillions of small businesses\u201d would see tax increases under Obama\u2019s tax proposals. At most, several hundred thousand business owners would see increases.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/factchecking_biden-palin_debate.html\">Factcheck.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Palin mistakenly claimed that troop levels in Iraq had returned to \u201cpre-surge\u201d 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 \u201cJohn McCain voted the exact same way\u201d as Obama on a controversial troop funding bill. The two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}