Saturday, October 4, 2008
Let's not call them lies, let's call them errors or exaggerations made in the heat of a debate.
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted "the exact same way" as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, "Drill we must." But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to "raping" the Outer Continental Shelf."
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it's passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he's always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain's record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was "dead wrong on Iraq", because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn't see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn't meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of "part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20."
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
This skips what he said about Lebanon. Maybe it was was too unintelligible to be called a lie.
pretty well covered here:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/totten/35261
Yes! Meant to link that. (Struggling to keep up with things if you couldn't tell.)
You know, given how things have gone in the past when you catch the Obama/Biden in something, you can't just give a quote anymore and expect it to stick. Obama is unstickable anymore, let me explain.
Early in the Obama/Hillary campaign, there was so much "Obama is a radical islamist" with a whole lot of other facts he hasn't even yet released about himself that rumors raged with a furry of the likes of Katrina! Most were false. Consequently, and as a result, any actual true rumors are just wisked off as 'more left wing talk radio'. So, at this juncture you really have do finely document what he said in the debate to what he did or said in the past, I mean 'finely' document it or it just becomes more fodder out the back-end.
In other words, YOU HAVE TO REALLY NAIL IT SHUT, SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED! or it just an't so Joe.
And this is the "experienced" guy the inexperienced "President" is going to lean on for foreign policy, economics, yadda, yadda.
It wasn't just on Lebanon that he got things wrong but also the "voting" in the West Bank that brought Hamas to power.