Bill Clinton was found this morning to have been a truth teller

[Stinky The Clown]

From Factcheck dot org (link to follow at the end)

The overall assessment, his stats and facts checked out, much to the chagrin of many, including the people who wrote this article.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former President Bill Clinton’s stem-winding nomination speech was a fact-checker’s nightmare: lots of effort required to run down his many statistics and factual claims, producing little for us to write about.

Republicans will find plenty of Clinton’s scorching opinions objectionable. But with few exceptions, we found his stats checked out.

They start off with the biggest "misspeak" (my word) of the speech, with this.

The worst we could fault him for was a suggestion that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was responsible for bringing down the rate of increase in health care spending, when the fact is that the law’s main provisions have yet to take effect.

I particularly loved this part.

He also accused Republicans of blocking 1 million potential new jobs, but that checked out, too:

Clinton: Last year the Republicans blocked the president’s job plan, costing the economy more than a million new jobs.

Two independent economists — Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics and Joel Prakken of Macroeconomics Advisers — had estimated that Obama’s proposed American Jobs Act would add more than 1 million jobs. Zandi claimed it would add 1.9 million jobs; Prakken 1.3 million. Senate Republicans blocked the $447 billion measure, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell denounced it as “a charade that’s meant to give Democrats a political edge” in 2012.

The Dawg! Don't fuck with The Dawg.

By the way, I'd like to give a special "fuck you" to the autor of the article, who chose to title it "Our Clinton Nightmare." Actually, on reflection, that may be the BEST title if you're a repubican, like the good people at FactCheck/Annenberg.

Here's the link to the whole article.
http://factcheck.org/2012/09/our-clinton-nightmare/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Bill knows his stuff!

What a stem-winder of a speech, too.

He blew the roof off the place!

[meow2u3]

2. The Big Dog was illustrating a point

Droning out the facts is not typically persuasive; it tunes people out due to sheer boredom. Exaggerating to illustrate a point is using figurative language to persuade people.

There's no use using figures of speech to people who are emotionally on the level of a first grader. First graders normally take things very literally, like the rethugs.

[dnc2012]

3. Amazing

He was amazing. He's still got it!

[calimary]

5. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here! We need yo, bigtime!





Now get to work.

[surrealAmerican]

6. He sure does.

He's as wonky as ever, and inspiring because he's right.

... and welcome to DU.

[lunatica]

4. He's a fact machine

So is Biden and Obama.