Romney speech: Another fib about Obama
Source: Salon
Mitt Romney will deliver an address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce later today, and in addition to some lip service on immigration, the candidate will go after President Obamas speech at the Democratic National Convention. I expected the President, at his convention, to talk about the unemployed and to unveil a jobs plan. Astonishingly, he did not. I have a plan, and my plan for a stronger middle class will create 12 million jobs by the end of my first term, Romney will say, according to excerpts released to reporters this morning.
The attack turns the tables on the one Democrats, via Sen. John Kerry, leveled against Romneys convention speech for leaving out any reference to troops serving abroad or to the war in Afghanistan. But unlike Kerrys speech, Romneys isnt exactly true.
While the word unemployed didnt appear anywhere in Obamas speech, Obama did talk about people who lost their jobs. And when the house of cards collapsed in the Great Recession, millions of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, their life savings, he said in Charlotte two weeks ago. Ive shared the pain of families whove lost their homes, and the frustration of workers whove lost their jobs, he added later.
If Obama didnt unveil a new jobs plan its because hes already put several forward, including one he introduced in a major televised address last year and helpfully named the American JOBS Act, part of which he signed into law in April. Itd be fair for Romney to criticize what was a pretty weak piece of legislation, but not to claim that Obama has no plan at all. And in his convention speech, Obama talked at length about creating jobs, especially in manufacturing and green technologies.
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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2012/09/17/romney_speech_another_fib_about_obama/
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)It's called a LIE. not a fib, not a misstatement, not a gaffe. It's called a lie.
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progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Blue Yorker
(436 posts)For example: the other day you said I post "pro-republican polls all the time" despite the fact that I replied to you with links to pro-Democratic polls I posted. You admitted to the falsehood by not rebutting my argument. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=95878
One would feel tempted to say you lied, but I prefer the term "not bothering to check facts" .
tjdee
(18,048 posts)And they repeat these lies. They're not even politician lies, they are flat out completely false.
How disgusting.
alp227
(32,025 posts)Cha
(297,237 posts)a long long time ago.
Cha
(297,237 posts)MittsLies.. Up to Volume 34 now.. sure he has some catching up to do..
Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXXIV
By Steve Benen - Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:26 PM EDT.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/14/13865583-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xxxiv?lite
msongs
(67,406 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)More retread policies from the GOP