More Jack Ryan Lies...

[KharmaTrain]

Last night I heard a radio report Ryan was caught lying about Obama's votes on taxes or something of that sort. I tried to search for a story today, then came up with this one:

http://www.dailyherald.com/search/main_story.asp?intID=38096103

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan flew around the state on tax day calling his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barack Obama of Chicago, a supporter of big government who was choking out manufacturing jobs in Illinois.

At four different news conferences, Ryan stood next to a chart showing manufacturing jobs dipping while government jobs rose. As of January 2003, the numbers in Ryan's chart claimed there were 841,000 manufacturing jobs in Illinois and 846,000 government jobs.

Ryan told Springfield-based reporters those were state government jobs. Just one problem. The state work force is roughly 61,000, according to the governor's budget.

When asked if he really believed that roughly one out of every 15 men, women and children in the state works for the state, Ryan was at a loss.

"No, that must not be right. What is the number? Is it 84,600?" Ryan asked.

His staffers scrambled to try to correct the numbers while their candidate wondered aloud where they'd obtained the information and admitted he'd not looked at it.

Turns out the government jobs included anyone employed in any form of government - federal, state, county, local, township and education - in Illinois.
the news conference explaining they had a plane to catch. However, Ryan had already told the audience Springfield was his last stop for the day and he was on a privately chartered flight

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This game show host is something else...but, alas, he's like his puppetmasters...able to stare you in the eye, lie and enjoy doing it.

Cheers!

[ComerPerro]

1. That is pretty fucking absurd

I love how he was questioned:

Do you really believe that one out of every 15 men, women and children is an employee of the state?

BUSTED

LMAO

[JHBowden]

2. JACK ryan is going to get stomped!

I can't wait to get started!

[sjgman9]

3. You know what I hate

All those republican who have their press hacks who say

"So and so's extreme liberalism is simply out of touch with the mainstream voters of "

Barack should use this language to piss off Jack Ryan's camp. Seriously, what on earth will Jack Ryan do for Illinois other than be a clone of Norm Coleman??!?

[JHBowden]

4. Better-- a vote for Ryan is a vote for Bush

I'm sure the Obama campaign has already thought of something along these lines.