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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
What’s the ‘Real’ Jobless Rate?
Posted on February 10, 2012
As the Obama administration basked in the news that the unemployment rate in January dipped to a three-year low of 8.3 percent, Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich threw a wet blanket on the announcement. Romney said the “real unemployment rate” was actually 15 percent, and Gingrich said that when …
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Tagged Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, unemployment
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Dueling Debt Deceptions
Posted on February 2, 2012
Q: How much has the federal debt gone up under Obama? A: During his first three years in office, it rose $4.7 trillion, an increase of 45 percent. Partisan graphics circulating via email and Facebook are both incorrect.
The State of Obama’s Facts
Posted on January 25, 2012 , Corrected on January 26, 2012
Summary The president’s State of the Union address got the facts right — mostly. Obama said “the Taliban’s momentum has been broken” in Afghanistan. But targeted assassinations continue, and at least one independent foreign policy expert says the enemy may just be waiting until the U.S. leaves. The president said …
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Tagged Barack Obama, border, jobs, oil, regulations, State of the Union, Taliban
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Misleading Claims in Obama’s First 2012 Spot
Posted on January 20, 2012 , Corrected on January 21, 2012
President Obama’s first 2012 campaign ad misleads on ethics, “clean-energy” jobs and U.S. dependence on oil imports. The spot uses outdated quotes from groups that said his record on ethics is “unprecedented” and that he “kept a promise to toughen ethics rules.” One of those same …
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Promises, Promises
Posted on January 4, 2012
President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign is circulating a video of promises the then-candidate made during an Iowa caucus victory speech in January 2008, claiming he kept the promises he made that night. Not quite. To be sure, the president signed a major health care law, ended the long war in …
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The Whoppers of 2011
Posted on December 20, 2011
Despite what you may have heard in 2011: The new health care law won’t cost many jobs (and they’ll be poorly paying jobs at that). Republicans aren’t proposing to “end” Medicare (and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has signed onto a modified version …
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Tagged Barack Obama, false claims, health care, Herman Cain, job creation, John Boehner, medicare, Michele Bachmann, political claims, taxes, whoppers
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Suspect Claims from Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview
Posted on December 12, 2011
President Barack Obama made a couple of questionable claims during a recent interview with Steve Kroft of CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Obama said that “John McCain’s former economist” said that the stimulus “created or saved 3 millions jobs.” Mark Zandi did say that the stimulus created about that many jobs, but …
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GOP’s Phantom Job Losses
Posted on November 22, 2011
Ooops! Republicans — eager to show that President Obama’s oil and gas drilling policies “cost jobs” — have been using a number they now admit was more than three times too high. Even after they corrected their error (after we pointed it out), they started using a figure that is …
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Tagged Barack Obama, jobs, oil, Senate Republican Policy Committee
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Lazy Rhetoric
Posted on November 17, 2011
Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney both claim President Barack Obama said that “Americans are lazy.” He didn’t. To the contrary, Obama has consistently and repeatedly praised American workers as the “most productive in the world,” a bit of boosterism he has repeated dozens of times. His recent …
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Obama’s Spin on Jobs Bill
Posted on October 18, 2011 , Updated on October 19, 2011
President Obama exaggerates when he claims “independent economists” say his jobs bill “would create nearly 2 million jobs.” The median estimate in a survey of 34 economists showed 288,000 jobs could be saved or created over two years under the president’s plan. Obama also claimed one economist said the Republican …
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