Tag Archives: economic crisis

Car + Ditch=Blame

Posted on March 23, 2012

We’ve already written about the 17-minute Obama campaign film. But did you notice how narrator Tom Hanks portrays the president as being above finger-pointing politics, claiming Obama “would not dwell in blame” for inheriting a huge economic mess? We did. Hanks, “The Road We’ve Traveled”: Not since the days of …
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DSCC Wrong on Toomey’s Wall St. Experience

Posted on August 17, 2010 , Corrected on Aug. 18, 2010

A Democratic Party ad says Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania was a "Wall Street wheeler dealer" trading in financial products that "wound up nearly destroying our economy." We find that to be false. The ad also falsely claims that Toomey "wrote the law" that it blames for weakening …
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Who Caused the Economic Crisis?

Posted on October 1, 2008

Summary A MoveOn.org Political Action ad plays the partisan blame game with the economic crisis, charging that John McCain’s friend and former economic adviser Phil Gramm “stripped safeguards that would have protected us.” The claim is bogus. Gramm’s legislation had broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by President …
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Keeping Quiet?

Posted on September 24, 2008

Summary A new McCain-Palin ad says that "McCain and his congressional allies led" on the financial crisis while Obama was "mum." That's simply not true: Obama has in fact made several statements about the crisis on Wall Street in recent days, delivering his most specific remarks on how government regulations …
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