Tag Archives: financial crisis

Erratic Quotes

Posted on October 24, 2008

The Obama-Biden campaign has a new, unannounced ad that says McCain has been “erratic” in his response to the financial crisis: The ad includes various critical quotes from editorials in the Washington Post, USA Today and Politico. We looked up the original articles, and all the quotes are in context. …
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$700 Billion Blame Game

Posted on October 21, 2008

Summary We find House and Senate campaigns are taking liberties with the facts as they seek to assign blame for the nation’s financial mess. A Democratic ad in Kentucky accuses Republican Senate Leader McConnell of conduct bordering on the criminal, but falsely accuses him of taking $4.4 million from "big …
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Oversimplifying the Fiscal Crisis

Posted on October 7, 2008

It’s finger-pointing time again, with each candidates blaming the other for the financial crisis. McCain called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the “catalyst” for the crisis and blamed Obama for failing to sign on to a bill to rein in the FMs. Obama countered that it’s a culture of deregulation …
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