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Originally Posted by MsFoxyLoxy77
Uhmm No...Look we all expect some level of partisanship at these things, no matter if its coming from Democrats or Republicans. But what Dems did at their convention was state verifiable truths. What I heard last night from Republicans were mostly verifiable lies.
Lie#1: Mike Huckabee "Gov. Sarah Palin got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla than Joe Biden got running for president."
Fact: Uhm No. Wasilla has something like 8,000 people max, even if she got votes from every live person in the town twice, she'd have less than the roughly 17,000 Biden got for President.
Lie#2: Rudy Guiliani: A few years later, he [Obama] ran for the U.S. Senate...No leadership or major legislation to speak of.
Fact: No Again. The Lugar-Obama Nonproliferation Legislation and Threat Reduction Initiative was signed into law in January of 2007.
Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), this bill expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.
(Weapons of Mass Destruction you know those things we supposedly went into Iraq for.)
Lie#3: Sarah Palin: He's [John McCain] a man....who refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.
Fact: 3 Strikes, you're out! Not only has he voted against troop benefits countless times but he's been wrong so many times on the Iraq war it's hard to keep track. And by the way there is no victory in sight in Iraq. McCain said they can be there for 100 years.
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Basically what they said at Dems convention was McCain votes with George Bush 90% of the time, which is verifiably true.
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http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2...ing_obama.html
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2...tion_spin.html
Misstatements were made on both sides. I'm not blaming Democrats (or anyone in either party, for that matter), because these convention speeches shouldn't be taken terribly seriously. But, no matter how you feel about Obama, Democrats can't take the moral high road on this one.