Showing posts with label misstatements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misstatements. Show all posts

Sunday, May 3, 2009

How Can You Tell He's Playing Fast and Loose? II

Pres Obama, our Historian in Chief, at his press conference informed the adoring media that Churchill steadfastly eschewed the use of torture. "Churchill understood, you start taking shortcuts and over time, that corrodes what’s best in a people,” he said. “It corrodes the character of a country.”"

However, according to one of the world's leading experts on Churchill quotes, "Churchill spoke frequently about torture, mostly enemy murders of civilians. His daughter once told me, “He would have done anything to win the war, and I daresay he had to do some pretty rough things—but they didn't unman him.” But if Churchill is on record about “enhanced interrogation,” his words have yet to surface."

His lips are moving.


Friday, May 1, 2009

How Can You Tell He's Playing Fast and Loose?

FACT CHECK: Obama's Job Creation, Deficit Claims Questionable - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com: "
-- His assertion that his proposed budget 'will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term' is an eyeball-roller for many economists, given the uncharted terrain of trillion-dollar deficits the government is negotiating.

-- He promised vast savings from increased spending on preventive health care in the face of doubts that such an effort, however laudable it might be for public welfare, can pay for itself, let alone yield huge savings.

-- He pitched a remedy for Social Security's long-term crisis that analysts say won't fix half the problem."

His lips are moving.