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dj2one said:
Interesting read but as always with politics some of the infomation comes across extremely biased. I think nothing chnaged if you were voting or Obama you still are if you were a Mitt supporter you still are. Obama has done some good things but should have stood up more for his ideas instead of letting other people frame the arguments and he would have to respond. Death panel fear mongering from right wingers comes to mind when the Obamacare bill was being written.

This debate was not Obama's strongest and Mitt came across better than expected but the bar was pretty low. I do think that he was basically just saying what he thought people would like to hear. But he has done that before he has changed many of his stances since being part of the mostly democrat state of MA govt.


Yep and I wonder if obama threw that debate on purpose, so that the next debate romney has set the bar High for him self. I thought obama seemed to be holding back on purpose. i kinda of think this was a calculated move.



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spaceguy said:
moondeep said:

This is a ridiculous post.  Romney was stating facts and Obama had no defense.  Just admit that Obama is one and done.


LOL. You are clearly lost. Obama has  78% chance of winning and this is with the debate bump included. Also the bump has not done much and we have not seen what the economic numbers have done.  So in denial, you must admit that Romney lied non-stop, just because you can't fact check. What is obama suppost to do chase him around the stage challenging everything out of his mouth. Then they would have said obama lost because he was chasing romney all night. HE FLIPPED ON EVERYSINGLE ISSUE. HE WAS ONCE FOR SOMETHING, NOW HE IS AGAINST IT.

Based on what?

I'm assuming you're using FiveThirtyEight which is simply aggregating polls, shows both candidates in a statistical dead heat even though there are significant doubts about the methodogy of many of the polls they're aggregating, and makes the "claim" of one candidate's chance of winning which is not supported by any solid statistical evidence.

Realistically, either candidate has a strong chance of winning or losing this election at this point in time because a swing of 0.5% to 1% of the popular vote from one candidate to the other in the battleground states would win either one the presidency.

This week's debate could be nearly as bad for Obama as the one was last week being that Biden is known for saying really dumb things when he isn't using a prepared speech and is trying to impress people. I would say that there is a significant chance that, if Paul Ryan really starts to "win" the debate, Biden could say something remarkably stupid that causes problems for Obama.



I want Biden to say something really dumb... makes for entertainment.



HappySqurriel said:
spaceguy said:
moondeep said:

This is a ridiculous post.  Romney was stating facts and Obama had no defense.  Just admit that Obama is one and done.


LOL. You are clearly lost. Obama has  78% chance of winning and this is with the debate bump included. Also the bump has not done much and we have not seen what the economic numbers have done.  So in denial, you must admit that Romney lied non-stop, just because you can't fact check. What is obama suppost to do chase him around the stage challenging everything out of his mouth. Then they would have said obama lost because he was chasing romney all night. HE FLIPPED ON EVERYSINGLE ISSUE. HE WAS ONCE FOR SOMETHING, NOW HE IS AGAINST IT.

Based on what?

I'm assuming you're using FiveThirtyEight which is simply aggregating polls, shows both candidates in a statistical dead heat even though there are significant doubts about the methodogy of many of the polls they're aggregating, and makes the "claim" of one candidate's chance of winning which is not supported by any solid statistical evidence.

Realistically, either candidate has a strong chance of winning or losing this election at this point in time because a swing of 0.5% to 1% of the popular vote from one candidate to the other in the battleground states would win either one the presidency.

This week's debate could be nearly as bad for Obama as the one was last week being that Biden is known for saying really dumb things when he isn't using a prepared speech and is trying to impress people. I would say that there is a significant chance that, if Paul Ryan really starts to "win" the debate, Biden could say something remarkably stupid that causes problems for Obama.


I really don't think there is that much undecided voters out there and I think the bump form last weeks debate is it. Plus all of the lies are now being publicized in the media. So I think in the long run this will work against Mitt robbed me.



spaceguy said:


I really don't think there is that much undecided voters out there and I think the bump form last weeks debate is it. Plus all of the lies are now being publicized in the media. So I think in the long run this will work against Mitt robbed me.

It is clear that you're not even trying to look at this from an objective viewpoint, and have decided that "Obama is going to win" and are looking for an argument to support that ... MSNBC (a hard left news organization) may be publishing the "lies" Romney told 24/7, but CNN (a  center-left news organization) isn't; and most centerist and conservative news organization have been reporting that both Obama and Romney were similar in how honest/misleading they were.

Most people who are not blinded by bias realize that the "misleading" statements made by both candidates are usually a matter of interpretation; and in the case of Mitt Romney it is based on interpretations of how he will implement something he stated he intends on doing even though the stated intentions are vague to give him room to negotiate implementation details with both parties if elected. It is sort of like being critical of someone who is applying to be the new head of the Playstation division within Sony because they stated that they wanted to improve the division's profits in the next generation by releasing the PS4 at a price that doesn't lose money, giving it the performance people expect from a Playstation system, selling it at a mass market price, and improving first party game sales through increased quality of games; some people will claim that he is lying because "How do you produce a system as advanced as the PS3, sell it for $300, and not take a loss on the hardware?" but in reality they're picking the specifics to fill in the vagueness and using those specifics to claim that it is not possible.

It is fair to call out politicians to suggest specifics about their plan, and in places where they're flexible to list alternatives, but claiming that they're lying for being vague is moronic



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The support for Obama is crazy. His hope and change has turned into, " Hope and wait a second" it has been 4 years and he still have NEVER passed his own budget. He spent 2 years working on health care because he thought that another government program is better than fixing the economy. And please with the lies BS about Romney. Obama has been lying for 4 years. Case and point his statement that he would cut the deficit by half after 4 years.... he added to it. His new plan is supposed to help? Where the fuck has he been for 4 years.... please vote for me again and i will get it right this time. At least Romney can run a business, the rest of the stuff is a wash but i want my country to prosper again economically. And by the way 4 trillion over 10 years is nothing! That way it will take 40 years to get out of debt...



HappySqurriel said:
spaceguy said:


I really don't think there is that much undecided voters out there and I think the bump form last weeks debate is it. Plus all of the lies are now being publicized in the media. So I think in the long run this will work against Mitt robbed me.

It is clear that you're not even trying to look at this from an objective viewpoint, and have decided that "Obama is going to win" and are looking for an argument to support that ... MSNBC (a hard left news organization) may be publishing the "lies" Romney told 24/7, but CNN (a  center-left news organization) isn't; and most centerist and conservative news organization have been reporting that both Obama and Romney were similar in how honest/misleading they were.

Most people who are not blinded by bias realize that the "misleading" statements made by both candidates are usually a matter of interpretation; and in the case of Mitt Romney it is based on interpretations of how he will implement something he stated he intends on doing even though the stated intentions are vague to give him room to negotiate implementation details with both parties if elected. It is sort of like being critical of someone who is applying to be the new head of the Playstation division within Sony because they stated that they wanted to improve the division's profits in the next generation by releasing the PS4 at a price that doesn't lose money, giving it the performance people expect from a Playstation system, selling it at a mass market price, and improving first party game sales through increased quality of games; some people will claim that he is lying because "How do you produce a system as advanced as the PS3, sell it for $300, and not take a loss on the hardware?" but in reality they're picking the specifics to fill in the vagueness and using those specifics to claim that it is not possible.

It is fair to call out politicians to suggest specifics about their plan, and in places where they're flexible to list alternatives, but claiming that they're lying for being vague is moronic


Nope I read non biased news. However Romney has flipped on everything since 1992, He used to say he was pro-choice all the way up to 2004, just one example of all of his views.

Expample of fact checking on both sides. Seems you do the same as you say. You always side with romney, no matter what.

 

Aside from Mitt Romney's threat to defund Big Bird, the most commonly cited quip in his debate with President Obama may have been: "Mr. President, you're entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts."

The remark could have applied almost equally to Romney, who charters a private campaign plane, has no shortage of houses and, like Obama, displayed a flexible attitude toward matters of fact Wednesday night in the first presidential debate. Independent fact-checkers came down harder on the Republican challenger than on the incumbent president. But both sides were guilty of, at best, twisting facts for political gain.

Here is a look at some of the major issues discussed in the debate and how the candidates' statements comport with the truth:

Healthcare

Obama, whose 2008 pledge to reduce insurance premiums is unfulfilled, continued to overstate the impact of the new healthcare law, claiming erroneously that premium increases had slowed in recent years. In fact, the average employee share of an employer-provided health plan jumped from $3,515 in 2009 to $4,316 in 2012, an increase of more than 22%, according to a survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust. That is up from an increase of 18% between 2006 and 2009.

But Romney made more false claims about the healthcare law and his own plans to replace it.

The GOP nominee rehashed an oft-debunked claim by conservatives that the law includes a new government board that is "going to tell people ultimately what kind of treatments they can have."

The panel — known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board — is instead charged with recommending ways to control Medicare spending if it increases too rapidly. The independent experts on the board can suggest cuts to how much the federal government pays healthcare providers, but are explicitly prohibited from cutting benefits or rationing care.

Romney also threw out several dubious and discredited studies about the impact of the law, including a survey by consulting giant McKinsey that claimed 30% of employers would drop health coverage. McKinsey was forced to retract the report after admitting that many respondents didn't actually manage health benefits for their companies.

At the same time, Romney misrepresented his own healthcare proposals, claiming, for example that people with preexisting medical conditions are covered in his plan. In fact, Romney has said only sick Americans who currently have insurance will be guaranteed coverage in the future.

— Noam N. Levey

Taxes

Obama's claim that Romney has proposed a $5-trillion tax cut has its roots in a study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. The center said Romney's proposal for a 20% across-the-board tax cut added up to $5 trillion over 10 years — the typical time frame for evaluating a tax change. But Obama's comment entirely overlooked Romney's repeated assertions that the net result would be "revenue neutral" — in other words, by eliminating deductions, he would wind up with no net cut in taxes.

Romney's defense, however, is problematic because he doesn't provide enough information to fully evaluate how his tax plans would work. Moreover, in the past, he has repeatedly said that he intends to cut taxes.

In discussing the deductions he would cut, Romney proposed a cap of $25,000 or $50,000 on deductions that would get lower for wealthier taxpayers, until the very wealthiest are barred from taking any deductions.

Romney's idea could work, said J.D. Foster, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. But he said it's impossible to know how with the information at hand. "This is one of those puzzles that, unless you have all of the pieces, you can't figure out how any of the pieces fit together," he said.

Joseph Rosenberg, a research associate at the Tax Policy Center, said analysts in his office believe the plan would inevitably benefit the wealthy, who tend to get less benefit from deductions than middle-income people. Given that, eliminating deductions "can't fully offset the tax cuts that he's described."

Massachusetts has been the top-ranked state for the last four years on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test given to a sample of students nationwide. Massachusetts also has been praised for its rigorous academic standards.

The state has the advantage of higher funding than many states and, compared with California, for example, has a less challenging student population, in terms of family income, parent education levels and native English speakers.

Obama said his education reforms were "starting to show gains." Such gains would be hard to document. There are rising test scores in many states, but it's difficult to link these to Obama administration programs. The president has indeed favored aggressive reforms in education, but most of them are still in process.

 

Howard Blume

Social Security and unemployment

Obama said that Social Security was "structurally sound," despite projections that benefits must be cut or taxes raised in order to keep the program solvent. If lawmakers take no action to stabilize Social Security, the program's trust funds will run out of money in 2034, the Congressional Budget Office projects.

Romney twice stated inaccurately in the debate that there were "23 million people out of work." The most recent figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show there are actually 12.5 million unemployed Americans actively seeking a job and 2.6 million who were no longer looking for one.

Romney appeared to be combining those numbers with the 8 million part-time workers who have been unable to find a full-time job. Romney came closer to the truth when he said, "We've got 23 million people out of work or stopped looking for work in this country" — but still overstated the number by 8 million people.

— Michael Finnegan

Green energy

Obama did not challenge Romney's assertion that his administration had given "$90 billion in breaks" to the green-energy sector in a single year, but the exact source of that information is unclear.

Obama has backed renewable energy investments more than any previous president, creating loan, grant and tax programs intended to spur solar, wind and other nonconventional sources of energy to help combat global warming and provide energy security.

But disclosures on the Treasury and Energy departments' websites put the total investments far below $90 billion. Only $29 billion is clearly identifiable as going to renewable projects, and that covered more than one year.

The massive stimulus bill contained a range of funding for energy conservation and programs to improve energy efficiency, which some experts have estimated could total as much as $90 billion. But with respect to specific government grants and support to the renewable energy industry, the funding has been much less.

The most direct assistance the federal government has provided comes in the form of the Treasury Department's 1603 grant program, which gives back 30% of the value of qualifying renewable energy investments to the owners of the projects. So far, the program, funded by the recovery act, has paid out $13 billion to about 45,000 projects.

The Energy Department also has several loan guarantee programs that have helped fund renewable-energy projects. A total of $34.5 billion has been guaranteed, but that includes $10 billion for nuclear energy and $8.5 billion for advanced vehicle development, leaving about $16 billion for renewable-energy projects.

Another possible source of government assistance that Romney could have counted is the accelerated depreciation that was allowed until this year on renewable energy projects. The program allowed owners to write off the cost of renewable projects against federal income taxes in a single year. There are no authoritative estimates yet of what those write-offs amounted to, and in some cases the project investors have not yet filed their income tax returns. At most, they could reach $15 billion. On the other hand, nearly all types of investments are deductible expenses from revenue that is subject to federal corporate income tax.

If only the loans and grants were counted, they would amount to $29 billion. If accelerated depreciation were thrown in, it could boost the total to $54 billion — still far short of $90 billion



I think you care to much about this shit