Closing Arguments Barrack Obama Election 2008 Eve

With the finish line in sight, Obama serves up familiar, pie-in-the-sky promises.

In the last few days, Obama has wrapped up his pitch to the electorate with some misleading claims we’ve heard before:

He continued to ask voters to believe he can pay for every dime of an ambitious health care plan and other spending proposals while cutting taxes for all but the most affluent. Budget experts say that’s unlikely.

He also kept up the drumbeat on a promise to end “tax breaks for sending jobs overseas,” as though that could do much to keep jobs at home. Experts say it can’t.

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Closing Arguments Barrack Obama Election 2008 Eve

Closing Arguments John McCain Election 2008 Eve

John McCain and Sarah Palin close their campaign with a new set of dubious attacks.

In the final week, the McCain-Palin campaign unleashed some all-new misleading attacks on

Obama:

• McCain strained to tie Obama to a Palestinian professor whose views on Israel are quite different from Obama’s.
• McCain and Palin both distorted a seven-and-a-half-year-old radio interview with Obama concerning the court system and civil rights.
• McCain and the GOP ran ads claiming Obama’s military budget would mean huge job cuts in Virginia, despite Obama’s proposal to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps – and McCain’s own calls for ending wasteful weapons programs.

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It’s Official Obama Born in the U.S.A.

The Truth About Obama’s Birth Certificate

Of all the nutty rumors, baseless conspiracy theories and sheer disinformation that we’ve dealt with at FactCheck.org during campaign 2008, perhaps the goofiest is the claim that Barack Obama is not a “natural-born citizen” and therefore not eligible to be president under the constitution.

This claim was first advanced by diehard Hillary Clinton supporters as her campaign for the party’s nomination faded, and has enjoyed a revival among John McCain’s partisans as he fell substantially behind Obama in public opinion polls.

There has never been anything but rumor and speculation to support such a claim, and zero hard evidence.

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Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue

Barrack Obama Should Spill a Little Red Ink to Turn a Few More Red States Blue

With less than a week to go before Election Day, both sides are worried.

Republicans, while still holding out hope for a “McCain Miracle,” are increasingly worried that McCain is losing in a way that, as David Frum put it, “threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.”

Democrats, while being careful not to count their electoral chickens before they’re hatched, are privately worried about winning without enough of a majority in the Senate to really change things.

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The Latest Media Blind Spot: Viewing All Criticism of Obama Through a Right-Left Prism

In the last two weeks, there has been a flurry of stories that has tried to portray criticism of Barack Obama’s recent stands as the sole province of disenchanted members of “the left” — also referred to as “the far left”, “left-winger bloggers”, …

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Memo to Barrack Obama : Moving to the Middle Is For Losers

Arianna Huffington looks at Barrack Obama’s campaign not through the prism of her own progressive views and beliefs but through the prism of a cold-eyed campaign strategist who has no principles except winning. From that point of view, Huffington concludes that “The Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. Tacking to the center is a losing strategy.”

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McCain’s Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why are the Media Looking the Other Way?

Isn’t it interesting how, after largely ignoring the issue for the last 30 years, during which the GOP consistently outfundraised and outspent Democrats in election after election, the media are suddenly all atwitter about whether the campaign finance system is “basically fair”? How dare Obama inspire 1.5 million donors, giving an average of $197 apiece, to help him raise more money than McCain?

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Arianna Huffington: Social Commentary and Political Opinion