Barack Obama campaign lies and flip-flops — Page 6

The liberal leaning Washington Post continues to call out President Obama's campaign for using faulty "facts" in an effort to attack Mitt Romney. This morning. Obama may have actually improved! Instead of the usual FOUR Pinocchios that Obama's lies have earned, this morning the Washington Post gave a tweet from Obama's Twitter page only THREE Pinocchios!!
The claim is that Mitt Romney pays a lower income tax than "many" Americans. The word "many" is important here as the campaign responded to the Post by actually DEFINING the word "many" for the Post's writer.
The TWEET:
“FACT: In 2010 and 2011, Romney paid less than 15% in taxes on $42.5 million in income—much less than what many middle-class families pay.”
— Tweet by @BarackObama, July 3, 2012

The Washington Post gives that Tweet 3 Pinocchios.
"The Obama campaign’s tweet relies on a very slippery “fact.”
Romney, by receiving much of his income in capital gains and dividends and giving millions of dollars to charity, is certainly able to keep his effective tax rate relatively low, especially compared to a wealthy person who earns much of his or her income in salary. But, even so, Romney still pays an effective tax rate that is higher than the tax rate paid by most Americans."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-misleading-tweet-on-romneys-taxes/2012/07/06/gJQAN3DTSW_blog.html?hpid=z3

Again, no name-calling, no personal attacks from me. Just posting the facts!

Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.

A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.

http://thehill.com/polls/236627-hill-poll-majority-feel-obama-has-changed-country-for-worse

You really have to wonder about that 35%.

Updated On: 7/9/12 at 10:42 PM

I told you we alread have an "Outsourcer in Cheif"!
From THE WASHINGTON POST

Obama’s record on outsourcing draws criticism from the left

By Tom Hamburger, Carol D. Leonnig and Zachary A. Goldfarb, Published: July 9

Barack Obama promised voters four years ago that he would work to slow the outflow of American jobs to other countries, proposing to revamp a federal tax code that encourages companies to maintain overseas operations.

Obama as president has continued to call for rewriting the rules that allow U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes for a time on income generated overseas.

But the broad tax changes have not happened.

While White House officials say they have been waiting on Congress to act, Obamas critics, primarily on the political left, say he has repeatedly failed in other ways to protect American jobs from being moved overseas. They point to a range of actions they say he should have taken: confronting China, reining in unfettered trade and reworking a U.S. visa program that critics say ends up sending high-tech jobs abroad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obamas-record-on-outsourcing-draws-criticism-from-the-left/2012/07/09/gJQAljJCZW_story.html

Again, no personal attacks or links to rightwing blogs here. No silly cartoons or postcards or ridiculous pictures. Only hard news sources need apply here!

Updated On: 7/11/12 at 05:10 PM

The Obama Campaign desperately grasped at a Boston Globe article that seemed to backup their claims that Romney stayed on at Bain Capital long after he had left the firm to run the Olympics.

Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter laid out the issue as the Obama team sees it: “Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony."

"Or," she said, "he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments,” including layoffs and the outsourcing of jobs."

But unfortunately for the Obama Campaign, the Boston Globe's story collapsed within 24 hours. FACTS tend to have that effect. The Globe's accusations were similar to those made in an article from MOTHER JONES last week. Of course, most of us are smart enough to not take anything from MJ seriously. Too bad the Obama campaign is not as smart as the rest of us:

FORTUNE -- Mitt Romney did not manage Bain Capital's investments after leaving to run the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, according to confidential firm documents obtained by Fortune.
The timing of Romney's departure from Bain became a lightning rod earlier today, when The Boston Globe published an article suggesting that Romney remained actively involved with the firm longer than he and his campaign have claimed. The sourcing is largely SEC documents that list Romney as Bain Capital's CEO and sole shareholder through 2002 -- or three years after Romney officially left to run the Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
These claims are very similar to ones made last week by David Corn in Mother Jones, which we disputed at the time.
Now Fortune has obtained new evidence that supports Romney's version of events.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/12/mitt-romney-bain-exit/

And now, Factcheck.org has come to the same conclusion that every other REPUTABLE media outlet has come to (sorry Mother Jones, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Boston Globe, and all those other left-wing looney faux "news" sites).

ABC News, Fortune Magazine, CNN. Columbia Journalism Review, and of course, The Washington Post have all given the Obama Campaign a stern finger-wagging and an "Uh-uh, uh" for posting things that they have absolutely NO EVIDENCE to support.

Factcheck states: "Nothing we’ve seen directly contradicts Romney’s statements — which he has certified as true under pain of federal prosecution — that he “has not had any active role” with Bain or “been involved in the operations” of Bain since then.

And we wish to note, we’re not alone in this judgement. Others include:

*Fortune’s Dan Primack — who covers Wall Street “deals and dealmakers” — addressed the Mother Jones reporting in a July 2 article that came to the same conclusion we do. Primack’s more recent reporting we’ve already noted.

*The Washington Post‘s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, rebutted the Boston Globe story in a July 12 piece. “Just because you are listed as an owner of shares does not mean you have a managerial role,” Kessler writes. We agree.

*Before the Globe story broke, the Columbia Journalism Review’s Brendan Nyhan stated: “[T]he specific cases cited by the Obama campaign largely concern actions taken by those companies during a period in which Romney was not making operational decisions at the firm. Journalists must be clear about this distinction.”

*After the Globe story, CJR’s Greg Marx wrote “there’s less new in the Globe article than the attention it has drawn suggests.”

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reported July 12, after the Globe‘s story appeared: “Team Obama does not provide any specific evidence to back up claims that Romney was actively managing Bain between 1999 and 2002.”

http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romneys-bain-years-new-evidence-same-conclusion/

To quote Hillary Clinton, "Shame on YOU Barack Obama!"

Did I hear someone say "outsourcing"??

"The luxury carmaker Fisker Automotive continues to signal it could ditch plans to build its next generation hybrid electric vehicle in the United States, despite the nearly $200 million in Obama administration loan money it has already received."

Uhh, they are already building the car....IN FINLAND!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fisker-build-electric-cars-us/story?id=16458585#.T_7V-vUvONo

And there is MORE:
"If Romney really wanted a juicy example of outsourcing, he would have to look no further than the president's jobs council.

Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 26 business leaders assembled by the president for job-spurring ideas, includes representatives of several companies that have used outsourcing, fueling job creation abroad and job losses in the U.S. Shipping work to low-cost overseas labor markets has been a trend in American manufacturing for decades. The White House has a plan to curb outsourcing, but companies represented on the jobs council reveal just how pervasive the practice is.

Theres General Electric, whose CEO Jeffrey Immelt has served as chair of the advisory board since January 2011. Since Immelt took over GE in 2001, the company has lost 37,000 American jobs, and added 25,000 jobs overseas, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/obama-jobs-council-outsourcing_n_1666443.html

AND the number 1 outsourcing company according to GLOBAL OUTSOURCING: Accenture.
Obamas second largest fundraiser is John Rogers, the CEO of investment giant Ariel Capital Management. He has raised more than $1.5 million for Obamas reelection campaign. Bully for him, except for one thing: Ariel Capital Management owns a $48.6 million stake in Accenture, America's NUMBER ONE outsourcer!!
http://www.iaop.org/content/23/152/2040/


Why, Obama is even outsourcing his fundraising!!
https://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gp4r

And of course, we've all heard the quote from John Sununu, Obama has outsourced US space flight. If American astronauts want to visit the International Space Station they need to hitch a ride from the RUSSIANS!

Did someone say "felon"????

Now that the increasingly erratic and desperately sleazy Obama campaign has decided to cavalierly throw around the word “felony” when it comes to pushing a campaign of lies surrounding Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, this seems like a good time to jump in the wayback machine for a look at the actual convicted felons, criminals, and dubious characters that have been associated with Barack Obama’s political life.

Starting with…

1. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich: Sentenced to 14 years in prison for political corruption.

NBC Chicago:

President Barack Obama's chief of staff, then a congressman in Illinois, apparently attempted to trade favors with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich while he was in office, according to newly disclosed e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.

Emanuel agreed to sign a letter to the Chicago Tribune supporting Blagojevich in the face of a scathing editorial by the newspaper that ridiculed the governor for self-promotion. Within hours, Emanuel's own staff asked for a favor of its own: The release of a delayed $2 million grant to a school in his district.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Rahm-Traded-Favors-with-Blago-Report-96812049.html

2. Tony Rezko: Sentenced to 10 and a half years for corruption and kickbacks.

Politico:

Rezko raised money for Obama when he ran for Illinois senator, but not during his presidential campaign, the AP noted.

Obama also involved Rezko in a house deal after he was elected to the U.S. Senate, a move he later called “a boneheaded mistake,” according to a 2008 report in ABC News.

Obama wanted to purchase a home that the seller had a specific condition on: the adjacent empty lot to the house had to be purchased at the same time, ABC News reported. In the house deal, Rezko’s wife paid the full asking price for that parcel, $625,000.

Obama shelled out $300,000 under the house’s asking price, paying $1.65 million, according to ABC News. Obama then purchased a part of Rezko’s lot for $104,500.

“It was a mistake to have been engaged with him at all in this or any other personal business dealing that would allow him, or anyone else, to believe he had done me a favor,” Obama told the Sun-Times at the time.

Obama said his connection to Rezko was “above board and legal.”

Rezko and others connected to him gave Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign more than $120,000, ABC News reported.

ABC News:

While Rezko's wife paid the full asking price for the land, Obama paid $300,000 under the asking price for the house. The house sold for $1,650,000 and the price Rezko's wife paid for the land was $625,000.

Obama denies there was anything unusual about the price disparity. He says the price on the house was dropped because it had been on the market for some time but that the price for the adjacent land remained high because there was another offer.

Obama then expanded his property by buying a strip of the Rezko land for $104,500, which the senator maintains was a fair market price.

Obama later told the Chicago Sun-Times, "It was a mistake to have been engaged with him at all in this or any other personal business dealing that would allow him, or anyone else, to believe he had done me a favor."

Obama had known Rezko long before the house deal, calling him a "friend."

An ABC News review of campaign records shows Rezko, and people connected to him, contributed more than $120,000 to Obama's 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate, much of it at a time when Rezko was the target of an FBI investigation.

It's important to keep in mind that this was dutiful reporting from the media. Any attempts to turn this into the Bain-style narrative it deserved and still deserves to be has always been blunted by the media. This is the shadiest land deal involving a politician in my lifetime, and Obama got away with it legally and politically.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68935.html

3. Courtney Dupree: Democratic fundraiser convicted of bank fraud.

Daily News:

Dupree, who attended the elite Wharton School of Business, was a rainmaker in Democratic circles.

In 2008, Dupree hosted a $1,000-a-ticket fund-raiser for Barack Obama at his Broad St. apartment that was attended by top aide Valerie Jarrett.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/democratic-fundraiser-convicted-engineering-21-million-bank-fraud-scheme-article-1.998833

4. John Corzine: Top Obama fundraiser currently under FBI investigation. Obama's "Wall Street guy."

MSNBC:

Jon Corzine, now the center of an FBI investigation into the handling of hundreds of millions of dollars invested in his securities firm, was one of the leading Wall Street fundraisers for President Obama’s campaign and suggested to investors that he might take a top administration post if the president were re-elected.

His new legal troubles, sparked by the bankruptcy filing of his investment firm, MF Global, could complicate the president’s efforts to raise money from the financial community given Corzine’s central role in those efforts.

A recent list of top “bundlers” or elite fundraisers released by Obama’s campaign listed Corzine in the highest category -- reporting that he had raised more than $500,000 for the campaign. A substantial chunk of those funds were collected at a $35,800 per ticket fundraiser that Corzine hosted at his wife’s spacious Fifth Avenue apartment last April -- an event that was touted at the time as part of a concerted effort by the president’s campaign team to reach out to well-heeled Wall Street donors who had been alienated by some of his policies and previous public comments.

Star Ledger:

In a sign of his emerging role as a financial guru for Barack Obama, Gov. Jon Corzine Sunday unveiled the latest piece of the presidential candidate's plan to curb soaring oil prices.

The governor touted an Obama proposal that marked the latest clash between the Democrat and Republican opponent John McCain over energy policy, as voters rank the economy as their biggest concern heading into the November election.

In his plan, Obama calls for more regulation in oil markets by promising to close the so-called "Enron loophole" that exempts some energy trading from federal oversight. The rollout also provided a showcase for Corzine, the former Goldman Sachs CEO whom Obama referred to as "our Wall Street guy" at a meeting of Democratic governors in Chicago on Friday.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/02/8599414-corzine-top-obama-fundraiser-under-fbi-investigation?ocid=twitter

5. Bill Ayers: Unrepentant domestic terrorist. Early Obama backer. Fellow board-member of the Woods Foundation. 4th of July pal.

The former Weatherman, William Ayers, now holds the position of distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Although never convicted of any crime, he told the New York Times in September 2001, "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."

Both Obama and Ayers were members of the board of an anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago, between 1999 and 2002. In addition, Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate in April 2001. They lived within a few blocks of each other in the trendy Hyde Park section of Chicago, and moved in the same liberal-progressive circles.

According to an Obama spokesman, the two men first met in 1995, when Obama was tapped to chair the board of the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers had been instrumental in creating the organization, which was to dispense grants for projects that would improve Chicago’s schools.

There are other connections between Obama and Ayers: The same year the two men met through the Annenberg Challenge, Ayers hosted a meet-and-greet coffee for Obama, who was running for state Senate and who lived three blocks away from him. Obama and Ayers also were on the board of an antipoverty charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, where their service overlapped from 2000 to 2002. And Ayers contributed $200 to Obama’s campaign for the Illinois state Senate on March 2, 2001.
A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63.
Many have speculated that Ayers wrote Obama's first book DREAMS FROM MY FATHER. This speculation has been fueled by comparisons of the book with Ayers' other writings and the fact that Ayers has, on two separate occasions, stated that he wrote the book.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225752/obamas-challenge/stanley-kurtz

So, who has the greater connection with a criminal element?
Hmmmmmmm????

Updated On: 7/16/12 at 10:29 AM

Looks like Pres. Obama has some splaining to do!

Washington Examiner - President Obama has accused Mitt Romney of raking in profits from investing in companies that ship American jobs overseas, but according to his most recent financial disclosure, he and First Lady Michelle Obama have hundreds of thousands of dollars in a mutual fund that has large holdings in corporations that outsource jobs.

“(Romney) invested in companies that have been called ‘pioneers’ of outsourcing,” Obama said at a Saturday campaign event in Glen Allen, Va. “I don’t want a pioneer in outsourcing. I want some insourcing.”

But Obama’s own portfolio shows a willingness to invest in American corporations that have shifted employment overseas.

In his most recent financial disclosure from 2011, Obama and his wife reported having between $200,000 and $450,000 in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, which invests in the largest U.S. corporations. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as of Sept. 30, 2011, the fund’s biggest holding was 8,272,039 shares of Apple Inc., then valued at $3.2 billion.

The New York Times reported in January:

Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas….

“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.

“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”

The mutual fund that the Obamas have invested in also held 94,582,281 million shares of General Electric, valued at $1.4 billion, as of the SEC filing. The multinational conglomorate has a long history of outsourcing – according to a new book cited by the New York Times, in 1989, “G.E. became the first U.S. company to outsource software work to India.” Obama also has close ties to GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, who was appointed as chairman of his outside panel of economic advisers last year.

In addition to Apple and GE, the Obamas’ fund listed 10,655,961 shares of International Business Machines, valued at $1.9 billion. As the Wall Street Journal reported in 2009, “The technology giant has been steadily building its work force in India and other locations while reducing the number of workers based in the U.S. Foreign workers accounted for 71% of Big Blue’s nearly 400,000 employees at the start of the year, up from about 65% in 2006.”

The point in this is not to say outsourcing is wrong. Corporations are supposed to maximize profits for shareholders. But Obama’s own portfolio shows that despite his heated rhetoric, he makes investment decisions without regard to whether companies are outsourcing.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-has-investments-in-companies-that-ship-jobs-overseas/article/2502361

Okay--let's stipulate to the fact that President Obama knows and is related to Communists.

What, exactly, does that tell us? I personally know and/or am related to right-wing Republicans and moderate Democrats as well as members of the Communist, Libertarian, Green, Pot, and Pansexual Peace parties as well as some Wiccans, Warlocks and Radical Faeries.

Are your political convictions so weak that you fear even being exposed to schools of thought other than your own? Do you actually believe it is somehow dangerous or incriminating even to KNOW people with ideologies different than your own?

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Updated On: 7/18/12 at 10:01 AM

Seriously, people - that was 19 posts in a row of mikey talking to himself. Did you really have to break that streak?

"Don't feed the troll."

A "troll" is defined here as anyone who posts something you disagree with, and, even more important, that you FEAR to engage in logical debate.

Uh-oh! is Michelle Obama having an affair with BAIN CAPITAL behind her husband's back??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2rWo3_hLrE&t=11m55s

Skip to 12 minutes into this video and you will hear her praise a national childcare company. "The Partnership for a Healthier America is working with private providers like Bright Horizons. Thats the nations second largest private child care provider, and theyre going to implement this checklist at nearly 600 child care centers across the country," she said. "So we already have commitments that are going to affect hundreds of thousands of children today."

The Boston Globe recently reported that Bright Horizons was founded in a Cambridge kitchen and was financially backed by "Bain Capital, then led by Mitt Romney."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2012/07/14/mercy-corps-linda-mason-brings-hope-wake-disaster/GkbHT6Z8voBodMCXrOzOiM/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

Be careful who you praise!

Updated On: 7/18/12 at 10:52 AM

Well, after taking a short respite so the President could address the tragedy in CO, we are back in the swing of things!

From THE WASHINGTON TIMES:
Nearly one in 10 employers to drop health coverage

"About one in 10 employers plan to drop health coverage when key provisions of the new health care law kick in less than two years from now, according to a survey to be released Tuesday by the consulting company Deloitte.

Nine percent of companies said they expect to stop offering coverage to their workers in the next one to three years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Around 81 percent said they would continue providing benefits and 10 percent said they weren't sure.

The companies, though, said a lot will depend on how future provisions of the law unfold, since most of the key parts are scheduled to take effect in 2014. One in three respondents said they could stop offering coverage if the law requires them to provide more generous benefits than they do now, if a tax on high-cost plans takes effect in 2018 as scheduled or if they decide it would be cheaper for them to pay the penalty for not providing insurance.

While small business don't face fines for failing to offer coverage, companies with 50 or more full time employees face a penalty starting at $2,000 per worker."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/jul/24/nearly-one-10-employers-drop-health-coverage/

Hmmmm, should I pay $8,000 a year to cover employee A, or should I just pay a $2,000 fine for employee A and let them get the government's program? Hmmmm, so hard to decide.........

Hmmmm, should I hire a 50th full time employee and have this huge government regulation kick-in, or should I just stay at 49 employees and make them all work a little more? Hmmmmmm, so hard to decide....

Let's face it, Obamacare, like ALL of Pres. Obama's policies, is a JOB KILLER!