Welcome to the American Revolution II

Welcome to the American Revolution II
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
"We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method..." and warned about what he saw as unjustified government spending proposals and continued with a warning that "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex... The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Barack Obama Truth-O-Meter

Truth-O-Meter

"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''

"We've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."

When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."

Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."

Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.

(No earmarks in spending bill)

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."

"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."

Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."

Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."

"We import more oil today than ever before."

"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."

"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy."

"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth."

"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."

Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."

John McCain accused Barack Obama "of letting infants die."

"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."

McCain "has opposed stem cell research."

"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."

"The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''

Oil companies "haven't touched" 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill.

Fully inflating tires is "a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent."

John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."

The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."

"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."

"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren't actively fundraising here."

"I have never said that I don't wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins."

"He's promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."

"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."

"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy."

"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."

"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."

Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."

"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."

"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."

"John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.

"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."

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