09-07-2007, 02:49 AM
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[size 3]Out on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney has been boasting of some impressive accomplishments as governor of Massachusetts, while also outlining bold foreign policy proposals. But we found that Romney sometimes alters the past, exaggerates his record and traffics in ambiguous language.[/size][size 3] We reported earlier on his boasts of issuing hundreds of vetoes, the majority of which were overridden. Here we examine a few more of Romney's dubious statements:[/size][size 3] [/size] [ul] [li][size 3]He claims that President Clinton "began to dismantle the military" when it was President George H.W. Bush who started making deep cuts in defense budgets years before Clinton took office.[/size] [li][size 3]He claims to have balanced the Massachusetts budget through the elimination of duplicate state agencies when he actually relied mainly upon increases in fees and cuts to education and local aid to do so.[/size] [li][size 3]Romney takes credit for submitting state income tax cuts, although income tax rates did not change during his term as governor.[/size] [/li][/ul] Analysis [size 3]We've already [url "http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/dont_veto_the_truth.html"][#023f7e]looked[/#023f7e][/url] into a Romney TV spot in which he boasts of issuing "hundreds of vetoes" as governor while failing to note that few of them had any effect. In addition, s[/size][font "Arial"][size 3]ince January 2007, Romney has delivered 10 major policy addresses on subjects ranging from the economy to defense, energy to abortion. We read them all and found some of his claims worthy of comment.
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Romney has been rewriting the past. He has repeatedly given a bogus description of recent history by accusing former President Clinton of initiating a decline in military spending.
.......................... read all the lies here: [url "http://www.factcheck.org/more_mitt_missteps.html"]http://www.factcheck.org/more_mitt_missteps.html[/url] sm[/size][/font]
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[size 3]Out on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney has been boasting of some impressive accomplishments as governor of Massachusetts, while also outlining bold foreign policy proposals. But we found that Romney sometimes alters the past, exaggerates his record and traffics in ambiguous language.[/size][size 3] We reported earlier on his boasts of issuing hundreds of vetoes, the majority of which were overridden. Here we examine a few more of Romney's dubious statements:[/size][size 3] [/size] [ul] [li][size 3]He claims that President Clinton "began to dismantle the military" when it was President George H.W. Bush who started making deep cuts in defense budgets years before Clinton took office.[/size] [li][size 3]He claims to have balanced the Massachusetts budget through the elimination of duplicate state agencies when he actually relied mainly upon increases in fees and cuts to education and local aid to do so.[/size] [li][size 3]Romney takes credit for submitting state income tax cuts, although income tax rates did not change during his term as governor.[/size] [/li][/ul] Analysis [size 3]We've already [url "http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/dont_veto_the_truth.html"][#023f7e]looked[/#023f7e][/url] into a Romney TV spot in which he boasts of issuing "hundreds of vetoes" as governor while failing to note that few of them had any effect. In addition, s[/size][font "Arial"][size 3]ince January 2007, Romney has delivered 10 major policy addresses on subjects ranging from the economy to defense, energy to abortion. We read them all and found some of his claims worthy of comment.
[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 3][size 4]Falsifying History[/size]
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Romney has been rewriting the past. He has repeatedly given a bogus description of recent history by accusing former President Clinton of initiating a decline in military spending.
.......................... read all the lies here: [url "http://www.factcheck.org/more_mitt_missteps.html"]http://www.factcheck.org/more_mitt_missteps.html[/url] sm[/size][/font]
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