Five Ohio Papers: John McCain’s “Ambition” Ad Offers Little Straight Talk.

October 17th 2008 in Lies

“RATING 2 on a scale from 0 (misleading) to 10 (truthful) … For a candidate who likes to brag about the ‘Straight Talk Express,’ it would have been more accurate for McCain to say that Obama worked with ‘ex-terrorist Bill Ayers’ since their time together was spent on education and charity projects, not blowing up buildings. Ayers also hosted an event at his home for Obama in the 1990s when Obama first ran for office. It’s fair to point out that Obama and Ayers had a relationship, but the ad suggests a kinship much stronger than the record indicates. As for the ‘Congressional liberals’ in the ad, they do bear part of the responsibility for the collapse of the housing industry and they’re all Obama’s political allies. The ad, however, tells just part of the story. There’s plenty of responsibility to go around for the collapse of the housing industry, including big chunks that should be assigned to ‘congressional conservatives’ and a Republican White House. They seldom, if ever, met a sector of the economy they didn’t want to deregulate.” [Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10/17/08: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1224232390214930.xml&coll=2]

FactCheck.org: Small Businesses Would be Exempt from Health Care Plan.

“McCain said ‘Joe the plumber’ faced ‘much higher taxes’ under Obama’s tax plan and would pay a fine under Obama’s health care plan if he failed to provide coverage for his workers. But Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher would pay higher taxes only if the business he says he wants to buy puts his income over [...]

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FactCheck.org: McCain calls Obama’s Refundable Tax Credits “Welfare,” But Calls His Own “Reform.”

“The McCain campaign has taken to denigrating some of Obama’s tax proposals as ‘welfare’ rather than tax cuts. And it continues to mislead about who would see a tax increase. A new McCain-Palin Web ad characterizes Obama’s proposed refundable tax credits as ‘welfare.’ But McCain himself proposes refundable tax credits, too, as part of his [...]

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