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Fact Checking The South Carolina Debate

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Debates, Democrats, Edwards, Hillary, South Carolina

Looks like all the candidates played fast and loose with the facts, and FactCheck.org is on top of it…

Clinton falsely accused Obama of saying he “really liked the ideas of the Republicans” including private Social Security accounts and deficit spending. Not true. The entire 49-minute interview to which she refers contains no endorsement of private Social Security accounts or deficit spending, and Obama specifically scorned GOP calls for tax cuts.

Obama falsely denied endorsing single-payer government health insurance when he first ran for the Senate, saying, “I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.” But in fact he gave a speech in 2003 saying, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care program.”

Edwards misleadingly claimed, “I was the one who beat John McCain” in a recent CNN poll. The problem is that there is a more recent CNN poll, one that shows either Clinton or Obama beating McCain and doesn’t include Edwards.

There’s more. Definitely take a look.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 and is filed under 2008 Election, Barack, Debates, Democrats, Edwards, Hillary, South Carolina. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Fact Checking The South Carolina Debate”

Stones Cry Out - If they keep silent… » Some Linkage Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:50 am
[...] who needs facts? One wonders why the networks don’t have a running “real-time” fact-check [...]
Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Wednesday Highlights Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:50 am
[...] who needs facts? One wonders why the networks don’t have a running “realtime” fact-check on [...]

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