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To: Road Walker who wrote (339796)	6/8/2007 11:03:16 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573514

"Throughout that debate, George W. Bush made blatantly misleading statements, including some outright lies" That he did. I pointed out several here, and there were posters who refused to believe it. Probably still do. When links were provided, they dismissed them because Molly Ivins wrote about it. Or it was in the Dallas Morning News or any number of other, inane reasons.

To: Road Walker who wrote (339796)	6/8/2007 3:01:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573514

In Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney completely misrepresented how we ended up in Iraq. Later, Mike Huckabee mistakenly claimed that it was Ronald Reagan’s birthday. Guess which remark The Washington Post identified as the “gaffe of the night”? Folks, this is serious. If early campaign reporting is any guide, the bad media habits that helped install the worst president ever in the White House haven’t changed a bit. See.....I am not terribly surprised that the WA Post reported it that way. I don't trust the Post any farther then I could throw its Sunday paper. Its not as conservative and biased as Fox but its far from the more well rounded reporting provided by the NY and to a lesser extent, the LA Times. In fact, I always double check Post stories with other papers. Nonetheless, the point is well taken. You may not remember the presidential debate of Oct. 3, 2000, or how it was covered, but you should. It was one of the worst moments in an election marked by news media failure as serious, in its way, as the later failure to question Bush administration claims about Iraq. Throughout that debate, George W. Bush made blatantly misleading statements, including some outright lies — for example, when he declared of his tax cut that “the vast majority of the help goes to the people at the bottom end of the economic ladder.” That should have told us, right then and there, that he was not a man to be trusted. It shocks me that people didn't hear the gaffes and lies Bush was promulgating during the 2000 campaign. Even without those misrepresentations, I would have gotten who he was......he made my skin crawl every time he spoke. BTW the rumors of his drinking are growing more persistent.......today, he did not attend the morning session of the G-8 conference because of a "stomach ache". But few news reports pointed out the lie. Instead, many news analysts chose to critique the candidates’ acting skills. Al Gore was declared the loser because he sighed and rolled his eyes — failing to conceal his justified disgust at Mr. Bush’s dishonesty. And that’s how Mr. Bush got within chad-and-butterfly range of the presidency. Now fast forward to last Tuesday. Asked whether we should have invaded Iraq, Mr. Romney said that war could only have been avoided if Saddam “had opened up his country to I.A.E.A. inspectors, and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction.” He dismissed this as an “unreasonable hypothetical.” Except that Saddam did, in fact, allow inspectors in. Remember Hans Blix? When those inspectors failed to find nonexistent W.M.D., Mr. Bush ordered them out so that he could invade. Mr. Romney’s remark should have been the central story in news reports about Tuesday’s debate. But it wasn’t. What's even worse than Romney misrepresenting the facts is that I bet he doesn't know what the truth is. He probably believes that the inspectors did not go in which is a real shocker considering that he's running for president. I bet everyone on this thread is better informed than most of those candidates.