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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (23642)	12/23/2009 7:45:31 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

PolitiFact Names Lie of the Year in Reader Survey By Genevieve Long Epoch Times Staff theepochtimes.com The St. Petersburg Times' PolitiFact has named its top Lie of the Year for 2009. Former vice presidential candidate and governor of Alaska Sarah Palin won with a now infamous comment about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Palin claimed that Obama's health care plan included "death panels" that would decide whether seniors citizens and the disabled were worthy of care. The comment was ultimately refuted and discredited, but not before it was spread throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media. Of the 4,864 PolitiFact readers who voted, about 61 percent chose Palin's comment as the worst lie of 2009. There were eight choices. The percentage of votes for the other choices are: 12.3 percent: Claim by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that John Holdren, President Barack Obama's top science adviser, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population." 8.7 percent: Claim by Orly Taitz that a birth certificate showed President Obama birthplace was Kenya. 7.1 percent: President Obama's statement that "preventive care saves money." 5.8 percent: Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst of "You lie!" after President Obama's said that health reform would not insure illegal immigrants. 3.2 percent: The claim that Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can’t purchase private health insurance after a date certain." The claim was made by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). 1.7 percent: At the height of swine flu fears, the claim that, "When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft," said by Vice President Joe Biden. 0.5 percent: The claim that an amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money," said by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY).