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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alex MG who wrote (132343)	3/26/2013 12:16:19 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Respond to of 149317

“If I had to do it all again, I’d lie more" Is that even possible? There are only so many hours in the day, even if you buy a jet and race the sun around the world. Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XLI By Steve Benen - Fri Nov 2, 2012 2:45 PM EDT Getty Images In a way, I blame my friend Greg Sargent. In the first week in January, he noted, almost in passing, that Mitt Romney seemed to be making a lot of false claims, and someone " really should document them all." That struck me as a good idea, so I decided to tackle this on my own. After all, I thought at the time, how hard could this be? Once a week, I'd let readers know about Romney's whoppers, which I assumed would total about a half-dozen a week, and maybe after the election, I'd do a top 20 list of my favorites. The project would be a nice little Friday-afternoon feature. Little did I know at the time that Romney would become an ambitious prevaricator, whose rhetoric would come to define post-truth politics. Nearly 11 months after Greg Sargent's harmless suggestion, I've published 40 installments in this series, which, before today, featured 884 falsehoods. (If you include today's edition, the new total is 917 falsehoods for the year.) I wish that were a typo. It's not. The outcome of next week's election remains in doubt, but regardless of who wins, I suspect this will be the final edition in the series. If President Obama wins, the project will have run its course. If Romney wins, I rather doubt I'll be able to keep this going every week for four years. So, with that in mind, enjoy the 41st and probably final installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt's mendacity. maddowblog.msnbc.com