NY Times Claims Obama Lied Only 18 Times During His 8 Year Presidency

[rightwinger]

We applied the same conservative standard to Obama and Trump, counting only demonstrably and substantially false statements. The result: Trump is unlike any other modern president. He seems virtually indifferent to reality, often saying whatever helps him make the case he’s trying to make.

 

[rightwinger]

If we had used a less strict standard, Trump would look even worse by comparison. He makes misleading statements and mild exaggerations – about economic statistics, his political opponents and many other subjects – far more often than Obama. We left out any statement that could be plausibly defended even if many people would disagree with the president's interpretation. We also left out modest quantitative errors, such as Trump's frequent imprecision with numbers.

 

[rightwinger]

We have used the word “lies” again here, as we did in our original piece. If anything, though, the word is unfair to Obama and Bush. When they became aware that they had been saying something untrue, they stopped doing it. Obama didn’t continue to claim that all Americans would be able to keep their existing health insurance under Obamacare, for example, and Bush changed the way he spoke about Iraq’s weapons capability.

Trump is different. When he is caught lying, he will often try to discredit people telling the truth, be they judges, scientists, F.B.I. or C.I.A. officials, journalists or members of Congress. Trump is trying to make truth irrelevant. It is extremely damaging to democracy, and it’s not an accident. It’s core to his political strategy.

 

[rightwinger]

Over all, Obama rarely told demonstrable untruths as president. And he appears to have become more careful over time. We counted six straight-up falsehoods in his first year in office. Across his entire second four-year term, we counted the same number, six, only one of which came in his final year in office.

 

[rightwinger]

Trump is trying to make truth irrelevant. It is extremely damaging to democracy, and it’s not an accident. It’s core to his political strategy.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[BluesLegend]

WTF? Obama lied more than 18 times during a single election just on the if you like your doctor and plan you can keep them BS.

I kept my doctor and plan.....so did over 90 percent of Americans

Millions got screwed over by Obama, he's a big fat filth liberal liar like so many liberals.

 

[depotoo]

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Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare
Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare

Ooooh a graph! It looks so sciencey, it must be true then...

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1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama’s lies, lawbreaking, corruption, etc.

Obama lied 34 times on "You can keep your doctor" alone.

That was a response to the Republican lie that people would be forced to give up their healthplan Obamacare

The Republican lie was much more blatant.

 

[depotoo]

Bull crap. The first keeps promising them. You really are silly.

“Shovel ready jobs!” Another good one. Lol

The Great Obama never promised to provide shovel ready jobs

Shovel Ready was a criteria to be met if a project was to qualify for stimulus money

Did you bother to watch your links?

Obama did not promise Shovel Ready jobs

He offered to fund state construction projects....IF they were shovel ready
Many, many projects were funded by the stimulus

 

[rightwinger]

Bull crap. The first keeps promising them. You really are silly.

“Shovel ready jobs!” Another good one. Lol

The Great Obama never promised to provide shovel ready jobs

Shovel Ready was a criteria to be met if a project was to qualify for stimulus money

Did you bother to watch your links?

Obama did not promise Shovel Ready jobs

He offered to fund state construction projects....IF they were shovel ready
Many, many projects were funded by the stimulus

Are you illiterate?

In the first video he speaks of money being spent on these construction projects. AT NO TIME does he promise to provide shovel ready jobs

The second video just discusses how the permit process makes it difficult to begin projects

 

[rightwinger]

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Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare
Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare

Ooooh a graph! It looks so sciencey, it must be true then...

Oops.
1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama’s lies, lawbreaking, corruption, etc.

Obama lied 34 times on "You can keep your doctor" alone.

That was a response to the Republican lie that people would be forced to give up their healthplan Obamacare

The Republican lie was much more blatant.

What crap....are you claiming 93 million lost their insurance?

 

[Moonglow]

Ooooh a graph! It looks so sciencey, it must be true then...

Oops.
1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama’s lies, lawbreaking, corruption, etc.

Trumps says he will beat that record bigly..