Just listened to a speech by Mittens. While criticizing Obama for spending he said "no president has presided over a trillion dollar deficit"
Took a few minutes to find this...
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_deficit
FY 2009 submitted by GW Bush (Oct 2008 - Sept 2009)
1.413T
Obama budgets
FY 2010 1.293T
FY 2011 1.3T
FY 2012 1.327T
So I guess we are going to spend a lot of time deciphering how many times Mitt tells bald face lies.
Lets add some Obama lies to the mix shall we?
HEALTH-CARE NEGOTIATIONS ON C-SPAN STATEMENT: These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made. January 20, 2008, and seven other times. EXPIRATION DATE: Throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2009 and 2010; when John McCain asked about it during the health-care summit February 26, Obama dismissed the issue by declaring, the campaign is over, John.
RECESS APPOINTMENTS STATEMENT: Then-senator Obama declared that a recess appointment is damaged goods and has less credibility than a normal appointment. August 25, 2005. EXPIRATION DATE: March 27, 2010: If, in the interest of scoring political points, Republicans in the Senate refuse to exercise that responsibility, I must act in the interest of the American people and exercise my authority to fill these positions on an interim basis.
RECOVERY.GOV STATEMENT: We will launch a sweeping effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov. President Obama, January 28, 2009. EXPIRATION DATE: More than two months after some of the funds were released, [Recovery.gov] offers little detail on where the money is going . . . The government [spent] $84 million on a website that doesnt have a search function, when its purpose is to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government. April 2, 2009
Barack Obama in 2003, talking to the AFL/CIO:I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage. Thats what Id like to see.In January, 2008, Obama claimed in a nationally televised debate:I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.
In Obamas famous DNC Convention speech, Obama says, My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father my grandfather was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. Kezia, Obama Sr.s first wife tells a story that puts Obamas account to lie.
Kezia said: In 1955 Obama Sr. was 18 and working in an office in Nairobi, when he took Kezia from her family at the age of 16.
On the January 22nd edition of Meet the Press, Tim Russert and Obama had the following exchange:Russert: When we talked back in November of 04 after your election, I said, Theres been enormous speculation about your political future. Will you serve your six-year term as United States senator from Illinois?Obama: I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not changed.Russert: So you will not run for president or vice president in 2008?Obama: I will not.
As another example, consider Obamas stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the Bloody Sunday voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, he said, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So dont tell me I dont have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Dont tell me Im not coming home to Selma, AlabamaObama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: I meant the whole civil rights movement.
February As Sen. McCain has pointed out, Obama promised to use public funding in the general election if the Republican candidate would do so also. Well, McCain has agreed to it, but now Obama wants to back out of the deal. After all, when he made the promise, he didnt have a chance of raising more than the publics $85 million stipend. But now that he can raise $300 million, well, whats a little untruth between the waited-for one and his people? Yes, he can.
I am the only candidate who isnt taking a dime from Washington lobbyist - LIAR- The record shows quite the opposite. According to USA Today, Obamas campaign fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show. Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million for the Illinois senators presidential race. Employees of their firms have given Obamas campaign $2.26 million, a USA TODAY analysis of campaign finance data shows.
There are many many more...