Political Republican Opinion

Political Republican Opinion:

It must be great to be part of the Obama-Biden ticket. Both Barack Obama and now, Joe Biden can say anything and get away with it. Whenever either of them has been confronted with statements they have made in the past that contradict their current positions, they simply deny ever saying it. They know that they can get away with it because the mainstream Liberal media is in their back pocket.

During Thursday night’s Sarah Palin-Joe Biden debate, Joe Biden told more than a dozen bold face lies. I guarantee you that you will not hear about any of them on any of the major networks, CNN, or CNBC. Instead, it is up to the blogosphere, talk radio and Fox News to do the real news reporting in this country. Following, are the most poignant of the lies from the debate that Joe Biden will surely get away with:

1. Joe Biden said that John McCain voted the same way as Barack Obama on a budget resolution procedural vote to raise taxes on American individuals that made as little as $42,000 per year. As usual, Republicans and Democrats voted essentially down Party lines with Obama in favor of the tax increase. Many blogs are incorrectly stating that John McCain voted against the tax increase. In actuality, John McCain was one of five senators who did not vote at all on that particular roll call vote. (see Congress.org)

2. Joe Biden claimed that John McCain said that he “wouldn’t even sit down” with the government of Spain. When asked three separate times during an interview on Miami’s Radio Caracol if he would sit down with Spain’s President Zapatero, John McCain never committed either way. Liberal blogs and now Joe Biden have distorted this fact, however. His actual answer was “I am willing to meet with any leader who is dedicated to the same principles and philosophies that we are for human rights, democracy and freedom.” (An audio recording of the oft-misrepresented radio interview can be found here. For those of you who don’t feel like listening to the whole thing, the questions regarding Spain start precisely at minute number three of the interview.)

3. When Biden claimed that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, he was clearly lying. Obama specifically stated that he would sit down with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea without any preconditions, and Joe Biden attacked him for it during the Democratic Presidential Primaries (see video here).

4. Joe Biden claimed that a comment he made about not supporting clean coal while in a rope line was taken out of context. In the rope line, he specifically states “We’re not supporting clean coal” and “No coal plants here in America!” (see the video here).

5. Joe Biden is exaggerating when he states that John McCain voted against alternative energy 20 times. He actually voted against it 11 times. This was long before oil prices climbed to the astronomical levels that they are at now and before the technology was even close to offering an alternative that did not cost more than it produced. In the other instances that Joe Biden presumably used to arrive at his inflated figure, McCain voted against mandatory use of alternative energy sources or he voted in favor of allowing exemptions from mandates.

6. Joe Biden claimed that John McCain wanted to deregulate the health care industry, stating, “John recently wrote an article in a ‘major magazine’ saying that [what] he wants to do for the health care industry [is] deregulate it and let the free market move like he did for the banking industry.” This is a misrepresentation of the facts. In a magazine called “Contingencies,” John McCain discussed allowing people to buy health care across state lines stating, “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.”

7. Joe Biden claimed on numerous occasions that John McCain’s tax plan would give oil companies a $4 billion tax cut. This is a very deceptive way of spinning McCain’s actual tax plan. In it, he would lower the corporate tax rate on all companies from 35% to 25% - not just the oil industry. The $4 billion figure is a guess, dreamed up by the Democratic Party’s team of economic “experts.”

8. Joe Biden said that the Iraqi government “has an $80 billion surplus.” Actually, some analysts have previously projected that the Iraqi government could have “as much as” $79 billion by the end of the year. These projections were made before the Iraqi government approved a $21 billion spending bill. The figure that the government now has in the bank is closer to $21 billion.

Now, to be fair, Sarah Palin misrepresented a few facts as well. Most of hers were a little less blatant and were probably due to an inability to correctly recall names and figures crammed during the crash course of her recent rise into the Washington political scene. For example, Sarah Palin called General David D. McKiernan “General McClellan” and misstated that the amount of troops in Iraq were at pre-surge levels. (There are currently 6,000 more troops in Iraq than there were before the surge, but they should be at pre-surge levels before the November election.) The Political Repblican Opinion Blog is sure you will hear about each and every one of Sarah Palin’s debate missteps. It’s too bad that our “free press” won’t be so free as to point out Joe Biden’s!

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Political Republican Opinion:

Now, even Charlie Gibson has joined the ranks of those in the mainstream liberal media that have thrown away their integrity to support Barack Obama. Part one of his interview with Sarah Palin could not have been more biased. Gibson tossed aside his journalistic credentials at the outset of the interview when, in response to Governor Palin’s comment that she felt she was ready to take on the responsibilities of the Vice Presidential position, the ABC anchor raised his eyebrows, looked down his nose at her and said “didn’t that take some hubris?”

For those unfamiliar with the word, “hubris” is another word for “arrogance.” If that’s not the pot calling the kettle black, then I don’t know what is (and please, save your breath Liberals; the pot did not just make a racist remark).

The media in America has become an absolute joke. There is no such thing as unbiased reporting anymore. Every interview is agenda driven. There is not even a pretense of journalistic integrity these days. Political Republican opinion is that this will be declared as “The Year that Journalism Died.” Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie …

After the three-part interview series has concluded, I will do a side-by-side comparison of the questions that were put to Sarah Palin, and compare them to the powder puffs that Charlie Gibson served to Barack Obama a year ago in an interview. The contrast could not be more revealing! Until then, The Political Republican Opinion blog offers the latest “Red State Update” and their take on the Liberal media bias:

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