Editor - So many lies and misrepresentations in the debate we couldn't keep up with them...
UPDATE - Romney was right and Candy Crawley and Obama were both wrong, Obama did NOT call it a terror attack in his Rose Garden statement. Obama's full statement is in the first comment below. Here is CNN almost sorda kinda apologizing: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=athcyCTnTTs]
Romney got the better of Obama performance wise for about the first hour, but Obama made a comeback in the last 30 minutes or so. Obama was playing a nasty class warfare card that just wasn't sincere and didn't fly.
Romney reversed his position on Comprehensive Immigration Reform (remember how he demagogued and misrepresented Rick Perry on this issue?) which I predicted he would do long ago and his answer on Syria was almost a joke.
Obama engaged in a systematic, Alinsky inspired and very deliberate misrepresentation of the facts, especially when it comes to energy policy, healthcare and taxes. Of course Romney was correct on the general idea on Libya but fell into a trap on semantics instead of focusing on how the administration lied about this issue for two weeks and was as caught as caught could be. Obama's campaign already admitted on national television that the $5 billion dollar tax cut talking point Obama used in the debate really isn't accurate, but again they used it tonight.
The lies (and misrepresentations with a tiny kernel of truth) were so voluminous that it would take this writer all night long to catalog them and I have to be out the door in seven hours....so no point by point fact check will be posted tonight. If any reader has a specific question I will be happy to answer it. The documentation to demonstrate President Obama's flamboyant dishonesty is cataloged on this very web site.
Hey President Obama - What was that you said about how you approved more drilling permits than Bush?
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Obama Pays Women Less - via yours truly in my old college blog in 2008:
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and just now in The Daily Caller:
The most powerful moment in the debate was Romney going large in his description of the last four years: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pI5qjAUkZsE#!]
Below is my live blog:
Chuck Norton - I have to say that Romney's college job answer is a total home run. He looks in charge, calm, confident and ready.
Chuck Norton - Obama looks good, he sounds assertive, but wow the misrepresentation starts already. The fact checkers have dinged Obama on his "Mitt Wants Detroit to go bankrupt" line before.
Chuck Norton - Taxing the wealthy doesn't give anyone a job, it chases wealth away when they try to avoid the tax.
Chuck Norton - Romney, including those who dropped out of the workforce the U3 would be 10.7%. Romney explains bankruptcy reorganization.
Chuck Norton - Jobs are created and lost all the time, but adding 5 million jobs when 10 million are what is needed to break even with people losing jobs and coming into the workforce puts the number into perspective.
Chuck Norton - They doubled fuel standards on cars... and now we see these tiny FIAT's on the road and the emissions devices have raised car prices to out of the world. Chevy Volts cost over $100,000 more than GM is selling them for.
Chuck Norton - Romney explains the difference between private land energy production and production on federal land which Obama has been trying to bring to a screeching halt.
Chuck Norton - Wow, who looks presidential folks. I expected Obama to come back hard but this is so one sided it is unbelievable. (But Obama made a comeback in this area near the end).
Chuck Norton - We are drilling more now because of oil permits approved under Bush that are now coming online that Obama couldn't stop.... but look at what Obama did stop.
Oil imports are down because the economy has slowed overall demand.
Chuck Norton - The oil leases were yanked because when they looked at what it would take to get through the EPA to actually drill and concluded it would not be profitable so they paid for the lease and concluded with today's EPA it would be a money loser or too much of a risk to actually try and drill.
Chuck Norton - Wow, if the fact checkers are honest Obama is going to get hammered.
Chuck Norton - Food prices up, gas prices up, insurance prices up family income down $4,000
Chuck Norton - Romney, NO TAX on your savings. Wow that is smart, that is very smart and it encourages middle and low income people to get involved in saving and investing which would be great to help recapitalize the country.
Chuck Norton - Obama want to continue the Bush tax cuts for small businesses??? Since when?
Chuck Norton - Obama's 97% of small businesses number includes small businesses on paper and ones that do not have more than 1 employee. The vast majority of small businesses that actually employ ten or more people are going to get whacked by the $200k number.
Chuck Norton Wow, Obama's campaign already admitted that the $5 trillion dollar number he just spouted wasn't true. Folks this is surreal.
Chuck Norton - Fact checkers are going to cream Obama's earlier coal and oil production claims. Coal workers are blasting Obama already - Miners Fight Back Against Obama TV Ad: "Absolute Lies" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzU3oZLV8Hw]
Chuck Norton - Of course the numbers adds up - Romney
Chuck Norton - Well Obama, first of all your campaign pays women less and so do Democrats in congress when it comes to their staffs..... big opportunity here for Romney.
Chuck Norton - Romney is getting upset and needs to calm don a bit.
Chuck Norton - Obama says that it is ROMNEY who wants people in Washington deciding women's health decisions.. WHAT - ObamaCare Panel Targeting Women’s Health Screenings…Again - LINK
Chuck Norton - Great answer on how Romney differentiates himself from GW Bush.
Chuck Norton - Romney pounds on the broken promises....
Chuck Norton - I have to admit, the BS Obama is putting out sounds good.... .... wow I really hope the fact checkers pay close attention.
Chuck Norton - Romney just reversed himself on "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" that he blasted Rick Perry on in the primary.
Chuck Norton - Libya question - Obama pivots to general national security and the specific question asked to him was not answered.
Chuck Norton - Romney hits Obama for skipping the intelligence briefing the next day and going to a Las Vegas fund raiser.
Chuck Norton - Second Amendment question - Who will tackle it and who will dance.
Chuck Norton - Romney hits Obama on Fast & Furious - about time.
Chuck Norton - Romney was not bold enough on the second amendment follow up
Chuck Norton - Romney: Canada tax rate 15% America 35% where would you rather start a business. Regulations up four times.
Chuck Norton- Obama's advanced manufacturing answer was a good one. He doesn't mean any of this because his regulatory war on business is a huge job killer.
Chuck Norton- Wow it was surreal; the misrepresentation of facts has been stunning. While both sides had factual deficits Obama was so dishonest it was amazing.