Will Obama Fact Check His Own Distortion?

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 5427

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/56109

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CNSNews.com read Stupak the verbatim transcript of President Obama’s joint-session-speech statement about abortion funding: “And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up: Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.”

CNSNews.com asked Stupak: “Is that a true or false statement?”

“That is exactly what he said,” said Stupak.

“But is it an accurate statement?” asked CNSNews.com.

“I called him,” said Stupak. “I called the president--had a discussion with the president. And I read exactly what you just said. And he said: ‘What it says is “under my plan”’—meaning the president’s plan. And I said: ‘With all due respect, sir, you do not have a plan. The only plan we have out is the House plan.’ So, I don’t know if it is a game of semantics or what.”
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Here's the quote from Obama:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to...Joint-S

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THE PRESIDENT: It's not true. And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up -- under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.

"Our plan". Just who is this "our" then, if it's not the House plan, the only one out at the time of his speech? Why, it's Obama's theoretical plan, of course!

No wonder "his" plan sounds so good when he talks about it - it doesn't exist, so he can tailor it to his audience every time.

Sounds like more "typical politics" from the President of Change.

Gezzer · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:27 am Post subject:

is this

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a game of semantics or what

that we can all join in on or is it left to each and everyone's opinion …