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Indeed, in his campaign rallies today, the president claimed that Romney's rhetoric was inconsistent with the policies on which he had previously campaigned, further declaring, "Governor Romney may dance around his positions, but if you want to be president, you owe the American people the truth."
While the Romney campaign brushed off the president's aggressive stance as "damage control," NY Times columnist Paul Krugman blasted the governor's facetiousness in today's blog post. Referring to Romney's promise of medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, Krugman wrote, "if you think he promised something real, you're the butt of a sick joke...we're talking about a lot of people left out in the cold - 89 million, to be precise."
Inevitably, fact-checking revealed that both candidates were guilty of spin to some capacity. PolitiFact appeared to indicate a level spread of nontruths from both sides, and yet NPR headlined "Romney goes on offense, pays of it in first wave of fact checks."
Ultimately, I am curious to see how Romney's "win" will even out in the polls, if it ever does, as we get a stronger grasp of the extent of Obama and Romney's disingenuity.
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While it may not seem as effective to have called out Romney's lies after the debate, I still found it to be useful to come out and make a statement about that debate overall. Romney did state several outright lies, and its good that Obama did bring that to light, better late than never at least. With the barrage of fact check reports that came out both during and after the debate, Romney's "win" really wasn't much of a win at all. Although this whole speech may have come late, it was still a fairly smart move and probably brought some momentum back for the Obama campaigns.
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