Democrats’ truth vs. GOP lies

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/07/democrats_truth_vs_gop_lies/

The speakers at the DNC did plenty of things at their convention: explaining the economy President Obama inherited and the steps he took to turn it around, standing up for the rights of voters and women and gay people and immigrants, and outlining a clear vision of America based on the fundamental idea that we’re all in it together.But there’s one notable thing speakers at the DNC barely did: lie.

Speaker after speaker stood up to praise the president’s record and critique Mitt Romney’s rhetoric with the sort of straightforward honesty that Americans should expect from political campaigns. That’s not to say the campaign didn’t spin the facts. Every political campaign massages the truth toward its own advantage and the Obama campaign is no different. But unlike Republicans who spouted known lie after known lie at their convention, pretty much every assertion at the DNC can be traced to some kernel of truth.

i wonder how much this if anything will mean to republican base, we believe the truth will set you free, what do they believe?

When, in his DNC speech, the president accused Mitt Romney of wanting to hand over Social Security to Wall Street, while it’s true that the Romney campaign has denied this agenda currently, the fact is both Romney and Paul Ryan supported privatizing Social Security in the past.

offered as just one instance of the honesty of "we the people's" candidate, and "them the other persons choice" propensity to all around lie about the Pres. and themselves. right after last night's convention both right wing top liars continued on in oblivion their lies have all ready been rebuked, "it's on video tape stupid".

And when almost every DNC speaker says the president’s policies created 4.5 million private sector jobs in the last 29 months, that is true. It’s a fact. Yes, it is a conveniently selected fact — the campaign wants voters to blame Republicans for the recession and give Democrats credit for the recovery. But it is rooted in an honest premise that President Obama couldn’t be expected to fix the mess of a massive recession on Day One.

There are other examples the fact checkers have looked at but the point is, while Republicans were widely condemned by fact checkers for the blatant lies repeated throughout their convention, Democrats were barely slapped on the wrist by fact checkers. This is not because the media has a bias toward Democrats but because, apparently, Democrats have a bias toward telling the truth.

should not be hard for "AMERICAN"S to see and vote for who more adheres to their principles and will choose them over corporation.