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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: We Can't Risk Putting Liars In The White House We Can't Risk Putting Liars In The White House Robert Reich, Contributor | Oct. 31, 2012, 10:00 AM | 2,412 | 44 inShare6 Email More mitt romney ohio Getty Images Robert Reich URL Robert Reich is one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Recent Posts Airlines Exploited The Heck Out Of Passengers Trying To Escape The... The Final Days, The Biggest Issue, And The Clearest Choice If You Succumb to Cynicism, The Regressives Win it All RSS Feed Romney's Latest Lie, His Former Lies, and Why We Must Not Put Liars in the White House My Plane Out of NYC in Advance of Sandy, and Mitt Romney's America The Final Days, the Biggest Issue, and the Clearest Choice Over the weekend, Romney debuted an ad in Ohio showing cars being crushed as a narrator says Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China. Mitt Romney will fight for every American job.” In fact, Chrysler is retaining and expanding its Jeep production in North America, including in Ohio. Its profits have enabled it to separately consider expanding into China, the world’s largest auto market. Responding to the ad, Chrysler emphasized in a blog post that it has “no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China.” “They are inviting a false inference,” says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on political advertising. This is only the most recent in a stream of lies from Romney. Remember his contention that the President planned to “rob” Medicare of $716 billion when in fact the money would come from reduced payments to providers who were overcharging — thereby extending the life of Medicare? (Ryan’s plan includes the same $716 billion of savings but gets it from turning Medicare into a voucher and shifting rising health-care costs on to seniors.) Remember Romney’s claim that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law, when in fact Obama merely allowed governors to fashion harder or broader work requirements? Recall Romney’s assertion that he is not planning to give the rich a tax cut of almost $5 trillion, when in fact that’s exactly what his budget plan does? Or that his budget will reduce the long-term budget deficit, when in fact his numbers don’t add up? And so on. “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster. It is not even being dictated by facts. There are two lessons here. First, lies financed by deep pockets are hard to refute, but they must be refuted. Otherwise, there is no accountability in our democracy. So far, the American media have not adequately refuted Romney’s lies. They seem to believe that dissembling is permissible, or that pointing out this extraordinary lying machine is itself an act of partisanship. Second, anyone who tells or countenances such lies cannot be trusted to hold the highest office in our land, because he has no compunctions about feeding false information to the public. In recent memory we’ve had a president who told us there were “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, when in fact there were none. We dare not risk another George W. Bush. Read more posts on Robert Reich » Recommended For You Read more: http://robertreich.org/post/34650220450#ixzz2AvLLK9Y7 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5.
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The White house is far to valuable a piece of real estate to remain vacant, excluding liars would ensure its vacancy in perpetuity. What "public servant" isn't lying when their lips are moving and why would we expect a higher standard for the occupant of the White house. More important, how could they possibly get elected if they were informed, intelligent, and honest?
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