Obama Lies While Accusing the Romney Campaign of Lying

The Weekly Standard ^ | Sep 1, 2012 | MARK HEMINGWAY

[Evil Slayer]

If you want a near perfect encapsulation of how the Obama campaign is leaning on incompetent partisans masquerading as "independent" media fact checking organizations to do their dirty work, I strongly encourage you to read today's article in the New York Times, "Obama Team Sharpens Attacks on Rivals’ Character." While the article is a far too credulous regarding the fact checker response to Paul Ryan's speech, it does contain this gem:

Mr. Obama this week, for the first time, entered the fray. Campaigning on Tuesday on college campuses in Iowa and Colorado, he told thousands of supporters not to believe the opposition’s attacks because, “how do I put this nicely? They will just fib.” “Sometimes they just make things up. But they’ve got a bunch of folks who can write $10 million checks, and they’ll just keep on running them,” he said. “I mean, somebody was challenging one of their ads — they made it up — about work and welfare. And every outlet said this is just not true. And they were asked about it and they said — one of their campaign people said, ‘We won’t have the fact-checkers dictate our campaign. We will not let the truth get in the way.’”

Mr. Obama was referring, as many other critics of the Romney campaign have, to a comment that its pollster, Neil Newhouse, made to reporters at the Republican convention on Tuesday, dismissive of those faulting the campaign’s television ads. What Mr. Newhouse actually said was, “These fact-checkers come to those ads with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs. We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

Mr. Newhouse did not say, “We will not let the truth get in the way.”

[Evil Slayer]

"Well... There You Go Again!"

Famous line Reagan would say to his opponent when caught lying. Worked every time.

[hawaiianninja]

one of their campaign people said, ‘We won’t have the fact-checkers dictate our campaign. We will not let the truth get in the way.’

...dare I say it?...

Because "You can't handle the truth!"

...'kay, I said it. ^_^

[Kudsman]

If he wants to show that he has any integrity I don’t see how he can not challenge the lies.

[Kudsman]

Challenge the lie that Mr. Obama killed Bin Laden.
Challenge the lie that Obamacare does not raise taxes on the middle class.
Challenge the lie that Federal welfare programs don't create dependency and weaken the family unit by substituting the Government for the husband.
Challenge the lie that the poor should have the option of not taking "jobs Americans won't do".
Challenge the lie that by executive order the President did not gut the work requirement for welfare.

The list could on and on.

[svcw]

I get that.
The question is will Romney challenge obama on anything.