Twist or reality

[brice1967]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/26/obama-spending-claim_n_1547737.html

Anyone?  Huffington Post isn't exactly right winged.....

[brice1967]

I'm even weary of the fact checking sites.  It seems like one time not so long ago, one of the sites got dragged through the mud a little bit for not necessarily telling the whole truth.

My grandfather used to use the old analogy, "believe little of what you read and less of what you hear".  That's where I am these days.  

[teko]

Exactly right brice. This is why I have spent so much time researching, researching, checking factchecking sites and the like and still sometimes cannot decipher it all.

But when you factor in that the average person is not going to spend time they dont have doing what Im doing, its scary, because most family oriented people watch what they see on the 6 oclock local news and maybe a sunday issue on politics and that is what they base their vote on.

Yes, it will be the one that puts out the most effective ads that run the most times that influence the vote. It is truly a sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. When they passed the right for big unlimited money by big unlimited power sources in our elections, we sold ourselves down the river. imo

[brice1967]

Throwing blind trust to the government is something that I can't do anymore.  

Does anyone really believe that the government is really in this for the greater good of the American people?  If you do, can you rightly complain about the money involved in politics?  

I don't know who to believe anymore.  The news, regardless of the source, is biased one way or the other.  You can't get the whole truth out of anyone in DC.  Everything is shrouded in a veil of secrecy.  (Take the drone thing in another post....)  

[el_em_en_oh]

I'm not sure WHAT to believe anymore.

You hear it one way from one news outlet. Then the exact opposite from a different news outlet.

There's so much "spin" on the truth, that there's no telling what's real and what's fabricated.

If this is true, I'm curious why it's been back-pocket'd for this long. I mean, this is a GOOD thing.

Why hold onto this card for so long?

Unless, once again, it was a shrewd & calculated political move by the Obama'camp, only to be released during the campaign?

If this is reality, then awesome.

"Spending" and "wisely" aren't words you usually see in the same sentence, especially when Washington DC has anything to do with it.

[teko]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/may/25/lots-heat-and-some-light-obamas-spending/


Yep tis true!