An Obama Distortion
April 25, 2008 – 2:31 pm
The blogger Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute highlights an instance of Obama mischaracterizing — by omission — something McCain said about the economy. (Found by Ann Raber.) Maguire compares what Obama said McCain said with what McCain actually did say.
Obama: “John McCain went on television and said that there has been quote great progress economically over the last seven and a half years.” McCain did say that, but taken out of context it distorts what he meant. Maguire then provides the full McCain transcript, which shows that he also paints a picture of “challenging times.”
Maguire says:
The new politics of hope and change sure looks a lot like the old politics of smear and distort.[…]
For Obama to extract one sentence and argue that McCain is out of touch is shameless.
An example of the kind of fact checking bloggers can do well.
tags 2008 barackobama johnmccain negativecampaigning
