I wouldn't want to stand next to this character in a thunderstorm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romneys-distortions-about-obama-do-us-a-disservice/2012/05/28/gJQA9JuTxU_story.html?hpid=z2
Even by this lax standard, Romney too often fails. Not to put too fine a point on it, he lies. Quite a bit.
“Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history,” Romney claims on his campaign Web site. This is utterly false. The truth is that spending has slowed markedly under Obama.
An analysis published last week by MarketWatch, a financial news Web site owned by Dow Jones & Co., compared the yearly growth of federal spending under presidents going back to Ronald Reagan. Citing figures from the Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office, MarketWatch concluded that “there has been no huge increase in spending under the current president, despite what you hear.”
I wonder if this is a CEO thing? As a wealthy Son of Privilege and head of Bain, I imagine few, if any, of his employees, challenged his lies. So after a while it became easy for him. Massachusetts voters certainly soured on the lies after 4 years of Mitt. Let's hope the nation holds him to the same standard.
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