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Lies of the Democrats, Part 4

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This is Part 4 of my series on the lies told by Democrats during the present administration’s term in office.  As I said earlier, I’m not concerned with his broken campaign promises so much as I am with the dishonesty while in office.

In the aftermath of the first Romney-Obama debate, Democrats are asserting that the only way Romney could possibly have won is that of course he lied.

On the subject of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks about “the 47%,” CNN’s Soledad O’Brien had this exchange:

So, to me, that is you say one thing for a certain audience to get them to support you and then you say something different, maybe completely contradictory, to another audience which some could define as lying[.]

Romney said that his remark was “inelegant,” then later called it “just plain wrong.”  Yeah—couldn’t possibly be an admission of a mistake.  Of course it’s a lie.  Good to know, though, that the Democrats think Romney is perfect and never makes mistakes.  Except by lying.

Then there’s Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama’s senior campaign advisor, David Axelrod.  In a CBS Face the Nation interview, Axelrod had this on the debate’s outcome:

I think [Obama] was a little taken aback at the brazenness with which Gov Romney walked away from so many of the positions on which he’s run, walked away from his record[.]

And

When he said he never proposed $5 trillion in tax cuts, that was dishonest.  I’m saying that he was dishonest in his answers.

Never mind that Axelrod just makes his bald claim, with no specifics.  Or that Romney has been constant as the northern star concerning all of his positions save abortion, where he has evolved his position—which is OK for the Democratic candidate….

Never mind that there is no $5 trillion, and the only study that said so has been publicly debunked—including by its own authors who said their underlying assumptions were mistaken.

And Congressman James Clyburn (D, SC) had this:

Romney’s performance featured a rather dramatic departure from his public record and campaign proposals, and he displayed a reckless disregard for bedrock American values of truth and honesty.

This is the pot calling the kettle black.  Recall that Clyburn also lied about spitting and racial epithets in April 2010 in the aftermath of Obamacare’s passage.  In the present case, as then, Clyburn has chosen to offer no specifics, no evidence, beyond his bald declaration that Romney was dishonest.

How dishonest is that?

Benghazi: Fail

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Stephen Hayes, of The Weekly Standard, writes

At the [Vice President] debate, moderator Martha Raddatz noted “there were no protesters” that day in Libya, and asked Biden why the administration’s talk of protests “went on for weeks.”

Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden had the answer:

Because that’s exactly what we were told by the intelligence community.  The intelligence community told us that.  As they learned more facts about exactly what happened, they changed their assessment.

Fully five days after the terrorist attack on our Benghazi consulate, on 16 Sep, State’s UN Ambassador Susan Rice (stop me if you’ve heard this part before) said on five different national television shows that a YouTube movie short was responsible.

Yet, as Hayes notes,

Intelligence products published on September 12, sources tell us, included detailed evidence that al Qaeda-linked jihadists were involved in the Benghazi attacks

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Senior State Department officials were in contact with security agents on the ground in Benghazi, in real time, as the attacks unfolded.

and

On September 12, the New York Times[!] reported: “American and European officials said that while many details about the attack remained unclear, the assailants seemed organized, well trained and heavily armed, and they appeared to have at least some level of advance planning.”

and

Congressman Adam Smith (D, WA) of the House Armed Services Committee, said: “This was not just a mob that got out of hand.  Mobs don’t come in and attack, guns blazing.  I think that there is a growing consensus it was preplanned.

and then on 18 Sep, on the Late Show with David Letterman

[Democratic Presidential Candidate President Barack] Obama: You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, a sort of shadowy character who is extremely offensive video directed at Muhammad and Islam.

David Letterman: Making fun of the Prophet Muhammad.

Obama: Making fun of the Prophet Muhammad.  And, so, this caused great offense.  In much of the Muslim world.  But, what also happened was extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassies, including the consulate in Libya.

Wait, what?

And Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama insists through his Deputy Campaign Manager, Stephanie Cutter, that the Republicans are politicizing the murder of our Ambassador to Libya.

Hmm….