Democratic Debate Part 3

Few errors, lots of dreaming.

Most of the factual claims that we were able to check were accurate, or reasonably close. What we're unable to check out, lacking a time machine, is whether any of these candidates can deliver on some of the expensive promises they are making. The promises include universal health care, day care and college opportunities for all children, rebuilding New Orleans, and a new U.S. military effort to enforce a "no fly" zone in Sudan, among other things. Full Story »

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Kathy Borst
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by Kathy Borst - Oct. 1, 2008

Overall a decent story and fact-checking is a good idea in general, but how can you lump "various entitlement programs" together to come up with a 46.3% figure? Are you including entitlement programs that subsidize oil? Corporate farming? Head Start? Failing to define a politically charged term like entitlement programs is very weak journalism, indeed. Is military spending the largest single category of spending? If so, the statement is correct, statistically.

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