Obama's Baltimore Bombast ; Faced with Republican Questions, the President Resorts to Fibs

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Congressional Republicans were smart to invite President Obama to address them in Baltimore last Friday. And it was great that Mr. Obama accepted and was willing to take questions.

But the president told some real whoppers. According to Mr. Obama, he basically kept his promise to broadcast health care discussions on C-SPAN. During the campaign when he promised "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table" and have them broadcast on C-SPAN, he was only referring to the "congressional hearings" that have been televised for decades. He told the Republicans that the deals to give unions a $60 billion tax break or the negotiations with Sens. Ben Nelson or Mary L. Landrieu to give their home states special preferences were not the important part of the negotiations.

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Obama's Baltimore Bombast ; Faced with Republican Questions, the President Resorts to Fibs

He also likes us to believe that the stimulus lowered the unemployment rate. Supposedly there are no "credib...

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