RECEIVED AN E-MAIL ABOUT BARACK OBAMA. IT STATED THAT HE WAS NOT BORN IN THE U.S.A., BUT IN AFRICA! THEREFORE. NOT ABLE TO RUN AS PRESIDENT OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY! TRUE OR FALSE? ALSO, THAT HE REFUSES TO SHOW HIS BIRTH CERT.! ANYWAY, I AM 87 1/2 YEARS YOUNG AND HAVE ALREADY VOTED FOR OBAMA ON EARLY BALLET! DID NOT FOREARD THIS TRASH! F.M. OLSEN (NESLOFM1@COX.NET)
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Obama quotes McCain as saying he wants to apply "Wall Street deregulation" to health care. That's a distortion of McCain's words. McCain actually limited his comparison just to the idea of allowing people to purchase health care policies across state lines.
McCain claims that U.S. oil imports send $700 billion per year to countries that don't like us very much. That's an exaggeration. In fact, we actually pay more like $536 billion for the oil we need, and one-third of those payments go to Canada, Mexico and the U.K.
Obama has misrepresented some of McCain's votes on school funding as votes for cutting education spending. In fact, of the five votes the Obama ad lists, one was for an increase in school funding (just a smaller one than Democrats wanted) and four others were against increases and not for spending cuts.
McCain has promised that he will balance the budget by 2013. That's unlikely. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center says that without serious spending cuts, McCain's tax proposals will actually increase the size of the debt between $5.1 trillion and $7.4 trillion over the next 10 years. So balancing the budget would require cutting federal spending by 25 percent. McCain, however, has proposed very few specific spending cuts.
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million, $700,000 too high at the time.
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