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August 20, 2010
Obama Wrongly Attributed Stimulus Funds To Aiding Project On Stump Speech
Topics: Political News and commentariesForever on the campaign trail, in his cutesy attempt to be like the rest of us by giving a speech at the North Side home of architect Joe Weithman in Columbus, Ohio - our Fuhrer unsurprisingly attributed stimulus dollars to aiding not only a project that involved no stimulus dollars - but also named the wrong project:
[...] A local project that President Barack Obama cited during a visit Wednesday to Columbus as an example of how the federal stimulus package has worked isn't actually being funded with stimulus dollars.And when confronted with the fact that Obama had his facts wrong (or simply plain-out lied), what was the Obama team's excuse? You guessed it - it's those 'eeeevil' Republican's fault:The president spoke at the North Side home of architect Joe Weithman, and both Obama's comments and information from the White House touted Weithman's work on a project that the president said was being at least partially funded by the $787 billion stimulus bill passed last year.
"What we've been trying to do is to build infrastructure that puts people back to work but also improves the quality of life in communities like Columbus," Obama said in his remarks. "So Joe is an architect, and he's now working on a new police station that was funded in part with Recovery Act funds."
But although federal money is being used for the project in question, there are no stimulus dollars involved, said Columbus Finance Director Paul Rakosky, a Democrat.
Rakosky said the project is not a police station but rather the renovation of an abandoned warehouse that the city purchased on the South Side in 2007 to house the city's police crime lab and property room.
When White House spokesman Matt Lehrich was asked about the discrepancy, all he would say is: "The president's trip to Columbus was, in part, to highlight the role that small businesses, like Joe's, will play in creating jobs in communities across the country. That's a fact, and it's why he's been urging Republicans to stop blocking a proposal to cut taxes for small businesses that are looking to grow and hire more workers."Oh hell, what's the big deal?l Surely we're not surprised. After all, when have facts and truth ever mattered to the Democrats - and that's especially the case with our Dear Leader and his team.
And we haven't even addressed the not-so-little matter of our tax dollars going to pay for renovation of an abandoned warehouse the city bought 3 years ago.
As for Republican obstruction of the jobs bill, what Republicans are against is that the jobs bill, as presently proposed, puts the government in the position of taking equity positions in businesses. They're already running banks, insurance companies, car companies and nationalizing the student loan business, taking over health care. Now the Dems want government intrusion into private enterprise. As Mitch McConnel has pointed out, "We don't need the government taking equity positions, ownership positions in any more private sector businesses."
Hat tip to Steve Gilbert over at Sweetness & Light, who says, "Obviously, the rubes in Ohio don't understand Mr. Obama's nuanced approach to 'facts.' 'Facts' are simply whatever Mr. Obama wants them to be."
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Posted by Richard at August 20, 2010 12:32 PM
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