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Considering the U.S. presidential honesty
Towards the U.S. presidential election on 6 November 2012, each candidate more incentive to push his opponent by criticizing the work program of each other. All of it is done solely to earn the trust of the electorate.
In his campaign, Obama pointed out that the plans to reform the welfare programs offered by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would burden the elderly more than U.S. $ 6000 per year. On the other hand, Romney focusing the increase in budget deficit claimed by Obama government.
With the pattern of such campaigns, the campaign's fact checking is like a sports game. Fact checking's agencies equip themselves with note cards to assess the competition among its players, whether they are honest or lie or gray.
In fact, the results of fact checking shows the words of these two candidates are only partially correct. It's a very rare case the words of a candidate is completely honest or lie.
In the debate over issues such as the budget deficit, Polifact.com -- as one of the fact checking pages -- state that the debate actually started from the starting point of financial accounting.
It would be bad if President Barack Obama took the year 2008 as the starting point to calculate, because in that year he had not officially taken control of the White House yet. This starting point of calculation was used as a reference to Mitt Romney criticized Obama by saying that Obama has doubled the actual deficit. But it would be different if Obama calculated the deficit by taking January 2009 as the starting point, because at that time he had already begun to work.
Brook Jackson, an experienced journalist who runs Factcheck.org said, "There's often the grains of truth that is sometimes very difficult to be distinguished, but the candidates will twist it and make it to be understood with perverted way. "
To facilitate the assessment, Glenn Kessler, a fact checker of the Washington Post using 1-4 scale Pinocchio. Both Obama and Romney, according to Kessler, on average are above level 2 Pinocchio. That means, their accusations are classified incorrectly or exaggerated, but it does not mean wrong. According to Brendan Nyhan, people tend to rely on the right thing or wrong. "It makes them even further from the core problem, such as to question whether the claims are responsible enough to be submitted to the public or not."
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There was a pause after the last minute at the end of this song (minute 4:00). Starting again at minute 4:48. Without drawing. Black all. About Black - A white note to my partner: Black is the color of our room when we're making love. Black is the color of our words unspoken. Black is the color of our hearts when we lie to each other. Black is the color of a safe hideout. Whatever. But one thing, I'm not lying when I say I love you. It's true. But that does not mean that I have stopped to love him. Somebody,... help me, I can't.
I want to give birth in my hometown. I want my mother with me when I give birth, but he didn't agree. The reason is for the safety of my pregnancy. I denied it. Traveling by plane is safe to 32 weeks' gestation. He denied the fact. He said he has not applied for a leave of absence this year yet, while he could not allow me to go home alone. He said he should be with me when I gave birth to his baby. And so on and so forth. But I see the disagreement as mistrust. He is still busy measuring the distance from France to Switzerland. But he forgets to measure my longing for my mother. He even asked me back, "Only your mother? Really?"
"Really what?"
"Someone you really miss. Someone who you want to be with you when you give birth."
He spoke about "someone else" when we're together. At the time when there was just me and him. Does he not feel that he could be "someone else" for me? Suddenly I felt the room was too small for us. Geez... dahling, where do I hide my heart from you?
Helloooo, ... I'm not finished yet. I'll go again, in silence.
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► Ukraine president urges tough punishment for cross-cutting feminists. Published: 17 October, 2012
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