Romney's charge that Obama went on "apology tour" gets PolitiFact's Pants On Fire rating

[highplainsdem]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/31/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-said-barack-obama-began-his-presidency/

In his speech accepting the Republican nomination for president, Mitt Romney repeated a charge he’s made before: that Obama has traveled the world apologizing for America.

"I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No, Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators," Romney said.

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While Obama's speeches contained some criticisms of past U.S. actions, he typically combined those passages with praise for the United States and its ideals, and he frequently mentioned how other countries had erred as well. We found not a single, full-throated apology in the bunch.

Calling those remarks "an apology tour" is a ridiculous charge. So we rate his statement Pants on Fire.

[C_U_L8R]

1. No one should vote for a liar

And Romney is a liar. The worst kind.

[LeftinOH]

2. "Apology Tour"; "Government Takeover of Healthcare"; "Attack on Religion", etc...

...the Repub themes are deeply ingrained by now. They don't need facts to back them up, because the theme titles alone are all that matters.

[catbyte]

3. And Romney's VFW speech. When he accused Obama of "insulting nations when none is due"

or some such rot, I just about busted a gut laughing. Here's Romney, coming off of a DISASTROUS international tour in which he insulted people in both Great Britain and Israel, complaining that President Obama insults other nations. Psssssssssst, Mitt, the word you're looking for is "projection"...

What a knob.



Diane
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