PANTS ON FIRE: Mitt Romney said Barack Obama began his presidency with an apology tour

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Source: PolitiFact

Mitt Romney said Barack Obama began his presidency with an apology tour



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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But a review of Obama’s foreign travels and remarks during his early presidency showed no evidence to support such a blunt and disparaging claim. (In later years, we found two formal apologies, but they were not at the start of his presidency and not part of a tour.)

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.


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

[emulatorloo]

1. Mitt's been peddling that lie since the Republican primaries. And he's not going to stop lying.

[pinboy3niner]

3. He was doing it before that, in 2010

And no, he will not stop lying. Like the scorpion story, it's in his nature.

[Angry Dragon]

2. He also complained about all the vacations and golf

I guess he forgot that bush was the 'king of brush' and weeping boner playing so much golf that people think he is a golf pro

[malaise]

4. WILLiard and Lyan are pathological LIARS

Even when they die they will lie still

[pinboy3niner]

5. LOL!

Good one, malaise!

"Even when they die they will lie still."

[Whisp]

6. an apology tour for that fuck up Chimp, yeh, I can dig that.

I don't find that term all that offensive, actually.