Factcheck.org reviewed the GOP Debate! Hmmm, a # exggerations

[napi21]

there, to be sure!
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/republican_candidates_debate.html

Summary:

Ten Republican candidates for president debated at the Reagan Library in California, the first GOP debate of the 2008 campaign. Here and there we found stumbles, spin and exaggerations, just as we did at the Democratic debate a week earlier.


Giuliani claimed that adoptions shot up 73 percent while he was mayor. In fact, the net increase over his entire tenure was 17 percent.
Brownback hyped the medical potential of stem cells taken from adults and not embryos, failing to mention their limitations.
Hunter claimed that 155,000 non-Mexicans were seized crossing illegally from Mexico last year. The actual figure is 98,153.
Romney described a Massachusetts health care plan he backed as “a fabulous program,” when in fact it has not fully taken effect and only half the low-income persons who are eligible have signed up.


They do a good analysis to document their findings.

[Cobalt Violet]

1. MA insurance doesn't become mandatory until July.

You'ld never know it. I don't hear much talk about it. I don't have cable so I'm not sure if it's all over cable or not.

[napi21]

2. It may be in Mass. but it's sure not anywhere else. I didn't know it

before I read it on FactCheck. I'd bet the people who watched the debate and are NOT from Mass. don't know it EITHER!