I see that many of the Obama supporters are all in a snit about a new Hillary ad that criticizes comments Obama has made about Social Security. Somebody dug up a "fact check" from ABC that supposedly discredits the ad.
The ABC piece says that he didn't "expressly say" that he might raise the retirement age, for example.
OMG!!! If this doesn't show you how pathetically the media is in the tank for Obama, nothing ever will!!!!
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/...
Barack Obama has spent the past few days calling out Hillary Clinton on Social Security. What has gotten much less attention is that Obama has changed his position on what to do about the government retirement system's financial problems.
When Obama appeared on ABC's "This Week" last May, he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "Everything should be on the table" as options for assuring the program's long-term solvency.
"Raising the retirement age?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"Everything should be on the table," Obama replied.
"Raising payroll taxes?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"Everything should be on the table," Obama said. "I think we should approach it the same way Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan did back in 1983. They came together. I don't want to lay out my preferences beforehand, but what I know is that Social Security is solvable. It is not as difficult a problem as we're going to have with Medicaid or Medicare."
The lone exception to his "everything is on the table" policy was any form of privatization. Obama said he would not consider the kind of proposal advanced unsuccessfully by President Bush, which would have allowed younger workers to divert some of their payroll taxes to personal or private savings accounts.
I guess answering "yes" to the question doesn't count as "expressly saying" it these days.
The Clinton ad is perfectly accurate. You can all stop getting the vapors over it now. And you might want to consider doing a little research before you believe everything you read about this race - if it's in the media and it's anti-Clinton, it's probably as inaccurate as most of the stuff that gets posted in diaries and comments on this site.