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Obama's Misleading Ads

By The Daily Dish
Sep 26 2008, 4:18 AM ET

The NYT rightly slams Obama:

In all, Mr. Obama has released at least five commercials that have been criticized as misleading or untruthful against Mr. McCain’s positions in the past two weeks. Mr. Obama drew complaints from many of the independent fact-checking groups and editorial writers who just two weeks ago were criticizing Mr. McCain for producing a large share of this year’s untruthful spots (“Pants on Fire,” the fact-checking Web site PolitiFact.com wrote of Mr. Obama’s advertisement invoking Mr. Limbaugh; “False!” FactCheck.org said of his commercial on Social Security.)

Obama doesn't need to engage in this sort of mud-slinging. It's good to see the NYT calling him on it.



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