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Debate fact check: President Obama did call Benghazi attack “act of terror” in his first statement on the tragedy

At last night’s debate, Mitt Romney tried to rewrite what and when President Obama spoke about the attack in Benghazi. Candy Crowley correctly fact-checked the former Governor.

ROMNEY: I think it’s interesting that the president just said something which is on the day after the attack he went in the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror.

OBAMA: That’s what I said.

ROMNEY: You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror? It was not a spontaneous demonstration? Is that what you’re saying?

OBAMA: Please proceed governor.

ROMNEY: I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.

OBAMA: Get the transcript.

CROWLEY: He did in fact sir, so let me call it an act of terror and —

OBAMA: Can you say that a little louder Candy?

CROWLEY: He did call it an act of terror. It did as well two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out, you’re correct about that.

Here is the actual statement the President made the day after the attack. Check the video at the 4:19 mark.

OBAMA: “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.”

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Bill Clinton explains Mitt Romney’s tax plan

I like things explained to me in simple terms. I don’t pretend to be an economic genius. I do understand a lot through reading as much as I can, but like most Americans, I admit I understand things best when broken down in commonsense terms.

Bill Clinton breaks down Mitt Romney’s $5 trillion tax cut plan in a new ad in easy to understand terms. You know 1+1 still equals 2 in the real world:

“The effect will be to give people with incomes over $3 million a $250,000 tax cut” and raise taxes on middle income people by an average of $2,000, adding, “We simply cannot afford to give another round of tax cuts to people who got the benefit of the tax cuts and the economic growth of the last decade. It hasn’t worked before, and it won’t work this time.”

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Creator of “Friday Night Lights” to Romney: “Stop plagiarizing”

Over the past week, the Romney campaign has been using a line from the popular TV show Friday Night Lights: “clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”

But series creator Peter Berg has sent the campaign a letter accusing Romney of plagiarizing the rallying cry.

Berg’s letter went even farther, declaring, “Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series.”

In the letter, Berg compares Romney to one of the show’s characters, Buddy Garrity, a somewhat ignorant car salesman who started selling imported Japanese cars instead of American-made ones.

He closes with “We are not affiliated with you or your campaign.  Please come up with your own campaign slogan.”

Read the letter in full here.

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President Clinton reacts to “the new Mitt Romney” at last week’s debate

Bill Clinton addressed “the new Mitt Romney who showed up at last week’s debate while campaigning for President Obama in Las Vegas.

Said Clinton:

I had a different reaction to that first debate than a lot of people did. I mean, I thought, “Wow! Here’s old Moderate Mitt. Where you been, boy, I missed you all these last two years!” But I was paying attention these past two years. And it was like one of these Bain Capital deals where, you know, he’s the closer. So he shows up, doesn’t really know much about the deal and says, “tell me what I’m supposed to say to close.”

Now the problem with this deal is, the deal was made by Severe Conservative Mitt. That was how he described himself for two whole years. Until three or four days before the debate they all got together and said, “hey Mitt, this ship is sinkin’ faster than the Titanic…but people are still frustrated about the economy, they want it fixed yesterday, so just show up with a sunny face and say I didn’t say all that stuff I said for the last two years. I don’t have that tax plan I’ve had for the last two years, you gonna believe me or your lyin’ eyes here? Come on. What are you doin’?” And if I’d been the President, I might have said, “well, I hate to get in the way of this, I missed you.”

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Mitt Romney debates with himself

For anyone still on the fence – SRSLY? You’re considering this guy?

I don’t mean to be insulting, but THIS is the guy you want to make the leader of the free world?

You can choose between the guy who saved the auto industry, got Bin Laden, doubled the stock market and is steadily bringing unemployment down with 31 straight months of positive job creation.

Or you can choose this guy.

Please think about that.

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Romney now admits “completely wrong” on 47% comment

After spinning his comment about the “47%” for a month, now Mitt Romney is backtracking and saying it was “completely wrong.”

Initially, Romney just said what he was trying to say was “not elegantly stated.” But he never disavowed the statements.

Now that he’s trying to pivot to the middle of the political spectrum, he feels differently:

“Well, clearly in a campaign, with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you’re going to say something that doesn’t come out right,” Romney said. “In this case, I said something that’s just completely wrong.”

He added: “And I absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown that I care about 100 percent and that’s been demonstrated throughout my life. And this whole campaign is about the 100 percent.”

Via Yahoo News