“President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under a bus.”

- Mitt Romney, in his convention speech. 

“Our countries are good friends. And I’m the minister of defense, I can tell you that I can hardly remember — I was in uniform for decades — I can hardly remember a better period of support, American support and cooperation and similar strategic understanding of events around us than what we have right now.”

- Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, 5/2012

“Mr. President, I know your commitment to Israel is deep and profound. And under your leadership, security cooperation between the United States and Israel reached its highest level.”

- Israeli President Shimon Peres, 3/2012

• Romney says Obama “threw our Isreali friends under the bus.” The Israeli President and Defense Minister disagree. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/277073772394723
• The Washington Post says “the Romney campaign isn’t adhering to the minimum standards required for a real policy conversation.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/456729131016645
• The Washington Post says, “The mainstream media were not to blame for John McCain’s loss; Barack Obama’s more effective campaign and the financial crisis were.”
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• Foreign Policy Magazine points out that Republicans initiated, and Paul Ryan voted for, the military cuts Romney blames on Obama. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/263132427138560 
• CBS Evening News quotes Standard and Poor’s report, specifically blaming the Republican Congress, of which Paul Ryan is an influential member, for the U.S. credit downgrade. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/429891933714104 
• The American Conservative says there’s nothing small government about Romney/Ryan.
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• America’s top ranking military officer contradicts Romney’s statements about Iran. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/349624315126710 
• The Weekly Standard criticizes Romney for “failing even to mention, in his acceptance speech, a war we’re fighting and our young men and women who are fighting it?” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/487416077935198 
• The American Conservative says, “Mitt Romney has no intention of saying anything that his audience doesn’t want to hear,” and calls his convention speech “infantilizing.”
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• Barack Obama is very popular in Poland, where Mitt Romney claims Obama “abandoned our friends.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/358354654241069 
• Fortune magazine quotes Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as saying, “The assumption was that, um, the, the, ah, again — I probably can’t speak to that in an exact way so I better just not,” when pressed about the falsehoods in Paul Ryan’s attacks. 
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• Romney says Obama will raise taxes on small businesses. PolitiFact verifies that Obama has cut taxes for small businesses 17 times so far. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/10151854681265283 
• PolitiFact and tax data disprove Romney’s assertion than raising taxes on millionaires raises taxes on small business. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/10151854646455283 
• Romney says Obama went on an “apology tour”. PolitiFact proves this to be false. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/158151710975220 
• Mitt Romney cites Steve jobs as an example for the Republican party. Jobs offered to help Obama’s reelection campaign before he died. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/428647627177248 
• The New York Times says Republicans and Romney “have offered precious little of substance but a lot of bromides meant to convey profundity and take passive-aggressive digs at President Obama.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/198580320272920 
• A former Bain colleage of Romney’s says, “I believed he was making a mistake by framing himself as a job creator. That was not his or Bain’s or the industry’s primary objective. The objective of the LBO business is maximizing returns for investors.” The Guardian points out that the Republican congress "regularly blocked any and all job creation measures ever since Obama’s stimulus bill.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/225684797557300 
• The Congressional Budget Office shows that Bush’s tax cuts are largely responsible for both the the growing U.S. debt and deficit. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151853918845283&set=a.40017285282.62164.717105282&type=1 
• The York Times show that Paul Ryan criticized Obama for not using a debt reduction plan that Ryan, himself, opposed. http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/496744383688897 
• Politico shows that Paul Ryan “consistently and loyally voted to increase the debt. He did not take political risks or buck his party to combat “our exploding deficits” then. Instead, he voted for 65 different pieces of legislation to expand the debt.”
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• The New York Time writes that Chris Christie “said his state needed his austere discipline of slashed budgets, canceled public projects and broken public unions, but did not mention that New Jersey now has a higher unemployment rate than when he took over, and never had the revenue boom he promised from tax cuts.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/475879322437092 
• Rick Santorum attacks Obama on welfare reform, despite the attack being widely discredited.
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• A representative of the Romney campaign says, "‎"We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/337885672970902 
• Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman says, “We already have a centrist president — actually a moderate conservative president. Once again, health reform — his only major change to government — was modeled on Republican plans, indeed plans coming from the Heritage Foundation.” http://www.facebook.com/emortensen/posts/441360942574278