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Seems the Presidential Hoepfuls and the Imcumbent Camp are tripping over their tongues. Burn-out's coming early this campaign season.
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FACT CHECK: Say what? Odd campaign pronouncements
WASHINGTON — Silly-season pollen seems to have infected the campaign trail.
On the Democratic side, the excitable Vice President Joe Biden made the jaw-dropping claim that the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was unsurpassed in its audacity by anything that has happened since the 16th century — that's right, for 500 years.
Among Republicans, a punchy Rick Santorum declared that President Barack Obama's health care law makes the life of every single American dependent on the government.
Seriously?
However far-reaching, the law is neither life-giving, nor health-destroying, and most Americans probably won't feel a thing.
Mitt Romney, for his part, continued to blame Obama for banning old-fashioned light bulbs even after it was pointed out that Republican George W. Bush was the president who made the decision crowding those energy-wasters from the market. That was somewhat audacious, although not in the ballpark of the night-time raid on the lair of bin Laden.
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