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5. apríla 2009, 03:28:30

Papa Zoom

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Subjekt: Dishonesty in politics

Zmenené užívateľom Papa Zoom (5. apríla 2009, 03:55:32)

Here's a great example of the dishonesty we the people have to put up with in politics. The Democratic National Convention sent 200 volunteers to Capital Hill delivering what they say were 642,000 "individual pledges."

Obama has an email list of 13-million. That's a huge number. And from that 13 million, Obama got a whopping 114,000 individual pledges supporting his budget ideas. That is disgraceful. So the DNC went out and hit the streets and got 100,000 more pledges. My math says that's 214,000 individual pledges.

But wait. The DNC claim they sent 642,000 individual pledges to Capital Hill. Where did the other pledges come from?

Well, it seems the DNC made three copies of each petition so that each signer's senators and representatives could get one. 3 x 214,000 is 642,000.

I get it. Just take the paltry number of pledges, make photo copies, come up with a new number, and make it official. And what was the DNC's response to this dishonesty?

"DNC spokesperson Natalie Wyeth responded: "This effort was designed to give our supporters the tools to influence their elected officials. Of course we delivered a pledge to each of their members of Congress - 642,000 pledges. That's what we said we were delivering and that's what we did.""