Mitt-Stortions: Fact-Checking Mitt Romney
A fact-check of Romney’s claims about Obama administration.
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Where Romney Stands on the Truth-O-Meter - As President Obama and Mitt Romney prepare for their all-but-certain battle for the White House, the rhetoric is sure to heat up. The former Massachusetts governor has already trained his sights on the president and, as always happens in politics, he is sometimes unable to let a false claim interfere with a good soundbite. Here are the top 10 ways Romney has distorted Obama’s record. —Joyce Jones(Photos: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Claim: The president has been "apologizing for America abroad" for its foreign policy decisions Romney said in remarks delivered to American Society of News Editors on April 4. - According to a PolitiFact.com’s truth-o-meter, Obama has on occasion criticized U.S. actions, particularly with its regard to dealing with terrorism, but has never uttered the words “sorry” or “apologize.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Claim: “As I have said many times before, the president did not cause the economic crisis, but he made it worse,” he told ASNE executives. He also has claimed that under Obama unemployment “is the worst it’s been in American history.” - Fact-check: Romney has previously acknowledged that the economy is improving, but he does not want to give Obama’s policies any credit for the recovery or the millions of jobs added. PolitiFact has ruled “false” the claim also made by Romney and other Republicans that the current employment rate is worse than it was during the Great Depression.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Claim: Obama is "the only president to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare," Romney told news editors this week. - Fact-check: According to PolitiFact, Obama has not cut the program but called for “a reduction in future growth (the size of the Medicare program will increase dollar-wise).”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Claim: The president has “delayed the development of our oil,” Romney said in his ASNE speech. - Fact-check: The Obama administration claims that oil production is currently at an eight-year high, which PolitiFact rates as mostly true, but adds that the administration may be overstating its role in the increase.(Photo: EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS/Landov)
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