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Convention Deja vu - "Romney Lies Again"

We don't need a bully in the White House who's number one objective is to get rid of Big Bird.

“Romney only accomplishment during the debate was to repeatedly mislead the viewers. He spoke for 38 minutes of the 90 minute debate and told at least 27 myths,” Igor Volsky writes at Think Progress..."

Romney is right that the Obama administration has allocated about $90 billion for clean-energy programs. But he’s wrong that half of those programs have failed. Here’s the breakdown from the White House: $29 billion for energy efficiency, including home retrofits; $21 billion for renewable generation such as solar and wind; $10 billion for modernizing the electric grid; $6 billion to promote advanced vehicles and a domestic battery industry; $18 billion for high-speed rail and other trains; $3 billion for research into coal carbon sequestration; $3 billion for job training; $3 billion for clean manufacturing tax credits. (The one caveat is that not all of that money has been spent yet.) Yet while there have been a handful of notable failures, such as Solyndra, not even close to half of the clean-energy loan recipients have failed–at the end of 2011 the failure rate was just 1.4 percent.

Simply put, this is a repeat of the convention. They made their flowery speeches filled with lies that weren't worth the paper it was written on.  In 3 days time the miniscual bump in the polls has dissipated. Romney's bully routine and lies aren't going to work this time either.

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