False Ads to wtach for from Obama

A good blog entry from the newspaper that represents our big Florida blue counties to the south (Palm Beach, Miami, etc). The blog, along with a Washington Post article also linked, is letting everyone know just how false one of Obama's current ad's really are. Glad to see that he is trying to stick to facts... or at least something somewhat close.

Obama pushes "simply false" social security claims in So. Fla. TV spot

Posted by Josh Hafenbrack at 1:31 PM

With a new poll out showing Barack Obama with a two-point lead over John McCain in Florida, Obama is going up with a new TV aid in South Florida hitting McCain on social security, a hot-button issue especially for seniors.

The hard-hitting social security spot, airing in the Tampa and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton markets, claims that McCain wants to privatize the system and cut benefits in half. It's a claim that the Washington Post calls "simply false" and is "stooping to the kind of scare tactics (Obama) once derided." Factcheck.org says Obama's claim that McCain would cut benefits in half is a "rank misrepresentation."

Meanwhile, the Mason-Dixon Florida poll has Obama with a 47-45 lead over McCain, in a Sept. 16-18 survey of 625 voters. The margin for error was 4 percent.

See Obama's new spot here.

From Tallahassee, Josh Hafenbrack

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