Another Obama budget lie: Iraq and Afghanistan

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  April 11th at 05:29 AM  | 

When Barack Obama released, his budget, he claimed that it didn’t contain “gimmicks” and that he cost of the budget was so high because he fully funded Iraq and Afghanistan in the budget and didn’t use gimmicks. Jackie Calmes of the New York Times swallowed the line so completely that she called her story “Obama bans gimmicks, deficits will rise”. (Never mind that the ever | Read More »