This week's 4 political ads that stretch the truth

The ad: "Paid in," by Mitt Romney for President

The key quote: "The money you paid for your guaranteed healthcare is going to a massive new government program that's not for you."

The Problem: This Romney ad suggests that the money seniors have paid for Medicare benefits would pay for the Obama administration's health care overhaul at the expense of their benefits. As CBS News pointed out earlier this week, the president's health care reform law is paid for in part by reductions to Medicare. According to data from the Kaiser Foundation, however, the reductions come primarily from cuts to Medicare Advantage plans, as well as in hospital reimbursements and in payments to other providers, and would not limit access to benefits for Medicare recipients. Republicans argue such reductions create disincentives for hospitals and doctors to accept new Medicare patients, but it's a stretch to say that the Affordable Care Act is "not for you" when Medicare recipients have access to equal benefits under that plan.

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[GOP-R--Con-Men]

Paul Ryan's use of his mother to try and legitimize the lies, propaganda and scam he and Romney are proposing on medicare show that republicans have no sense of shame or honor and will stoop to anything to gain power.

This bares for all to see that republicans care only about controlling government to use for the benefit of the super rich contributors along with corporations, big oil and big pharma.

Republicans have shown time and time again that they don't give a damn about ordinary Americans. However they do lie like the devil to ordinary Americans to scam them into voting them into office.

[ge556]

Everyone should watch this: "Mitt Romney is a serial liar"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xll21VCbCyg&feature=related

[marychgo]

Gee, CBS, you've forgotten about a couple of Romney/Ryan ads that were flat out LIES: (a) the one that claimed Obama was eliminating the work requirement of welfare reform (when he was actually offering states waivers if they figured out a way to get 20% MORE welfare recipients into jobs), and (b) the one that claimed he was trying to take early-voting rights AWAY from active-duty service members in Ohio (when he was actually trying to extend early-voting rights to EVERYONE in Ohio).

[bbglow]

So, why don't both sides grow up and start dealing in truth instead of deception? Why do we continue to tolerate in politician what we refuse to tolerate in children?

[cbs4111]

So now, even CBS agrees that Obama cut Medicare to defray the added costs of ObamaCare.

[test43]

We love Mr Obama but the truth is you stink at running a country or fixing the exconomy. Maybe you should step aside and let Biden take over, he cant do much worse, we are already at the bottom.

[cbs4111]

Obama is very bad but the one person that would clearly, clearly be worse is Biden.

[GOP-R--Con-Men]

No honest discussion can be had on the lack of progress of the economy and President Obama without also talking about the deliberate, unyielding, sabotaging obstruction by republicans. Absent that the discussion is dishonest and phony.