But I'll take senator Bingham's word over their word.

But I vaguely remember hearing that Politifect, ironically, is not known for total accuracy.

... was only focusing on the explicit definition of "write" -- that is, did Bernie himself actually type the legislation up? Uh.. of course not.

Think of when you had group projects in college, and a paper was due at the end of it. Didn't one person type it all up, even though everyone contributed content? Yeah, it's like that.

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You know, the country's pasttime. All this fuss about helping sick people has nothing to with WAR.

I Bernie!!!!

and no one gets any real care, just insurance that can't be used.

That's what I've heard here. Bernie had to do with that? I thought he was against the oligarchs. The ACA so I have heard here, right here, is only for the benefit of the oligarchs.

And sorry, but he's said that repeatedly.

Seeing those words come from a Sanders supporter is just...

All it takes is non-simplistic thinking.

Thanks for the thread, cali.

Sheesh. They just keep digging their hole deeper and deeper.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

You know damn well that Bernie is unelectable.

So there!

PolitiFact Is Right That Ted Cruz Is Wrong, But Still Botches Iran Deal Facts

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz and the Tampa Bay Times‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning factchecking website PolitiFact were at each others’ throats this month over comments Cruz made about the nuclear deal–officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)–reached this past July between Iran and six world powers.

After a particularly blustery claim made by the Texas senator at an over-the-top rally opposing the nuclear accord–which restricts Iran’s nuclear energy and uranium enrichment programs, reaffirming their purely peaceful nature, in exchange for a lifting of international sanctions–PolitiFact (9/10/15) decided to investigate whether Cruz was telling the truth.

t the rally, and afterward on Twitter, Cruz declared that the JCPOA “will facilitate and accelerate the nation of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.” This is, of course, a ridiculous thing to say. Beyond the fact that we’ve heard for over three decades that the advent of an Iranian nuke is just around the corner–only a few years, maybe two years, a year and half, 12 months, six weeks away!–and these estimates have never been based upon a shred of credible evidence, the enhanced monitoring and inspections implemented under the new deal effectively prevent any hypothetical Iranian move toward weaponizing its program for at least a decade, probably far longer.

And that’s if Iran does the thing it’s never ever done: decide to build a nuclear weapon, and to do so at exactly the time when its program is under the most intensive scrutiny of any nation’s program in history. The claim is absurd on its face.

Needless to say, it wasn’t too difficult for PolitiFact to judge this statement false.

But PolitiFact‘s own understanding of the parameters of the Iran deal itself was surprisingly rife with errors, something that absolutely shouldn’t happen in a factchecking article. The details, relayed by the website’s editors Louis Jacobson and W. Gardner Selby, were rendered this way:

Specifically, the deal requires Iran to give up 97 percent of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, the kind needed to make nuclear weapons, as well as most of the centrifuges it can use to enrich uranium. In addition, Iran agrees to only enrich uranium to a level unsuitable for weapons for 15 years, and to cease production of plutonium, the other element that can be used to build a bomb. Known nuclear sites would be monitored for 15 years to confirm compliance, and inspectors would have the ability to enter undeclared sites suspected of nuclear use, though with possible delays of up to 24 days.

PolitiFact got a bunch wrong here.

in full: http://fair.org/home/politifact-is-right-that-ted-cruz-is-wrong-but-still-botches-iran-deal-facts/

then this is only the beginning of how the media
will try to take him down.
I don't care what HRC's camp brings up: It is the
fight from the media, which is the most dangerous
one.

While I am glad that you corrected that lie here
on DU, for most people the article has not been
defeated, sadly.

professional victims in action.

He'll be doing even more of it once he's the Nominee.

eom

They throw together content to get eyeballs on their website, like anybody else.

That was yuuuuuuge.

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NCHC is one of the largest, and was the first Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Vermont.
NCHC was chosen as the first Medical Home/Community Care Team pilot site.
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