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Comment by John Thompson on December 18, 2011 at 12:09pm

No problem, research is the name of the game here and my biggest regret is that more people did not do more research before voting in '08. That's how we ended up with the "Campaigner in Chief" that we currently have inhabiting the White House and Air Force 1.

As we know, there is NO perfect person, much less a "perfect politician"..!! They all seem to have their problems with the Politifact "Truth-O-Meter" (CLICK HERE). While I am not solidly behind any one candidate at this time, I do have a growing list of "non-candidates" that I can not bring myself to support in the primaries.

However, with that said, let me add here that I will vote for whomever ends up facing Obama "nose to nose" in 2012, as there is no greater threat to our nation than Obama, his administration and his Czars..!!

Comment by John Thompson on December 18, 2011 at 11:23am

A half truth is a whole lie.  ~ Yiddish Proverb

Also excerpted from Politifact (CLICK HERE  to read) regarding Ms. Bachmann's honesty;

".......Her comment about our ratings was also a bit of a non-sequitur. Neither of the two items we checked addressed the subject at hand -- Gingrich’s work for Freddie Mac, what he thinks of Freddie Mac today, or whether Gingrich was ever a lobbyist.

Maybe Bachmann was simply trying to burnish her image as a truth teller. However, using PolitiFact to back up that assertion is a bit unusual. Her PolitiFact report card shows 59 percent of her statements rated have earned either a False or Pants on Fire. She has earned five Trues, three Mostly Trues, six Half Trues, seven Mostly Falses, 19 Falses and 11 Pants on Fires.

Our ruling

During the Sioux City debate, Bachmann said that "after the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true." That’s simply not the case. We rated two statements by Bachmann from that debate and ruled one of them Mostly True and the other one Pants on Fire. So for claiming she had a perfect record, she earns another Pants on Fire........"

Comment by John Thompson on December 18, 2011 at 9:57am

Politifact rules the following statement by Michele as "Pants on Fire". If it ain't true, it's MUD and serves no purpose. With GOP mudslingers, who needs the Democrats..??

The link to politifact is included below.

Michele Bachmann says "PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true" in last debate

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/dec/15/mich...