Trouble with Numbers - Obama's Senior Moment: 'I'll be turning 50 in a week.'

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

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Obama's Senior Moment: 'I'll be turning 50 in a week.' - Political Punch

7-16-11

Actually…he’ll be turning 50 in three weeks. His birthday is August 4, two days after the debt ceiling deadline. Senior moment?

He messed up Malia’s birthday, too, calling her 13 when she was at the time 12 and still days away from becoming a teenager.

Fact check: Obama’s press conference

Published: 4:23 PM 07/15/2011 | Updated: 10:01 AM 07/16/2011

During his morning presser, Obama said Americans agree with him on the budget deal, and that they believe in a tax hike and in the preservation of entitlement programs. ..

Just how sold are the American people?

Obama believes that polls indicate an overwhelming majority of Americans take his “bipartisan” position on the issue.

“You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach,” Obama said. “Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem. The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically into various positions because they boxed themselves in with previous statements.”

[ALL WRONG NUMBERS AND LIES!]

Only 24 percent of Republicans believe budget-deal provisions should be divided equally between spending cuts and tax increases; 67 percent believe the deal should include “only” or “mostly” spending cuts.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/15/fact-check-obamas-press-conference/#ixzz1SNIjZmRR

Here is Penn Gillette on numbers. It's explicit in language and truth!