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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Obama campaign makes ‘ridiculous distortion’ on Israel

by Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – President Obama’s reelection campaign misleadingly claimed GOP presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich would all cut foreign aid to Israel.
“Stand against ‘zeroing out’ aid to Israel,” reads the title of a page of Obama’s official campaign website.
 “Republican candidates for president Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel – and every other country – to zero.
“Stand up to this extreme isolationism and join the call to reject the Romney-Perry-Gingrich plan,” the campaign concludes
The claim was so faulty that Politifact.com, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-check project operated by the Tampa Bay Times, labeled it a “ridiculous distortion” deserving of the site’s “Pants-On-Fire” rating.
 Continue reading: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/obama-campaign-makes-ridiculous-distortion-on-israel/
 

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