Knight Ridder reports "One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn't mean it literally." and "This was purely an example," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said.
This is just amazing. If he wanted to make an example, don't be specific by saying something like 75%. So if this sentence wasn't to be taken literally, what others ones weren't to be taken literally? Conveniently, Think Progress has a list.
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check this out
http://www.factcheck.org/article376.html
Nice article. "We found nothing that was factually incorrect in the President's Jan. 31 State of the Union address to Congress and the nation. However, we did note some selective use of statistics. We also found that Bush omitted some relevant facts that tended to make the state of the union look less rosy than he presented."
So the President spun things. Who 'da thunk?
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