CHARLOTTE, N.C. — We heard a number of dubious or misleading claims on the first night of the Democratic National Convention: The keynote speaker and others claimed the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, would raise taxes on the “middle class.” He has promised he won’t. Democrats base their claim on a study that doesn’t necessarily lead to that conclusion. The keynote speaker, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, also said there have been 4.5 million “new jobs”
one thing i don't get: just how specific has romney gotten with his plans to fix the economy? he castigates obama a lot, maybe rightly, for being all talk and not a lot of action (i would disagree--he pushed a lot of economic-recovery legislation through; whether or not that legislation worked is up for debate), but he strangely seems unaware of his doing the very same thing. his RNC speech was particularly painful, as he basically said "obama talks a lot but has no plan for actually reviving our economy" while in the same breath giving the same heated hyperbole about his own ability to save the economy, while never laying out any details. i guess this might be because i haven't looked hard enough, but should i have to?
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