Comments for Just below the surface at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:11:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/just-below-the-surface-200807251756/#comment-659 Alasdair - I read the Snopes thing through, and I didn't see a great deal of 'accurate in places', because the hit piece isn't. I suppose that it mentions that Obama wants to tax people, which is true. But if I wrote that McCain wants to kill all Iranians it wouldn't be 'accurate in places' because he wants to kill a few Iranians, would it? - Paul Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:25:15 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/just-below-the-surface-200807251756/#comment-651 Good to see that FactCheck.org is still trying to be fairer and more balanced ... - Alasdair Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:13:56 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/just-below-the-surface-200807251756/#comment-650 I'm disappointed to see the once-respected Snopes reduced to yet another Obamessiah-shill-lite group ... for those who jump to the cited entry, they see the "False" at the top ... and yet, by the end of reading the whole thing, they should instead have seen "False in places, accurate in places" - and that is what the formerly-impartial Snopes site used to do ... I can but hope that the Snopes site hasn't realised that the entry was authored (or possibly edited) by an Obama supporter ... - Alasdair Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:50:11 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/just-below-the-surface-200807251756/#comment-646 Here's another debunking of the home sales tax claim (and other bogus claims): http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/would_obama_tax_my_profits_if_i.html - JA Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:51:55 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/just-below-the-surface-200807251756/#comment-644 Would that be this comparison? http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp If so I wouldn't place too much weight on it. - Paul Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:11:48 +0100