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We don’t get much material submitted through our “Report an Error” system (see button in right sidebar). But we got one today. We honor the request for anonymity for the person who submitted the error report: The photo of Biden is NOT Biden (and you don’t source the photo).This appears to be all over social media and people are using…
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Vice President Joe Biden: “They talk about this Great Recession if it fell out of the sky, like, ‘Oh, my goodness, where did it come from?’ It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card, to at the same time put a prescription drug benefit on the credit card, a trillion-dollar tax cut for the…
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Vice president Joe Biden: “President Obama has increased the benefits available to people on Medicare today by the action he took.” Overview During a Sept. 28 campaign stop in South Florida, Vice President Joe Biden played up new Medicare benefits under the Affordable Care Act while omitting mention that the ACA has features that may restrict seniors’ ability to access…
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