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Liars-in-Chief — the facts

By Staff | Feb 24, 2016

To the editor:

Republicans have been quick to brand Hillary Clinton a liar and often referred to President Obama as the Liar-in-Chief. I have examined PolitiFact’s ratings of claims and statements made by President Obama and leading presidential candidates. PolitiFact tends to be very picky, but appears to be equally hard on both sides. Here are the results through Jan. 31, showing the combined total of statements rated “mostly false,” “false” and “pants on fire”:

Democrats:

Martin O’Malley: 23 percent

President Obama: 26 percent

Hillary Clinton: 29 percent

Bernie Sanders: 30 percent

Republicans:

Marco Rubio: 41 percent

Carly Fiorina: 58 percent

Ted Cruz: 67 percent

Donald Trump: 77 percent

Ben Carson: 85 percent

The Republicans above should be ashamed for calling anyone else a liar. Jeb Bush (31 percent), John Kasich (32 percent), Chris Christie (35 percent) and Rand Paul (36 percent) do better, but still trail leading Democrats. Clearly, the facts again show that well-known liberal bias.

Rob McKelvie

Fort Myers