1. Devin Gaines
Jessica Rangel
Jimmy Go
Carlos Ramirez

3. “Give me a break” Fact Check
• Clinton is a “good soldier, helping his party’s
president,” but adds, “What did Bill Clinton
say about BarackObama in 2008?”
• Assumption:
• Ominous tone, that the voter is going to
hear the “real news”
• Emphasizes emotional appeal and style.

4. • In 2008 primary election between Hillary Clinton and
BarackObama, Bill Clinton said “Give me a break. This
whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen”
• Assumptions:
• - Spectators reckon that Bill Clinton was criticizing
BarackObama’s view of handling of the economy when
he said “Give me a break.”
• - The purpose of the Ad was to tell voters that Bill
Clinton sometimes never agreed with Obama because
Bill Clinton is helping Obama with his campaign in
2012.

5. Clarifications:
- Bill Clinton said “Give me a break”, so he could
help his wife Hilary Clinton, win the Democratic
nomination.
-BarackObama had said he opposed the Iraq War
at the beginning of the campaign; and then on July
27thObama told Chicago Tribune that US soldiers
should remain in Iraq. So, Bill Clintonwas instead
referring to Obama's claim that he was one of the
earliest opponents of the Iraq war.

6. - “Hillary Clinton accused Obama of changing his views on Iraq, and failing to
carry through on his initial opposition to the war once he got into the Senate in
2005.”
October 2002: “Obama [gave] a speech that stated his opposition to the War on
Iraq.”
July 27: “Obama [told] Chicago Tribune that U.S. forces should remain in Iraq to
stabilize the war-torn country. Says "there is not much difference between my
position and George Bush's position at this stage," but is critical of Bush for
bungling the occupation.”
2007: “Obama [had] decided that American troops should return to the US.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/06/romney-campaign-tries-to-
undermine-clinton-support-obama-in-new-ad/#ixzz28Api0q5O

7. “23 million Americans struggling for
work.”
Clarifications:
- 23 million unemployed = “the number of unemployed (12.5
million) plus those working part time who would like to be working
full time (8 million) and those “marginally attached” to the
workforce (2.6 million), which includes workers so discouraged by
the bad economy that they have stopped looking for work.”
- What does this mean? It means the republicans attempted to make
it seem as if President Obama’s handling of the economy is terrible.
But, there are different categories of being unemployed, which they
purposely didn’t clarify.

8. Give me a break
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/map/calc.html#states=lrGSpRqGBlvGnqBlKp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/bill-clinton-give-me-a-break_n_1874038.html
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/01/clinton_vs_obama_on_iraq.html-
http://usliberals.about.com/od/extraordinaryspeeches/a/Obama2002War.htm- speech against Iraq
war
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/01/clinton_vs_obama_on_iraq.html
-Obama/Clinton on Iraq War

10. Obama for America TV Ad:
"Firms" (anti-Romney ad) Fact
Check
• Assumptions:
• In the ad, Romney is singing “America the
Beautiful” and reports pop up about Mitt
Romney's history with a company (Bain
Capital) that shipped American jobs overseas.

11. • This ad is meant to question Romney's
finances and history at Bain. Democrats are
attacking Romney in this ad by stating
Romney is bad for the American economy
because he ships jobs overseas. By shipping
jobs overseas American workers are then put
of out of an occupation.

12. Clarifications:
• - We still do not know whether Romney was
managing Bain while it was shipped US Jobs
overseas.
• - Supposedly Romney had left Bain in February
1999 to run the 2002 Winter Olympic and wasn’t
actively in charge of the company at the time.
Reports declare that Romney is still the CEO at
Bain. (http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romneys-bain-
years-new-evidence-same-conclusion/)

13. “Facts” About Bain Capital
• Bain Capital
• Mitt Romney is co-owner, but left in 2002
• An American alternative asset management and
financial services company based in Boston,
Massachusetts.
• Specializes in private equity, venture capital, credit and
public market investments.
• Bain invests across a broad range of industry sectors
and geographic regions. “In business, Mitt Romney’s
firms shipped jobs to Mexico and China” (Los Angeles
Times 6/2/00

14. • Two electronic outsource manufacturing
services companies controlled by Bain Capital
closed plants in the U.S. and moved work to
Mexico. But Romney had left Bain more than
a year before the plants closed at both
companies.

15. • - A picture frame company with operations in
the Far East, including in China, closed a plant
in South Carolina. The Obama campaign cites
the plant closing, but those workers were
manufacturing photo albums for professionals
— a line of work that the company
discontinued because it was such a small part
of the business

16. As Governor, Romney outsourced jobs
to India”
• Romney vetoed a measure that would have
prevented the state from doing business with
a state contractor that was locating state
customer-service calls in India. “

17. “Tax Havens like Bermuda..” (vanity
fair august 2012)
• According to filings at the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Sankaty High Yield
Asset Investors, Ltd. is a "Bermuda
Corporation wholly owned by W. Mitt
Romney." Romney included Sankaty on his
2010 tax return and 2011 estimated filing. The
beginning balance is pegged at $10,432.

18. • On July 10, PolitiFact ruled as True as
Democratic claim that Romney did to disclose
Sankaty in filings when he was running for
governor of Massachusetts and in his
presidential campaigns. But he did disclose his
blind trust, which has controlled Sankaty since
2003, when Romney began his gubernatorial
campaign.

19. “He had millions in a Swiss bank
account”
• True, Romney had a Swiss bank account till
early 2010.
• Supposedly was in the Ann Romney blind
trust
• The account had approximately $3 million
• No indication that Romney did anything
illegally

20. “And the Cayman Islands”
• Romney "has as much as $8 million invested
in at least 12 funds listed on a Cayman Islands
registry.
• Obama’sad says Romney had millions of
dollars in the tax-friendly Cayman Islands.
• .

21. • Romney’s trustee acknowledged investing
Romney’s money in funds, and several are
listed on his financial disclosures. Those forms
indicate the value of those investments is in the
millions.
• There's no evidence of anything illegal or
improper

22. Obama for America TV Ad: "Firms" (anti-Romney ad)
http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romneys-bain-years-new-evidence-same-
conclusion/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57472444-503544/new-obama-ad-
mocks-romney-singing-america-the-beautiful/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/16/barack-
obama/mitt-romney-had-millions-swiss-bank-account-barack/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/17/barack-
obama/obama-ad-says-romney-stashed-money-cayman-islands/
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/article/2012/jul/24/ad-watch-singing-romney/