FactCheck: Obama’s SOTU Speech

FactCheck.org released their usual post-SOTU roundup of number-checking and fact-inspection.

There were several misrepresentations, errors, and embellishments they pointed out, including:

• He embellished his record on jobs...

• Obama similarly omitted part of his presidency in boasting of nearly 900,000 manufacturing jobs...

• And he said he had cut the country’s deficits by “almost three-quarters.”

• He repeated his now years-long claim of crediting the Affordable Care Act for a slowdown in health care spending...

• Obama claimed, like he did in 2014, that the U.S. has “cut carbon pollution more than any other country on Earth.” 

• He said that the U.S. spends “more on our military than the next eight nations combined.”

I know, longest link ever. But the full article at FactCheck.org goes into much greater detail and is worth a look.