Wednesday, September 17, 2008
In Case You Missed It: Obama Inflates Role In Creation Of Stimulus Package

By Jake Tapper
September 16, 2008


In Golden, Colo., [yesterday], Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., took credit for the stimulus package that passed earlier this year.

"In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy," Obama said, "which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."

Is that true?

<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>Democrats on Capitol Hill who support Obama say no.</span>

Wanting Obama to win, however, none will say so on the record.

But media accounts from the time make it clear that even though Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., all offered legislation to provide stimulus to the economy, congressional leaders looped them and their legislation out of negotiations.

But though the bill that eventually passed more closely resembled Obama's than either Clinton's or McCain's, those involved in the drafting of the legislation say it was more a matter of agreeing on a good idea and was not a matter of, as Obama claimed, his proposal having "formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."

<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>In Vienna, Ohio, this afternoon, McCain said that Obama today "claimed that the Congressional stimulus package was his idea. That's news to those of us in Congress who supported it. Senator Obama didn't even show up to vote." </span>

<span style='font-family: Arial Black'>Moreover, Obama today was guilty of inflating his role in the creation of that bill. </span>


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