Friday, September 26, 2008 The Debates: How to Tell Who's Lying and Who's Telling the Truth
In the presidential debates a number of controversial claims and charges are going to be made. (They always are.) For viewers, it's easy to conclude that both sides are probably lying and just ignore the entire debate, but that denies the central idea of a democracy--that informed voters decide the future of the country based on who will be better for thier personal interests and beliefs and for the country's. Fortunately, there are three non-partisan websites that evaluate both the claims made in the debates and also the previous claims of both the Obama and the McCain campaign--and their surrogates and the legions of email forwarders. Here are those links so you can play investigator and discover the facts behind the spin about the spin.
