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Robinson: Republicans strive to obscure real Medicare question

By Eugene Robinson
Published: September 6, 2012, 5:00pm

Republicans and Democrats are being equally nasty in their campaign rhetoric, but they’re not being equally truthful. To cite one example, much of what the GOP is saying about Medicare simply isn’t supported by the facts.

Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, one of Mitt Romney’s more pugnacious surrogates, almost had a conniption fit recently when CNN’s Soledad O’Brien pressed him on his assertion that President Obama “gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it.”

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