Snoop Dogg probably knows where they’re at.

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(Pictured above: President Barack Obama with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Rose Garden on September 12, 2012)

On September 12, the day after the attack, in the Rose Garden, Obama condemned the attack and said, "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation."

In the days since, some have parsed Obama's remarks and argued he didn't say the Benghazi attack was specifically an act of terror. However, given the overall context of his comments, it seems a fair conclusion that he was including the attack in the "acts of terror" that he said would never shake American resolve.

Source: Romney says Obama waited 14 days to call Libya attack terror on PolitiFact

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If you start at the low point in the private-sector job market -- February 2010, which is 31 months ago -- then Obama has presided over the net creation of 4.7 million jobs.

[However], a middle-ground position is to start the count at the official beginning of the recovery, which came in June 2009. From June 2009 until today, the nation has gained roughly 3.6 million private-sector jobs. That’s less than Obama claims, but more than the inauguration-day calculation the Romney camp often prefers.

Source: Barack Obama says his administration has created 5 million jobs on PolitiFact

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Romney says he doesn’t believe bureaucrats or employers should make the call whether a woman can use contraceptives. But his support for the Blunt Amendment endorses the approach that employers should be able to make the decision about whether contraception is covered by employees’ insurance.

Source: Obama says Romney suggested employers should be able to decide if insurance covers contraceptives on PolitiFact

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"It's much more a sense of establishing of reciprocity," Murphy said. "Each side says, okay, we haven't done great, but we have a new president and we're going to make a fresh start and move forward. I don't think that's an apology."

-- John Murphy, Ph.D., University of Kansas

"To say the United States will not torture is not an apology, it is a statement of intent," Howard-Hassman said. "A complete apology has to acknowledge something was wrong, accept responsibility, express sorrow or regret and promise not to repeat it."

-- Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Ph.D., Wilfrid Laurier University

Source: Mitt Romney says Barack Obama began his presidency ‘with an apology tour’ on PolitiFact

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During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama was interviewed by Univision's Jorge Ramos, a prominent voice within the Latin American community. During that interview, Obama said he would pursue immigration reform aggressively. "I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the first 100 days," Obama said. "But what I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I'm promoting. And I want to move that forward as quickly as possible."

But the year came to an end with no Obama-endorsed bill in sight. On December 15, 2009, Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez introduced a bill of his own, but a spokesman for the Center for Immigration Studies said that Obama administration has not promoted or publicly supported Gutierrez's bill.

Source: Romney says Obama failed to offer the immigration bill he promised on PolitiFact

In these lines, Washington argues that that the American Government needs to ensure that “the diffusion of knowledge” throughout the United States is a primary goal, since the government has been created to enforce the opinion of the people and as a result the opinion of the people should be informed and knowledgeable.

Worth noting is the following excerpt from a letter Washington wrote to Edward Newenham on October 20, 1792, which seems to simultaneously support the above while contradicting his prior argument that “religion and morality are indispensable supports [of political prosperity]”:

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.

All throughout his tenure as president, Washington doubted his ability to adequately lead the U.S. government. In fact, toward the end of his first term as president, he contemplated his retirement and subsequently asked James Madison to assist him in preparing a farewell address.

The substance of this conversation was recorded by Madison in a letter titled Substance of a conversation with Pres. George Washington, May 5, 1792, from which the following excerpt was taken:

He then entered on a more explicit disclosure of the state of his mind, observing that he could not believe or conceive himself anywise necessary to the successful administration of the Government; that, on the contrary, he had from the beginning found himself deficient in many of the essential qualifications, owing to his inexperience in the forms of public business, his unfitness to judge of legal questions and questions arising out of the Constitution; that others more conversant in such matters would be better able to execute the trust.

(Pictured above: A high-quality scan of the aforementioned letter written by Madison)

At the time, many Americans – including Madison – were concerned that the U.S. would fall apart without Washington’s leadership. However, Madison went forward with Washington’s request for help and put together a draft of what would become Washington’s Farewell Address given in 1796 (although pleading with him to serve a second term throughout the entire process).

Shortly thereafter, Thomas Jefferson caught wind that Washington was contemplating retirement and joined Madison – his political rival – in convincing him to abandon the idea.

Ultimately, Washington would abandon his ideas of retirement and Madison would set aside his draft of the Farewell Address.

Washington would later go on to cite the advice provided to him by Madison and Jefferson to pursue a second term as “the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence [that] impelled me to abandon the idea [of retirement]” in the final version of the Farewell Address he gave in 1796.

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"Government takeover" conjures a European approach where the government owns the hospitals and the doctors are public employees. But the law Congress passed, parts of which have already gone into effect, relies largely on the free market:

• Employers will continue to provide health insurance to the majority of Americans through private insurance companies.
• Contrary to the claim, more people will get private health coverage. The law sets up "exchanges" where private insurers will compete to provide coverage to people who don't have it.
• The government will not seize control of hospitals or nationalize doctors.
• The law does not include the public option, a government-run insurance plan that would have competed with private insurers.
• The law gives tax credits to people who have difficulty affording insurance, so they can buy their coverage from private providers on the exchange. But here too, the approach relies on a free market with regulations, not socialized medicine.

[Our] reporters have studied the 906-page bill and interviewed independent health care experts. We have concluded it is inaccurate to call the plan a government takeover because it relies largely on the existing system of health coverage provided by employers.

Source: PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’ on PolitiFact

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Romney said, "Under the president's plan, he cuts Medicare by $716 billion, takes that money out of the Medicare trust fund and uses it to pay for Obamacare." This wording isn't as troublesome as other statements we've seen on this topic, including from Romney himself.

Still, Romney's most-recent attempt at this claim needs significantly more explanation.

In this instance, Romney’s claim gives the impression that the law takes money that was already allocated to Medicare and funds the new health care law with it.

In fact, the law uses a number of measures to try to reduce the rapid growth of future Medicare spending. Those savings are then used to offset costs created by the law -- especially coverage for the uninsured -- so that the overall law doesn't add to the deficit.

Source: Romney says Obama ‘cut’s $716B from Medicare to pay for Obamacare on PolitiFact