Stanford CIS

President Seeks Medal of Dishonor for Lying

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on

From Dan Froomkin's report at WashingtonPost.com:

What the President said:

The president said that Kerry 'spoke with sympathy for a communist dictator in Nicaragua in the 1980s and criticized the democracy movement as terrorism.'

What Kerry had said originally:

The Kerry quotation about the Sandinistas on which the Bush campaign based this statement said: 'Our foreign policy should represent the democratic values that have made our country great, not subvert those values by funding terrorism to overthrow governments of other countries.'

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