Here's what Elizabeth Edwards had to say, via CBS News, on the highly misleading radio ad that Barack Obama ran before the January 3rd Iowa caucuses. The radio ad claimed "that Obama's health plan covered more people than either Edwards's or Hillary Clinton's plans":

"It's just complete untruth," [Elizabeth Edwards] said. "I'll speak on behalf of Senator Clinton as well. Both Senator Clinton's and John Edwards's health care plans cover one hundred percent of Americans and Senator Obama's does not."

That's from my story, "Elizabeth Edwards on Health Plans, Obama's Lobbyists, ..." Then there's what NYT columnist and eminent economist Paul Krugman had to say about Obama's health care plan and Obama's misleading, factually untruthful radio ad:

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A lie is a lie is a lie. You can't rewrite what you said to fit whichever audience is in front of you. Especially when your original statement had the intent of 1) winning an endorsement from a conservative editorial board, and 2) trying to woo Republican voters to you.  

You especially can't rewrite what you originally said in order to make yourself once again palatable to Democratic voters, who are furious with 1) your expressed admiration for Ronald Reagan and 2) with your specious claim that the Republican party has been the "party of ideas" for the last 10 to 15 years.

What Obama claims he said last week ... Barack Obama lied in the debate tonight.  He told Hillary Clinton, in a heated exchange (I backed up my DVR and typed each word):

You just said I complimented the Republican ideas.  That is not true. isn't what I said, and I will provide you with a quote, what I said was is that [sic] Ronald Reagan was a transformative political figure because he was able to get Democrats to vote against their economic interests to form a majority to push through their agenda, an agenda that I objected to because while I was working on those streets, watchin' those folks ...

What Obama actually said said last week ... Here is exactly what Barack Obama told the conservative editorial board of the Reno Gazette, via Matt Stoller at Open Left -- who provides both the video and a transcript:

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