SPIN METER: An improbable reach for the high road

Associated Press

CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press

Updated: Oct 6, 2012 8:21 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suddenly it's all about honesty. Seriously?

President Barack Obama, who's been peddling a nonexistent peace dividend for a year, and Mitt Romney, who's misrepresented "Obamacare" at every turn, are after each other for not being straight with the people.

Romney questioned Obama's veracity face to face and repeatedly in their first debate, asserting at one point, "You're entitled to your own airplane and your own house, but not your own facts" in office.

Now it's payback time for Obama and his supporters, who were defensive after the president's underwhelming performance Wednesday night.

But as is the custom, underlings on both sides are taking the rhetoric even further and perhaps over the top.

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