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Among the most egregiously-incorrect predictions:

Among the most egregiously-incorrect predictions:

*"'''I believe, that this war is lost, and that the surge has not accomplished anything'''" <ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPmXym7u3g</ref>(Senate Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] on the Iraq War troop surge in April 2007, by December 2008 violence in Iraq was at a 5-6 year low.)<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4B86G720081209</ref>

*"'''I believe, that this war is lost, and that the surge has not accomplished anything'''" <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPmXym7u3g</ref>(Senate Majority Leader [[Harry Reid]] on the Iraq War troop surge in April 2007, by December 2008 violence in Iraq was at a 5-6 year low.)<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4B86G720081209</ref>

*"'''Our [stimulus] plan will save or create 3-4 million new jobs, 90% of these jobs will be created in the private sector.'''" <ref>http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/obama_4_million_jobs.html</ref> (President [[Barack Obama]] on the economic stimulus package.) When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in February 2009 the nation's Unemployment Rate was 8.1%, by December 2009 it was 10.2% and the nation had lost over 2.8 million jobs. <ref>http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/feddal/ru</ref>

*"'''Our [stimulus] plan will save or create 3-4 million new jobs, 90% of these jobs will be created in the private sector.'''" <ref>http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/obama_4_million_jobs.html</ref> (President [[Barack Obama]] on the economic stimulus package.) When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in February 2009 the nation's Unemployment Rate was 8.1%, by December 2009 it was 10.2% and the nation had lost over 2.8 million jobs. <ref>http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/feddal/ru</ref>

*'''"Americans do want to pay taxes for services. Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."''' <ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173905445498599.html</ref>(Colin Powell, May 2009). Since Obama's election, there has been an escalation of voter outrage over government spending.

*'''"Americans do want to pay taxes for services. Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."''' <ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173905445498599.html</ref>(Colin Powell, May 2009). Since Obama's election, there has been an escalation of voter outrage over government spending.

*'''"President Obama signed executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year."''' <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22gitmo.html</ref> The New York Times on January 22, 2009. Guantanamo prison is now expected to stay open until 2011. <ref>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g4mOZQZCTQoyqqgbms6XH7ud4c_wD9CP8IB80</ref>

*'''"President Obama signed executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year."''' <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22gitmo.html</ref> The New York Times on January 22, 2009. Guantanamo prison is now expected to stay open until 2011. <ref>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g4mOZQZCTQoyqqgbms6XH7ud4c_wD9CP8IB80</ref>

*"'''[[Global Warming]] will increase at an exponential scale!'''"  We now know that not only was this prediction incorrect, but that the evidence that it was incorrect was so clear-cut that the liberal scientists studying it had to falsify the data, resulting in [[Climategate]].

*"'''[[Global Warming]] will increase at an exponential scale!'''"  We now know that not only was this prediction incorrect, but that the evidence that it was incorrect was so clear-cut that the liberal scientists studying it had to falsify the data, resulting in [[Climategate]].