Wash. Post's Perry Bacon Jr. misrepresented Obama statement to claim he "effectively dismissed the importance of policy proposals"

SUMMARY: In a Washington Post article, Perry Bacon Jr. asserted that when Sen. Barack Obama "decided to run for president after only two years in the Senate ... he effectively dismissed the importance of policy proposals, declaring in one speech in early 2007, 'We've had plenty of plans, Democrats,' and in another: 'Every four years, somebody trots out a white paper, they post it on the Web.' " But Bacon omitted the very next sentence in the second statement he quoted: "But the question we have to challenge ourselves is do we have the political will and the sense of urgency to actually get it done."

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