# Obama Doesn't Remember How Big the Debt Is **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 20, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-remember-how-big-the-debt-is/635229 "2012-09-20T01:40:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-remember-how-big-the-debt-is/635229/181 "2012-09-24T17:47:05Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Hmm…well, when you’re wrong, you’re wrong, eh? Looks like I screwed the pooch on that one. I apologize. > > At several points in the accompanying article it mentions crime rates indexed per hundred thousand, so, it being late and me freshly arrived home from a friend’s birthday party where both beer and bourbon were at various times served, I utterly failed to pick up on the fact that the raw data had not been indexed per hundred thousand, which amusingly enough was my belief at the time. However, even I don’t think, in the cold light of day, that there has ever been a time when the U.S. has been experiencing 15,000 murders per 100,000 citizens. Hopefully the message contained in the Wiki crime graphs I linked to still support my underlying thesis, but as I’m posting from an iPod right now I’ll have to revisit them later. > > Again my apologies, and good catch, **rogerbox**. Why did you bother, though? I had _given_ you the per capita homicide rate in the post you were responding to. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-remember-how-big-the-debt-is/635229/182 "2012-09-24T18:48:28Z")
Hey there, how often does an SDMB avowed conservative actually apologize for being factually wrong? Less than 1% of their factual wrongness. I don’t feel like hammering away at someone for doing the right thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-remember-how-big-the-debt-is/635229.md?page=9)