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President Obama yesterday formally accepted his party’s nomination for reelection at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Speaking for 40 minutes, Obama laid out specific examples of how his economic recovery efforts have led to the saving of jobs and industries. He also brought up the issue of war, more so than any one has so far during the political conventions. Raising his foreign policy credentials, the President contrasted himself with his opponent Mitt Romney’s lack of experience on international affairs. Throughout the speech he also reiterated the DNC’s theme, that this year’s election is a clear choice: a vote for Obama means to “move forward,” while voting Republican is to “go back.”

Throughout his speech Obama made several assertions that were fact-checked by the Associated Press and found to be misleading. Among them was his claim that he would never ask seniors to pay more for Medicare. AP counters that the Obama administration has considered budgets in the past that have involved higher payments from Medicare recipients. He has since backed off from these proposals.

Obama also claimed to have increased manufacturing jobs by half a million over the past 2 and a half years. But according to the AP, since the President’s term began, there has been a net loss of half a million manufacturing jobs.

Obama also claimed that the war in Afghanistan will end by 2014. However, military analysts expect as many as 20,000 US troops will stay past that deadline.

GUEST: Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to AlterNet, Truthout and The Guardian, Gupta is a co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent. Arun is also Uprising’s 2012 Election Analyst