Fact Check Posts – Page 176

Chain email
stated on May 13, 2008 a chain e-mail:

Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably racist."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2008

Bloggers
stated on April 25, 2008 a posting on the Obama campaign blog. :

"Clinton's former pastor convicted of child molestation."

By Bill Adair • May 14, 2008

Chain email
stated on April 18, 2008:

"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama."

By Amy Hollyfield • May 2, 2008

Chain email
stated on April 18, 2008:

"Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga."

By Amy Hollyfield • May 2, 2008

John McCain
stated on April 24, 2008 an interview on the Fox News Channel.:

McCain says the price of a gas tax "holiday" would be about the same as "a Bridge to Nowhere (or) another pork barrel project."

By Bill Adair • April 30, 2008

Chain email
stated on April 23, 2008 in a chain email:

Obama thinks the national anthem should be "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 30, 2008

Bill Clinton
stated on April 22, 2008 Pittsburgh:

Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2008

Bill Clinton
stated on April 10, 2008 Boonville, Ind.:

"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2008

Chain email
stated on March 19, 2008 a chain e-mail:

"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??"

By Amy Hollyfield • April 2, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 17, 2008 Washington, D.C.:

"I remember landing under sniper fire."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 25, 2008

Bloggers
stated on February 2, 2008 a blog posting:

Obama says America is great, but let's "try to change it."

By Tom Tobin • March 24, 2008

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 26, 2008 a debate in Cleveland, Ohio.:

Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."

By Bill Adair • February 27, 2008

Bloggers
stated on February 18, 2008 blog postings responding to a news video showing the flag.:

"Barack Obama loves Che Guevara."

By Robert Farley • February 22, 2008

John McCain
stated on February 20, 2008 a media availability in Columbus, Ohio.:

Obama "suggested bombing Pakistan."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Bill Adair • February 21, 2008

Republican National Committee
stated on February 11, 2008 an RNC Web site feature where you can send a GOP valentine from your favorite Democrat:

RNC version of a Hillary Clinton valentine: "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'll raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do."

By Amy Hollyfield • February 14, 2008

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain
stated on January 15, 2008 a flyer sent to news organizations in South Carolina:

Says McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.

By Shawn Zeller • January 17, 2008

Chain email
stated on January 11, 2008:

Barack Obama's middle name is Mohammed and he's a "covert" Muslim.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 11, 2008

Freedom Defense Advocates
stated on December 22, 2007:

The Mormon religion has "a plan that will see the Constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 8, 2008

Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:

"I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."

By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • January 6, 2008

Chain email
stated on October 1, 2007:

"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 20, 2007

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