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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2008 a television advertisement
McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • October 28, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2008
On which team he's rooting for in the World Series.
Half Flip
October 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
Medicare spends "$15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies."
True
October 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 Hempstead, N.Y.
"98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 15, 2008 a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.
Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 9, 2008 Cincinnati, Ohio
"AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • October 14, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.
On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 1, 2008 a TV ad
John McCain accused Barack Obama "of letting infants die."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."
True
By Alexander Lane • October 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Shawn Zeller • October 7, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
False
October 7, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2008 a Web site
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
Mostly True
By Alexander Lane • October 6, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 3, 2008 in a television ad
John McCain's health care plan "leaves you on your own to pay McCain’s health insurance tax."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 a debate in Oxford, Miss.
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."
Half-True
September 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 30, 2008 a TV ad.
Says that under his tax plan, seniors making less than $50,000 per year won't pay any income taxes.
True
By Bill Adair • September 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 30, 2008 a TV ad
"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."
Half-True
September 30, 2008
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