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Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 a television ad
Obama "voted against funding our troops."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 a television ad
"Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 18, 2008 a television ad
Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 21, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 21, 2008 a chain e-mail
Barack Obama wants to "unilaterally disarm our nation."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2008 a television ad
Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2008
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on July 9, 2008 in an ad on the Internet
John McCain has given erratic and inconsistent answers on when troops should return from Iraq.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 3, 2008 in an e-mail message from campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.
Barack Obama has "reversed" on his commitment "to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 10, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 22, 2008 a television interview
John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 a television ad
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2008 a television ad
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2008 a television ad
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2008 Cape Girardeau, Mo.
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 20, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 17, 2008 Houston, Texas
We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 20, 2008
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on June 13, 2008 a Web ad
John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 13, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on May 18, 2008 a Web ad
Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 11, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 19, 2008 an e-mail message
From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 19, 2008 an e-mail message
Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 10, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 4, 2008 St. Petersburg, Fla.
When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 5, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 1, 2008 San Juan, Puerto Rico
"We are winning the popular vote."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 3, 2008
Chain email
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2008
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