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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 a debate in Oxford, Miss.
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
Barack Obama "pays for every dime" of his spending plans.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss.
Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition."
Half-True
By Shawn Zeller • September 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 24, 2008 a speech in Dunedin, Fla.
 "I introduced a bill that would’ve helped stop the multimillion-dollar bonus packages that CEOs grab on their way out.. (McCain) opposed that idea."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2008 in a television ad
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2008 in a television ad
"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 a radio ad
McCain "has opposed stem cell research."
False
September 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 22, 2008 a TV ad.
John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2008
"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."
False
September 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 18, 2008 a video ad.
Obama ad contends that John McCain endorses Rush Limbaugh's comments about immigration.
Pants on Fire!
September 19, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 Golden, Colo.
"In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy, which formed the basis for a bipartisan stimulus package that passed the Congress."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 Elko, Nev.
Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2008 a TV ad
McCain "voted to cut education funding, against accountability standards. He even proposed abolishing the Department of Education."
Mostly False
By Shawn Zeller • September 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 Elko, Nev.
McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 Golden, Colo.
John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2008 a TV ad
"He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."
Mostly True
September 12, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 Denver
"The average American family" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2008
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