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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 16, 2008 Flint, Mich.
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."
Mostly False
By Alexander Lane • June 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 21, 2008 remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 25, 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 15, 2008 a speech at a Chicago church
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
True
By Stephanie Garry • June 23, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 a campaign e-mail to reporters
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."
Mostly True
By Shawn Zeller • June 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 11, 2008 a speech in Chicago, Ill.
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 20, 2008 an interview on Fox News' America's Election HQ
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."
Mostly True
By Will Van Sant • June 4, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 3, 2008 St. Paul, Minn.
"John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 4, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2008 a statement by campaign spokesman Bill Burton
John McCain "has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 2, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 22, 2008 Tampa, Fla.
"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren't actively fundraising here."
False
May 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 26, 2008 a speech in Las Cruces, N.M.
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
Mostly True
May 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2008 Tampa, Fla.
"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2008 a speech in Tampa, Fla.
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won't care about this.' "
True
May 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 21, 2008 Tampa, Fla.
McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."
True
May 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 18, 2008 a speech in Gresham, Ore.
"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It's a bad idea today. Sen. McCain's campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2008 a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • May 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 12, 2008 Charleston, W.V.
John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous."
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 19, 2008
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