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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 23, 2008 a radio ad in South Carolina
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."
Half-True
By John Frank • January 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."
True
By Bill Adair • January 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 debate in Las Vegas
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 a debate in Las Vegas
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Half-True
By Alex Leary • January 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 a speech in Iowa
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
False
By Asjylyn Loder • December 31, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 Johnston, Iowa
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 17, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
"I do provide universal health care."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas, Nev.
Obama says his health care plan is "universal."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 8, 2007 Chariton, Iowa
"John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
False
By David DeCamp • November 16, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2007 a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.
"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."
Half-True
By Nell Benton • October 31, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2007
Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 29, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2007 Clinton, Iowa
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 28, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2007 Washington, DC.
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Mostly True
By John Frank • September 20, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 8, 2007
Obama "won health care for 150,000 people."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 20, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2007 the campaign's website.
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."
Half-True
September 9, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 11, 2007 a TV ad, in an endorsement by Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard
"Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way."
True
September 8, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2007 New Hampshire
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
False
By Tom Tobin • September 4, 2007
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