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Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Campaign to Defend America
Campaign to Defend America
stated on March 5, 2008 in a television ad:
John McCain and George Bush have "absolutely no plan for universal health care."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 17, 2008
Tennessee Republican Party
Tennessee Republican Party
stated on February 25, 2008 in a news release:
"The board of a nonprofit organization on which Obama served as a paid director ... granted funding to a controversial Arab group."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • March 14, 2008
Tennessee Republican Party
Tennessee Republican Party
stated on February 25, 2008 in in a press release:
"You don't even have to go outside Obama's campaign to find advisers who are anti-Israel."
False
By Robert Farley • March 14, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 11, 2008 in a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa.:
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.
Mostly False
By Dina Cappiello • March 12, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's "Hardball.":
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.
True
By Bill Adair • March 12, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 5, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning:
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • March 11, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show.:
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Mostly True
By Bill Adair • March 10, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 5, 2008 in an interview on CNN's "American Morning.":
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • March 10, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 5, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning.:
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 10, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 26, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio:
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 7, 2008
VoteVets.org
VoteVets.org
stated on February 25, 2008 in a television ad.:
"John McCain says it's okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq."
True
By Bill Adair • March 5, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 26, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio.:
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."
False
By Bill Adair • March 5, 2008
Sierra Club
Sierra Club
stated on February 23, 2008 in a letter from Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope to supporters:
John McCain has "a consistent pattern of ducking important environmental votes."
False
By Shawn Zeller • March 4, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 1, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio:
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • March 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 20, 2008 in a news conference in Columbus, Ohio:
"I committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing."
Mostly True
By Amy Hollyfield • March 3, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 28, 2008 in a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio.:
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."
False
By Bill Adair • February 29, 2008
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on February 29, 2008 in a graphic on the RNC website.:
"Obama's liberal fiscal agenda: Over $874-billion in new spending."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Ryan Kelly • February 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas:
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Mostly True
By Amy Hollyfield • February 28, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 26, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland:
"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."
True
By Robert Farley • February 27, 2008
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