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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 25, 2008 Boca Raton.
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
True
By Tom Tobin • January 25, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 25, 2008 a debate in Boca Raton.
"The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • January 25, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 25, 2008 a campaign rally in Pensacola.
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
False
By Bill Adair, Jennifer Liberto • January 25, 2008
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
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on January 25, 2008
"The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."
True
By Robert Farley • January 25, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 24, 2008 a debate in Boca Raton.
Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 25, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 24, 2008 a debate in Boca Raton.
"I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."
False
By David DeCamp • January 24, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 24, 2008 a debate in Boca Raton.
Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
Mostly False
By Adriel Bettelheim • January 24, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 24, 2008 a Republican debate in Boca Raton.
"Bill Clinton's peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 24, 2008
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 23, 2008
"When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 18, 2008
Barack Obama's church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 2008
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 18, 2008
Obama "remains silent" and "is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 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
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."
True
By Miranda Blue • 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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 21, 2008 a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • January 22, 2008
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on January 18, 2008 in Pahrump, Nev.
Obama said that "since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas..."
False
By Robert Farley • January 21, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on January 15, 2008 a debate in Las Vegas
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • January 21, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 17, 2008 a news conference in a Staples store in Columbia, S.C.
"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."
False
By Bill Adair • January 18, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 16, 2008 a TV ad
"He reformed welfare before others tried."
False
By Robert Farley • January 18, 2008
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