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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 25, 2008 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 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 in 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 in 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 in a TV ad:
"He reformed welfare before others tried."
False
By Robert Farley • January 18, 2008
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