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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 12, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Half-True
By Amy Hollyfield • December 19, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on November 29, 2007 in a campaign event in St. Petersburg:
" ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."
True
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 5, 2007 in a TV ad:
"Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. ...The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …"
Mostly False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on October 31, 2007 in a Fox News interview:
"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."
False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2007 in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H.:
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."
Mostly False
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 13, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "
True
By Michael Van Sickler • December 17, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 in 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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2007 in Knoxville, Iowa:
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."
Half-True
By Wes Allison • December 15, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 5, 2007 in New York, N.Y.:
"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."
True
By Wes Allison • December 15, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 12, 2007 in a debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair, Tom Tobin • December 13, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on December 12, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 13, 2007
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on December 13, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa:
"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."
True
By Amy Hollyfield • December 13, 2007
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 12, 2007:
An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 12, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2007 in a TV ad:
"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."
True
By Bill Adair • December 12, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 10, 2007 in a TV ad:
Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 11, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 26, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"He's (Romney) the one who said that he would be to the left of Teddy Kennedy on gay rights."
Mostly True
By Shawn Zeller • December 11, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 26, 2007 in MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."
True
By Shawn Zeller • December 11, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on October 9, 2007 in Detroit:
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."
Mostly False
By David DeCamp • December 11, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 26, 2007 in a Washington Post interview.:
"The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America."
True
By Jennifer Liberto • December 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 20, 2007 in a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa:
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."
True
By Bill Adair • December 10, 2007
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