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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 13, 2008 in a flier sent to voters in Ohio:
"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim, Bill Adair • February 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 21, 2008 in Austin, Texas:
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va.:
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
False
By Bill Adair • February 11, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va.:
"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
False
By Amy Hollyfield • February 11, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 in 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 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 8, 2007 in 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 in 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 August 20, 2007 in 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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