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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 26, 2008 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 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 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 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 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
February 11, 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 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 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 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 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 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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