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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
False
By Robert Farley • October 7, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 in comment from McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds on Fox News:
"Senator Obama has voted 94 times to either increase your taxes or against tax cuts."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim • October 7, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo.:
"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 3, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 1, 2008 in a radio ad.:
"Obama, Biden and their liberal allies oppose clean coal."
False
By Alexander Lane • October 1, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 26, 2008 in Oxford, Miss.:
"President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion...[wrote a] letter of resignation to the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy."
False
By Alexander Lane • September 26, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on September 22, 2008 in the New York Sun:
"If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed."
False
By Alexander Lane • September 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 in a radio ad:
McCain "has opposed stem cell research."
False
By Robert Farley • September 24, 2008
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on August 1, 2008 in a direct mail piece:
"Obama's Ten Point Plan to 'Change' The Second Amendment….Ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns."
False
By Alexander Lane • September 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2008:
"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."
False
By Robert Farley • September 22, 2008
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
stated on September 16, 2008 in a conversation with reporters.:
Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create."
False
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 16, 2008 in Tampa, Fla.:
"I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."
False
By Shawn Zeller • September 16, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 31, 2008:
Palin had "executive experience" in the PTA.
False
By Robert Farley • September 4, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 4, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
"My opponent promises to bring back old jobs by wishing away the global economy."
False
By Alexander Lane • September 4, 2008
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on September 2, 2008 in an e-mail.:
"(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."
False
By Edward Epstein • September 3, 2008
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on August 31, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
Sarah Palin "has more experience than Barack Obama."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2008
Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
stated on September 2, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn.:
In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."
False
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2008
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on September 2, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:
"He was offered medical care for his injuries if he would give up military information in return. John McCain said, 'No.' "
False
By Edward Epstein • September 2, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 30, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. :
When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 31, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on August 27, 2008 in a TV ad:
"Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'"
False
By Bart Jansen • August 27, 2008
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 26, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention.:
McCain "still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work."
False
By Richard Rubin • August 27, 2008
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