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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2012 a campaign ad
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 an Obama for America video
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
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By Becky Bowers • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 a web video advertisement
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 28, 2011 a fundraising appeal
"We don't take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs -- never have and never will."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 3, 2011 a campaign ad
"Because of Barack Obama the mission in Iraq ended."
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By Molly Moorhead • November 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2011 a press conference at the White House
The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2011 a fundraising event in San Jose, Calif.
Says Texas wildfires are linked to climate change.
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By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 22, 2011 a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio
"A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be paying higher tax rates than the guy who’s making $50 million a year. And that’s how it’s working right now."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 30, 2011 a speech to the American Legion
The United States "won every major battle" of the Vietnam War. "Every single one."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 31, 2011 remarks from the White House
The debt ceiling deal will result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 12, 2011 an interview with CBS News
Social Security and other federal checks may not go out on Aug. 3 if the debt ceiling is not increased.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter Town Hall
Says that when President Bill Clinton raised the top tax rates to levels now proposed by Obama, the country experienced significant job growth.
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July 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 1, 2011 an address to the nation
"Bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan."
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May 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech at George Washington University
"In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. The top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each."
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April 14, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech
"By the end of this decade, the interest we owe on our debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 28, 2011 a televised address
"Regime change (in Iraq) took eight years"
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By Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"Oil production from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico reached an all-time high" in 2010.
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By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."
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March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 14, 2011 a speech
The White House budget plan will bring domestic discretionary spending to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
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February 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 the State of the Union address
"We are living with a legacy of deficit-spending that began almost a decade ago."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 26, 2011
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