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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 30, 2008 in a TV ad.:
Says that under his tax plan, seniors making less than $50,000 per year won't pay any income taxes.
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By Bill Adair • September 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 in Oxford, Miss.:
John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • September 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 23, 2008 in in a television ad:
"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 in Elko, Nev.:
Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 16, 2008 in Golden, Colo.:
John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 in a speech at Democratic National Convention:
"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time."
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By Robert Farley • August 28, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:
"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office."
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By David DeCamp • August 28, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 19, 2008 in Orlando, Fla.:
"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."
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By Alexander Lane • August 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 9, 2008 in a statement by Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan :
"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government."
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By Shawn Zeller • August 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 12, 2008 in a radio ad:
"McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' "
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By Bart Jansen • August 12, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 30, 2008 in Springfield, Mo.:
"We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups."
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By Alexander Lane • August 5, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 1, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla.:
"I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 1, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 1, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla.:
Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate "will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months."
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By Robert Farley • August 1, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 30, 2008 in Springfield, Mo.:
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."
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By Robert Farley • July 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 20, 2008 in Afghanistan:
"For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 19, 2008 in an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters:
McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2008 in a television ad:
Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 13, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio:
"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position."
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By John Frank • June 26, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 15, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church:
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
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By Stephanie Garry • June 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 11, 2008 in a speech in Chicago, Ill.:
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • June 16, 2008
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