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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting.
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
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By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 11, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 his weekly radio address
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
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By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 26, 2009 a speech at the White House.
"Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 7, 2009 a speech at the White House.
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
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By Bill Adair • May 7, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2009 a news conference.
"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States."
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April 17, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 3, 2009 interview with CBS News
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."
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February 9, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2009 in a weekly YouTube and radio address
"Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 26, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 14, 2008 campaign Web site
The accuracy of the Obama tax calculator
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2008 a statement by Sen. Claire McCaskill in a TV ad.
Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."
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By Shawn Zeller • December 3, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 29, 2008 in a television ad
Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 Nashville, Tenn.
On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 7, 2008 a debate in Nashville, Tenn.
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 13, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 a debate in Oxford, Miss.
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."
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September 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 30, 2008 a TV ad
"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."
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September 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 29, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 Oxford, Miss.
Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 26, 2008 the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss.
Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition."
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By Shawn Zeller • September 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 22, 2008 a TV ad.
John McCain would "reduce oversight of health insurance."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • September 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2008 Elko, Nev.
McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm is "the architect of some of the deregulation in Washington that helped cause the mess on Wall Street."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2008
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