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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 in Denver:
"The average American family" saw income rise $7,500 under Bill Clinton and decline $2,000 under George Bush.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 23, 2008:
"Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 30, 2008 in a TV ad:
McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets.
Half-True
By Robert Farley • August 14, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 30, 2008 in a TV ad.:
Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent."
Half-True
By Bill Adair • June 30, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 21, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors:
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • June 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 in a television ad:
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim, Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo.:
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 20, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 13, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo.:
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."
Half-True
By Alexander Lane • May 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 4, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press.:
"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • May 5, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2008 in a television ad:
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2008 in a mailer to Pennsylvania voters:
"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • April 21, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 8, 2008 in Washington, D.C.:
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 14, 2008 in a television ad.:
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."
Half-True
By Adriel Bettelheim • April 14, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 26, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio:
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 23, 2008 in a radio ad in South Carolina:
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."
Half-True
By John Frank • January 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 15, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas:
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Half-True
By Bill Adair • January 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Half-True
By Alex Leary • January 9, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 30, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.:
"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."
Half-True
By Nell Benton • October 31, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 21, 2007:
Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 29, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2007 in the campaign's website.:
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."
Half-True
By David Baumann • September 9, 2007
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