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Latest Fact-Checks On Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 12, 2008 a TV ad
"He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."
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September 12, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 23, 2008 Springfield, Ill.
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
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By Richard Rubin • August 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 21, 2008 Chester, Va.
The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 24, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2008 interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod
John McCain has seven houses.
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By Stephanie Garry • August 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2008 Youngstown, Ohio
McCain, "voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... "
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By Seth Stern • August 22, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 4, 2008 a TV ad
"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions."
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By Alexander Lane • August 6, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2008 a speech in Dayton, Ohio
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."
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By Alexander Lane • July 18, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 8, 2008 a speech in Washington, D.C.
"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • July 16, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2008 a television ad
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 19, 2008 a television ad
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 23, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 12, 2008 a campaign e-mail to reporters
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."
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By Shawn Zeller • June 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 20, 2008 an interview on Fox News' America's Election HQ
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."
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By Will Van Sant • June 4, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 26, 2008 a speech in Las Cruces, N.M.
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
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May 27, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 18, 2008 a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa.
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
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By Adriel Bettelheim • May 8, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 5, 2008 a television interview
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 6, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 24, 2008 Philadelphia
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."
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April 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 16, 2008 in a television ad
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn't take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 17, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 10, 2008 an interview with theadvocate.com
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."
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By John Frank • April 15, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 5, 2008 an interview on the Today Show.
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
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By Bill Adair • March 10, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2008 a campaign rally in Houston, Texas
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
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February 28, 2008
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