Fact Check Posts – Page 87

Mike Huckabee
stated on January 5, 2008 a debate in Manchester, N.H.:

"I supported the surge when you didn't."

By Tom Tobin • January 6, 2008

Mitt Romney
stated on December 16, 2007 "Meet the Press" interview:

"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."

By Amy Hollyfield • December 31, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on December 26, 2007 a speech in Iowa:

"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."

By Asjylyn Loder • December 31, 2007

Duncan Hunter
stated on October 31, 2007 a Fox News interview:

"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."

By John Frank • December 18, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 Johnston, Iowa:

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 17, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg:

The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.

By Bill Adair • November 29, 2007

Tom Tancredo
stated on November 20, 2007 Fox News interview:

"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."

By Amy Hollyfield • November 29, 2007

Republican National Committee
stated on November 26, 2007 a Web site.:

"Hillary's baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."

By David Baumann • November 26, 2007

Bill Richardson
stated on October 11, 2007 Manchester, N.H.:

The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."

By Jeffrey S. Solochek • November 20, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on November 8, 2007 Chariton, Iowa:

"John wasn't this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas:

"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."

By David DeCamp • November 16, 2007

Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 Las Vegas:

"Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 15, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 9, 2007 Dearborn, Mich.:

''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''

By John Frank • November 13, 2007

Chain email
stated on November 8, 2007 an e-mail circulated by many people.:

Obama "refused to not only put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, but refused to say the pledge."

By Bill Adair • November 8, 2007

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 30, 2007 Philadelphia, Pa.:

"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."

By Rachel Bloom • November 2, 2007

Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2007 statement on Web site:

"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

By Wes Allison • November 2, 2007

Dennis Kucinich
stated on October 30, 2007 a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.:

"More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 31, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 31, 2007:

"I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine."

By Lisa Greene • October 31, 2007

Chain email
stated on October 17, 2007 an e-mail message circulated by many people.:

Clinton "refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers."

By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007

Chain email
stated on September 17, 2007 an e-mail message circulated by many people.:

"The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment."

By Bill Adair • October 20, 2007

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