Fact Check Posts – Page 30

Ron Paul
stated on December 23, 2007 in a Meet the Press interview:

"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 3, 2008

Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2007 in College Station, Texas:

"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 28, 2007

John Edwards
stated on December 19, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire.:

"One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 26, 2007

Chain email
stated on October 1, 2007 in :

"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 20, 2007

Chain email
stated on December 19, 2007 in :

When Obama was sworn into office, "he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 20, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2007 in 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

Fred Thompson
stated on December 12, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa:

"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 13, 2007

Chain email
stated on December 12, 2007 in :

An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 12, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on December 10, 2007 in a TV ad:

Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 11, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on November 26, 2007 in a TV ad:

Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on December 5, 2007 in an interview:

Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. :

Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. :

"I do provide universal health care."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 3, 2007

Mike Huckabee
stated on November 28, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg:

Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 29, 2007

John Edwards
stated on November 26, 2007 in Nashua, N.H.:

"I won the South Carolina primary in 2004, and I was way behind in the polls at this stage in 2004."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 27, 2007

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. :

Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15 million Americans out."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. :

Obama says his health care plan is "universal."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 24, 2007 in a newspaper interview.:

"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on November 25, 2007 in an interview:

"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007

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

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

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 19, 2007

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