Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Other countries, too

June 20, 2008

We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.

‘Privatization’ gets ‘personal’

June 13, 2008

John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.

Mostly, higher incomes pay capital gains tax

June 11, 2008

Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."

Obama didn’t write that

June 10, 2008

From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

Not Muslims, but Arab-Americans

June 10, 2008

Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Hussein did say he hoped to get WMD

June 5, 2008

When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."

Her senior thesis doesn’t say that

May 30, 2008

Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably…

E-mail takes college work out of context

May 30, 2008

Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community "first and foremost."

Campaign in ’68 didn’t start until March

May 26, 2008

It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

McCain proposed bill that didn’t pass

May 23, 2008

"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."

He’s rich, but that’s not his housing fix

May 22, 2008

John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get…

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