Latest Stories By Adriel Bettelheim

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Obama’s executive pay misfire

September 25, 2008

Obama takes a swing at McCain while attacking high executive pay. But he misses.

Eager to be ahead of the economy curve

September 18, 2008

Barack Obama wants voters to know he's been focused on economic woes all along, but he's taking credit for a plan that was mostly devised without him.

McCain’s ‘warning’ on Fannie & Freddie

September 17, 2008

McCain spoke up after a widely read report drew attention to chicanery at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but it's a huge stretch to suggest he could have somehow averted the current crisis.

Obama’s muddle about the middle

July 23, 2008

The Obama campaign is exaggerating with its claim that McCain's tax plan offers nothing for the middle class.

Immigration Rx or poison pill?

July 17, 2008

It's an issue the two candidates appear to agree on for the most part, but Obama and McCain have traded charges that the other sold out.

Escaping Bush’s gravitational pull

June 4, 2008

An unpopular president and two candidates from the Senate create a host of strange-bedfellow problems in this presidential race.

Obama, McCain misfire on vets benefits

May 19, 2008

The Obama and McCain campaigns exchanged fire on veterans issues, and neither struck the truth.

Candidates get back to health

May 8, 2008

Sen. John McCain's new health care plan brings the issue back in focus for the presidential candidates. We check three new claims.

Obama’s stretch on ethics reform

April 14, 2008

Obama claims he was the driving force on ethics reform. We find he was a player but not the quarterback.

Manipulating the bill counts

March 28, 2008

A chain e-mail uses apples-to-oranges comparisons to assert that Obama is a more active senator than Clinton.

FACT SHEET: Clinton. Obama. Their bills.

March 28, 2008

We compare the legislative accomplishments of the Democratic candidates.

Spend-O-Meter vs. Truth-O-Meter, Part II

February 29, 2008

In November, the Republican National Committee oversimplified the cost of Sen. Hillary Clinton's policy proposals. Now, the RNC does a similarly overstated assessment of Sen. Barack Obama's plans.

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