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E-mails twist context of Obama’s memoir

Anonymous e-mailers make hay, getting quotes wrong or out of context. We give you the skinny in case Dreams from My Father isn't in your beach bag.

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Rate the Truth-O-Meter

This week, PolitiFact is featured on NewsTrust, a Web site that allows you to rate news coverage.
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McCain’s nuclear argument

Sen. John McCain is a staunch proponent of nuclear power, saying it's key to reducing America's dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuels.
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With friends like these…..

Fidel Castro tempered his criticism of Sen. Barack Obama with a few kind words, which thrilled Florida Republicans a bit too much.
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Escaping Bush’s gravitational pull

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

In this column, PolitiFact editor Bill Adair traces the Clinton campaign through our Truth-O-Meter rulings. The turning point was Bosnia.
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Obama skips public financing

Obama once said his contributor network was akin to public financing. We said....
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Digging up dirt on Michelle Obama

E-mailers go after Sen. Barack Obama by digging into his wife's college years. They take Michelle Obama's senior thesis and add their own fabrication.
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Visiting Iraq

McCain and Obama see Iraq differently, but the argument now is over who has seen Iraq the most.
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Obama’s Auschwitz error

In recounting a World War II story about his uncle, Obama named the wrong concentration camp, but we found other details were correct. His uncle saw the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Caution: Lobbyists on the loose!

Obama bashes McCain on the influence issue. He's right, but McCain has a long record of reform.

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