Monthly Archives: June 2008

Obama’s Inflated Health “Savings”

Posted on June 16, 2008

Summary Obama says his health care plan will garner large savings – $120 billion a year, or $2,500 per family – with more than half coming from the use of electronic health records. And he says he’ll make that happen in his first term. We find his statements to be …
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Obama’s Birth Certificate

Posted on June 16, 2008

Q: Has Obama’s birth certificate been disclosed? A: Yes. His campaign made a copy public after speculation by conservative bloggers that he might not be a "natural-born citizen."

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McCain Votes with Bush?

Posted on June 13, 2008

Q: Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time? A: Yes, it’s true, according to Congressional Quarterly’s assessment of McCain’s voting record.

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McCain and the Gas Tax

Posted on June 11, 2008

Q: Do the poor drive farther than the rich, as McCain claims? A: No. McCain is wrong when he claims repeatedly that low-income people drive more. In fact, the affluent drive twice as many miles.

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Letter by a Florida Teacher

Posted on June 9, 2008

Q: Is a letter from an anonymous teacher about illegal immigrants getting school grants true? A: No. It cobbles together misleading statements to give the impression that illegal immigrants are receiving perks from taxpayers, when, in fact, they are not.

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Soft on Iran

Posted on June 5, 2008

Summary John McCain is attacking Barack Obama’s opposition to the Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which (among other things) called for labeling Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. McCain claims that Obama’s opposition means that he also opposed calling the IRGC terrorists. We find otherwise.  Obama cosponsored an earlier bill …
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Katrina Kerfuffle

Posted on June 5, 2008

Summary McCain was asked by a New Orleans reporter why he voted twice against an independent commission to investigate the government’s failings before and after Hurricane Katrina, and he incorrectly stated that he had "voted for every investigation."   McCain actually voted twice, in 2005 and 2006, to defeat a …
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Clinton and the Popular Vote

Posted on June 5, 2008

Q: Did Clinton win the popular vote? A: Obama won more votes unless you count Michigan, where he wasn’t on the ballot.

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Obama’s ‘Dreams of My Father’

Posted on June 3, 2008

Q: Did Obama write that he would "stand with the Muslims" and that he nurses a "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity" toward whites? A: No. A widely circulated e-mail fabricates some quotes from Obama’s books and twists others.

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