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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Obama Gets Caught Up in Red Tape
Posted on June 30, 2011
President Barack Obama incorrectly claimed his administration has undertaken an "unprecedented" review of burdensome regulations. In fact, every president since at least Jimmy Carter has done similar reviews, including one under Bill Clinton that resulted in the elimination of more than 16,000 pages of federal regulations. Obama made his claim …
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Tagged Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, regulatory reform, Ronald Reagan
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Bachmann’s Waterloo
Posted on June 28, 2011 , Updated on July 13, 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann officially joined the presidential campaign trail, but made a flurry of false and misleading claims along the way. The Minnesota Republican appeared on two …
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Tagged Barack Obama, earmarks, farm subsidies, federal pay, health care law, Michele Bachmann
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Obama’s ‘Bumbles’
Posted on June 17, 2011
Q: Did Obama double the debt and commit every "bumble" he's accused of in a critical chain e-mail? A: No. The debt hasn't doubled, and of the 24 claims only six are true. We found another seven to be partly true, and the rest to be false, misleading or exaggerated.
GOP New Hampshire Debate
Posted on June 14, 2011
In the first New Hampshire debate among 2012 presidential hopefuls, we found a number of incorrect, misleading or shaky factual claims. Pawlenty was wrong when he boasted that he was …
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Tagged Barack Obama, health care, medicare, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Tim Pawlenty
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Secret Service Tattletales?
Posted on June 10, 2011
Q: Does a recent book quote Secret Service agents saying denigrating things about Obama and other recent Democratic presidents while praising only Republicans? A: No. The book's author, Ronald Kessler, states that a viral e-mail's descriptions of Obama and Clinton "are completely wrong." His book quotes both flattering and unflattering …
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Romney Wrong on Deficits, Auto Bailout
Posted on June 9, 2011 , Corrected on June 15, 2011
Mitt Romney wrongly claimed deficits “multiplied … by a factor of four or five” under President Barack Obama. He also incorrectly stated that auto companies have repaid only a "small" share of the government bailout money. The deficit was already running at $1.2 trillion when Obama took office, and it …
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Tagged auto bailout, Barack Obama, deficit, Mitt Romney
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Chrysler Paid in Full?
Posted on June 6, 2011
Taxpayer beware: You have to read the fine print to know what the president means when he says Chrysler has paid back "every dime" of loans it received "during my watch." The company got $12.5 billion in bailout funds under the Bush and Obama administrations, but — despite what the …
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Playing Politics with Gasoline Prices
Posted on May 27, 2011
Democrats and Republicans disagree on energy policy, but this they share: Both shade the facts on the complex issue for political advantage. Republicans say repealing oil industry tax breaks will drive up costs at the pump. However …
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FactChecking Obama
Posted on May 19, 2011
We are periodically taking a look at past claims from the 2012 presidential candidates. Up next: President Barack Obama. The president officially launched his 2012 campaign on April 4, but we’ve been fact-checking his statements for about four years now. Among the major misstatements: Obama has misrepresented Republican plans for …
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Tagged Barack Obama, campaign 2012, health care reform, medicare, offshoring
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Romney Off Base on Health Care
Posted on May 13, 2011
Mitt Romney made misleading statements about the federal health care law in an effort to highlight how it differs from the overhaul he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts. Romney, who has not yet declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, gave a major speech on health care …
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