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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Obama’s Work Claim
Posted on July 2, 2008 , Updated on July 25, 2008
Summary Obama’s latest ad repeats an often-stated claim, saying he "worked his way through college and Harvard Law.” We know Obama took out loans to get himself through school. But the campaign at first provided information on just two jobs Obama had in those years, and they were both in …
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Distorting Obama
Posted on June 26, 2008
Summary McCain released a Web ad that distorts Obama’s positions on clean-energy innovation and nuclear power. The ad portrays Obama as saying "no" to energy "innovation" and to "the electric car." In fact, Obama proposed a $150 billion program of research into a wide variety of clean-energy technologies last year, …
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Obama Polishes His Resume
Posted on June 21, 2008
Summary Obama has released his first post-primary ad, a 60-second spot that’s airing in 18 battleground states. In effect, "Country I Love" is Obama’s first ad of the general election campaign, and as such it invites scrutiny. (FactCheck will address McCain’s first general election ads in a separate article.) We …
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McCain’s Power Outage
Posted on June 20, 2008 , Updated on June 24, 2008
Summary McCain has spent the week focusing on energy policy, making some surprising, and inaccurate, statements. Among them: He said that ending a moratorium on offshore oil drilling "would be very helpful in the short term in resolving our energy crisis." But according to a government report, offshore oil wouldn’t …
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Obama and European Affairs Subcommittee
Posted on June 20, 2008
Q: Does Obama chair a Senate subcommittee that oversees the war in Afghanistan? A: He chairs the Senate’s Subcommittee on European Affairs, which has some oversight in Afghanistan through NATO.
Obama’s Lame Claim About McCain’s Money
Posted on June 20, 2008
Summary Obama announced he would become the first presidential candidate since 1972 to rely totally on private donations for his general election campaign, opting out of the system of public financing and spending limits that was put in place after the Watergate scandal. One reason, he said, is that "John …
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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.
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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