Statements by Democrats
Obama
True
"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time."

Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in >>Details


Obama
Barely True
McCain "said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars."

Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech to the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details


Obama
True
"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office."

Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details


Biden
True
McCain voted 19 times against a minimum-wage increase.

Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details


Biden
True
Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver >>Details


Clinton
False
McCain "still thinks it’s okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"There's only four senators senior to me ... there's still 44 older than me."

Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details


Biden
Half-True
(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."

Joe Biden on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Dean
True
Biden is "one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate."

Howard Dean on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details


Schweitzer
Pants on fire!
McCain’s energy plan is a "single-answer proposition" — new domestic oil drilling.

Brian Schweitzer on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"John McCain wants to privatize Social Security."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
As a state senator in Illinois, Obama made sure women got equal pay for equal work.

Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in her address at the Democratic National Convention. >>Details


Warner
Half-True
The U.S. energy policy is to "borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us."

Mark Warner on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."

Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."

Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Pelosi
Half-True
"Whether in Illinois or Washington, Barack Obama has bridged partisanship to bring about significant reform."

Nancy Pelosi on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."

Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in Springfield, Ill. >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country."

Barack Obama on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
The Bush administration's latest plans for troop withdrawal from Iraq by 2011 are "more or less the same time frame I announced two years ago."

Barack Obama on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 in Chester, Va. >>Details


Biden
Full Flop
On whether he wants to be vice president.

Joe Biden on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 in >>Details


Biden
True
Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."

Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in a speech in Springfield, Ill. >>Details


Biden
Half-True
Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."

Joe Biden on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 in a rally in Springfield, Ill. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
John McCain has seven houses.

Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
McCain, “voted against renewable sources of energy, against biofuels, against solar power, against wind power.... "

Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 in Youngstown, Ohio >>Details


Obama
True
"Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of (Iraq)."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in Orlando, Fla. >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"I argued for years that we need to move from a 'Musharraf policy' to a 'Pakistan policy.' "

Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in in a speech in Orlando, Fla. >>Details


Obama
False
"The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''

Barack Obama on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 in a TV interview with megachurch pastor Rick Warren in Lake Forest, Calif. >>Details


Obama
False
Oil companies "haven't touched" 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill.

Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in Lansing, MI >>Details


Obama
Half-True
McCain's attacks on Obama are 'not true,' 'false,' 'baloney,' according to media outlets.

Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details


Obama
True
"John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government."

Barack Obama on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 in a statement by Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan >>Details


Obama
Barely True
John McCain worries about nuclear waste in Arizona, but not in Nevada.

Barack Obama on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
No Flip
On a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.

Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in flip-o-meter >>Details


Obama
True
"McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles. And he said all buy-American provisions were quote 'disgraceful.' "

Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 in a radio ad >>Details


Obama
Barely True
John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours."

Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
False
John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill "because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 in a news release >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"Big oil's filling John McCain's campaign with $2-million in contributions."

Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details


Obama
True
"We could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details


Obama
Full Flop
On using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in >>Details


Obama
Half Flip
On offshore drilling.

Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in >>Details


Obama
Full Flop
On public financing of his campaign.

Barack Obama on Monday, August 4th, 2008 in >>Details


Obama
True
"I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."

Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details


Obama
True
Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate "will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months."

Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details


Obama
True
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point."

Barack Obama on Saturday, July 12th, 2008 in a conversation with reporters aboard plane >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families."

Barack Obama on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a statement e-mailed to reporters. >>Details


Obama
True
McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.

Barack Obama on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 in an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters >>Details


Obama
True
"For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three."

Barack Obama on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 in Afghanistan >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."

Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in a speech in Dayton, Ohio >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"McCain used to buck his party on immigration by fighting for comprehensive reform. . . . But when he was running for his party's nomination, he . . . said that he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a speech in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Obama
True
Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
False
The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."

Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in the campaign's energy plan. >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in >>Details


Obama
False
"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details


Biden
Barely True
John McCain has changed position on invading Iraq.

Joe Biden on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 in a television interview >>Details


Clark
False
McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility."

Wesley Clark on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent."

Barack Obama on Monday, June 30th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details


Obama
True
"When he was asked a few years ago whether he could see himself lifting the cap on the payroll tax, (McCain) said, 'I could.' But today he's attacking me for holding the very same position."

Barack Obama on Friday, June 13th, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."

Barack Obama on Monday, June 16th, 2008 in Flint, Mich. >>Details


Obama
Half-True
John McCain "opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."

Barack Obama on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 in remarks to U.S. Conference of Mayors >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected."

Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
True
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."

Barack Obama on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."

Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."

Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Half-True
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"McCain lobbied for (a) $10-million pork project honoring conservative justice."

Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a campaign e-mail to reporters >>Details


Obama
True
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families "who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldn't pay."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 in a speech in Chicago, Ill. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 in an interview on Fox News' America’s Election HQ >>Details


Obama
True
"John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time (last year)."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"We are winning the popular vote."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico >>Details


Obama
True
John McCain "has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 in a statement by campaign spokesman Bill Burton >>Details


Obama
False
"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren’t actively fundraising here."

Barack Obama on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."

Barack Obama on Monday, May 26th, 2008 in a speech in Las Cruces, N.M. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 in Sioux Falls, S.D. >>Details


Obama
True
McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details


Obama
True
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff, "his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say, 'The American people won’t care about this.' "

Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in a speech in Tampa, Fla. >>Details


Obama
True
"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details


Obama
Barely True
"Privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it. It’s a bad idea today. Sen. McCain’s campaign went even further ... suggesting ... to cut cost-of-living adjustments or to raise the retirement age."

Barack Obama on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in a speech in Gresham, Ore. >>Details


MoveOn.org
Barely True
John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get a "second job" and "skip their vacations."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail >>Details


Obama
Half-True
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details


Obama
Barely True
John McCain "is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill (to expand education aid for veterans) because he thinks it's too generous."

Barack Obama on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Charleston, W.V. >>Details


Obama
True
"NATO hasn’t provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Miss. >>Details


MoveOn.org
Half-True
McCain "voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7½ years."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in Logan, W. Va. >>Details


MoveOn.org
Half-True
"The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' "

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
True
McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, "who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'"

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."

Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details


Clinton
False
"If you are driving on average in America this summer, you'll save — according to Department of Energy figures — about $70."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in Indianapolis >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
There are prototype cars that get between 100 and 150 miles per gallon and "we could have those cars in your garages in a couple of years."

Hillary Clinton on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 in a speech at a Democratic Party dinner >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."

Barack Obama on Monday, May 5th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."

Barack Obama on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. >>Details


Clinton
True
Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details


Clinton
True
Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details


Clinton
True
"A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in a speech at the University of Pennsylvania. >>Details


Clinton
True
Hillary Clinton advocates "a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."

Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."

Bill Clinton on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 in Pittsburgh >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
Barack Obama's health care plan "will cost taxpayers $1,700 more to cover each new person."

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."

Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in a mailer to Pennsylvania voters >>Details


Clinton
True
"Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Pennsylvania. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn’t take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Obama
True
"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in an online ad. >>Details


Clinton
True
Says she is the subject of 60 books.

Hillary Clinton on Sunday, April 13th, 2008 in a forum on faith-related issues at Messiah College in Grantham, Penn. >>Details


Clinton
True
"Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in a television debate in Philadelphia. >>Details


Clinton
True
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and "that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details


Obama
False
"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."

Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. >>Details


Obama
True
The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."

Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."

Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in a television ad. >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."

Bill Clinton on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in Boonville, Ind. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination until June."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News editorial board >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 in a news conference in Greensburg, Pa. >>Details


MoveOn.org
True
"John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
True
"McCain opposes a woman's right to choose."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
True
"The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


MoveOn.org
Half-True
"He positions himself as pro environment, but he scored a zero — yes, zero — from the League of Conservation Voters last year."

MoveOn.org on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details


Clinton
False
"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in Eugene, Ore. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details


Obama
True
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."

Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details


Clinton
True
Obama spent "40 percent of the PAC money, 43 percent to be exact, on Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina politicians."

Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details


Clinton
True
"(Obama) did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that, through his political action committee."

Bill Clinton on Sunday, March 16th, 2008 in an interview with the mtvU editorial board >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
"I remember landing under sniper fire."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
Obama voted for "tax subsidies and giveways" that have slowed oil companies from pursuing clean energy sources.

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pa. >>Details


Obama
True
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on CNN's American Morning. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show. >>Details


Obama
True
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Obama
False
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details


Obama
True
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.

Barack Obama on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
False
Obama "only wants your children to have health insurance."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 in a campaign event in Hanging Rock, Ohio. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details


Clinton
True
"Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?"

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details


Clinton
Pants on fire!
Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
True
"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland >>Details


Obama
Half-True
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. >>Details


Obama
False
"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a flier sent to voters in Ohio >>Details


Obama
True
Clinton said "great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 in Lorain, Ohio >>Details


Obama
True
He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details


Obama
False
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in Austin, Texas >>Details


Obama
True
"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."

Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details


Clinton
False
Says the difference between her and Barack Obama is "about 35 years of experience."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a campaign event in Robstown, Texas. >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"I have 35 years' experience making change."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"I have something in common with my husband. He never carried caucuses either. He lost all of the ones that I've lost."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an ABC/Politico interview >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Clinton
True
Hillary Clinton "has the only health care plan that covers every American."

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details


Clinton
True
"Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in a conference call to reporters led by Cilnton pollster Mark Penn >>Details


Clinton
False
"Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate."

Bill Clinton on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 in Portland, Maine >>Details


Obama
False
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details


Obama
False
"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va. >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details


Obama
True
Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."

Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details


Clinton
True
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 in Iowa >>Details


Obama
True
"Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."

Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th, 2008 in an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday. >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"George Bush sent people to war without body armor."

Hillary Clinton on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 in a debate in Los Angeles >>Details


Obama
True
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Mostly true
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
True
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Barely True
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in a radio ad in South Carolina >>Details


Clinton
True
"The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around."

Bill Clinton on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"I was fighting against those (Republican) ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago."

Hillary Clinton on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Obama
True
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."

Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Obama
False
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."

Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Edwards
True
"If you are African-American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10 percent of what white families have."

John Edwards on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
False
Obama said that "since 1992, the Republicans have had all the good ideas..."

Bill Clinton on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in in Pahrump, Nev. >>Details


Clinton
Mostly true
"Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
True
"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas. >>Details


Clinton
False
"So that 2005 energy bill was a big step backwards on the path to clean, renewable energy. That's why I voted against it."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Obama
True
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."

Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Obama
Half-True
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.

Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Edwards
Half-True
"I believe, Senator Clinton, you've raised more money from those people (the oil and gas industry) than any candidate, Democrat or Republican."

John Edwards on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
Barack Obama "said in 2004 there was no difference between (Obama) and George Bush on the war."

Bill Clinton on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 in Dartmouth, N.H. >>Details


Obama
Half-True
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."

Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Biden
False
"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Biden
False
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Biden
Mostly true
"There's not a major bill I know with Hillary's name on it."

Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details


Clinton
True
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Clinton
True
"Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies."

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Clinton
Half-True
“You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it.”

Hillary Clinton on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Richardson
True
As secretary of the Department of Energy under former President Bill Clinton, "I created reserves of home heating oil."

Bill Richardson on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Dodd
Mostly true
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."

Chris Dodd on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a debate in Philadelphia >>Details


Obama
False
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."

Barack Obama on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a speech in Iowa >>Details


Biden
Barely True
Biden was responsible for "ending genocide in Bosnia."

Joe Biden on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Edwards
Mostly true
"One out of every four homeless people on our streets is a veteran."

John Edwards on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. >>Details


Richardson
Barely True
"Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it's okay to shoot an American soldier."

Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 in a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details


Clinton
Barely True
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."