McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility."
Wesley Clark on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" >>Details
"We must deal with the here and now and assure affordable fuel for America by increasing domestic production."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 in Houston, Texas >>Details
"Did Obama know that Tony Rezko was saving him $300,000 on the purchase of his home?"
Republican National Committee on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 in a news release >>Details
Obama couldn't have afforded his home without Rezko's help.
Republican National Committee on Thursday, June 5th, 2008 in in a news release >>Details
Sen. Obama wants to "enact the single largest tax increase since the Second World War."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Chain e-mail on Monday, May 19th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
"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
Iran "might not be a superpower, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but 'tiny,'" as Obama says.
John McCain on Monday, May 19th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details
“They (Clinton and Obama) have never to my knowledge been involved in legislation nor hearings nor engagement on this issue (climate change).”
John McCain on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in North Bend, Wash. >>Details
Says Obama called Israel "a constant sore" that infects U.S. foreign policy.
John Boehner on Monday, May 12th, 2008 in a news release. >>Details
"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
During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Clintons brought the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the White House for "spiritual counseling."
Michael Moore on Monday, April 21st, 2008 in MichaelMoore.com >>Details
Obama "supports hate-crimes expansion ... potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality."
Focus on the Family Action on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 in an article written by Tom Minnery >>Details
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on all income brackets.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"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
"Among his (Obama's) pet projects is a bill ... which would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid."
Focus on the Family Action on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
Democrats’ budget resolution would raise America’s tax bill by "$500-billion."
John McCain on Monday, April 7th, 2008 in a poll on McCain's Web site >>Details
"I actually started criticizing the war in Iraq before (Obama) did."
Hillary Clinton on Saturday, April 5th, 2008 in Eugene, Ore. >>Details
Hillary Clinton's international travels included "no serious diplomacy."
Dick Morris on Friday, March 21st, 2008 in an opinion article in the New York Post >>Details
Obama "has no experience or background at all in national security affairs."
John McCain on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 in interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” >>Details
Barack Obama has written and co-sponsored more bills in three years than Hillary Clinton has in seven.
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
The Jewish holiday Purim is "their version of Halloween here."
John McCain on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 in a news conference in Israel >>Details
It's "common knowledge" that al-Qaida is receiving training from Iran.
John McCain on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 in Amman, Jordan >>Details
Both McCain and Bush favor tax breaks for oil companies.
Campaign to Defend America on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"You don’t even have to go outside Obama’s campaign to find advisers who are anti-Israel."
Tennessee Republican Party on Monday, February 25th, 2008 in in a press release >>Details
"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
John McCain has "a consistent pattern of ducking important environmental votes."
Sierra Club on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 in a letter from Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope to supporters >>Details
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
"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
"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
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
"Hillary's main extracurricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris >>Details
"Everything I have said (on the campaign trail) has been factually accurate."
Bill Clinton on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 in Portland, Maine >>Details
Barack Obama said "he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad."
George W. Bush on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in Camp David >>Details
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
"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
"While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches."
Chain e-mail on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in a chain e-mail sent to many people. >>Details
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
Mitt Romney on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Pensacola. >>Details
"I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."
John McCain on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
"When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in >>Details
Obama "remains silent" and "is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan."
Chain e-mail on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in >>Details
"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
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
"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 17th, 2008 in a news conference in a Staples store in Columbia, S.C. >>Details
"He reformed welfare before others tried."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"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
"I have never asked for nor received a single earmark or pork barrel project for my state."
John McCain on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"I supported (the surge), I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did."
John McCain on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
The church Barack Obama belongs to only admits black people.
Chain e-mail on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 in >>Details
"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
"Barack Obama hasn’t passed any (bills)."
Joe Biden on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa >>Details
"I supported the surge when you didn't."
Mike Huckabee on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"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
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, December 16th, 2007 in "Meet the Press" interview >>Details
"And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers."
Duncan Hunter on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 in a Fox News interview >>Details
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
Barack Obama on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg >>Details
"I spend a lot of time in Iowa, and believe it or not, in Ottumwa, Iowa, this is the heartland, the newspaper, the regular newspaper for Ottumwa, Iowa, is (a) bilingual newspaper."
Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 in Fox News interview >>Details
"Hillary’s baby bond proposal would give $5,000 to each of the 4-million babies born in the U.S. each year, totaling $20-billion per year, multiplied by four years = $80-billion."
Republican National Committee on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a Web site. >>Details
The form students fill out to get college financial aid is "longer than the form to get U.S. citizenship."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in Chariton, Iowa >>Details
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"Congress' approval rating is 11 percent. You know who's higher? Dick Cheney and HMOs."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
''The leading Democratic candidate once said that the unfettered free market is the most destructive force in modern America.''
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
Obama "refused to not only put his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance, but refused to say the pledge."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in an e-mail circulated by many people. >>Details
"It's just outrageous that under President Bush, the National Institutes of Health have been basically decreased in funding."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."
Joe Biden on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in statement on Web site >>Details
"More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."
Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
“I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 in >>Details
Clinton "refused repeated requests to meet with the Gold Star Mothers."
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 in an e-mail message circulated by many people. >>Details
"The Clintons now charge the Secret Service $10,000 monthly rent for the use of (a) Secret Service residence and that rent is just about equal to their mortgage payment."
Chain e-mail on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in an e-mail message circulated by many people. >>Details
"Another one he should veto is the SCHIP program, which he should say 'Take the C out of, because now it's for everybody, like every other entitlement program.'"
John McCain on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
"We spent $223-million on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."
John McCain on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 in a speech in Nashua, N.H. >>Details
"Rural schools enroll 40 percent of American children, but receive only 22 percent of federal education funding."
John Edwards on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
"The Iraq Study Group reported that (Saddam Hussein) had designs on reviving his nuclear program."
Fred Thompson on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
"I was the first presidential candidate to lay out a specific, truly universal health care plan."
John Edwards on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
"There are 300,000 babies born deformed every year in this country because of women who are alcoholics while they're carrying those children to term."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in Hanover, N.H. >>Details
“What they will do is socialized medicine.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a comment to reporters in Tampa. >>Details
"Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.”
Ron Paul on Monday, September 17th, 2007 in a statement on his campaign Web site. >>Details
English "is our national language...if it becomes official, that means in a place like New York City you can’t print ballots in any other language."
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 in New Hampshire. >>Details
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, “Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.”
Barack Obama on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in New Hampshire >>Details
“The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn’t for the crime decline in New York City.”
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in New York. >>Details
"I'll tell you what I can tell this country: If they want a president who doesn't believe in God, there's probably plenty of choices."
Mike Huckabee on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"For every single scientist that tells you (global warming is) happening and that it's our fault...I can stack up another group of reports that say just the opposite."
Tom Tancredo on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 in Columbia, S.C. >>Details
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