Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said, quote, 'I can’t stand John McCain.' "
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention >>Details
Sarah Palin "already has more executive experience" than Barack Obama and Joe Biden "combined."
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
"He was offered medical care for his injuries if he would give up military information in return. John McCain said, 'No.' "
Fred Thompson on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in a speech at the Republican National Convention >>Details
When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer.
John McCain on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. >>Details
Sarah Palin "has had 12 years of elected office experience."
John McCain on Saturday, August 30th, 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pa. >>Details
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
John McCain has seven houses.
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod >>Details
Barack Obama "rejects everyone white, including his mother and his grandparents."
Jerome R. Corsi on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in his book The Obama Nation. >>Details
Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate."
John McCain on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 in an interview with the Kansas City Star >>Details
McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility."
Wesley Clark on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation" >>Details
"In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 in a speech in New Orleans >>Details
From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."
Chain e-mail on Monday, May 19th, 2008 in an e-mail message >>Details
Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably racist."
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community "first and foremost."
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"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
"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama."
Chain e-mail on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in >>Details
"Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga."
Chain e-mail on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in >>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
"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
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
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
"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
"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
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
"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
"She flunked the D.C. bar exam."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris >>Details
"Hillary interned with Bob Treuhaft, the head of the California Communist Party."
Chain e-mail on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in a chain e-mail based on an article written by Dick Morris >>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
"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
"When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel."
Mike Huckabee on Friday, January 18th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. >>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
"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
"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
Says McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a flyer sent to news organizations in South Carolina >>Details
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>Details
Former business partner Robert Gay says: “The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney.”
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in >>Details
"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.
Hillary Clinton on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 in a news release >>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
"I've seen (life) from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift ...and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to."
Fred Thompson on Friday, September 7th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa >>Details
"At least Obama didn't marry his cousin," as Giuliani did.
Obama Girl on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 in a YouTube video. >>Details
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