"The race will tighten, just because that's what happens at the end of campaigns. They always have."
Barack Obama on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 in a TV interview >>Details
"In April, Sen. McCain came out against helping women earn equal pay for equal work."
Barack Obama on Monday, October 20th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
McCain called for less regulation 21 times just this year.
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 in North Carolina >>Details
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating with federal regulators... that allowed Keating to continue his fraud at an incredible cost to taxpayers.
Barack Obama on Monday, October 6th, 2008 in a Web site >>Details
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."
Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in a debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail."
Barack Obama on Friday, September 12th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"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
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
John McCain has seven houses.
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod >>Details
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
"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
"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
"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
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
"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
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
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