Medicare spends "$15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
"98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
Says that under his tax plan, seniors making less than $50,000 per year won't pay any income taxes.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details
John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.
Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in Elko, Nev. >>Details
John McCain said last year he didn't know of a solution to the mortgage crisis.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in Golden, Colo. >>Details
"John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time."
Barack Obama on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 in a speech at Democratic National Convention >>Details
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 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
"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
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
"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 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
"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
"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
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
"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
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
McCain "hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
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
"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
"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
"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in an online ad. >>Details
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
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
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
"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 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 said "great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 in Lorain, Ohio >>Details
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
"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
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
"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
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
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
"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'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
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
Obama “won health care for 150,000 people.”
Barack Obama on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 in >>Details
"Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 in a TV ad, in an endorsement by Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard >>Details
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