"Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'"
John McCain on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 in a TV ad airing in Florida >>Details
"Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals."
Republican Party of Florida on Monday, October 20th, 2008 in a campaign mailer >>Details
"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."
John McCain on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 in remarks by chief strategist Steve Schmidt >>Details
"Sen. Obama's campaign announced that he's choosing his cabinet."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 in a rally in Bensalem, Pa. >>Details
"Obama raises taxes on seniors (and) hard-working families to give welfare to those who pay none."
John McCain on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 in a Web ad >>Details
"Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth."
Barack Obama on Friday, October 17th, 2008 in a speech in Roanoke, Va. >>Details
In 1992, Barack Obama directed "Project Vote - an arm of ACORN that also encouraged voter registration."
John McCain on Friday, October 10th, 2008 in a memo on campaign Web site >>Details
"If Barack Obama would apply for a job with the FBI or with the Secret Service, he would be disqualified because of his past associations with William Ayers."
Chain e-mail on Friday, October 10th, 2008 in our inbox >>Details
"The centerpiece of Senator McCain's education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
If you're a small business and don't "adopt the health care plan that Senator Obama mandates, he's going to fine you."
John McCain on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
Barack Obama opposed a bill that would have saved Gianna Jessen's life.
BornAliveTruth.org on Monday, September 15th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
John McCain accused Barack Obama "of letting infants die."
Barack Obama on Monday, September 1st, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Barack Obama's plan calls for "mandates and fines for small businesses."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"Senator Obama has voted 94 times to either increase your taxes or against tax cuts."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in comment from McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds on Fox News >>Details
"1.3-million people in America make their living off eBay."
John McCain on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"Oil companies ...currently have 68-million acres that they're not using."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"We're building a nearly $40-billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever."
Sarah Palin on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo. >>Details
"Obama, Biden and their liberal allies oppose clean coal."
John McCain on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 in a radio ad. >>Details
"President Eisenhower, on the night before the Normandy invasion...[wrote a] letter of resignation to the United States Army for the failure of the landings at Normandy."
John McCain on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
"If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed."
Sarah Palin on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in the New York Sun >>Details
McCain "has opposed stem cell research."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in a radio ad >>Details
"Obama's Ten Point Plan to 'Change' The Second Amendment….Ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns."
National Rifle Association on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a direct mail piece >>Details
"But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week."
Barack Obama on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 in >>Details
Holding up a BlackBerry, McCain campaign adviser says, "you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create."
Douglas Holtz-Eakin on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in a conversation with reporters. >>Details
"I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona."
John McCain on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
"(Palin) supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."
MoveOn.org on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in an e-mail. >>Details
In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."
Joe Lieberman on Tuesday, September 2nd, 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
"Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'"
John McCain on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
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
"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
Barack Obama "openly supported (opposition leader) Raila Odinga during his visit to Africa in 2006."
Jerome R. Corsi on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in his book The Obama Nation. >>Details
Barack Obama has "pledged to reduce the size of the military."
Jerome R. Corsi on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in his book The Obama Nation. >>Details
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 plans "a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year."
John McCain on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in an Internet ad >>Details
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 will charge a 28 percent tax on all home sales."
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
Barack Obama wants to "restore" the estate tax that George W. Bush "repealed."
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now.
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"Sen. McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes."
VoteVets.org on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Obama "shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to thank them for their service."
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
Says Obama flip-flopped on withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Let Freedom Ring on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 in a TV ad airing on cable networks such as Fox and MTV. >>Details
"Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump? O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"
John McCain on Monday, July 21st, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veterans service organizations."
John McCain on Monday, July 7th, 2008 in a town hall meeting in Denver >>Details
Barack Obama wants to "unilaterally disarm our nation."
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
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
Barack Obama has "reversed" on his commitment "to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately."
John McCain on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 in in an e-mail message from campaign spokesman Brian Rogers. >>Details
"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
"If you have an investment for your child’s education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes."
John McCain on Monday, July 7th, 2008 in Denver, Co. >>Details
E-mail quotes Maureen Dowd column that Obama has received suspicious contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and China.
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 in a chain e-mail sent to many people. >>Details
"The Iranians continue – in the view of every objective observer – continue to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 in a telephone appearance with Florida voters >>Details
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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