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"I want to campaign the same way I govern, which is to respond directly and forcefully with the truth,"
~ Barack Obama, 11/08/07

Obama and Clinton Have Clearly Different Records on Iraq Since He Has Been In the Senate
January 13, 2008

JANUARY 2005 Obama Criticized Condoleezza Rice For Not Offering A Timetable, Reiterated That Job Of Senator Is To Confirm That Administration Is Making Decisions Based On Facts. During Condoleezza Rice’s confirmation hearing, Obama said, “And I recognize that you are...

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Clinton Blames Obama Campaign for her Remarks, but Her Critics Have Been Her Backers and Independent Observers
January 13, 2008

Clinton Supporter, Darrell Jackson Calls Clinton Remarks Painful. "Sharp criticism of Barack Obama and other comments about Martin Luther King Jr. -- all from people associated with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- have generated resentment among some black S.C. voters....

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Outside Observers: Clinton Truncating Of Obama's Quotes on The Iraq War Are ''Misleading''
January 13, 2008

TPM: Clearly Obama Was Pointing To The Fact That He Wasn't In The Senate At The Time As A Way Of Tactfully Avoiding Criticizing His Party's VP And Presidential Nominees; It's Pretty Clear That Obama Was In Fact Against The...

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Fact Check on Clinton's False Attacks on Obama's Ethics Reform
January 13, 2008

Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute: "The notion that the ethics bill only allows lawmakers to eat with lobbyists while standing up is an urban myth -- as is the idea that the ethics and lobbying reform bill was...

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Fact Check: Obama's Consistent Opposition To The War In Iraq
January 12, 2008

VIEW THE TIMELINE OF OBAMA'S CONSISTENT OPPOSITION TO THE IRAQ WAR" WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR "‘I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports,' Mr. Obama said. "What would I have done? I don't know..'” [New York Times, 07/26/04] WHAT OBAMA SAID...

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Fact Check: Obama's Strong Pro-Choice Record
January 08, 2008

ILLINOIS PRO-CHOICE LEADERS AGREE: OBAMA'S PRESENT VOTES ON CHOICE WERE "LEADERSHIP VOTES" Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General: "It's Just Plan Wrong To Imply That Voting Present Reflected A Lack Of Leadership...In Fact, It Was The Exact Opposite." "Lisa Madigan, the...

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Fact Check: Obama's Strong Record on the Energy Bill
January 08, 2008

RHETORIC: Obama voted for Bush's energy bill, not protecting alternative energy. REALITY: OBAMA LEAD EFFORTS TO ENSURE INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND HAS SPONSORED LEGISLATION TO STRIP INCENTIVES FROM OIL COMPANIES Obama "Reluctantly" Voted For The Bill As A "First...

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Fact Check: Obama's Consistent Position on Iraq Funding
January 05, 2008

Rhetoric: Sen. Obama Promised To Oppose Iraq War Funding, Then Voted For Every Iraq War Funding Bill Reality: Obama Has Remained Consistent in Opposing a Blank Check for Iraq Since Obama Has Gone to Washington, Every Senate Democrat Has Voted...

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Fact Check: Obama's Consistent Position on the Patriot Act
January 05, 2008

Rhetoric: "Sen. Obama Promised to Support Repealing PATRIOT Act, Then Voted to Extend It" Reality: Obama Has Consistently Said He Would Support A Patriot Act That Would Strengthen Civil Liberties Without Sacrificing The Tools That Law Enforcement Needs To Keep...

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Fact Check: Obama Consistent in His Position on Single Payer Health Care
January 05, 2008

Rhetoric: "Today, he opposes single payer health care, and attacks Sen. Clinton for proposing a plan that covers everyone" Reality: Obama Has Consistently Said That If We Were Starting From Scratch, He Would Support A Single Payer System, But Now...

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Fact Check: Don'tLeaveMeOut Website
December 28, 2007

"The AFSCME website contains factually inaccurate information concerning Barack Obama's health care proposal and misrepresents the likely effects of his plan to provide health care coverage for all Americans. Obama's proposal is the most comprehensive and aggressive of any candidate...

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John Edwards' New Attacks and Shifting Rhetoric on ''Fighting''
December 28, 2007

Edwards is ramping up his attacks as the caucus draws near but his new rhetoric on "not negotiating or compromising or working with the powerful interests" is a sharp u-turn from what was once a quite conciliatory view towards those...

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Fact Check: Present Votes are an Accepted Legislative Strategy in the Illinois Senate
December 20, 2007

Obama Was Praised for Showing Leadership on Tough Issues -- Representing a Safe Democratic District, He Used His Position To Help More Vulnerable Senators Do The Right Thing. Zorn wrote, "Obama, however, was in a safe district and never faced...

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Fact Check On Milbank's Claim That Obama Exaggerates Experience
December 14, 2007

RHETORIC: "'I expanded health care in Illinois by bringing Democrats and Republicans together, by taking on the insurance industry,' he asserts. Actually, his signature legislation as a state senator, the Health Care Justice Act, merely set up a panel to...

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Fact Check: No News In Obama's Consistent Record
December 11, 2007

RHETORIC: "When Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was seeking state office a dozen years ago, he took unabashedly liberal positions: flatly opposed to capital punishment, in support of a federal single-payer health plan, against any restrictions on abortion, and in support...

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Fact Check: ''Krugman Didn't Always Think So Poorly Of Obama's Plan''
December 07, 2007

"Krugman Didn't Always Think So Poorly Of Obama's Plan." First Read reported, "No Democratic-leaning pundit, it seems, has been more passionate or serious on the need for health-care reform than the New York Times' Paul Krugman. As a result, people...

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Fact Check: Clinton's False Claim that Obama Shifted on Iran
December 04, 2007

Clinton camp claimed Obama shifted on Iran But Obama Has Answered This Question Before RUSSERT: "I want to talk about Iran, because there's been a discussion about a vote she cast that you mentioned earlier. Back in March there was...

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Fact Check: Clinton's Attack On ''Courage''
December 03, 2007

"Hillary Clinton's idea of 'fun' continues today by attacking Barack Obama's 100% pro-choice rating and his record of leadership in reforming the death penalty, passing racial profiling legislation, and enacting the first major ethics reform in twenty-five years. The truth...

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Fact Check: Robert Reich on Obama and Clinton's Plans On Social Security and Health Care
December 03, 2007

Why is HRC stooping So Low? By Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor during President Bill Clinton's Administration) "Yesterday, HRC suggested O lacks courage. 'There's a big difference between our courage and our convictions, what we believe and what we're willing...

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Fact Check On Clinton's Attack: Hopefund, HillPAC and the Clinton Foundation
December 02, 2007

Obama at a press conference in Des Moines today: "I think that folks from some of the other campaigns are reading the polls and starting to get stressed and issuing a whole range of outlandish accusations. Everything that we've done...

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Clinton Camp Attacks Obama for Encouraging Students to Vote, Although She Does The Same, And Even Recruited Out of Staters for the JJ
December 01, 2007

"Rather than denigrating the caucus rights of students who go to school in Iowa, we would suggest the Clinton campaign organize them. Their attack here is borne out of pure political frustration. Iowans are determined to launch a winning candidate...

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Fact Check: Why The Obama Health Insurance Plan Covers More People More Rapidly Than The Clinton Plan Does
November 30, 2007

TO: Interested Parties FR: Austan Goolsbee, Jeffrey Liebman DA: November 29, 2007 RE: Why the Obama health insurance plan covers more people more rapidly than the Clinton plan does As we get closer to the Iowa Caucuses, the first casualty...

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Fact Check: Clinton's False Attack on Obama's Health Care Plan
November 28, 2007

CLINTON ATTACK: "He has called his plan universal, then he called it 'virtually universal,' but it simply does not deserve the label," said the New York senator. "When it comes to truth in labeling, his plan simply flunks the test."...

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Fact Check: Clinton Opposed an Individual Mandate in 1993
November 28, 2007

The Individual Mandate Hillary Clinton Opposed in 1993 Is the Same Individual Mandate She Supports Now. "Hillary Clinton has now introduced Health Care 2.0, and - lo and behold! - it is a direct descendant of the plan she chose...

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Fact Check: Without An Enforcement Mechanism, Clinton's 'Mandate' is Optional
November 25, 2007

Obama's Health Care Plan Saves Families and the Health Care System More 'The American people are looking for a President who's honest about the challenges we face, and that's why it's unfortunate that Senator Clinton continues to misrepresent Senator Obama's...

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Fact Check: Clinton's False Claim that She Provides Universal Health Care Coverage
November 20, 2007

RHETORIC: "Any health care plan that leaves 15 million Americans uninsured cannot be considered universal. And that's a very big difference," said Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee. [Des Moines Register, 11/20/07] REALITY: "MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, one of Clinton's...

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Fact Check: Hillary Clinton on NAFTA
November 20, 2007

Hillary Clinton Thought NAFTA Was A "Boon" To The Economy. According to a Newsday issues rundown, "Clinton thinks NAFTA has been a boon to the economy." [New York Newsday, 9/11/06] Hillary Clinton Said NAFTA Was A Victory For President Clinton,...

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Fact Check: Clinton Flip on Merit Pay for Teachers
November 19, 2007

THIS IS NOW... NOVEMBER 19, 2007: Clinton Says Performance Based Merit Pay Is a Bad Idea. Performance-based merit pay for teachers is a bad idea, Hillary Rodham Clinton told Iowa teachers on Monday. School uniforms for kids, however, is worth...

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Fact Check: Hillary and Bill Clinton on a Social Security 'Crisis'
November 19, 2007

Hillary Clinton Today: "So we don't need more Republican scare tactics about a 'Social Security crisis.'" [Hillary Clinton, 11/19/07] Bill Clinton in 1998: "This fiscal crisis in Social Security affects every generation...Our increasing efforts to reduce the poverty rate among...

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Fact Check: Clinton's Claims About a Planned Obama $1 Trillion Tax Increase Are Misleading and Inaccurate
November 19, 2007

FactCheck.Org: If The Social Security Tax Were Applied To All Earnings, It Would Be A Billion Dollar Tax Increase Over Ten Years. "Clinton called Obama's proposal to raise Social Security taxes on earnings over $97,500 per year, the current upper...

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Fact Check: Obama Never Said We Should Support Trade Deals Like NAFTA
November 19, 2007

Today's New York Times quotes a Clinton spokesperson pointing to a 2004 story claiming Obama had been in favor of NAFTA-like trade agreements. In fact, Obama has consistently opposed NAFTA-like trade deals and the 2004 the report that the Clinton...

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Fact Check: Obama On Mining Reform
November 15, 2007

Read What Media Matters Had to Say: "Associated Press reporter Kathleen Hennessey wrote that Sen. Barack Obama "opposes a bill that would change the nation's 135-year-old mining law -- the same stance as mining industry executives who employ a Nevada-based...

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Fact Check: Obama's State Senate Records Are Publicly Available
November 14, 2007

Read What Media Matters Had to Say: "The Associated Press reported that Sen. Barack Obama "says he can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois state Senate. He says he hasn't got any." But...

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Obama Is a Patriot Who Loves His Flag and His Country
November 12, 2007

Obama Said His Grandfather Taught Him The Pledge And To Put His Hand Over His Heart, "During The National Anthem You Sing." Obama said, "My grandfather taught me how to say the Pledge of Allegiance when I was 2...During the Pledge of Allegiance you put your hand over your heart. During the national anthem you sing."

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Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian
November 12, 2007

Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim. Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ.

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