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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said quote I cant stand John McCain. | true |
That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay. | true |
Governor Palin is the most popular governor in the country. | true |
Sarah Palin already has more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden combined. | true |
As governor Ive stood up to ... the big oil companies. | true |
Joe Biden voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq. | true |
Sarah Palin has had 12 years of elected office experience. | true |
When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up Palin sent a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska. | true |
John McCain has voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time. | true |
McCain voted 19 times against a minimumwage increase. | true |
Today we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office. | true |
Three years ago John McCain said Afghanistan we dont read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded. | true |
Biden is one of the least wealthy members of the U.S. Senate. | true |
McCain said he was stumped when asked whether contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV. | true |
Less than four cents of every health care dollar is spent on prevention and public health. | true |
We spend more on health care than any other country but were ranked 47th in life expectancy and 43rd in child mortality. | true |
More than 12500 service men and women have been discharged on the basis of sexual orientation since the Dont Ask Dont Tell policy was implemented at a cost of over $360 million. Many of those forced out had special skills in high demand such as translators engineers and pilots. | true |
Says McCain once said that on the most important issues of our day Ive been totally in agreement and support of President Bush. | true |
Sen. McCain was already turning his sights to Iraq just days after 911 and he became a leading supporter of an invasion and occupation of Iraq. | true |
The musical Mamma Mia has been selling out for years. | true |
John McCains top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government. | true |
McCain is raising campaign cash with one of Jack Abramoffs closest business partners scandalplagued conservative activist Ralph Reed. | true |
McCain opposed a requirement that the government buy Americanmade motorcycles. And he said all buyAmerican provisions were quote disgraceful. | true |
We could save all the oil that theyre talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tuneups. | true |
Obama said his proposed $1000 emergency energy rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months. | true |
I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target AfricanAmerican and Latino communities. | true |
McCain got more money from Airbus U.S. executives than any other politician. | true |
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. | true |
Says Obama has flipflopped on public campaign financing. | true |
For at least a year now I have called for two additional brigades perhaps three. | true |
McCain has switched to Obamas position on more troops to Afghanistan. | true |
Obama worked with Sen. Dick Lugar a Republican to help lock down loose nuclear weapons. | true |
Says Obama flipflopped on warrantless wiretapping. | true |
U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan include a few thousand that are still green card holders who are not even citizens of this country. | true |
McCain tells of a fellow Vietnam POW who was beaten for fashioning an American flag that became an inspirational symbol to fellow POWs. | true |
The legislation ... that Senator McCain supports would provide the authority for the federal government to surveille American citizens in their own country without any suspicion whatsoever that theyre engaging in discussions with terrorists or about criminal activity. | true |
He wont even support his colleagues ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps. | true |
Says Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday. | true |
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 hes attacking me for holding the very same position. | true |
You know the approval rating of Congress is down to 13 percent. | true |
More than half of all black children live in singleparent households a number that has doubled doubled since we were children. | true |
I joined the Gang of 14 seven Republicans seven Democrats so that we wouldnt blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to. | true |
John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming ... five years ago. | true |
John McCain opposed bankruptcy protections for families who were only in bankruptcy because of medical expenses they couldnt pay. | true |
The U.S. Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them and weve never had an accident. | true |
When the United States invaded Iraq Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction and he said so himself after his capture. | true |
Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years. | true |
John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time last year. | true |
John McCain has not led on nonproliferation issues when he had the chance in the Senate. | true |
Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once. | true |
McCain hired some of the biggest lobbyists in Washington to run his campaign. | true |
When McCain was questioned about hiring lobbyists to his campaign staff his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say The American people wont care about this. | true |
Ten years ago John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists. | true |
Sen. Obama has declared and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions. | true |
NATO hasnt provided enough troops in Afghanistan because they are still angry about us going into Iraq. | true |
McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee who believes Hurricane Katrina was Gods punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church the Antichrist and a false cult. | true |
Every family health insurance policy has a $900 hidden tax to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured. | true |
Tax rates were significantly higher in the 40s the 50s and the 60s. | true |
Hillary Clinton advocates a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no. | true |
A year ago in March 2007 I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so. | true |
As a state senator he Obama even refused to support a measure to stop sex businesses from opening near schools or places of worship | true |
Hillary Clinton has taken over $800000 from lobbyists. | true |
Barack Obama accepted $200000 from executives and employees of oil companies. | true |
Again today Ahmadinejad made light of 911 and said that hes not even sure it happened and that people actually died. | true |
The United States is seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s. | true |
Says she is the subject of 60 books. | true |
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 911. | true |
McCain opposes a womans right to choose. | true |
John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | true |
The Childrens Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. | true |
Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month. | true |
Obama spent 40 percent of the PAC money 43 percent to be exact on Iowa New Hampshire Nevada and South Carolina politicians. | true |
Obama did accept donations from lobbyists and PACs and he spent money in this campaign from that through his political action committee. | true |
I am a candidate. I have not withdrawn. | true |
John McCain and George Bush have absolutely no plan for universal health care. | true |
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between alQaida and the Iraqi government. | true |
Ive spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream. | true |
John McCain says its okay with him if the U.S. spends the next thousand years in Iraq. | true |
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war. | true |
Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time | true |
He Obama chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... Hes held not one substantive hearing to do oversight. | true |
Clinton said great things about NAFTA until she started running for president. | true |
We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil. | true |
Hes been endorsed by every major newspaper here in the state of Texas. | true |
She flunked the D.C. bar exam. | true |
John McCain said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president. | true |
Hillary Clinton has the only health care plan that covers every American. | true |
Senator Obama has in fact never had a serious Republican challenger. | true |
Hillary Clinton starts off with 47 percent of the country against her. | true |
Im the only Republican who has gotten endorsements in this presidential race from major labor unions... | true |
When I was in college we used to take a popcorn popper . . . and we would fry squirrel. | true |
One man sacrificed for his country. One man opposed a flawed strategy in Iraq. One man had the courage to call for change. One man didnt play politics with the truth. One man stands up to the special interests. | true |
Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating. | true |
In the Illinois Legislature Barack Obama voted present instead of yes or no on seven votes involving abortion rights. | true |
John McCain has said the economy is not his strong suit. | true |
John McCain was even mentioned as a running mate with John Kerry. | true |
Hillary Clinton actually differed with John McCain by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions. | true |
Hillary Clinton agreed with John McCain on voting for the war in Iraq. | true |
Twothirds of our economy is a consumer economy. | true |
Mitt Romney previously believed that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. Now he is prolife. | true |