Hillary Clinton: “Thanks to President Bush’s policies….The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Can’t blame Bush
Archive for December, 2007
Barack Obama: “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: False | A trillion is too much
Hillary Clinton: “George Bush … used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, ‘I don’t have to follow that, unless I choose to.’ “
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The Truth-o-Meter says: True | Indeed, Bush did it his way
John McCain: ” … following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: True | History supports McCain’s stance on waterboarding
Duncan Hunter: “And, you know, our first president and our first commander in chief prayed every day. He had a field manual of prayers.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Hunter perpetuates common myth
Rudy Giuliani: “Iranian mullahs took American hostages and they held the American hostages for 444 days. …The one hour in which they released them was the one hour in which Ronald Reagan was taking the Oath of Office …”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Barely True | Ad misleading about Iran hostage crisis
Hillary Clinton: “The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others … is there for a real simple reason: In America, we’ve never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Barely True | Need, not wealth, prompted estate taxes
Hillary Clinton: “I can’t sign money. That’s illegal.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Barely True | If she’s right, Bill’s a criminal
Ron Paul: “It used to be the policy of the Republican Party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally get in charge and a chance to do something, so we double the size of the Department of Education.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: True | So true, he’s understating it
Mitt Romney: “I’m prolife. I’m not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I’m proud to be prolife.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Their shifts were less stark