Chain e-mail: Obama “remains silent” and “is never asked how he feels about his church honoring Farrakhan.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Obama decried Farrakhan’s racism
Archive for January, 2008
Chain e-mail: Barack Obama’s church gave a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan.
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly true | Related magazine, not church, gave award
Rudy Giuliani: “Bill Clinton’s peace dividend . . . cut the military 25 and 30 percent.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | The peace dividend began with a Bush
John McCain: “I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: False | When first means second
Mike Huckabee: Says he was the only Republican candidate at a prior debate who said lower-income workers were being hurt by the economy.
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Barely True | His recollections are way off
Barack Obama: “But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote ‘paid tribute’ to Ronald Reagan’s economic and foreign policy.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | He’s right, but Clinton ‘quote’ isn’t hers exactly
Mitt Romney: “I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: False | He should check their resumes
Mike Huckabee: “The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | It all depends what you consider average
Rudy Giuliani: “We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: True | U.S. is Saudi Arabia of coal
Bill Clinton: “The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around.”
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The Truth-o-Meter says: True | The 1990s? Good times