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Tag Archives: John McCain
Health Care Deregulation?
Biden said that McCain wrote in a magazine article that he wanted to do for the health care industry what deregulation had done for Wall Street. That’s taking McCain’s words out of context, as we’ve written before. Biden is referring to a phrase from a journal article under McCain’s name …
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McCain Mentions Us
It wasn’t exactly in a favorable light, per se. On NPR’s “Morning Edition” today, anchor Steve Inskeep asked Sen. John McCain about balancing honor and winning in a campaign that Inskeep called “brutal.” In their conversation, Inskeep asked about a particular ad that we found to be “false”: Inskeep: Have …
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Who Caused the Economic Crisis?
Summary A MoveOn.org Political Action ad plays the partisan blame game with the economic crisis, charging that John McCain’s friend and former economic adviser Phil Gramm “stripped safeguards that would have protected us.” The claim is bogus. Gramm’s legislation had broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by President …
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Tagged economic crisis, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, John McCain, MoveOn.org, Phill Gramm
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McCain Ad “Promise”: Promises Same Falsehood
The McCain-Palin campaign released a new ad called “Promise,” which the campaign says will air nationally. But it contains a whopper we’ve addressed a few times: The ad claims Sen. Barack Obama “voted to cut off funding for our troops.” But a McCain campaign press release announcing the ad cites …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Joe Biden, John McCain, Presidential Election 2008, troop funding, TV ad
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Chummy with Chavez?
If it’s loud, profanity-laced, anti-American vitriol from a foreign leader you’re looking for, Hugo Chavez is your man. And a new McCain-Palin ad, running in Florida, tries to make it appear that Obama would begin cuddling up to the Venezuelan leader first thing after testing out his Oval Office desk …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Cuba, foreign policy, Huga Chavez, John McCain, North Korea, Venezuela
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