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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

Foreign Policy

DEBATE REALITY CHECK: PALIN WRONG ON DARFUR DIVESTMENT
October 02, 2008

PALIN TONIGHT: “We have a $40 billion investment fund, a savings fund called the Alaska permanent fund when I and others in the legislature found out that we had hundreds of millions of dollars in Sudan we called for divestment...

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BIDEN REVIEWS ARE IN ROUND 1
October 02, 2008

Washington Post, Chris Cillizza: “The Fix”: Biden is on point: In each of the first three questions he banged on McCain. Keep your eye on the fruit... LINK First Read (Domenico Montanaro): Biden is hitting his stride on foreign policy....

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: CIVILIAN DEATHS
October 02, 2008

Tonight, Sarah Palin said: “Now, Barack Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is air raiding villages and killing civilians, and such a reckless, reckless comment and untrue comment again hurts our cause. That's not what we are...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCLELLAN ISN'T MCKIERNAN
October 02, 2008

Tonight, Sarah Palin said: “First McClellan did not say definitively that the surge principles would not work in Afghanistan. Certain accounting for different conditions in that country and conditions are certainly different.” [Vice Presidential Debate, 10/2/08] The Facts: It’s Not...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
October 02, 2008

Tonight, Sarah Palin said: “For those countries, North Korea also under Kim Jung Il, we have to make sure we are putting the economic sanctions on the economy and we have friends and allies supporting us to make sure that...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: IRAQ
October 02, 2008

FACT: MCCAIN WAS ONE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S LEADING CHEERLEADERS AND SUPPORTERS ON THE IRAQ WAR · 2008: McCain Said "No One Has Supported President Bush on Iraq More Than I Have." During a March 2008 interview on The Mike...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: REFUSING TO MEET WITH SPAIN
October 02, 2008

Tonight, Joe Biden said: “John McCain said as recently as a couple weeks ago he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain.” [Vice Presidential Debate, 10/2/08] The Facts: McCain Refused Meeting With Spain, Ally Contributing To War In...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: Different Rhetoric To Different Audiences
October 02, 2008

Tonight, Sarah Palin said: The nice thing about running with John McCain is I can assure you he doesn't tell one thing to one group and then turns around and tells something else to another group [Vice Presidential Debate, 10/2/08]...

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DEBATE FACT CHECK: IGNORING AFGHANISTAN
October 02, 2008

The Facts: McCain Has Ignored The Threat In Afghanistan. Obama Recognizes Afghanistan Is The Central Front In The War On Terror And Has Been Calling For Increased Troop Levels. FACT: MCCAIN HAS IGNORED THE THREAT IN AFGHANISTAN AND THINKS IRAQ...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MEETING WITH WORLD LEADERS
October 02, 2008

FACT: OBAMA SAID HE WOULD BE WILLING TO MEET WITH LEADERS OF HOSTILE NATIONS AS PAST PRESIDENTS HAVE DONE · Washington Post Fact Check: “McCain Is Distorting History When He Suggests That Barack Obama Is Bucking American Presidential Tradition In...

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DEBATE FACTCHECK: MALIKI TIMELINE
October 02, 2008

FACT: MCCAIN WON’T EMBRACE A TIMETABLE EVEN THOUGH MALIKI AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAVE AGREED ON A TIMETABLE · McCain Rejects A Timetable And Says New Withdrawals From Iraq Must Be Based On Improvements In The Security Situation There. “McCain...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: TROOP FUNDING
October 02, 2008

Today, Sarah Palin said Obama opposed funding for the troops. [Vice Presidential Debate, 10/2/08] FACT: ATTACK ON TROOP FUNDING IS “HIGHLY MISLEADING” AP: Charge That Obama Voted Against Troop Funding Is “Misleading.” “The ad's most inflammatory charge — that Obama...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN RECORD ON REFORM
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “Sure, but let me point out, I also warned about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and warned about corporate greed and excess and CEO pay and all that. A lot of us saw this train wreck coming.” THE...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: WHITE HOUSE ON SURGE AS A TACTIC
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: John McCain said: “I am afraid Senator Obama doesn't understand the difference between a tactic and a strategy.” Please see the last slide—where the Bush White House calls the surge a key TACTICAL shift http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/iraq/2007/iraq-strategy011007.pdf...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: SANCTIONS
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “We could impose significant meaningful painful sanctions on the Iranians that I think could have a beneficial effect.” THE FACTS: MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST MEASURES TO STOP CORPORATIONS FROM DOING BUSINESS WITH COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORT TERROR AND HE HASN’T...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN AND SPAIN
September 26, 2008

THE FACTS: MCCAIN HAS CRITICIZED OUR ALLIES AND EVEN REFUSED A MEETING WITH SPAIN, WHO IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE EFFORT IN AFGHANISTAN McCain Said He Wasn’t Sure Whether He Would Extend An Invitation To The Spanish President To Visit The...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: JUDGMENT ON GEORGIA
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “Well, I was interested in Senator Obama's reaction to the Russian aggression against Georgia. His first statement was both sides ought to show restraint. Again, a little bit of naivete there, he doesn't understand that Russia committed serious...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: WORKING ACROSS THE AISLE
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “My reading of the threat from Iran is that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons, it is an existential threat to the state of Israel and it is a threat to the region because the other countries in the...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: WHAT HE SAYS VS. WHAT HE MEANS ON TAXES
September 26, 2008

DEBATE REALITY CHECK: JOHN MCCAIN’S DOUBLETALK ON HIS TAX PLAN What he Says What He Means He will “Double the Dividend” in his Tax Plan · "I want to double the dividend from $3,500 to $7,000 for every dependent child...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN VS. RENEWABLE ENERGY
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “I voted for alternate fuel all my time… No one can be opposed to alternate energy, no one.” THE FACTS: MCCAIN HAS VOTED AT LEAST 23 TIMES AGAINST INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY 1992: McCain Voted Against Proceeding On...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: VOTING RECORDS
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate.” THE FACTS: MCCAIN PRAISED OBAMA AS A CENTRIST, MCCAIN VOTED WITH BUSH 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME McCain Praised Obama As “Very Impressive, He’s Thoughtful,...

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FLASHBACK: EVEN REAGAN SAID--"NEVER RETREAT FROM NEGOTIATIONS"
September 26, 2008

"We will never retreat from negotiations. I have openly expressed my view of the Soviet system....But this doesn't mean that we can't deal with each other. We don't refuse to talk when the Soviets call us imperialist aggressors and...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN HAS ATTENDED FEWER AFGHANISTAN HEARINGS THAN OBAMA
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “You might think that with that kind of concern that Senator Obama would have gone to Afghanistan, particularly given his responsibilities as the subcommittee chairman. By the way, when I'm subcommittee chairman, we take up the issues under...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MEETING WITH FOREIGN LEADERS
September 26, 2008

THE FACTS: FIVE FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE AS WELL AS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAVE ENDORSED TALKING TO IRAN Former Secretary Of State Kissinger Said U.S. Should Talk To Iran “Without Conditions.” “Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today told...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN ON MUSHARRAF
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “I don't think that Senator Obama understands that there was a failed state in Pakistan when Musharraf came to power. Everybody who was around then and been there knew about it, knew that there was a failed state.”...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MUDDLING THROUGH AFGHANISTAN
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: Obama: “At one point, while you were focused on Iraq, you said, well, we can muddle through Afghanistan.” THE FACTS: MCCAIN HAS IGNORED THE THREAT IN AFGHANISTAN AND THINKS IRAQ IS THE CENTRAL FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR...

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VIDEO: DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN AND IRAN
September 26, 2008

McCain: “Bomb Iran.” “Mr. McCain – who has taken a hard-line stance on Iran, and who joked early in the campaign by suggesting renaming the Beach Boys song ‘Barbara Ann’ as ‘Bomb Iran’ – referred in his speech here to...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: THE SURGE
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “Senator Obama said the surge could not work, said it would increase sectarian violence, said it was doomed to failure. Recently on a television program he said it exceeded our wildest expectations, but yet after conceding that, he...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: THREAT IN AFGHANISTAN
September 26, 2008

THE FACTS: MCCAIN HAS IGNORED THE THREAT IN AFGHANISTAN AND THINKS IRAQ IS THE CENTRAL FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR McCain: Iraq Is The Central Front In The War On Terror. “I agreed with General Petraeus when he said...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: FACTCHECK ON COMMITTEE HEARINGS
September 26, 2008

TONIGHT: McCain: “Senator Obama is the chairperson of a committee that oversees NATO that is in Afghanistan. To this day he has never had a hearing. That's remarkable.” THE FACTS: THE FULL FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, NOT OBAMA’S SUBCOMMITTEE HOLD HEARINGS...

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DEBATE REALITY CHECK: MCCAIN'S SUPPORT FOR BUSH ON THE WAR
September 26, 2008

THE FACTS: MCCAIN WAS ONE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S LEADING CHEERLEADERS AND SUPPORTERS ON THE IRAQ WAR 2008: McCain Said "No One Has Supported President Bush on Iraq More Than I Have." During a March 2008 interview on The Mike...

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Fact Check on Republican Claims that Obama Opposes the Death Penalty for bin Laden
June 19, 2008

“It is absurd that the same group of people who have failed to kill or capture Osama bin Laden for over six years are now arguing about what we should do if we capture him. Barack Obama will redouble our...

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ABC's Inaccurate Report of Obama's Position on Meeting With Foreign Leaders
June 04, 2008

ABC Incorrectly Writes: "Barack Obama's position on talking to Iran has been evolving since last year's CNN/Youtube debate, when he said he would be willing to meet 'without precondition' with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea...

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Response to McCain Attack on Iran
June 02, 2008

OBAMA HAS CONSISTENTLY URGED THAT IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD BE LABELED WHAT IT IS: A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION Obama Cosponsored The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act, Which Would Designate The Iranian Revolutionary Guard As A Terrorist Organ, Prohibit Trade With Iran, Freeze Iranian Officials'...

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Obama's Consistent Position on Meeting with Foreign Leaders
May 29, 2008

RHETORIC: Obama hasn't been clear about his policy regarding diplomacy with Iran. REALITY: Obama has consistently said he is willing to meet, without preconditions but with preparation, the leaders of Iran. This could include, but is not limited to, Ahmadinejad....

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Obama Has Been Consistent In Wanting To Use All Elements Of Our National Power, Including Diplomacy, To Address The Threats Facing America. Has Consistently Said The Bush Policy Of Not Talking Is Not Working
May 18, 2008

OBAMA HAS BEEN CONSISTENT THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "PRECONDITIONS" AND PREPARATION, THAT HE WOULD NOT SIT DOWN AS PRESIDENT WITH HOSTILE LEADERS WITHOUT HAVING DONE "THE APPROPRIATE GROUNDWORK" Obama: Initial Meetings With Hostile Nations Would Start With Lower...

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Boehner's Inaccurate, Irresponsible Claim That Obama Called Israel a "Sore" On Foreign Policy
May 12, 2008

"In his dishonest and ridiculous distortion, John Boehner has shown us the new depths that a truly desperate Republican leadership will sink to in its attempt to smear Barack Obama's strong and unshakeable record of support for Israel. This absurd...

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John McCain Derides Obama As Offering ''Confused Leadership'' Because He Would Take Out High-Level Terrorists Like Bin Laden
February 20, 2008

"Apparently John McCain thinks we need to fight a 100 year war in Iraq but he does not think we should act on actionable intelligence to take out Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda terrorists. Osama bin Laden and...

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President Bush Falsely Attacks Barack Obama After Failing To Kill Or Capture Osama Bin Laden For Over Seven Years
February 10, 2008

"I certainly don't know what he believes in. The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad." -George W. Bush, February 10, 2008 "You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish...

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