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Obama's statements by ruling
- True104 (%)(104)
- Mostly True112 (%)(112)
- Half True129 (%)(129)
- Mostly False58 (%)(58)
- False66 (%)(66)
- Pants on Fire7 (%)(7)
Democrat from Illinois
Barack Obama is the president of the United States. Obama was formerly a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Recent statements involving Barack Obama
Says that according to a report, "the tech sector now drives more than one-quarter of Austin’s economy."
Says President Barack Obama’s proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.
"Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.
Says "we" have put more boots on the U.S.-Mexico border "than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000."
"Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide."
Recent stories featuring Barack Obama
UPDATED: Grading Texas claims by, and about, Barack Obama:
The president’s one-day swing to the Austin area gave rise to fact checks of, and about, him.
Obama, Perry, Hinojosa and jobs, jobs, jobs:
Barack Obama came and went. Rick Perry and a leader of Texas Democrats took the occasion to loft jobs-related claims--now fact-checked.
Top 10 PolitiFact checks of claims by, and about, Barack Obama as he hies to Texas:
What better way to welcome Obama to Central Texas than walking through the most popular PolitiFact fact checks of, or about, him this year--plus they include a 2012 check of Romney.
Mailbag: PolitiFact Texas proves facts ‘are irrelevant to what you do’:
A Texas congressman is silly, one reader writes.
PolitiFact Texas writes as if facts are irrelevant, another says.
Let’s open the mailbag.
Fact-checking President Obama's press conference:
President Obama spoke with reporters on the 100-day mark for his second term. We checked the facts.
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