All Half-True statements involving Hillary Clinton
"If West Virginia had voted for our Democratic nominee in 2000 and 2004, we wouldn't have had to put up with George Bush for the last 7 years."
"More than one person, on average, a day is murdered in Philadelphia."
"Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put $6-billion in the pocket of big oil."
"I did very well with young people in Ohio, Massachusetts, California."
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush's tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."
Barack Obama said in 2004 "that he basically agreed with the way George Bush was conducting the war."
"I want to freeze interest rates for five years."
"On issue after issue that really were hard to explain or understand, you voted present . . . And anytime anyone raises that, there's always some kind of explanation."
The Bush administration has "the Pentagon trying to take away the signing bonuses when a soldier gets wounded and ends up in the hospital, something that I'm working with a Republican senator to try to make sure never can happen again."
"You said you would vote against the Patriot Act, then you came to the Senate, you voted for it."
"Average families are spending roughly $2,000 more a year on energy costs. ... It's like a $2,000 energy tax in just the last seven years, more than three times what the typical American family received from the Bush tax cuts."
"Thanks to President Bush's policies....The income gap is now higher than at any time since the Great Depression."
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15-million Americans out."
Barack Obama's health care plan "would leave 15 million Americans out."
"Americans spend 100-million hours a year filling out these forms (FAFSA). That is the equivalent of 55,500 full-time jobs."
Sen. Obama "made the very argument he is now criticizing back in November 2006."
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