"Clinton's former pastor convicted of child molestation."
Blogger on Friday, April 25th, 2008 in a posting on the Obama campaign blog. >>Details
"His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama."
Chain e-mail on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in >>Details
"Obama ... gave almost a million dollars to the (Kenya) opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga."
Chain e-mail on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in >>Details
McCain says the price of a gas tax "holiday" would be about the same as "a Bridge to Nowhere (or) another pork barrel project."
John McCain on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>Details
Obama thinks the national anthem should be "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 in in a chain email >>Details
Denies that he said the Obama campaign "played the race card."
Bill Clinton on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 in Pittsburgh >>Details
"Hillary (Clinton), one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995."
Bill Clinton on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in Boonville, Ind. >>Details
"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??"
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
"I remember landing under sniper fire."
Hillary Clinton on Monday, March 17th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Obama says America is great, but let's "try to change it."
Blogger on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 in a blog posting >>Details
Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details
"Barack Obama loves Che Guevara."
Conservative bloggers on Monday, February 18th, 2008 in blog postings responding to a news video showing the flag. >>Details
Obama "suggested bombing Pakistan."
John McCain on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 in a media availability in Columbus, Ohio. >>Details
RNC version of a Hillary Clinton valentine: "Roses are red, violets are blue, I’ll raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do."
Republican National Committee on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an RNC Web site feature where you can send a GOP valentine from your favorite Democrat >>Details
Says McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a flyer sent to news organizations in South Carolina >>Details
Barack Obama's middle name is Mohammed and he's a "covert" Muslim.
Chain e-mail on Friday, January 11th, 2008 in >>Details
The Mormon religion has "a plan that will see the Constitution thrown out and replaced by a theocracy."
Freedom Defense Advocates on Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 in >>Details
"I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."
Mitt Romney on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world."
Chain e-mail on Monday, October 1st, 2007 in >>Details
When Obama was sworn into office, "he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)."
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in >>Details
An anonymous e-mail says that Hillary Clinton advocates communism.
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in >>Details
Edwards says if Congress won't pass universal health care, he'll tell Congress: "I'm going to use my power as president to take your health care away from you."
John Edwards on Monday, November 12th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
Rudy Giuliani is "probably the most underqualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency."
Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in Orlando >>Details
"I'm probably one of the four or five best-known Americans in the world.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in a comment to reporters in London. >>Details
"Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary."
Bill Richardson on Monday, September 3rd, 2007 in >>Details
"In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."
Mike Gravel on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 in a debate at Howard University. >>Details
"The president is brain-dead."
Joe Biden on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. >>Details
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