>We've been fact-checking Bachmann since 2009. We've rated 23 statements on the Truth-O-Meter. Here's how the tally breaks down:
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>True 1
>Mostly True 0
>Half True 2
>Barely True 4
>False 9
>Pants on Fire 7
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>http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/jun/16/fact-checking-michele-bachmann/
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>http://politifact.com/personalities/michele-bachmann/statements/
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>Bob Schieffer calls her out on her lies and she won't answer his question:
>http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/cbs-bob-schieffer-calls-out-bachmann
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>Looks like we have Palin Jr. here.

Do you have enough disk storage to enumerate Obama's missteps, blunders and outright lies?

Here are just a few from the Great Obfuscator:

My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka.
--Barack Obama, October 2, 2002.

"I had an uncle who was one of the, um, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
--Barack Obama, May 26, 2008.

What a liar! The Russians liberated Auschwitz.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/02/fact-checking-obamas-speech/

■He said "we import more oil today than ever before." That’s untrue. Imports peaked in 2005 and are substantially lower today.
■He claimed his mortgage aid plan would help "responsible" buyers but not those who borrowed beyond their means. But even prominent defenders of the program including Fed Chairman Bernanke and FDIC chief Bair concede foolish borrowers will be aided, too.
■He said the high cost of health care "causes a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds." That’s at least double the true figure.
■He flubbed two facts about American history. The U.S. did not invent the automobile, and the transcontinental railroad was not completed until years after the Civil War, not during it.
■He claimed that his stimulus plan "prevented the layoffs" of 57 police officers in Minneapolis. In fact, it’s far more complicated than that, and other factors are also helping to save police jobs.

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/fact-checking-obama/

We checked the accuracy of Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination, and noted the following:
■Obama said he could “pay for every dime” of his spending and tax cut proposals “by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens.” That’s wrong – his proposed tax increases on upper-income individuals are key components of paying for his program, as well. And his plan, like McCain’s, would leave the U.S. facing big budget deficits, according to independent experts.
■He twisted McCain’s words about Afghanistan, saying, “When John McCain said we could just ‘muddle through’ in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources.” Actually, McCain said in 2003 we “may” muddle through, and he recently also called for more troops there.
■He said McCain would fail to lower taxes for 100 million Americans while his own plan would cut taxes for 95 percent of “working” families. But an independent analysis puts the number who would see no benefit from McCain’s plan at 66 million and finds that Obama’s plan would benefit 81 percent of all households when retirees and those without children are figured in.
■Obama asked why McCain would "define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year"? Actually, McCain meant that comment as a joke, getting a laugh and following up by saying, "But seriously …"
■Obama noted that McCain’s health care plan would "tax people’s benefits" but didn’t say that it also would provide up to a $5,000 tax credit for families.
■He said McCain, far from being a maverick who’s "broken with his party," has voted to support Bush policies 90 percent of the time. True enough, but by the same measure Obama has voted with fellow Democrats in the Senate 97 percent of the time.
■Obama said "average family income" went down $2,000 under Bush, which isn’t correct. An aide said he was really talking only about "working" families and not retired couples. And – math teachers, please note – he meant median (or midpoint) and not really the mean or average. Median family income actually has inched up slightly under Bush.

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/obamas-oil-spill/

In a new ad, Obama says, "I don’t take money from oil companies."

Technically, that’s true, since a law that has been on the books for more than a century prohibits corporations from giving money directly to any federal candidate. But that doesn’t distinguish Obama from his rivals in the race.

We find the statement misleading:
■Obama has accepted more than $213,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses.
■Two of Obama’s bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/05/factchecking-obama-2/

We are periodically taking a look at past claims from the 2012 presidential candidates. Up next: President Barack Obama.

The president officially launched his 2012 campaign on April 4, but we’ve been fact-checking his statements for about four years now. Among the major misstatements:
■Obama has misrepresented Republican plans for Medicare. Recently, he made the exaggerated claim that Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal was "a voucher program that leaves seniors at the mercy of the insurance industry." But those age 55 and older will remain in the current program, and those who are younger would buy private plans, with the help of subsidies, on a Medicare exchange where coverage would be guaranteed and plans would have to charge the same rate to those of the same age. On the campaign trail, Obama ads falsely said that Sen. John McCain’s health care plan would result in "cuts in benefits, eligibility or both."
■In a White House ad featuring Andy Griffith, the Obama administration glossed over the fact that under the health care law, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries could lose extra benefits they receive beyond the traditional "guaranteed" benefits. The Congressional Budget Office has said that the 10 million seniors on MA plans could see their extra benefits reduced by $43 per month on average.
■The president also speculated that turning Medicaid into a block grant program, as Ryan has proposed, would would leave "poor children," "children with autism" and "kids with disabilities" to "fend for themselves." But the Republican plan doesn’t say that states can’t or shouldn’t cover those children. Instead, it says states would have "freedom and flexibility to tailor a Medicaid program" as they see fit.
■Before last year’s midterm elections, Obama made the false claim that Republican leaders in Congress were "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda." The GOP leadership wasn’t pushing to allow Americans to invest Social Security taxes in the stock market then, and leaders still aren’t doing it now.
■He repeatedly has made inflated or optimistic claims about lowering families’ health care costs. Obama made the claim back on the campaign trail — and continued after he was elected — that families would save $2,500 a year on average. Obama said more than half of the savings would come from the use of electronic health records, and he said he’d do this "by the end of my first term." But that hasn’t happened yet. As of 2009, only 11.9 percent of hospitals had implemented basic or comprehensive electronic records, according to a study published in Health Affairs, and 17 percent of physicians were using such systems, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The campaign also said part of these savings for families would actually trickle down to them from the savings for government, insurance companies and health providers. That’s doubtful. After taking office, Obama said these $2,500 savings "could" happen because of "comprehensive reform" and cost-control measures from insurance companies and the health care industry. It’s important to note that Obama is talking about lowering the rate of growth in families’ spending — so costs would still go up, just not by as much, according to the president. We can’t predict the future, but this is still awfully optimistic.
■During the 2008 campaign, he repeatedly called for eliminating "tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." But that won’t do much to stop offshoring. As Eric Toder of the Tax Policy Center told us, the claim "is a nice political slogan, but will do little or nothing for U.S. employment or incomes."
■Obama has made several ambitious, perhaps overly so, statements. In this year’s State of the Union address, he set goals of getting 80 percent of U.S. electricity from "clean" sources by 2035 and expanding high-speed rail so it reaches 80 percent of the county’s population in the next 25 years. But the first major "clean coal" plant isn’t yet in operation, and the president includes nuclear as a "clean" option. Is it "clean"? It doesn’t produce emissions, but then there’s the matter of what to do with the radioactive waste. As for those fast trains, about 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in urban areas, but there’s only one high-speed rail line operating now. There’s a long way to go to connect all major cities.