Statements about Candidate Biography
Charges on the Republican Party of Florida credit card were made with "my money."
"Fifty-seven" of Rubio's 100 ideas "ultimately became law."
Bill McCollum "cost the rest of us billions" as a member of Congress, including a national debt that "skyrocketed" to $4.7 trillion.
Bill McCollum voted four times to raise his own pay, by a total of $51,000, and earns a congressional pension worth more than $75,000 a year.
"As bank president, Alex Sink eliminated thousands of Florida jobs while taking over $8 million in salary and bonuses."
"Barack Obama had 150 days in the U.S. Senate where he was able to vote quite often 'present.' "
In Massachusetts, Scott Brown's Republican affiliation is "not a secret, but clearly not on display."
"Mitt Romney ... gave you government health care that is now bankrupting the state" of Massachusetts.
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."
"Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama."
Birthers have obtained a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs "lied" when he said President Obama's birth certificate is posted on the Internet.
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 "would guarantee Barack Obama will never be held accountable for producing forged birth documents."
"Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."
President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.
"Sen. Obama has never taken on his party leaders on a single major issue."
"And 100 percent, John, of your ads . . . 100 percent of them have been negative."
Michelle Obama ordered $400 worth of lobster and caviar at a New York hotel.
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