Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."
Every family health insurance policy has "a $900 hidden tax" to subsidize health care costs of the uninsured.
"A year ago, in March 2007, I called for immediate action to address abuses in the subprime market, and I laid out detailed concrete proposals for how to do so."
Hillary Clinton advocates "a freeze on foreclosures. Barack Obama said no."
"Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies."
"Again today (Ahmadinejad) made light of 9/11, and said that he's not even sure it happened and that people actually died."
Says she is the subject of 60 books.
Obama served on a board with former Weather Underground member William Ayers and "that relationship with Mr. Ayers on this board continued after 9/11."
"Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?"
"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."
Hillary Clinton "has the only health care plan that covers every American."
"Senator Obama has, in fact, never had a serious Republican challenger."
In the Illinois Legislature, Barack Obama "voted 'present,' instead of yes or no" on seven votes involving abortion rights.
"You know, Sen. McCain said the other day that we might have troops (in Iraq) for 100 years..."
"There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program."
"Sen. Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies."
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "
"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."
"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.
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