Obama "closed offshore tax safe havens."
Obama has "visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office."
When it comes to aid, "the United States is still about half as what European countries give as a percentage."
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
A request for "an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House (during the presidency of George W. Bush), including the vice president's, for more than eight months, a resource request filled by President Obama in March."
The Obama administration notified Poland and the Czech Republic about cancellation of major missile-defense facilities "at the last minute in midnight phone calls."
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
On whether he would put a missile shield in Poland.
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
Obama used $20 million in federal money "to emmigrate (sic) Hamas Refugees to the USA."
Obama's "first call (as president) to any head of state was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory."
"Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me."
McCain is "selectively editing Joe Biden's words...Biden actually said about Barack Obama: 'They're gonna find out this guy's got steel in his spine.'"
"Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'"
"Obama said he would unilaterally renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement."
John McCain said "he wouldn't even sit down with the government of Spain, a NATO ally that has troops in Afghanistan with us now."
John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."
McCain "said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he . . . wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us."
"The average South Korean is 3 inches taller than the average North Korean, a huge gulag."
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