Politifact examines Joe the Plumber's claim that Obama's parents were communist [View all]

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Joe made the claim recently in Ohio; and the site reaches the conclusion that Joe is full of s***.

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"The evidence that Wurzelbacher produced doesn’t back his claim. There does not seem to be any proof that Obama’s mother was a communist. Nor does the 1965 paper authored by Obama’s estranged father verify that he was a communist. And authors of books on Obama say there’s no evidence that Obama’s parents were communists.

We give Wurzelbacher’s incendiary statement a False rating"