FACT CHECK (duh!)

NYTIMES: AP Fact Checks McCain

Obama is not in support of the Universal Healthcare proposals exactly as majority other Dems are. His plan would be mandatory only for children, and voluntary for everyone else. Obama would allow those who want to keep their current employer-based health insurance to do so. And as if it were necessary to point this out, McCain is given to exaggeration: McCain is also standing by his pledge to balance the federal budget in four years with no tax increases -- a pledge analysts say may be close to impossible given current economic conditions and the added cost of the $700 billion bailout.