By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated PressWASHINGTONOn a trip to Israel, Mitt Romney is trying to win over a tiny sliver of a small but powerful section of the American electorate. President Barack Obama is doing the same at home. But while Romney’s
Boris Johnson, mayor of London, took advantage of Mitt Romney’s “gaffe” regarding the London Olympics to self-aggrandize. At a concert in Hyde Park that attracted 60,000 people to celebrate the end of the Olympic Torch relay, Johnson bellowed, “There are some
(AP) Few think sluggish US economy will strengthen soonBy MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONA U.S. economy that plodded along in the first three months of the year likely grew even less in the April-June quarter. And most economists no longer think
The media is still playing up Mitt Romney’s criticism of the London Olympics–even ahead of today’s big economic news–and now they’re playing up his attempt to walk it back. (The UK Daily Mail is calling Romney’s change of heart a
House Majority Leader Congressman Eric Cantor joined Charlie Rose to talk about Mitt Romney’s comments on the Olympics and the race for the White House.
Whether the media and Barack Obama like it or not, Obama is losing and no juiced NBC poll is going to change that. Rasmussen should really change the name of its poll to The Poll The Media Pretends Doesn’t Exist!
The left-wing press in Britain is having its fun recounting–and inventing–media gaffes by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But this particular controversy lacks that particular element of coordination with the domestic media that gives an Obama campaign meme the juice
All day Wednesday, the Old Media establishment was going gaga over the “gaffes” that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney supposedly committed on his overseas tour. But all the many gaffes Obama committed with our allies — especially the Brits —
Lately, President Obama has spent a lot of time trying to paint Gov. Mitt Romney as a mix of George W. Bush and a cold warrior on foreign policy. In an effort to make this stick, he has enrolled the
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney committed the cardinal sin of telling the truth when he answered a question from NBC’s Brian Williams about Britain’s readiness on the eve of the Olympic Games. It was only a year ago, for example,
Polls and the behavior of the Obama campaign show that the unceasing attacks on Romney’s business record have not only failed to hurt Romney but have probably backfired on the President, hurting the only thing keeping him alive — his
The Christian Science Monitor apparently thought it was doing the country a public service by laying out rules by which to judge whether or not a Mitt Romney ad is “racist,” but in its five questions to ask yourself about
By JULIE PACEAssociated PressSEATTLEIn a rare face-off on foreign policy, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are swapping sharp criticism but exposing few clear policy differences on key national security matters. For Romney, who seeks to boost his
The only recent poll that reflects any good news for Team Obama is so wildly skewed in the President’s favor that it’s actually bad news. If a poll skewed D+11 only shows Obama with a 6-point lead and at 49%
On Monday, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said at the World Affairs Council that the White House appears to be responsible for leaking classified national security information to reporters. Republicans have also alleged senior White
Andrew Kaczynski, following BuzzFeed’s pattern of BenSmithing on behalf of President Obama, tweeted today that Mitt Romney’s attacks on the Obama administration national security leaks are unjustified. Why? Here’s what Kaczynski had to say: Mitt Romney hasn’t always been so
“Fight for Space” is a scrappy indie documentary extolling the virtues of space travel and bemoaning the country’s reticence to fund it. The folks behind the upcoming film turned to Kickstarter.com, a film production crowd sourcing site, to raise the
State Senator Louise Lucas (D-VA) is one of President Obama’s official campaign “Truth Team” surrogates, and this is what she said the other day on the John Fredericks Morning Show, a morning radio talk show in Virginia. Please listen to
Today, Mitt Romney spoke at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Convention in Reno, Nevada. For one of the first times in the campaign – certainly the first time since his brilliant and straightforward speech at the National Association
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama of leaking for political gain classified details of the raid that killed al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and covert actions in Iran.
Politico reports that Harvey Weinstein, the leftist Oscar-winning producer of “Shakespeare in Love,” blustered that the $38,000-a-plate fundraiser he’s hosting for President Barack Obama is simply an attempt to even the playing field between the super-rich who are backing Mitt Romney, and the
Yesterday, speaking at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nevada, Barack Obama accused Republicans of sacrificing the needs of the military in order to protect tax cuts for the rich: “Now they’re trying to wriggle out of what they agreed
Any untimely death is tragic. “The world,” as Ernest Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms, “kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.” Most of the 2.5 million Americans who die each year succumb
All we hear from the media is how important they think it is for private citizens to get more involved and engaged in politics and the American political discussion. But we know, of course, that what they really mean is
Today’s feature story at the corrupt Politico is written by Maggie Haberman (you remember her) and, in order to aid and abet the Obama campaign’s narrative about how secretive and shady Romney is, the article is titled “The Hidden Mitt.”
On a July 23 appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Huffington Post Editorial Director and former Newsweek Editor Howard Fineman accused Mitt Romney of pandering to a “xenophobic” Republican Party, a racist party, he said, that is “afraid of
Barack Obama has staked his reelection campaign on demonizing Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, a private equity firm he founded. His campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars accusing Romney of closing factories, laying-off workers and shipping jobs
All day long, I suffer through 14 to 16 hours of CNN and MSNBC as I surf online mainstream media sites overwhelmed by the lies, bias, and corruption that 20 people working 24 hours a day couldn’t possibly rebut. Oddly
One of president Obama’s aides, former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for the Middle East Colin Kahl, explained to reporters today that President Obama will not travel to Israel during his first term. Only if he’s re-elected will he visit
Democratic State Sen. Louise Lucas, An official Obama “Truth Team” surrogate in Virginia, said the following on the John Fredericks Morning Show: “What I am saying to you is Mitt Romney, he’s speaking to a segment of the population, who
During the month of June, the Obama campaign ran a $12 million deficit. The President’s campaign committee, Obama for America, spent $58.1 million, but it raised only $45.9 million. In contrast, Mitt Romney’s campaign committee, Romney for President, had a
In a July 21 column in the New York Daily News, the editorial board assigns fault for the massacre in a Colorado theater. The fault is not just assigned to killer James Holmes, but absurdly to Obama, Romney, the NRA
When CNN’s Roland Martin sent out a series of Tweets about an underwear commercial starring soccer standout David Beckham GLAAD snapped into action. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation claimed Martin’s Tweets were tantamount to gay bashing, and Martin
Not even 24 hours after President Barack Obama spoke to the nation after meeting with the victims of the tragedy in Aurora (Mitt Romney said what Obama did was “the right thing to do”), Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod,
(AP) Netanyahu to convey Iranian concerns to RomneyWASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’ll tell Mitt Romney in their July 28 meeting about Israel’s wish for Mideast peace and concerns about “the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons.” Netanyahu
Sam Stein at Huffington Post makes much of the fact that former Obama administration “car czar” Steve Rattner is now slamming Republican contender Mitt Romney for his management of his personal finances, when Rattner once defended Romney’s record on Bain
The “Face the Nation” roundtable, CBS News’ Barry Peterson, Bob Orr, Norah O’Donnell and John Dickerson, discuss the latest on the Aurora, CO, shooting and President Obama’s visit, the attacks in Bulgaria and Iran’s involvement, and Mitt Romney’s visit to
The “You didn’t build that” fiasco, including the incoherent spinning Obama’s minions around the mainstream media have been doing ever since, provides us not only a wonderful opportunity to peek inside the liberal hive mind but a chance to dissect
CBS: NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the country’s highest profile supporters of gun control, continues to pressure President Obama and Mitt Romney to take positions on gun control, telling Bob Schieffer, “if they want our votes, they better.”
According to a brand new Rasmussen poll out this morning, military veterans prefer Mitt Romney by a wide margin, 59% to 35%. Another 5% prefer a third party candidate; 2% are undecided. This poll has been echoed by Gallup, which