campaign said the release of the clips were a “transparent attempt” by Mitt Romney’s allies to divert from a secretly-recorded tape where the Republican nominee told a fundraiser that “there are 47% who are with him [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims”. Campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said: “The only thing shocking about this is that they app…
owever, I can’t think of any way myself or my daughter can …respond to a media outlet that won’t be twisted out of context. The Dallas news TV news already showed that in their brief 5 minute interview with the psychologist. Additionally, there’s absolutely NO way I’m going to send my child the message that it’s OK to gain from something like this. It would send…
2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329 votes) Barack Obama 41% (90,743 votes) Arizona (11 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (896,302 votes) Barack Obama 43% (707,744 votes) Arkansas (6 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 60% (631,244 votes) Barack Obama 37% (38…
ok and they would read together and discuss writers into the night. Like Alexandra McNear, Genevieve Cook was attracted by the “mental exhilaration” of his intellect, marveling at how mature he was at 22, but dismayed by his remoteness and wariness about commitment. Needless to say, Barack Obama was as self-obsessed as ever. When Genevieve Cook told him that she loved him, Barack Obama’s response…
A poll of more than 570,000 people across the globe has revealed non-Americans want Barack Obama to remain President of the United States. The research, conducted across 36 countries outside the US, revealed 81% were in favor of Barack Obama spending another four years in office. And only 19% preferred his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to the findings from MSN. Interestingly, the o…
n Dunham, who was white with various European ancestry. The two men share the common bond of their father, Barack Obama Sr., but even that was not very strong because of their age gap. Barack Obama is 50-years-old while George is only 30-years-old, and Barack Sr died in a car accident just six months after George was born. The President reportedly has seven half-siblings on his father’s side…
Edward Klein’s book, The Amateur, claims that Michelle Obama prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama in 2000 following his disastrous attempt to win a House seat in Chicago. When Barack Obama lost miserably, the future First Lady was supposedly disgusted that her husband had ignored her warnings not to take on the four term incumbent Bobby Rush. Their marriage – in its eighth…
218 electoral votes for Barack Obama and 320 for Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence. The prediction model uses economic data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, including income per capita and both state and national unemployment figures. The research concluded that U.S. voters blame Democrats for high unemployment rat…
aratchiks in the post-debate spin room in Florida on Monday – he told the crowd that a vote for Mitt Romney would plunge Americans back to the early 1960s. “You can choose to turn the clock back 50 years for women and immigrants and gays,” he said. “Or in this election you can stand up for the principle that America includes everybody. We’re all created equal – black, white, Hisp…
ll taxes, which fund benefits such as Social Security, and income taxes, which largely fund the rest of the federal budget. In 2011, the Tax Policy Center studied the tax liability of US households: • 53.6% paid income taxes, 46.4% did not • 28.3% paid payroll taxes but not income taxes • 10.3% were elderly and retired and were not taxed on Social Security benefits • 6.9% did not pay any tax with…
…y – the Republicans – had lost their way and had forfeited the label of conservative. Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said the next president would set the tone for the next 40 years. “It will be the president’s leadership that determines how we as a nation meet the challenges that face the middle class. It is the president’s values that shape a future…
…econd term as president. The risk is the political blowback that can come if he is seen as crossing a line into politicizing national security. “Sad,” said a Mitt Romney spokeswoman. “Shameless,” said 2008 Barack Obama election foe John McCain. Joe Biden even combined the killing of the Al Qaeda leader and Barack Obama’s support for a failing auto industry into what he called a re-election b…
pen question but the Romney campaign thinks so. “What’s going on here is when you have intensity and momentum,” said the Romney adviser. “You ask voters who they’re voting for and they say 48, 47 points Obama. And then you look at the people who are eight, nine,10 on the intensity scale, Republicans have a high single digits to low double digits advantage. “That’s what you see in…
…cleared.”) Jimmy Kimmel also picked up on the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia, saying he told the Secret Service that for $800 he wouldn’t joke about them, “but they only offered 30”. “If this had happened on President Clinton’s watch, you can damn well bet those Secret Service agents would have been disciplined with a very serious high five,” Jimmy Kimmel said. Among t…
ecent polls indicate that the election is likely to be a close contest, although an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday evening showed that Barack Obama’s approval rate has hit 50% for the first time since March. In addition, the poll put the president ahead of Mitt Romney by 5% among likely voters polled across the nation. The poll had a margin of error of 3.6%. On David L…
President Barack Obama won re-election with a similar coalition that carried him to the presidency in 2008: women, young voters, African Americans and Latinos. But the popular vote was not as strongly in Barack Obama’s favor this time, owing to declines in some key but shrinking parts of the electorate. 1. The female vote Men and women split between the candidates: overall, 55% of women vo…
…e claims are likely to feed the image of Michelle Obama as an “angry black woman”, a label she herself dismissed earlier this year. They could also reopen questions about the Obama’s marriage of 20 years as in the past they reportedly rowed a lot and came close to splitting up. In his book, The Amateur, journalist Edward Klein claims that Michelle Obama’s “obsessive” behavior is the talk of…
Barack Obama’s campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new ad targeting young voters in which Lena Dunham, the creator of the HBO hit series Girls, compares her first voting experience to losing her virginity. “Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody,” Lena Dunham, 26, says in the ad. “You want to do it with a great guy.” Lena Dunham goes on to explain that “your first time” should b…
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…laza Hotel, Barack Obama scheduled a visit to the World Trade Center site The intimate dinner at the house of Sarah Jessica Parker and her actor husband Matthew Broderick banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,000 each to attend. Speaking in a dimly-lit, art-filled room, Barack Obama told supporters they would play a critical role in an election that would determine a vision for the na…
…Room designed to highlight the “gutsy call” made by the President. Barack Obama used a news conference yesterday to trumpet his personal role and imply that his Republican opponent Mitt Romney, who in 2008 expressed reservations about the wisdom of sending troops into Pakistan, would have let Osama bin Laden live. “I said that I’d go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did,”…
…es posted another clip from the same fundraiser in which Mitt Romney disparages those who would vote for his Democratic rival, President Barack Obama. The Republican candidate is shown saying that the 47% of Americans who back the president do not pay income tax and would never vote for Mitt Romney. “There are 47% who are with him [Barack Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believ…
US President Barack Obama’s annual vacation in Hawaii in 2011 is likely to be his most expensive ever – or rather the taxpayer’s most expensive. President Barack Obama and his family travelled separately this time because he wanted resolve the payroll tax cut issue before leaving Washington. First Lady Michelle Obama didn’t not want to hang around waiting. His round trip flight…
…ure the candidates will oblige by keeping their answers concise and on point.” It was revealed from CNN timekeeping on the debate, that Barack Obama had spoke for three extra minutes The President got 44:04 minutes of speaking time, while Romney got 40:50. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had both revealed their concern over Candy Crowley ahead of tonight’s second presidential debate because she…
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Eurovision 2013 winner is Denmark's Emmelie de Forest with Only TeardropsDenmark has won 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmo. Danish Emmelie de Forest had been the overwhelming favorite among the 26 entries, with her…
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