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NAACP official: Romney ‘rigged crowd’ by having blacks ‘flown in’

The director to the NAACP’s Washington Bureau revealed on Thursday that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney had conservative African Americans “flown in” to the 103rd convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to make it appear that he had more support than he really did. During an…

Obama: U.S. economy had a ‘heart attack’

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that the US economy had suffered a “heart attack” and survived but is not recuperating quickly enough, as he geared up to unveil a major jobs plan. Obama appeared on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” in what also appeared to be…