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Coulter on debate: Michelle Obama ‘wanted to go home with Mitt’
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter says that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s victory over President Barack Obama at Wednesday night’s debate was so absolute that Michelle Obama wanted spend the night with the GOP hopeful. “The fact that Obama didn’t prepare, this is like him not being prepared for the attack…
Michelle Obama: Debate ‘worst way’ to spend anniversary
DENVER, Colorado — US President Barack Obama is marking his 20th wedding anniversary by squaring off against rival Mitt Romney in their first debate — and First Lady Michelle is less than thrilled. “I told Barack, ‘This, you know, attending a presidential debate on my 20th anniversary is probably the…
Stewart slams Fox News over hypocritical school lunch coverage
Why is Fox News devoting so much time to attacking the government’s push toward healthier school lunches, Jon Stewart asked Thursday? Because First Lady Michelle Obama is involved. “If she said we need air, half the country would demand gills because, freedom!” Stewart said. Stewart specifically pointed at anchor Megyn…
Obama team defends speech, says voters got it
OWA CITY, Iowa — Barack Obama’s campaign repudiated pundits who found his big convention speech flat, boring and stripped of inspiration, insisting the president achieved exactly what he set out to do. Obama Friday found himself in the odd position of leaving a major political event unable to bask in…
Obama, Romney head to swing states post-convention to drum up support
When Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign plane headed east from Iowa to New Hampshire on Friday, he might have been tempted to look out the window for his White House rival. President Barack Obama, it turns out, was on a similar flight to and from the same states — albeit in…
Madonna shows support for Obama instead of ‘my a**’
Provocative pop star Madonna revealed more than skin when she pulled off her top at her New York concert Thursday — showing off black letters on her lower back spelling “OBAMA.” “Tonight I’m not going to show my ass,” she said, according to US media.”I’m going to show my feelings.…
5 Questions For: Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) on the GOP’s war on women, welfare moms and voters
Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) represents Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional district, which includes Milwaukee and several of its working-class suburbs. She comes to the job from a path not normally followed by her colleagues, which included being a single mother while finishing college and — like President Obama’s mother — needing government…
Limbaugh: Obama ‘doesn’t have slave blood’ and isn’t ‘authentically black’
Republican radio host Rush Limbaugh just couldn’t resist going there on Wednesday. Apparently tweaked by First Lady Michelle Obama’s enormously popular speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Limbaugh told his listening audience that she’s lying about having to struggle and take on debt. “Obama did not…
Colbert: Michelle Obama only got DNC speaking gig because of who her husband is
Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert dissected First Lady Michelle Obama’s widely praised 2012 Democratic National Convention speech. Rock-ribbed conservative pundit Colbert was not drinking the Obama-ade, however. “Oh, I wonder how she got that gig,” he mused. ”Crony capitalism! Solyndra!” The First Lady, he said, spoke…
Study: First Lady’s convention speech seven grade levels higher than Ann Romney’s
The speech First Lady Michelle Obama delivered at Tuesday night’s Democratic convention read at a twelfth grade level, according to an analysis by a University of Minnesota political scientist, making it, by that measure, the most complex speech delivered by a presidential candidate’s spouse at a nominating convention. By contrast,…
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