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Actress Elizabeth Banks: Romney won’t help women with ‘a heavy flow’
In what may be a first for U.S. presidential campaign advertisements, actress Elizabeth Banks is warning that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would strip Planned Parenthood of funding and prevent some women from receiving treatment for conditions like migraines and “a heavy flow.” “Planned Parenthood was my health care…
WATCH LIVE: Mitt Romney campaigns in Iowa
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney makes a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on Aug. 8. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Stewart: Romney used ‘the world’s financial dialysis machine’ against Italy
After briefly discussing Harry Reid’s accusations of tax-dodging against Mitt Romney, Jon Stewart took a closer look Tuesday night at the financial deal that made Romney persona non grata in Italy involving what he called “a country that exists solely as the world’s financial dialysis machine.” About 12 years ago,…
MSNBC host Harris-Perry: Romney’s ad stokes racial resentment
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry said Tuesday that Mitt Romney’s latest advertisement subtlety used race to attack President Barack Obama. “I do think on the question of tactics, you can use African American bodies, particularly the bodies of poor black women, as a bogey man, as a wedge — the goal…
Obama team slams Romney for ‘untrue and hypocritical’ welfare claims
President Barack Obama’s campaign lashed out at his Republican contender, Mitt Romney, on Tuesday for claiming that welfare was being “gutted” by the current administration. “These false and extremely hypocritical attacks demonstrate how Mitt Romney lacks the core strength and principles the nation needs in a President,” Obama campaign spokeswoman…
Why you shouldn’t care about either Obama’s or Romney’s grades
Academic grades are a load of crap. Sorry, but it’s true. (And, if you’re going to argue that I only say that because I got bad ones, then I encourage you to try and prove that.) Grades — especially outside of hard science and math — are an entirely subjective…
Obama slams Romney as ‘Robin Hood in reverse’
STAMFORD, Connecticut — US President Barack Obama joked Monday that his election foe Mitt Romney’s tax plans would rob from the middle class to help the rich — “like Robin Hood in reverse.” Obama intensified his attacks on the Republican’s tax reform plans at a fundraising event in Connecticut, on…
White House sidesteps raging Romney tax returns battle
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday refused to be drawn into a fierce row involving the top Senate Democrat Harry Reid, branded a “dirty liar” by Republicans for his accusations about Mitt Romney’s tax record. Senate Majority leader Reid claimed last week that a secret source had told him…
New Obama commercial slams Romney for his opposition to ‘Burn, baby, burn!’
The 2008 election cycle gave us “Drill, baby, drill!,” courtesy of then-VP candidate Sarah Palin (R-AK), but in 2012, it looks to be “Burn, baby, burn!” (and not even in a Disco Inferno). And this time, it might not even be the Republicans chanting it. President Obama is already out…
Obama embraces ‘clean coal’ in Ohio radio ad
A new radio ad for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign attacks Mitt Romney’s record on coal plants started running in the coal-heavy state of Ohio Tuesday, Politico reports. The ad lauds Obama’s $5 billion investment in technology for “clean coal” plants and 10 percent growth in coal jobs in Ohio,…
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