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Obama congratulates Romney on clinching nomination
US President Barack Obama Wednesday called Mitt Romney after his foe locked down the Republican nomination to take him on in November’s election and called for a healthy debate on America’s future. “The President called Governor Romney to congratulate him on securing the Republican nomination,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said. “President Obama said that he looked forward to…
Romney surrogate: CNN ‘should be embarrassed’ for covering birther story
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, who is now a surrogate for Mitt Romney, on Wednesday blasted CNN host Soledad O’Brien for reporting on the presumptive Republican nominee’s link to birthers like billionaire Donald Trump. Following a week of ranting by Trump about President Barack Obama’s citizenship, O’Brien asked Sununu…
“Magic undies”? Really?
Dear Fellow Progressives: Consider this a rant. For years now, you’ve accepted and been supportive of me and my faith, down to and including the multicolored beanies on my husband’s and son’s heads (and the scarf on my own) when we say our prayers. But lately I’ve been hearing a…
Colbert: ‘All Mitt needs are the blacks who like Donald Trump’
Stephen Colbert returned Tuesday evening from his two-week break and was eager to talk about how GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney doesn’t mind having the presence of celebrity birther Donald Trump around him. On the latest installment of The Colbert Report, the Comedy Central host analyzed the block of…
Romney takes Republican presidential nomination with Texas win
Mitt Romney was on target to clinch the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday by winning the Texas primary, but the milestone was being overshadowed by a rehashed controversy over President Barack Obama’s birthplace. Voters in the second most populous US state cast their ballots Tuesday, with Romney the only Republican…
Obama camp questions Romney morals over Trump flap
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s camp accused Mitt Romney Tuesday of lacking “moral leadership” over a planned appearance with tycoon Donald Trump, who is fanning a row over the president’s birthplace. Romney and Trump were due to appear at a fundraising event in Las Vegas on the day when the former…
Top Democrat: Romney’s ‘Latino problem’ is like alcoholism
A top Democrat on Friday accused presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of having a problem with Hispanic voters that rivaled alcoholism. “Mitt Romney has a Latino problem,” Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, told Univision News. “And like those who are alcoholic and go…
Limbaugh: ‘I created more jobs than Obama and Romney put together’
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday scoffed at the job creation records of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, insisting that he had created more jobs than both of them combined. Recalling how he put together his EIB radio network in 1988, Limbaugh said that…
Romney campaign quietly scrubs all mentions of anti-labor adviser Peter Schaumber
The campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has scrubbed its website of all mentions of its former top labor adviser, Peter Schaumber, following the resignation of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Terence Flynn, who is accused of leaking internal government documents to Schaumber in violation of federal…
Mitt Romney is Standing By His Racist Orange Man
Here’s the latest from the Romney Circus Campaign. ::cue slidewhistle:: Mitt Romney said Monday he wasn’t concerned about Donald Trump’s commitment to the “birther” conspiracy, one day before the GOP presidential candidate hosts a fund-raiser alongside the celebrity business magnate. Asked on his charter plane whether Trump’s questioning of President…
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