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Santorum: Obama is ‘a snob’ who ‘wants everybody to go to college’
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum once again attacked President Barack Obama on wanting students to go to college Saturday morning, calling the president a “snob” on the campaign trail in Troy, Michigan. Santorum spoke the tea party group Americans For Prosperity’s Michigan branch and received a round of applauds for…
GOP reliance on ‘culture wars’ turning off younger voters
By Patricia Zengerle Feb 24, 2012 13:02 EST FAIRFAX, Virginia (Reuters) – Colleen Wilson has all the makings of a foot soldier for whichever Republican becomes the nominee to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election. The Virginia college student comes from a conservative family and describes herself as…
Obama nets election funds at basketball fete
President Barack Obama raised $2.1 million at an election-year fundraiser that allowed him to indulge in his love of basketball, but missed seeing NBA phenom Jeremy Lin. The $30,000-a-plate dinner at Dallas Maverick forward Vince Carter’s house in Orlando, Florida was attended by legendary Los Angeles Laker Earvin “Magic” Johnson…
Republicans see ‘jobs bills’ as election winner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tucked in his left breast-coat pocket where he can pull it out to wave before TV cameras is ammunition that House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner believes his Republicans can use to achieve victory in the November 6 elections. It is a four-by-eight-inch card detailing more than…
Jon Stewart: Gingrich confuses Obama with King Herod
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Thursday took aim at the recent Republican presidential debate in Arizona, noting that after one more, the “debates will be able to drink legally.” During Wednesday night’s debate, the moderator asked a question about birth control. Like in previous debates, former House Speaker…
Republican state attorneys general sue Obama over birth control rule
Seven state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration that seeks to block the implementation of new federal government rules regarding contraception coverage. The attorneys general of Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, along with some Catholic organizations, said in their lawsuit that the…
Santorum: Obama ‘in bed with Muslim Brotherhood’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that President Barack Obama was “willing to jump in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood” and throw former dictator Hosni Mubarak “under the bus” during Egypt’s 2011 revolution. Speaking to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Wednesday, the former Pennsylvania senator warned that the…
Obama says he will tackle immigration reform in his second term
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, expressing confidence he will win re-election in November, told a Hispanic audience he would use a second term to seek comprehensive immigration reform. “My presidency is not over,” Obama said in an interview with Univision Radio when asked about his failure so far to…
Jon Stewart rips Republican fear-mongering over Obama: ‘You have lost your d*mn mind’
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart lampooned Republican politicians who demonized President Barack Obama in 2008 as a radical socialist who was weak on terrorism. He noted Obama had failed to live up to many of the campaign promises that his opponents made for him,…
High oil prices test U.S. economy, Obama
A jump in gasoline prices is threatening to smother the flickering flames of the US economic recovery and with them President Barack Obama’s hopes of retaining the White House. Groggy but still standing after a four-year slog through recession, the US economy has — just about — weathered shocks from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami,…
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