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Marco Rubio: Obama most ‘divisive’ political figure in U.S. history
Potential Republican vice presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Saturday blasted President Barack Obama, claiming he was the most “divisive” political figure in modern American history. “They get frustrated,” he Rubio said at a Republican fundraising dinner in South Carolina. “They can’t win on their record. And so they have chosen…
G8 pledges to lift 50 million Africans out of poverty
G8 leaders on Saturday pledged to lift millions of Africans out of poverty by promoting investments in sustainable agriculture. “Today we commit to launch a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture, take to scale new technologies and other innovations…
Romney tells NATO leaders he’d be a better partner
WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Mitt Romney urged NATO leaders gathering in Chicago this weekend to consider him a more reliable partner than President Barack Obama, whose actions “undermine” the alliance. The presumptive Republican nominee accused Obama of diminished international leadership and orchestrating nearly $1 trillion in cuts to the…
Obama announces partnership with private sector to feed the world’s poor
US President Barack Obama on Friday reached out to the private sector in hopes of lifting 50 million people in the developing world from poverty, as wealthy nations grapple with a budget crunch. Ahead of talks of the Group of Eight major industrial nations, Obama pledged that the United States…
Chris Wallace: ‘McCain was crazy’ not to attack Obama with Rev. Wright
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Friday suggested that it would be “legitimate” for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to attack President Barack Obama for his association with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. “As far as Rev. Wright is concerned, I think it had a lot of relevance and…
Greek euro exit looms as G8 gathers
World leaders will huddle at Camp David Friday with the focus on Greece as it stumbles toward a possible eurozone exit that would hold wildly uncertain repercussions for the global economy. Leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised nations will gather at the history-imbued US presidential retreat near Washington for…
Romney: ‘I stand by what I said, whatever it was’
On Thursday at a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that he stood by his comments regarding President Barack Obama, even though he couldn’t remember what they were. “When you did an interview with Sean Hannity in February, you said that you believed that…
Obama’s former literary agency claimed he was born in Kenya
Breitbart News reported on Thursday that a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by President Barack Obama’s then-literary agency claimed he was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” Obama has been dogged by questions about his eligibility to serve as President of the United States since 2008. Many…
Senate approves new Federal Reserve governors
WASHINGTON — The US Senate Thursday confirmed two Obama administration nominees to the board of the Federal Reserve after Republicans kept them on hold since December. The confirmations of economist Jeremy Stein and investment banker Jerome Powell will bring the Fed’s board up to full strength of seven governors for…
Ni-CLANG! Event Horizon: Republican Legislator Knows ‘in his Heart’ that President Obama is Not an American
The nation took a giant leap towards the Ni-CLANG! Event Horizon yesterday: ELBERT COUNTY – Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) is backpedaling after 9NEWS was first to report on an audio recording of his comments at a recent fundraiser where he raised the issue of President Barack Obama’s birthplace and said the president,…
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