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Obama ad: Romney tax plan would send 800,000 jobs overseas
In a new ad released on Saturday by the campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama, Deputy Campaign Director Stephanie Cutter attempted to debunk recent assertions by former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s campaign regarding President Obama, China and the economy. At the outset of the video, Cutter quoted Romney campaign staffer…
Protests target U.S. symbols across Muslim world
Furious protesters targeted symbols of US influence in cities across the Muslim world, attacking embassies, schools and restaurants in retaliation for a film that mocks Islam. At least six protesters died in Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Sudan as local police battled to defend American missions from mobs of stone-throwers, and…
Obama attorneys ask court to restore indefinite detention power
Less than 24 hours after a judge blocked a law that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trial, attorneys for the Obama administration were already filing an appeal. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in New York ruled Wednesday that the law is unconstitutional after The…
Bachmann: Libya attack was effort to impose Sharia law on the U.S.
Former Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann on Friday asserted that the recent attacks on American embassies in Libya and Egypt were part of a plan to bring Sharia law to the United States. “The violence has come to us, the United States,” the Minnesota congresswoman warned in a speech at…
Romney adviser blames ‘amateur’ Obama for ambassador’s death
Launching a new line of attack on Thursday, a top foreign policy adviser to the Romney presidential campaign claimed that President Barack Obama is an “amateur” at foreign relations and blamed the president for the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Libya. “There’s a pretty compelling story that if…
Romney: Obama ‘tends to say things that aren’t true’
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the upcoming debates will be tough because President Barack Obama has a tendency to “say things that aren’t true.” “I think he’s going to say a lot of things that aren’t accurate,” Romney told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview that aired on Friday.…
Kansas GOP officials end consideration of removing Obama from November ballot
Update on the objection being withdrawn below. The Kansas State Objections Board is considering removing President Barack Obama from the November ballot because of doubts over his place of birth, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. The panel of Republicans, which consists of Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Attorney General Derek…
Cornel West: Obama very much part of a system that has failed the poor
Princeton professor Cornel West said Thursday that President Barack Obama had not done enough to help the poor, but he was still a better choice than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “I mean, we would say that the mendacity and mediocrity of Romney is such that it’s fairly clear that…
Romney: Middle East ‘needs’ U.S. leadership
FAIRFAX, Virginia — Republican nominee Mitt Romney paid tribute Thursday to four American diplomats killed in Libya, and while he steered clear of President Barack Obama’s handling of the crisis he said US power was vital in the Middle East. Romney sparked a furor late Tuesday and Wednesday when he…
Romney heckled in Virginia for ‘politicizing’ U.S. ambassador’s death
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday was confronted by an angry heckler who accused him of “politicizing” the death of the top U.S. diplomat in Libya to gain an advantage over President Barack Obama. On Tuesday, U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and at least three members of his…
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