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Newark Mayor Cory Booker ‘very upset’ he is being ‘used by the GOP’

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) appeared Monday night on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show after describing the negative campaigning by President Barack Obama as “nauseating” the previous day. Republicans quickly took advantage of the incident, buying online ads to highlight his comments and launching an “I Stand with Cory” petition.…

Krugman: Romney’s business experience wouldn’t help him as president

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman took aim at one of Mitt Romney’s main talking points on Monday, claiming that his experience as a businessman would not help him as president. “Yes, he made a lot of money. He made a lot of money in ways…

What do women want? Campbell Brown doesn’t have a clue; President Obama does.

Campbell Brown penned an op-ed for The New York Times that is so irritating and wrong-headed, that I found myself saying “oh, do shut up, lady” several times as I read it. So, consider that your trigger warning. Also, while reading it, keep in mind that her husband is a…

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…

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,…

Romney slams Obama over ‘prairie fire’ of debt

WASHINGTON — Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of doing nothing to douse a “prairie fire of debt” as he previewed a new economic message in a key swing state. Romney, seeking to make November’s election a referendum on the stuttering economic recovery presided over…

Romney suggests Obama has ‘beef’ with Bill Clinton

Speaking in Iowa on Tuesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney suggested that President Barack Obama has “beef” with former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which may have led him to abandon “the Clinton doctrine” of balancing budgets to counter-balance spending. “President Obama tucked away the…

The Stench Of Funny Money

Politico’s Ben White gets his inner Matt Taibbi on and declares that voter don’t understand the nuances behind last week’s $2 billion Big Casino loss from Jaime Dimon and JP Morgan Chase (or the fact that Republicans in Congress fatally weakened the Dodd-Frank legislation), the only thing they understand is…

Perino calls marriage equality ‘crass politics of the left’

Former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino on Monday said that President Barack Obama only ended the “charade” that he did not support same sex marriage because his campaign wanted to use “crass politics” to divert attention from the economy. Over the weekend, conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat charged that…

Gun group responds to ‘silly’ story by pointing rifle at Rand Paul

The Virginia-based firearms advocacy group that published an image this week depicting a rifle pointed at President Barack Obama’s head, attached a letter by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), responded to Raw story’s reporting on Friday by turning the rifle around and pointing it at the Kentucky Republican instead. “A silly story,…