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Romney: I paid ‘substantial’ taxes ‘so far as I can recall’
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday said he wasn’t sure if he had ever paid an effective tax rate lower than 13.9 percent, and insisted that he wouldn’t even be qualified to be president if he paid “more than are legally due.” During an interview in Israel, ABC’s…
Robert Gibbs: Romney’s London trip was ‘embarrassing for our country’
A senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign on Sunday lamented that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had “embarrassed” the U.S. by insulting Britain as they kicked off the Olympic games last week. Robert Gibbs told ABC’s Matthew Dowd that Romney had disgraced himself “in front of our…
Republican strategist to Fox News: Romney ‘aloof and not understanding’
A Republican strategist who managed former Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign says that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s recent gaffes during a trip to London reinforced the appearance that he is “aloof and not always understanding the situation.” Chip Saltsman on Sunday told Fox News host Chris Wallace that Romney had…
Harris-Perry: Romney would be Bush-but-worse on foreign policy
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” guest host Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to glean a greater truth from all of the hullaballoo over Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s disastrous trip to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She compared and contrasted Romney’s trip abroad with then-Senator Barack Obama’s trip…
London mayor calls out Romney in front of 100,000 at Olympic torch lighting
London Mayor Boris Johnson shamed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in front of a crowd of 100,000 people at the Olympic torch lighting on Thursday. In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Romney had offended Brits when he suggested that London wasn’t ready for the games. “It’s hard to…
‘Anglo-Saxon’ comment hangs over Romney in Britain
WASHINGTON — The start of Mitt Romney’s foreign tour was overshadowed Wednesday by a reported remark by an aide that President Barack Obama doesn’t understand the “Anglo-Saxon heritage” shared by Britain and the United States. The Republican White House hopeful’s campaign scrambled to deny that one of its operatives had…
Obama campaign accuses Romney of ‘Cold War mentality’
President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign is highlighting recent comments made by Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy advisor, claiming it is evidence of the Republican candidate’s “Cold War mentality.” During a forum at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday, Romney’s senior foreign policy advisor Richard Williamson said that Syria was strategically important…
Wisconsin Republican: Voter ID law could help Romney win
Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R) said Sunday that a voter ID law could help Mitt Romney win the state in the upcoming November election, implying that voter fraud only benefited Democrats. “I think we believe that insofar as there are inappropriate things, people who vote inappropriately are more likely…
Romney pressured to define foreign policy on overseas tour
Mitt Romney will arrive in London on Wednesday pursued by calls from the Obama administration to use his first overseas tour as the Republican presidential candidate to define a foreign policy that amounts to more than criticising the president. Mocked for his description of Russia as the US’s leading geopolitical foe…
Obama defends his foreign policy ahead of Romney trip
RENO, Nevada — US President Barack Obama touted a track record of foreign policy success Monday and implicitly criticized the positions of his Republican rival Mitt Romney, who heads this week to Europe and the Middle East. Obama reminded an audience of military veterans in Nevada of his vow four…
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