Nov 23
Political strategist James Carville breaks down where the Republicans went wrong – and what it means for the future >by Tim Dickinson| November 23, 2012 7:00 AM ET |
Two weeks after Barack Obama won a second term, political analysts are just beginning to assess the surprising scope of his victory. By routing Mitt Romney by …
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Nov 22
>by Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal |Re-post DLU November 22, 2012 |
WASHINGTON | Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:13pm EST
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama laid out his second-term agenda on Wednesday, expressing a willingness to work with Republicans in Congress and a resolve to defy them if necessary.
In his first full-scale news conference …
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Nov 03
>by Jonathan Chait|10/31/12 at 10:17 AM| Re-post 11/03/12 DLU|
I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary, around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his election would change everything about American politics or …
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Oct 06
>by the Editorial Board|The Platform St. Louis Post-Dispatch|Re-post: October 06, 2012|
Four years ago, in endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president, we noted his intellect, his temperament and equanimity under pressure. He was unproven, but we found him to be presidential, in all that that word implies.
In that, we have not been disappointed. This is …
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Sep 15
- Mitt Romney is not fit to be President! In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, he discussed the claim that the President showed sympathy for attackers in Egypt and Libya conflict observed by Romney! Romney didn’t dodged the question and let the lie stand. In looking ahead to the upcoming debates Romney said he’ll have …
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Jul 24
>By Adele M. Stan |AlterNet |July 22, 2012 | Romney’s strategy has incorporated racial and cultural cues, both subtle and blatant, as a means of deflection from the Obama campaign’s questions about Bain Capital. The Romney campaign got the memo: Race-baiting and xenophobia work — at least among the segment of the electorate former …
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Jul 15
>by Robert Parry | July 14, 2012|
Exclusive: Mitt Romney cites “independent fact-checkers” to spare him from having to explain exactly what he did with Bain Capital after February 1999. But those “fact-checkers” are acting less like impartial journalists and more like argumentative lawyers covering Romney’s political flanks, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
Self-styled “independent fact-checkers” …
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Jul 14
>by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm |Former Governor of Michigan, Faculty at UC Berkeley, Host of “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm” on Current TV | Posted: 07/12/2012 11:30 pm |
There’s a reason why stories about the hollowing out of the middle class resonate — and why it resonates in this presidential election. It’s deep. …
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Jul 05
>by Patricia Zengerle | Tue Jul 3, 2012 9:19pm EDT |
WASHINGTON |(Reuters) – After a month in which his re-election campaign picked up momentum, hard economic realities are about to hit President Barack Obama as he takes to the road on a campaign bus trip through the Rust Belt.
Poor manufacturing data earlier this …
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Jun 11
>by Sanjay Sanghoee |Huff Post Politics| Posted: 06/11/2012 1:09 pm |
A lot of people, including myself, are writing about why Mitt Romney is not fit to be president but it struck me that very few people are actually writing about why Barack Obama deserves a second term. Is it because the Obama Administration’s track …
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Jun 08
President Obama inherited an economy in free fall, with huge deficits, skyrocketing health care costs, dwindling employment, and banking and housing markets on the brink of collapse. Working with the President, Democrats stabilized the financial system and helped to prevent a second Great Depression. An economy that was losing 700,000 jobs a month is now …
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Jun 03
>by NanceGreggs, on May 31st, 2012 | Democrats For Progress | [Wow! I’ve enjoyed reading this, especially because I’m feeling the same way and I hope you don’t minded me adding the visuals; touching on how Fox News aka GOP TV News will intentional mislead their base and use propaganda tools to spread falsehoods. As …
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