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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
In a Thursday morning interview on CNN, RNC chairman Reince Priebus called out host Carol Costello for reading Democratic talking points. Costello had just told her guest that she was trying to wean him away from his talking points, but one can only...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney is sharpening his focus on President Barack Obama and broadening his pitch to independents and Democrats. He has more security around him, his campaign team is growing and his crowds appear more excited to see him. It's a different world...
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Cliffside Park Citizen
| 1 year ago
Wednesday to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, word emerged that the Republican presidential front-runner would not allow photographers to get closer than 150 feet while he spoke. The journalists protested, noting that President Obama,...
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Mother Jones
| 1 year ago
These were some of the headlines accompanying media reports of Mitt Romney's speech to the Newspaper Association of America on Wednesday. The GOP frontrunner's address was a harsh assault on President Barack Obama and marked another effort on Mitt...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
However, the message I picked up from recent conversations in Moscow was that the reset is unlikely to survive Vladimir Putins return to the Russian presidency in May...Moscow obtained an accord on sharing civil nuclear power technology, help with...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama have begun testing lines of attack as they prepare for an expensive and arduous political battle over the seven months between now and the Nov. 6 election.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Judging from the avalanche of negative comments about U.S. President Barack Obama 's open microphone missile gaffe his Republican opponents got an unexpected windfall that can turn around or at least reduce the advantage in ratings that Obama...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney Wednesday accused President Barack Obama of hiding his real budget, foreign-policy and other plans until after the election. Romney told the American Society of News Editors convention in Washington -- where Obama...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Before he took his campaign for the Republican nomination to the next primary battleground in Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney used the same Washington stage where President Obama had spoken a day before to accuse his likely general election rival of plans...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
GOP frontrunner questions US president's accountability to American public after Obama overheard talking to Russian president. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised questions about US President Barack Obama's approach to foreign...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Obama came here yesterday and railed against arguments no one is making, and criticized policies no one is proposing. It's one of his favorite strategies setting up a straw man to distract us from his record, the former Massachusetts governor told...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Romney accused Obama of running a "hide-and-seek campaign" replete with lies about Republicans' policy proposals, coddling of foreign leaders and "a series of election-year conversions." His barbs came just hours after he captured a trio of GOP...
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The Washington Times
| 1 year ago
There are some campaign advisers who would counsel former Gov. Mitt Romney to jog tirelessly on the campaign trail, probably in short pants and with a catchy T-shirt emblazoned with some memorable phrase, a la Al Gore and Bill Clinton ...On the other...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
Charlie Rose boosted two of the left's talking points about Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday's CBS This Morning. Rose asked Republican Senator John McCain, " Does Mitt Romney have to redefine...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
Spencer Green / AP Republican Presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney declares victory in the Wisconsin presidential primary, Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee. AP) -- Republican presidential challenger...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The former Massachusetts governor, who is on the verge of clinching the Republican nomination to face off Obama in the United States of America's November presidential election, quoted Obama's recent remark to Russian President Dmitry...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Romney, Obama gloss over realities Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan...
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Reuters
| 1 year ago
Topics Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney gestures during the Newspaper Association of America/American Society of Newspaper Editors annual luncheon in Washington, April 4, 2012. Republican candidate Mitt Romney accused President Barack...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
He does not want to share his real plans before the election, either with the public or the press," Romney said in an address to the American Society of News Editors convention in Washington. He cited Obama's remarks to President Dmitry Medvedev that...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
After hammering Republican rivals for months, Mitt Romney is gearing up for the main event and turning his full attention to President Obama. The two camps are now openly trading broadsides -- and the first salvos are over the economy, a topic likely...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Speaking to a conference of news editors, Romney laid out a choice between himself and Obama in a speech that signaled his focus has shifted to the general election. He also used his remarks to contrast his own background and detailed economic plan...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Incumbent presidents generally try to cast their re-election contest as a choice between the imperfect but well-meaning and effective occupant of the White House and the far worse alternative offered by the rival party. Challengers, on the other hand,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney , speaking on the same stage that President Obama used a day earlier to launch a blistering attack on the GOP , returned fire by accusing the president of "rhetorical excess" and using "straw men to distract from his record." The former...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
On the heels of his three-state sweep in Tuesday's primaries , GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is this noon taking to the same stage where President Obama yesterday delivered some sharp words about the former Massachusetts governor and other...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama started a speech Tuesday with some self-deprecating humor, joking about remarks he made last week in Seoul to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that were meant to be private but got picked up by open microphones in the...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Voters are going to the polls Tuesday in GOP primaries in Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia with front-runner Mitt Romney looking for big wins -- or even a sweep as he tries to close out the Republican race. Romney, the former...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
ET, 04/03/2012 TheWashingtonPost How can Mitt Romney close the gender gap?...Ask a Republican voter who has seen her in action, and they will probably tell you one thing Ann Romney is real. So what's the problem with Mitt Romney, Ann's husband, who...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
He wants to cut taxes for the very wealthy, cut Wall Street loose to write its own rules and he thinks that this somehow is going to produce prosperity, broad prosperity for Americans...Axelrod's comments mirror a similar line of attack from Vice...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Yes, there are 19 states holding primaries after today, including the two biggest delegate prizes, Texas and California. But it's the three GOP contests today, and more specifically the one in Wisconsin, that likely will mark the point at which the...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
In an online town-hall-style meeting last week, Mr. Romney accused Mr. Obama of having a presidential policy intended to see energy prices rise, and he mocked the president for once saying that he would like gasoline prices to change gradually. They...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The Obama-Biden re-election campaign is sharpening its general election message against Romney. The Obama re-election campaign has recently started drawing battle lines around what is likely to be the most talked about issue until Nov. 6: the economy.
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Obama's comments come days after GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney said Obama "doesn't have the same feelings about American exceptionalism that we do." "I think over the last three of four years, some people around the world have begun to question that,"...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Obama is vulnerable in his bid for a second White House term, weighed down by the economic suffering of the Great Recession. But his prospects improved as the Republicans engaged in a prolonged and bitter nomination fight and the economy showed signs...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
US Republican front-running presidential candidate Mitt Romney is expected to carry three more primaries today as the top Republican in Congress predicted his nomination is now a done deal. The White House also signaled that it sees Romney as the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
So while Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell was telling the world that "the chances are overwhelming that [ Mitt Romney ] will be our nominee. It seems to me we're in the final phases of wrapping up this nomination," Rick Santorum 's...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 2, 2012 The GOP candidates for president have seized on high gas prices as a line of attack against President Obama, largely saying the answer is more domestic oil drilling. But one of those candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
An embarrassing performance Sunday for CBS's Bob Schieffer in the debut of the new hour-long format for Face the Nation . At least he should be embarrassed by the contrast in how he played sycophant to Vice President Joe Biden, treating him as an...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Barack Obama's re-election campaign stepped up its attacks on Mitt Romney on Sunday, as Vice-President Joe Biden called him the most out of touch candidate of modern times. The vice-president, who has been deployed by Obama as the champion of America'...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in separate comments, have criticized Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney over perceived tardiness in judging Russia in Cold War terms. Romney's statement last week labeling...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Presidential front runnner Mitt Romney has come under attack for calling Russia the US' biggest foe. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both criticized Mr Romney yesterday (today local time) for characterizing Russia as...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
During an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, Biden criticized Romney's statement last week that Russia is without question our number one geopolitical foe. He just seems to be uninformed or stuck in a Cold War mentality, Biden said. I think what...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
I'll do everything I can to help elect him, Gingrich said on CBS's Face the Nation. There's no question in my mind that Mitt Romney would be a dramatically better president, as would Rick Santorum, than Barack Obama, in terms of the values that I...
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Arizona Republic
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama's administration launched a multi-pronged assault on Mitt Romney's values and foreign policy credentials Sunday, while a fresh set of prominent Republicans rallied behind the GOP front-runner as the odds-on nominee, further...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden is scoffing at Mitt Romney's criticism of President Barack Obama over a remark Obama was overheard making to Russia's leader on an open microphone...Front-running Republican presidential candidate Romney said Obama's remarks...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Bolton, ambassador to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration, told a crowd of more than 100 in Baltimore on Sunday that Mitt Romney is the only candidate on Tuesday's primary ballot suitable to sit at the big desk and make the...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images) I'm not going to speculate about something I don't believe will happen, Biden said on CBS' Face the Nation when asked by host Bob Schieffer what might happen if the entire health care law is...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden called Mitt Romney "out of touch" with the concerns of the middle class, the latest signal of how the Obama reelection campaign plans to target the leading Republican hopeful in November. "This is about the middle class...It'...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
He's out of touch' Updated Vice President Joe Biden is outlining the Obama campaign's strategy against Mitt Romney, should he move forward and clinch the Republican nomination: He's out of touch, and doesn't have specific plans. "I think Governor...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
GOP front-runner Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, called it "alarming" and part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness" with America's foes. He asked what else Obama would be flexible on if he were to win a second term. "Speaking of flexible,...
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Seattle Times
| 1 year ago
Originally published Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 7:32 AM Biden: Obama 'flexibility' flap shows Romney flaws To hear Vice President Joe Biden tell it, the flap over President Barack Obama's prediction of postelection "flexibility" with Russia says more...
