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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday blamed the media and "especially" cable television for the nasty tone in politics today...We've reached a situation in our political life where people are so trapped on the Left and the Right of the...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
May 25, 2012 From now until November, President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will emphasize their differences. But the two men's lives actually coincide in a striking number of ways. In this installment of NPR's "Parallel Lives"...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The answer, it seems, is that the two presidential campaigns want it that way. Having been in the private sector for 25 years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
It was part of a harsh critique Obama gave of his GOP rival's economic credentials. Obama again slammed Romney's tenure at Bain Capital and reminded voters that the former Massachusetts governor once called corporations "people." "I know Gov. Romney...
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Education News
| 1 year ago
Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world's most popular websites...According to Reuters , Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken time from his economic offensive against Democratic...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
Win McNamee/Getty Images President Obama holds a sizeable lead among a potentially pivotal group of voters with 61% of Latinos supporting him for reelection, a new poll found. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Telemundo poll released Wednesday shows...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Romney campaign outlines 'day 1' of his presidency Romney campaign outlines 'day 1' of his presidency Mitt Romney's campaign has released a new ad promoting "Day One" of a potential Romney presidency, describing which of President Barack Obama's...
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New York Observer
| 1 year ago
Execs At Mitt's Old Company Have Given Nearly $2 Million To His Campaign 4:37pm Mitt Romney on the campaign trail. (Photo: Getty) In recent weeks, the Obama campaign has launched a relentless attack on Mitt Romney for his career with Bain Capital,...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Obama leads with professionals, Romney with executives Updated Voters classified as professionals and service workers support President Obama, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney leads among executives and managers, reports the Gallup Poll .
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
May 24, 2012 The latest public-opinion polls suggest this year's U.S. presidential election could be a very close contest between President Barack Obama and his presumed Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Several...
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The New York Observer
| 1 year ago
Obama Campaign Does A Fact Check' On Mitt Romney's New Ad 11:59am President Obama (Photo: Getty) A few hours after the release of Mitt Romney's latest commerical this morning, Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith fired back with a fact check of the...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
He should be proud of the great personal success he's had as the CEO of a large financial firm. But I think he's drawn the wrong lessons from his experience, said Obama at fundraiser in Denver. His working assumption is CEOs and wealthy investors...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Romney responded to three central criticisms forwarded by the Obama campaign during the president's fundraising swing through Colorado and California this week: that Romney's venture capital firm Bain Capital had exploited companies for the economic...
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Perez Hilton
| 1 year ago
First it was Joe Biden , then it was Barack Obama , but the government's support for same-sex marriage just keeps pouring out. Now former Secretary of State Colin Powell has revealed on live television that he has "no problem with it." When asked...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN Wednesday he has "no problem" with same-sex marriage becoming legal in the United States. In an interview, Powell said he supported the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the military when...
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Pop Crunch
| 1 year ago
Just a couple of weeks following President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage, now America's favorite General is speaking out n favor of same-sex marriage as well. I have no problem with it, he said in during an interview airing on CNN. In...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney opened a new front on Wednesday in his fight against President Barack Obama, accusing him of presiding over a failing U.S. education system in the grip of union bosses who refuse to accept reforms. In a...
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The Dish Rag
| 1 year ago
During an interview with CNN 's Wolf Blitzer , Colin says that he has no problem with it. This comes after President Obama gave his support for the issue as well. You can watch the video below, but this is what he said on the full broadcast on CNN.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
Powell is a devout and very traditional Episcopalian. He balked, two decades ago, at President Bill Clinton's efforts to let gays and lesbians serve openly in the armed forces. He was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when the Don't Ask, Don't...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell cautioned presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney against calling Russia a "foe" of the United States. Powell told CNN that while Washington and Moscow might disagree on various issues, they were far...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday criticized Mitt Romney's foreign policy stance, particularly when it comes to the presumptive GOP nominee's statement earlier this year that Russia is the number one geopolitical foe of the United...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, stepping up efforts to help the GOP nominee, will join Mitt Romney on a call Thursday morning with his own top donors in Texas and around the country. "The purpose of the call -- and both Romney and Perry will be on -- is to...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a significant restructuring of the American education system, one that would revamp the funding formulas, encourage more charter schools, and revive the debate over how poor and disabled students choose the schools...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Declaring that a "national emergency" exists in public education, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney shifted from his usual economic message to outline his education platform during a speech to a Latino business group Wednesday.
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Ken Bredemeier May 23, 2012 Private corporations seldom assume a prominent role in U.S. presidential election campaigns. But analysts say that could be the case this year as attention is focused on Bain Capital, an investment company headquartered...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
One of the nation's most beloved soldiers came out in favor of gay marriage Wednesday...Colin Powell said in a CNN interview he has gay friends and has no problem with same sex couples tying the knot. I know a lot of friends who are individually gay...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney got some unsolicited foreign policy advice Wednesday from Colin Powell, the former secretary of state and four-star general: Don't rely on your advisers so much. Powell said there are policy advisers on the former Massachusetts governor's...
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New York Observer
| 1 year ago
Please Disregard What I've Said in The Past 3:41pm The two embraced before speaking at the press conference. That's the past, we're here in the present to move forward, former Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV told reporters inquiring about some of...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney used a Latino business gathering as a forum to assail President Obama 's leadership of the economy and blame teachers unions for problems facing American education. The Republican presidential candidate is making education the focus of...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower, Romney says in a Time Magazine interview set to hit stands on Friday. The 6...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Hatch, who led a one-man conservative uprising in Utah in 1976, is the latest Republican veteran hoping to fend off a primary challenger...Mark Sullivan said there was not national security breach because agents didn't have specifics about the...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Republican Mitt Romney told a business luncheon Wednesday one block from the White House that Barack Obama shouldn't "attack success," after the president hit out at his rival's corporate record. "This is a time when everybody in this administration...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Speaking before the Latino Coalition in Washington D.C., the presumptive Republican nominee said he would allow low-income and special needs students to choose from any school in the state they lived. "The tragedy is not just a matter of test scores...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Obama leads Romney by 34 percent, 61 to 27, according to the poll. Obama defeated Sen. John McCain (R-Ari.) by an even greater margin, 67 to 31, in 2008. Obama's job approval rating among Latinos is at 61 percent, well above his Gallup national...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Colin Powell says he's not prepared to endorse Barack Obama again, as he did during the 2008 campaign. But for the moment, it seems like Powell has a thumb on the scale in the president's favor. In separate television interviews as he promotes his...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
In an interview with Time magazine, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney pledged six percent unemployment by the end of his first term in office. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place,...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Jay Carney volunteered an extensive and robust defense of Barack Obama against Republican charges of fiscal recklessness, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that Herbert Hoover was a more profligate spender than President Obama...Powell chided...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
But improving his margins among Latinos is crucial to his chances of defeating President Obama , as new poll numbers out of Florida show. The Quinnipiac University survey, just out this morning, gives Romney a six-point statewide lead over Obama, 47...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
Despite flare ups over issues like same sex marriage and contraception, more than half of all Americans cite the economy as the concern that will decide their vote this fall. In new polls carried out by Washington Post-ABC News, the two contenders...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Chicago Tribune that blamed Obama for a potential $1 trillion cut in military spending over the next decade. The silence on Afghanistan is noticeable from Romney, given his sharp criticism of Obama on the issue during the GOP primaries. At the time,...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
That suggests that Romney doesn't need to pivot dramatically to the center, shed partisan identity or turn his back on the GOP base to gain favor with nonpartisans. He's already got their tentative but increasingly solidified support. According to...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 1 year ago
Font Resize Associated Press With about five months to go, the presidential race is tightening, polls show, with voters nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican challenger. Obama and Romney are...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
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The New York Observer
| 1 year ago
White House Responds To Colin Powell Saying He's Not Ready To Endorse Obama Again 7:18pm Colin Powell (Photo: Getty) White House Press Secretary Jay Carney addressed ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell's comments that he's not ready to endorse...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Using the story of a struggling family, a Crossroads GPS commercial seeks to appeal to swing voters who had supported President Obama, and may still like him, but are disappointed...President Obama argued the focus of the ad was fair, saying Mitt...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
The proposal, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators during an election year, challenges the fixed positions Congressional leaders of both parties hold on the issue of immigration. Representative Barney Frank is getting married in July, and...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell , who crossed party lines to support Barack Obama four years ago, is not ready to offer an endorsement this year. Powell, a decorated war hero held in high esteem on both sides of the political aisle, declared...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
Colin Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election -- Associated Press One tough dude: Man chases gunman after being shot in the head -- AJC In Georgia, Other States, Scholarship Funds, Meant for Needy, Benefit Private Schools -- New York Times...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday he is not yet ready to endorse President Barack Obama for another term in office, and that he is "still listening" to what opposing candidate Mitt Romney has to say. Share This Story Powell, a...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Powell credits Obama for rescuing the auto industry and stabilizing the financial system, but adds that he should have done more with the economy...Bush also did not endorse Mitt Romney, saying he is "still listening" to his ideas. It should be noted...
