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The Tribune
| 12 months ago
Congress should explain to the American people' its inaction on economy Obama: Congress should explain to the American people' its inaction on economy President Barack Obama Friday branded as offensive suggestions that the White House may have leaked...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
After two gaffes over the past couple of weeks three if you count the remark that the economy is still in a recession former president and high-profile Obama surrogate Bill Clinton apologized to the president for comments he made about extending the...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 12 months ago
Romney and his party raised more than US$76 million in May, the campaign said, while Obama's campaign reported it and the Democratic Party raised US$60 million for the month. That's a significant increase for Romney: He and the Republicans brought in...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Romney said at an event in Council Bluffs, Iowa. "I think he's defining what it means to be out of touch with the American people." In the president's remarks Friday morning, Obama repeatedly said hiring at private industries was "fine" and occurring...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
That's a reversal of fortune from April, when Obama prevailed by $11 million...Mitt Romney and the Republican Party easily raised more cash in May than did President Obama and the Democrats, $76 million to $60 million, according to figures released...
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The Reporter
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are battling more than just each other in diverse and politically divided Nevada. The president also is fighting against Nevada's dismal economy while Romney faces a better-organized and better-...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
In a Fox News survey released Friday, the candidates each garnered support of 43 percent of likely voters surveyed. Meanwhile, Gallup's daily tracking poll gives the Republican challenger a slight edge, 47-45 percent, but that lead comes among all...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post Mitt Romney has a rather straight-forward message for small business owners...The Republican presidential challenger earlier this week mapped out his plans to improve the outlook for the nation's smallest companies, promising to...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Romney's campaign released its fourth television ad of the general election Friday, and like previous efforts, the commercial is bracketed by the message that things would change on the first day of a Romney Administration. In the latest effort, the...
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Denver Post
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney outraised President Barack Obama in May, the first time the Republican presidential challenger has jumped ahead of Obama and his prodigious fundraising apparatus. The numbers illustrate how Romney and the Republican Party have jelled as a...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
The Republican National Committee announced the fundraising figures on its Twitter account on Thursday, just a few hours after the Democrats had done the same. The Romney campaign also announced in a communique that it currently has at its disposal a...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 907 randomly-chosen registered voters nationwide and is conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from June 3 to June 5. ...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney cast President Obama's stewardship of the economy in moral terms here Thursday, delivering a broad speech about the free-market economy in which he said Obama's first term has represented a breach of faith with the American people. Romney...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
A new poll has former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney tied with President Obama in Michigan. MRA, which partners with news organizations, Romney takes 46 percent to 45 percent for the incumbent well within the survey's four point margin of error...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Louis, accusing the president of attacking "the cornerstone of American prosperity our economic freedom." In one of the Republican presidential nominee's liveliest campaign stops of the general election, Romney rallied supporters with a prolonged...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Under Democratic presidents, "suddenly they get religion," Obama told campaign donors during a stop in Los Angeles. Republican opponent Mitt Romney and other Republicans have indeed criticized Obama for budget deficits that have contributed to a...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
In an e-mail entitled "we got beat," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina urged supporters "help close the gap right now" by giving a little bit more. "More people giving a little bit is the only way to compete with a few people giving a lot," Messina...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Bush tax cuts. "I'm very sorry about what happened," the former president told CNN. "I thought something had to be done on the 'fiscal cliff' before the election. Apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year." Clinton appeared to...
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Star Tribune
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have raised a combined $60 million in May for his re-election effort. The totals helped the president exceed his fundraising haul in April, when his campaign and his party raised $43.6 million. That was...
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The Daily Herald
| 12 months ago
All the worlds a stage, all right, and never so much as when presidential politics are in play. But reality transcended metaphor Monday when crooner-in-chief Barack Obama hit Broadway. Joining him onstage was one of the greatest actors of our time...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post The current president is learning that there is both an upside and a downside to having a former one particularly one with whom he has tangled in the past as the most prominent surrogate for his reelection bid. On the one hand,...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
Mitt Romney promised members of the nation's small business lobby on Wednesday that, if elected, he would shut down health care reform, reduce taxes and tackle regulations. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said small business has not...
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Arizona Republic
| 12 months ago
If you have $40,000 to spend, President Barack Obama's campaign has a deal for you...And if you're lucky, you might just end up with a plum post as a U.S. ambassador or an invitation to an exclusive White House state dinner...Mitt Romney is offering...
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Boston Globe
| 12 months ago
Clinton is one of the Obama campaign's most utilized surrogates; the former president accompanied Obama at a trio of high-dollar New York fund-raisers as recently as Monday. Bush tax cuts is probably the best thing to do right now contradicted the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
On the heels of President Clinton's suggestion that tax breaks for the wealthy should continue into next year, former White House economic advisor Lawrence Summers joined the debate -- essentially agreeing that Congress should avoid sudden moves now...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
Electing Mitt Romney to the White House this November would be "calamitous" for America and the world, according to the former president Bill Clinton. He contrasted the Republican challenger's austere budget plans with Barack Obama's stimulus-...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, scrambling to boost his support among Hispanics, cast himself as a solution to high unemployment rates as part of a two-day Texas tour that raised $15 million for his campaign to replace President Barack...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
Romney badly trails Obama with Hispanic voters and must close the gap to win key swing states such as Nevada, Colorado and Florida, where Hispanics make up a sizable share of the voting-age population. While hampered by his conservative position on...
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Newsbusters
| 12 months ago
The media's crush on Bill Clinton has only grown stronger since he left office, and CNN renewed its affection for the former president on Tuesday by airing over four minutes of him introducing President Obama at a Democratic fund raiser. Romney but...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Less than 24 hours after a very public show of Obama-Clinton unity , former President Clinton appeared to break from the White House strategy for dealing with the soon-to-expire Bush-era tax cuts. Tuesday, Clinton suggested that the tax cuts should...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Associated Press Former President Clinton said Tuesday that broad tax cuts that expire in January should be temporarily renewed, including for the wealthiest Americans, to give lawmakers time to reach a deal on a longer-term extension that should...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Archive Recent Posts June 05 There are competing Republican efforts to resolve a dispute over subpoenaed information a breakthrough on getting evidence related to the Justice Department's gun-trafficking investigation dubbed Operation Fast and...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Extend all the Bush tax cuts temporarily Updated More Bill Clinton-induced headaches for President Obama's re-election team?...Bush tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year. "What I think we need to do is find some way to avoid the fiscal cliff,...
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Newsbusters
| 12 months ago
CBS This Morning on Tuesday heralded President Obama and former President Bill Clinton's joint fundraising appearances in New York City, playing up the " star-studded lineup " that appeared with the two. Correspondent Bill Plante gushed that Obama "...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
The Obama campaign released the three infographics comparing the growth of the U.S. economy to that of Massachusetts's under Romney, first comparing Massachusetts from December 2003 through March 2006 to the U.S. economy from February 2010 to May...
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The Hill
| 12 months ago
The ad opens with the clip from the president's commercial, which shows Obama shaking hands on a factory floor as a woman says, in Spanish, "We still have not arrived at where we want to be...The commercial then cuts to stylized pictures of Hispanic...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Obama flubs on 'George' Romney Updated President Obama got his Romneys mixed up in going after Republican economics. Arguing that Republicans want policies that "say you're on your own," Obama then began to critique his own opponent by saying "George...
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USA Today
| 12 months ago
Less than a week after praising Romney's "sterling" business career, Clinton told Obama backers last night in New York that the Republican candidate's economic policies would be "calamitous for our country and the world." At a trio of fundraisers in...
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The Economic Times
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama enlisted Bill Clinton to campaign alongside him in New York on Monday, tapping the popular ex-president's star power to rake in cash for his re-election bid from Wall Street investors and show-business elite. The two men teamed...
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The Hindustan Times
| 12 months ago
Former US President Bill Clinton has warned Americans that picking up Mitt Romney would be "calamitous" for the country and the world as he derided the Republicans' policies and strongly endorsed Barack Obama for a re-election this year. Clinton, who...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton heaped praise on each other Monday for their economic records at the first of three New York fundraisers aimed at collecting almost $4 million. The 44th and 42nd presidents are showcasing an...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Bill Clinton campaigned Monday with President Barack Obama, sprinkling political stardust on his Democratic successor and blasting challenger Mitt Romney for embracing the politics of constant conflict. The presumptive Republican nominee's campaign...
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The New York Observer
| 12 months ago
President Obama While speaking at his fundraiser at the New Amsterdam Theater in Times Square tonight, President Barack Obama mixed up Mitt Romney with his father, former Michigan Governor George Romney. The president made the mistake when he was...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
For one night only, the Clinton -Obama show was the hottest ticket on Broadway...For the former president, that meant equal parts effusive praise of his Democratic successor and a pointed critique of his Republican rival. In fact, Bill Clinton told...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
Luke Sharrett for The New York Times Earlier, 50 donors paid $40,000 each to meet the presidents at the home of a hedge fund manager on the Upper East Side. And with that blunt denunciation, delivered at President Obama 's side during a fund-raiser...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
But there was no sign of discord as Obama and Clinton put up a show of unity in New York, kicking off a night of fundraising that included a dinner with big-money donors, a gala at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria hotel and a star-studded "Barack on...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
President Bill Clinton said Monday the Republican Party and presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney "have adopted Europe's economic policies." Speaking in New York at a fundraiser for the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama , Clinton...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
President Obama let Jon Bon Jovi hop a lift on Air Force One as the President flew to New York for a flurry of cash grabs Monday but his main co-star for the night was Bill Clinton. Buffeted by last week's dismal jobs report and the GOP's increasing...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Barack Obama and former Bill Clinton embrace prior to Obama's speech during the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative meeting in September. Photograph: Stephen Chernin/AFP/Getty Images So, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are going to be on Broadway tonight,...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 12 months ago
On paper, President Barack Obama is running for re-election against Mitt Romney. In practice, and especially in the aftermath of Friday's disappointing report on jobs, he's increasingly running against the Republican Party...The Republican brand name...
