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United Press International
| 10 months ago
President Obama said again in an interview aired Sunday he will not apologize to Mitt Romney for saying Romney's Bain Capital outsourced jobs. In one of a series of televised interviews last week, Romney said, "He sure as heck ought to say that he's...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 10 months ago
Obama met Romney's plea for an apology for the attacks with a mocking ad that alleged the firm Romney founded shipped American jobs to China and Mexico, that Romney has personal wealth in investments in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands,...
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The Glenwood Post Independent
| 10 months ago
We're still a few weeks from summer's dog days and the conventions, and already feral rabidity has set in. Add to the long list of psycho-political syndromes the Romney Derangement Syndrome...If you read a headline or watched the news, most likely...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
The former Pennsylvania senator and Romney waged a bitter fight for the GOP nomination and after Romney's victory, Santorum remained reluctant to throw his support behind the presumptive nominee. But on Saturday, Santorum helped open a Romney...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
He said the unidentified vice-presidential selection would form "America's Comeback Team" with him. The former Massachusetts governor invited supporters to donate at least $3 by midnight for a chance to win the contest and meet him or her on the...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Romney's finances and tenure at Bain dominated the campaign week, despite the fact that it came immediately after the third tepid jobs report in three months that should have put the president on the defensive. Instead, the Obama team kept the...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
The new ad opens with footage of Romney singing America, America at a campaign rally in Florida in January, ahead of that state's GOP primary. While Romney sings in the background, the ad runs clips from news reports about Romney's tenure at private...
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Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
Rating It is still too early to tell but the past five days might count as some of the hardest Republican Mitt Romney has endured since he emerged as the front-runner for his party's ticket. Trouble came in the form of some more digging about his...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
32 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney struck back on Friday against attacks over his business record that are pulling him further away from his campaign message that the White House is mishandling the economy.
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Evan Vucci/AP Mitt Romney has embarked on a media blitz to demand an apology from Barack Obama 's campaign for calling him either a liar or a criminal over his involvement with Bain Capital, the company where he made his fortune. The high-profile...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
He sure as heck ought to say that he's sorry for the kinds of attacks that are coming from his team, Romney told ABC News on Friday. If I were president of the United States I would put a stop to it and apologize to my campaign for what has been done...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Ultimately Mr. Romney, I think, is going to have to answer those questions ... because if he aspires to being president, one of the things you learn is, you are ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations, but again that's probably a...
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The Daily Herald
| 10 months ago
Romneycare, in Massachusetts, is the model used for Obamacare, and now the Romney campaign hates it. When former Gov. Romney lists the provisions of his new health care plan, he forgets to mention that his new proposals are already in the Affordable...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Archive Recent Posts July 13 A day after some of the roughest charges and countercharges of the campaign so far, President Obama steered clear of any mention on Friday of questions surrounding Mitt's Romney's departure from Bain Capital. July 13...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
News Related in Opinion Specifically, these are people who believe that they are, as another Romney donor put it , the engine of the economy; they should be cherished, and the taxes they pay, which are already at an 80-year low, should be cut even...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
President Obama mocked Republicans on Friday for seeking to repeal the healthcare law 33 times instead of working to pass a tax extension that would help the middle class. Kicking off a two-day, five-stop bus tour in Virginia, Obama sought to...
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Big News Network
| 10 months ago
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she doesn't want to be a politician, her name continues to be thrown about in the days preceding the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney's announcement of a vice presidential running mate.
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CNSNews.com
| 10 months ago
Houston this week, "I hope to represent all Americans, of every race, creed and sexual orientation." Later in the same speech, Romney said he would promote strong families and defend traditional marriage...One reason, of course, is that I hope to...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Sooner or later there is going to be a big surprise...Whether it's 9-11 or the other kinds of difficulties or crises that arrive, they always do. ... "When I think about the kind of individual I want in the Oval Office in that moment of crisis ...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
At July lull, presidential race is close as ever At July lull, presidential race is close as ever The presidential race is entering the sultry summer, a final lull before the sprint to Election Day, with President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt...
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The Progressive
| 10 months ago
Subscribers can log in and access digital editions and our archive...Romney was booed when he labeled President Obama's Affordable Care Act as nonessential and expensive. The Republican candidate chose the wrong audience for that boilerplate. He was...
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PRWeb
| 10 months ago
July 13, 2012 Since the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act, debates for and against this new law have erupted with no signs of slowing down. T_HqZhdDx2A">ABC News, Mitt Romney vowed to repeal the law if elected in...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: July 13, 2012 Re "Repeal, not replace, is GOP focus," July 11 No wonder the GOP has given up trying to fashion and sell a comprehensive health plan overhaul for the nation: It was effectively...
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Aim West Milford
| 10 months ago
And, to no one's surprise, got roundly booed for saying he would roll back "Obamacare." "If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him," Romney told the delegates. Romney then paused as...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama leads presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney 50-43 among registered voters nationwide, a poll released Thursday found. The national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, found the U.S. Supreme Court...
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The Washington Times
| 10 months ago
Wednesday, reminding blacks of what most of them knew or should have known: President Obama hasn't made their lives better. No demographic group has suffered more from Mr. Obama's jobless economic policies than black Americans or has a worse...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
National Convention planning to get booed ," so he could " elicit an emotional reaction from white voters . Romney's performance wasn't intended to win more black votes, it was intended to help win more white votes." Romney called the Affordable Care...
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Big News Network
| 10 months ago
It was a nice gesture to a person who had gone out of his way to give a rude speech. Using the pejorative term Obamacare, talking about denying civil rights to a civil rights organization and speaking in condescending and paternalistic terms about...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
For weeks, anxious Republicans called on Mitt Romney to respond more aggressively to attacks from the Democrats, afraid his hopes of winning the presidency could slip away if his rivals were able to define him as being out of touch with ordinary...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
With the election still four months away, President Obama holds a significant lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney , according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. The national survey, completed July 9, showed Obama outpacing...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Houston a Romney presidency would roll back progress made by minorities...Houston a Romney presidency would roll back progress made by minorities. One day after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney elicited boos from the group with...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
That stood in stark contrast to the reception Romney received the day before when he addressed the Houston convention. Although much of the Republican's speech was greeted with polite applause, he was loudly booed when he attacked Obamacare and...
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Houston Chronicle
| 10 months ago
A day after the presumptive Republican presidential candidate drew jeers and boos from members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, Vice President Joe Biden offered an animated, full-throated defense of President Barack Obama 's vision...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
He quickly tackled one issue that drew Romney sustained boos the 2010 health care overhaul. Biden appeared in place of President Obama, who made a brief videotaped address thanking the group for its work. He walked out to warm applause, and several...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
Vice President Joe Biden praised President Barack Obama's health care law in an address to a civil rights group, a day after the gathering booed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for vowing to repeal the reforms. Houston, Texas Thursday. "...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
The boos went on. More boos came when he slammed President Obama's record. " An ABC graphic proclaimed those few seconds could be a "key moment in [Romney]'s White House run."...Regarding the boos, the journalist asserted that they came "when he told...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Houston on Wednesday, particularly as he criticized the nation's health care law championed by President Obama . Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, had intended the speech toward a broader audience . But the comments from Pelosi, the San...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney is facing new questions about his time at Bain Capital. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters Mitt Romney is facing more revelations today about his period at Bain Capital. The Boston Globe cites government documents filed by Romney and the...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama's challenger in the November Presidential Election met with more boos when in his 25-minute speech he promised to fight teachers' unions and repeal Obama's signature health care plan, dubbed by critics as 'Obamacare'. "I'm...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
National Convention that he plans to repeal President Obama's national health care law. I think we expected that, Romney said in a taped interview with Fox Business Network, scheduled to air Wednesday at 8 p.m. I give across the country, which is...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Houston on Thursday, a day after presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke there and as President Barack Obama takes a pass. Roslyn Brock, the group's chairwoman. "He has been a strong advocate for justice and equality over his decades...
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Denver Post
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney took his message of job creation and free enterprise to the core of President Barack Obama's support Wednesday black voters...Houston were agitated by Romney's vow to repeal Obama's signature health-care law. It was an extraordinary...
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The Dish Rag
| 10 months ago
The negative reaction was in response to a negative reference to "Obamacare" by the Republican. "I'm going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program I can find," said Romney. "That includes ObamaCare." The presumptive GOP nominee then stood...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Canadians in America If most in the Houston audience on Wednesday let that one pass, they could not even feign politeness when the Republican nominee promised to eliminate every non-essential expensive program I can find, including President Barack...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney's comments on Obama, healthcare The civil rights group's reception of the Republican turns from warm to chilly when he criticizes the president and promises to repeal the healthcare law. Mitt Romney 's speech before the nation's oldest...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
It allowed him to break the ice while underscoring that President Obama himself had declined to attend the group's annual conference in Houston. Romney said by way of explaining what he was doing so far outside his comfort zone. I believe that if you...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
Wednesday in Houston was going to swing the African-American community in his favor African-Americans have voted for Democratic presidential candidates for decades, and President Obama won 96% of the African-American vote in 2008. But the negative...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney's speech because the Republican nominee-in-waiting is white. He's (Obama) confident they'll boo Romney, simply because Romney's white. He's confident of that. But he knows that he's gonna have hell to pay in private meetings with these...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Eric Kayne/Getty Images Mitt Romney addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Wednesday morning, receiving polite applause at points, but lusty boos at others. The Republican nominee told the conference that he knows...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
GOP nominee is a joke, that his speech was a political stunt, and that the audience's booing was an appropriate response to Romney's pledge to repeal the national health-care law. Romney tried to have a Sister Souljah moment with the speech, Atlanta...
