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Arab News
| 10 months ago
if you feel compelled to break into song on the campaign trail, it could cost you. Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney found this out to their cost as their rival campaigns unveiled ads and videos mocking...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
In his latest visit to Ohio, one of several key states in this year's U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama on Monday accused presumed Republican presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney of proposing policies that...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
President Obama is running a campaign "based on falsehood and dishonesty" as Romney passed on suggestions he release more tax returns. "A campaign based on falsehood and dishonesty does not have long legs," Romney told "Fox and Friends." Romney, the...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 10 months ago
hostage to fortune What American voters will want to know in November is what the president has done to turn the employment figures around Editorial For a candidate who has made his own business background exhibit A in the argument that he could run...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney's campaign argues in a new memo that the Republican presidential candidate is catching up in his race with Barack Obama. The analysis varies depending on what polls are included in the assessment but most experts say the race remains...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney has slammed President Barack Obama's persistent attacks on his business record as "dishonest" and misdirected, and rejected calls that he release more of his tax returns. After weathering a weeks-long full-court press against his business...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama of political cronyism at the expense of middle-class workers, his presidential campaign said. The coordinated offensive, titled "Obama's Political Payoffs and Middle Class Layoffs," was to start Monday highlighting alleged "...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
July 15, 2012 When Mitt Romney was running for governor of Massachusetts a decade ago, Democrats went before a state commission to demand that he be struck from the ballot. Their argument: After taking over the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
Republican insiders are increasingly venting their frustration as Mitt Romney continues to come under withering assault from the Obama campaign over his ties to private equity firm Bain Capital. Mr Romney's team is trying to fight back after the...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
For months, the Republican Party's base has referred to President Barack Obama as the "Apologizer-in-Chief." Now, the tables have turned as Mitt Romney's campaign has asked for an apology after Obama attacked the GOP candidate's account of his time...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
He's not going to get an apology, Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, said on CBS's Face the Nation. It was Cutter who prompted the demand with a comment she made Thursday , after the Globe reported that Securities and Exchange...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama will not apologize to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for raising questions about his tenure and the timing of his departure from private equity firm Bain Capital, the Democrat said in an interview published on...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Obama spent two days campaigning in tightly contested Virginia last week, reminding voters of the discrepancies between Securities and Exchange Commission filings and Romney's recollection of his role at Bain Capital.
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The Hindu
| 10 months ago
The well-worn stereotype of Democrats being more cautious about India than Republicans are raised its head again this week, as both U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden slammed election rival Mitt Romney for outsourcing American...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
He's not going to get an apology, said Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter , who made the controversial comments, during an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. Cutter said Romney should stop whining about the attacks from the...
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The Hill
| 10 months ago
Democrats have raised questions about when exactly Romney left Bain . Romney has said he left in 1999 to oversee preparations for the Salt Lake City Olympics, but SEC documents show him listed as Bain's CEO beyond that time. Gillespie on Sunday...
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The Hindustan Times
| 10 months ago
The US presidential race has grown increasingly hostile and bitter, with President Barack Obama releasing an attack ad that blamed Republican rival Mitt Romney for shipping American jobs abroad. Obama, who with a stubborn unemployment rate of 8.2%,...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Va. (AP) An unrelenting President Barack Obama jabbed at Mitt Romney's record with a private equity firm in an ad Saturday that aimed to keep his rival on the defensive just as the Republican challenger's campaign hoped to take advantage of poor...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: July 14, 2012 , 4:10 p.m...With his vice presidential pick looming and a foreign trip a little more than a week away, Mitt Romney cut away from the campaign trail Saturday for family time at...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
33 President Barack Obama meets a young girl in the audience during a campaign rally in Glen Allen, Virginia [Reuters] An unrelenting President Barack Obama has jabbed at Republican candidate Mitt Romney's record with a private equity firm in fresh...
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Houston Chronicle
| 10 months ago
Va. (AP) Mitt Romney insists that he stepped down from his private equity firm years earlier than federal records indicate, but President Barack Obama is more than a little skeptical and says his Republican rival has much to explain. Obama campaign...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
To say the Obama campaign is undeterred by Mitt Romney 's harsh criticism of its attacks of his business record would be an understatement. The president's reelection effort launched a dramatic new television advertisement Saturday that sets Romney's...
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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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BBC
| 10 months ago
Romney accuses Obama of 'disgusting and demeaning tactics' 14 July 2012 Last updated at 09:24 ET The war of words in the US presidential campaign has escalated with the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, accusing President Obama of using 'disgusting...
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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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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney demanded an apology from President Obama on Friday for making what he called reckless and absurd allegations in an escalating battle over whether Mr. Romney's business record included outsourcing American jobs. Richard Carson/Reuters Mitt...
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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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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 10 months ago
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney The Play: War over Bain Capital The Strategy: Both campaigns spent the week sparring over Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain. Mainly through heavy ad buys in swing states, President Obama's team has managed to focus much of the...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Eyder Peralta Mitt Romney stuck to his guns in interviews with the major news networks, this afternoon. "I had no role whatsoever in the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999," Romney told CNN. Romney went on an major offensive today...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
The issue has dominated the political conversation since documents surfaced earlier in the week suggesting that Romney might not have left Bain in 1999 as his campaign has long claimed. Romney was being dishonest with the American people, Obama...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Obama's remarks were part of a concerted effort by his campaign to focus attention on the question of when Romney actually left the private equity firm he founded and whether he had inaccurately reported that information in filings with federal...
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Associated Press
| 10 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he retained ownership of Bain Capital for a time after 1999 but had no management role. Romney's comments to ABC News come amid the disclosure of federal documents that list him as the head of Bain...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney's campaign has struggled to put to rest questions about when that tenure ended, culminating into a snowball effect and detracting from the presumptive GOP nominee's main message, on the economy. The interviews will air on each broadcast...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
Determined not to let a recent slate of attacks on Mitt Romney 's financial and job history slide quietly into the weekend, Democrats stepped up their attacks on Friday, again criticizing Romney for his failure to release his tax returns. Releasing...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
The Obama campaign stood by the claim that Romney could be open to criminal proceedings over when he left Bain Capital. Photograph: Eric Kayne/Getty Images Mitt Romney faced mounting pressure over the extent of his role in Bain Capital on Friday as...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
First Lady Michelle Obama high-fives a child during Independence Day celebrations on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington July 4, 2012 Reuters video U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney gives his reaction to the Supreme Court'...
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The Daily Herald
| 11 months ago
President Barack Obama said that if Mitt Romneys basic premise for his presidential candidacy is Im Mister Fix-It on the economy, then he would scrutinize Romneys record at the private-equity firm Bain Capital LLC. If youre the head of a large...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Va. (AP) Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell says President Barack Obama 's ads accusing Republican Mitt Romney of outsourcing jobs while a venture capitalist at Bain Capital are dishonest. McDonnell said Friday that the Obama campaign should take down those...
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Associated Press
| 11 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton says Mitt Romney's financial record is a matter of legitimate campaign scrutiny because he's been selling himself as a fix-it man on the economy. Clinton tells NBC's "Today" show Romney's hesitation to release all of his...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney called Barack Obama a liar on Thursday as the smouldering US presidential election campaign finally caught fire. On a day of bitter exchanges, Romney, the Republican hopeful, attacked Obama for his campaign's negative advertising blitz...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Mitt Romney 's campaign manager called on U.S. President Barack Obama to apologize for his staff's claim Romney lied about when he left a venture capital firm. The Romney campaign also started running a TV ad in major swing states accusing Obama of...
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The Herald
| 11 months ago
At issue is when Romney left Bain, and whether he was at the helm when it sent jobs overseas...Securities and Exchange Commission, place Romney in charge of Bain from 1999 to 2001, a period in which the company outsourced jobs and ran companies that...
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Seattle Times
| 11 months ago
Romney replies with a hard-hitting television ad that accuses the president of launching "misleading, unfair and untrue" attacks about his role in outsourcing U.S. jobs.
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Proving his presence at Bain between 1999 and 2002 would create a direct link to what Mr. Obama's team describes as the outsourcing of American jobs. And it would contradict Mr. Romney's repeated assertions that by then he had left Bain, the private...
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Taiwan News
| 11 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney looked for a boost Thursday at a campaign fundraiser sponsored by former Vice President Dick Cheney, a figure who divided the country but is lionized by many conservatives Americans.
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
The Obama campaign leveled new charges Thursday that Mitt Romney was misrepresenting his time at Bain Capital , and the Romney camp called into question the integrity of the campaign the president is running. Sponsored Links The sharpened rhetoric...
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The Tribune
| 11 months ago
When a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead?" The words "Obama's Outsourcing Attacks: 'Misleading, Unfair and Untrue'" fill the screen, quoting from a Washington Post fact-checking article as the narrator echoes the charge. "...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
FoxNews.com The battle between President Obama and Mitt Romney reached new levels of rancor Thursday, with each campaign accusing the other of lying over Romney's tenure at private-equity firm Bain Capital. The charges flew at a rapid pace, and by...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
National Convention at the Geoerge R Brown Covention Center in Houston. Photograph: Eric Kayne/Getty Images Barack Obama 's campaign team ratcheted up the rhetoric in the White House election battle on Thursday, claiming the Republican contender Mitt...
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The Hill
| 11 months ago
Romney released a new ad calling Obama a liar for his campaign ads and speeches criticizing Bain for funding companies that sent U.S. jobs overseas. The GOP campaign also denounced a story in the Boston Globe that suggested Romney remained at the...
