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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, defended their tax, economic, and health-care ideas while trying to direct a more precise attack on Democratic President Barack Obama during interviews on four of the...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Sen. Claire McCaskill has been traveling Missouri highlighting stark policy differences with her Republican challenger, Rep. Todd Akin. She's cites their stances on federal student loans, school lunches, post offices, taxes, the minimum wage and a...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
The Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Sunday said that they agree with the 2014 deadline of security transition in Afghanistan but alleged that the views of the generals on the ground were not being considered by the Obama...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Four budgets, $4 trillion deficits, 23 million people struggling to find work, the highest poverty rates in a generation, nearly one out of six Americans in poverty, said Ryan on ABC's This Week. Ryan pounced on Friday's weak jobs report numbers and...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan get a failing grade on explaining how they'd pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts.The two Republicans were asked separately on different Sunday morning talk shows what loopholes...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Paul Ryan stops short of giving GOP tax specifics Updated GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan criticized President Obama for his tax proposals and for putting America on the wrong path, but declined to say which loopholes he and Mitt Romney would...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
It cut taxes on the uber-rich, raises taxes on middle-income and lower-income Americans, and cuts federal programs in the U.S.'s modest social safety net. Simply, the Romney tax plan is the Bush tax plan on steroids...Consider this: Under Ryan's plan,...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
In excerpts of an interview aired Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Obama said that the election would help sort out the fight over taxes and revenue that's intensified between the two parties since a grand bargain fell through last year. CBS's Scott...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
For example, O'Donnell asked Ryan about comments made by his running mate, Mitt Romney, that Republicans were wrong to go along with a deal last summer that included automatic cuts to defense spending in order to raise the debt ceiling. (Romney...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
In an interview on ABC's This Week airing Sunday, Ryan was asked if he would straight reject a deal which would provide $1 in new taxes for every $10 in spending cuts. Ryan, the GOP vice presidential nominee, said he would weigh the quality of the...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| 8 months ago
But when American President Barack Obama made the foregoing statement at his Democratic National Convention (DNC) last Thursday night, his analysis could not be sharper. I have said it before, and both the recently held Republican National Convention...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Calif. (AP) Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan extolled the values of free enterprise and self-determination at a Fresno fundraising dinner Saturday as he swept through California during a western campaign swing. The Wisconsin congressman...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Romney was asked about the $109 billion automatic spending cut known as the sequester that is due to hit in January. Some $55 billion comes from the defense budget. The GOP candidate blasts President Obama for proposing the cuts, which were floated...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Paul Ryan in a walk-through at the Republican conference in Tampa. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP Pause and consider this era of what American commentators call "post-truth politics". They mean politicians (Democrats as well as Republicans) standing on...
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Lexington Herald-Leader
| 8 months ago
Herald-Leader columnist Presidential nominating conventions make for interesting political theater, even if you do come away from watching them as confused as ever about what either candidate would actually do if elected. For the most part, the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story Former president Bill Clinton made an even clearer dismissal: We believe We're all in this together' is a far better philosophy than You're on your own.' As delighted as the Democrats were to raise the spectre of Rand, the Republicans the week...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 8 months ago
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a crowd of 2,500 supporters Friday that the American economy created only one new job last month for every four people who stopped looking for work, an indication that the country "needs a new...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Some Missouri TV stations have stopped running campaign ads for embattled Republican U.S...A message was sent on Akin's Twitter account saying it was "misleading & wrong" to suggest the campaign was unable to pay for the ads, The Hill reported.
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Bill Clinton delivers his speech at the 2012 Democratic national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photograph: Ron Sachs/CNP/Corbis The buzz was not allowed to last even a day. Less than 12 hours after Barack Obama had wrapped up his party's...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Given the state of contemporary political discourse, "The Daily Show" rarely has to look very hard to find someone (or something) worthy of ridicule. Occasionally, though, a moment comes along that's impervious to Jon Stewart 's satirical gaze, like...
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Arizona Daily Sun
| 8 months ago
The Associated Press The Associated Press 2 hours ago Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says the latest unemployment report shows the economy is "limping along" as a result of failed leadership and bad fiscal policy coming from the Obama...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
With US watching, Ryan to focus on personal side With US watching, Ryan to focus on personal side Paul Ryan wants to talk policy...As debt rises, Ryan sees 'country in decline' As debt rises, Ryan sees 'country in decline' Republican vice...
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Wayne Today
| 8 months ago
Democrats in Charlotte waited for President Obama to address their convention, all across America Democrats, Republicans and independents were praising former President Bill Clinton's Wednesday night speech. Clinton delivered a long, carefully...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
Even before President Clinton opened his mouth at the Democratic convention, his very presence in this position as nominator reminded every American how much better Clinton's record is than Obama's. In fact, much of what Clinton said directly...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
If Barack Obama is the Harvard law professor of American politics who can never completely resist the temptation to lecture, then Bill Clinton is the saloon-bar sage. In a bravura 48-minute speech to the Democrat National Convention, the former...
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Bookforum
| 8 months ago
Online only · 1 September 2012 2552 words A Hologram for President Eliot Weinberger Poor Mitt. He became the Republican candidate for president by default, as the least worst choice from a pack of bizarre characters seemingly drawn from reality TV...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 8 months ago
US Republicans seized upon Bill Clinton's planned speech to the Democratic convention Wednesday to mock President Barack Obama as an unworthy heir to the job-creating, surplus-boosting former leader. After the convention's opening night, when...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Share This Story Throughout his term, Obama has often been slighted by opponents and even his own party for not delivering on the "change" he promised four years ago. But in a moving speech Thursday night, the president closed out the 2012 Democratic...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Former president Bill Clinton delivered a 48-minute defense of President Barack Obama during his speech Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention. The address was packed with facts and figures, as well as political claims and arguments.
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Presidential candidates can usually count on a few days of good feelings from their convention as they ride the high generated by impassioned supporters and cross their fingers for rising poll numbers. But for President Obama, the party could come to...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
Some commentators say the former president saved Obama's re-election...If nothing else, however, Clinton's emotional but policy-laden address underscored the Republicans' lack of a comparably famous and skilled spokesman to defend Romney. No one...
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Telegraph India
| 8 months ago
Popular former President plays an audacious card to help Obama K.P. Charlotte (North Carolina), Sept. 6: America has a new teacher: Bill Clinton. Twelve years after he ceased to be President, he remains this country's most popular politician with an...
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The Tribune
| 8 months ago
Ryan says Obama fell 'woefully short' as president Ryan says Obama fell 'woefully short' as president President Barack Obama has broken too many promises to earn a second term and four more years under his leadership could leave America as a "welfare...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Former president Bill Clinton got good reviews for his speech last night -- both the prepared and improvised editions. The prepared text delivered to reporters ran about 3,200 words. The speech Clinton delivered to the Democratic ran closer to 5,500...
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Celebuzz
| 8 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton had the Charlotte crowd (and probably many people watching at home) eating out of his hand Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, as he made an eloquent, exhaustive case for re-electing his party to the...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Archive Recent Posts September 06 More people watched former President Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention than tuned in to the N.F.L. season opener...Ryan faces some withering attacks from Bill Clinton, but does not return...
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Leonia Life
| 8 months ago
But his greatest political skill may be as a formulator of arguments the explainer in chief. At the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, he did not disappoint, boiling down Mitt Romney's case to one sentence: In Tampa, he said, the...
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Kansas City Star
| 8 months ago
Obama will also try to summon inspiration by saying that America is right on the cusp of what it could be.Ryan on Thursday framed the election as a choice as well."We want you to have an affirming choice so you can choose, I want this path instead of...
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Acushnet Community News
| 8 months ago
Usually when a president visits his convention before his big night, it's to kiss his wife...The Obama campaign got the picture of continuity it wanted for the front pages of the newspapers. If all campaigns are about the future, bringing in the...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
When the Democrats and Republicans trot out their patriotism onstage, it can sound like they love two different nations. Mom, apple pie and the American dream, it seems, can justify almost any policy: Higher taxes on the wealthy or lower taxes on the...
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Time-Arts TunedIn
| 9 months ago
Barack Obama has a reputation as a brilliant speaker, but not, on his own behalf, an effective talker . He has delivered passages of soaring rhetoric and inspired crowds, but as President, he's faltered at simply talking to citizens: laying out,...
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The Progressive
| 9 months ago
Republicans bring up Clinton even less frequently than they mention George W...And here's why: "Don't you ever forget," Clinton told the crowd in Charlotte, "Republican national policies quadrupled the national debt before I took office, and doubled...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Bill Clinton told Americans on Wednesday that President Barack Obama had placed them on a path to renewed prosperity and deserved four more years to finish the job. Lending his signature dazzle to Obama's re-election campaign, the two-term former...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama won plaudits from across the political divide on Wednesday for a speech in which she told Americans that her husband felt their pain and deserved four more years in the White House...In a personal address to the Democratic convention,...
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The Durango Herald
| 9 months ago
Lynne Sladky/Associated Press No one could have repaired all the damage (to the economy that President Obama) found in just four years, former President Bill Clinton said in his speech...Before a roaring crowd at the Democratic National Convention,...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama should be allowed to finish the job he started, Bill Clinton said as Obama prepared to deliver his party's acceptance speech Thursday. "President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did," Clinton told the Democratic...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
I hoped it would result in a serious debate about the choice before us. Then I heard his acceptance speechit kept the fact-checkers up all night. The Republicans had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. Paul told...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
While we learned that rising stars in the Democratic Party come in younger (Sandra Fluke) and older (Elizabeth Warren) versions, it was a party elder and established superstar (President Bill Clinton) who stole the show on Day Two of the Democratic...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 9 months ago
Bill Clinton, the last Democratic president to preside over a booming economy, vouched Wednesday for Barack Obama on the incumbent's biggest vulnerabilities: job growth and confidence in the future. In a spirited defense, Clinton told his party's...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
A generation apart and a rivalry forgotten, Bill Clinton enthusiastically and extensively made the case for reelecting his Democratic successor, declaring that President Obama can build a new American Dream economy. Clinton's speech, all 49 minutes...
