The dueling family portraits of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
F-18 crashes into apartment building in Virginia Beach.
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He’s had a hard few weeks, heck a hard few months. But today’s tepid jobs report comes at just the right time for Mitt Romney, allowing him to get back into an argument about the economy versus President Obama.
In Wisconsin, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus is forced to accept that she is not very good at conducting elections.
A favorite bit of spin for those wanting to suggest that Mitt Romney hasn’t been damaged by an unexpectedly difficult primary has been that Obama and Clinton duked it out for months in 2008 — and the Democrats emerged stronger for it.
Here’s why that comparison is so obviously inappropriate.
As you can see, a very disappointing jobs report today. And it’s a reminder that both presidential candidates’ fate remains tied to the trendline of the economy, something neither can control.
This is quite possibly the most moronic non-scandal in history, and Dear Lord, there’s competition. I’m amazed that even Politico fell for it. The scandal is that a Jewish Congresswoman (who’s also head of the DNC) hired a Jewish staffer who, years ago, with other Jewish friends, made jokes about Jews that appeared on her Facebook page. And because of this President Obama hates Israel and wants it to be plowed under by Iran. And also make the memory of Golda Meir wear a hijab.
As Socrates* said, life is hard. Especially if you’re stupid.
Current TV delivers thermonuclear response to Keith Olbermann’s lawsuit.
You’ve really got to wonder what either party thinks they’re going to get out of this self-inflicted bloodbath.
The man who says he attacked a Wisconsin Planned Parenthood office because “they’re killing babies” was no great planner .
Mitt Romney holds several degrees from Harvard. He also governed the state that the venerable institution calls home.
All of which makes it amazing that he continues — with a straight face — to use it as some sort of elitist cudgel.