With three days to Election Day, President Obama has the math and Romney has the myth. We’ve been building our historic ground game for years and it’s going to win this election. Romney is down everywhere he needs to be up and all he has left is desperation and dishonesty. · We have an early-vote … Continue reading »
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JOBS: Businesses Created More Jobs in October than In Any Month Since February; Romney’s Plan Would Cost Jobs
Under President Obama’s leadership, businesses have added 5.4 million new jobs over the past 32 straight months of private-sector job growth. We’ve come too far to let Romney bring back the same bad ideas that crashed our economy. The economy is growing stronger as we’re coming back from the worst economic crisis since the Great … Continue reading »
The President’s closing argument : FIGHTING FOR A STRONG MIDDLE CLASS
In President Obama’s final campaign, he’s fighting for the same things he’s always believed in and fought for: that this country cannot succeed without a growing, thriving middle class. The President is fighting to reclaim the middle-class security that had been undercut by the failed policies of the previous decade – the same policies Mitt Romney … Continue reading »
Governance by a Party With a Leadership That Has Been Taken Over by Sociopaths:The Fourth and Final Column Analyzing What Mitt Romney Would Do As President
OCTOBER 25, 2012 NEIL H. BUCHANAN Kovalchuk Oleksandr/Shutterstock.com In a recent column, The New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof described the plight of a middle-aged friend of his who was dying of cancer. The friend had quit his job some time ago, as part of a mid-life crisis. In a cruel twist of fate, the friend soon thereafter … Continue reading »
ROMNEY’S DESPERATION: Romney Stoops to Wildly False Claims about the Auto Industry as He Tries to Keep Ohio – and the Election – From Slipping Away
Romney’s autos ad reeks of desperation. Both Chrysler and the Detroit newspaper he cites have debunked the incredibly misleading claims Romney made about them. Romney thinks deception can still win him the election, but voters already know they can’t trust him. · We’re leading early vote in the battleground states that will help decide the … Continue reading »
Obama for America Releases New Blog Series
OFA is launching a new series of blog posts from National Field Director Jeremy Bird on Wednesday to provide updates on the ways our historic grassroots operation is already churning out tangible and verifiable results. We’re winning early vote in the battleground states that will decide this election – a key part of our plan … Continue reading »
At the Debate The President showed what it means to be a Commander-in-Chief
Romney showed us someone who’s not ready to be Commander-in-Chief. President Obama dominated the debate because he was strong and steady and outlined a clear vision to make Americans safer and maintain our country’s leadership in the world. He demonstrated that he knows a President has only one chance to get it right – and … Continue reading »
Getting it out or Getting it right? NYT article explains Susan Rice’s outdated explanation of Benghazi attack – what’s more important
October 21, 2012 After Benghazi Attack, Talk Lagged Behind Intelligence By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — Even as Susan E. Rice took to the Sunday talk shows last month to describe the Obama administration’s assessment of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, intelligence analysts suspected that the explanation was outdated. Ms. Rice, the … Continue reading »
FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE: President Obama is Strong and Steady; Romney Offers Only Bluster and Blunders
President Obama’s leadership has made America stronger, safer and more secure than we were four years ago. Mitt Romney has nothing to offer in Monday’s debate but more bluster, a record of blunders and a commitment to endless war. Mitt Romney is not ready to be Commander-in-Chief. Every time he has had a chance … Continue reading »
Romney’s Debate Answer was Another Part of His Pattern of Failure on Women’s Issues; He’s Hiding His Extreme Positions Because He Can’t Sell Them
Romney’s binders blunder at the debate was just the latest in his pattern of failure on women’s issues. He refuses to stand up for equal pay for equal work and he believes politicians and women’s bosses should make women’s health decisions instead of women. · Mitt Romney’s binders blunder at the debate was just the … Continue reading »
Romney to talk about his faux bipartisanship tonight
Romney’s Failure to Reach Across the Aisle - Mitt Romney’s campaign is telegraphing that he’ll talk about his faux bipartisanship tonight. The debate hasn’t even started yet, and they’re already pushing an argument that is completely divorced from reality. The truth is Romney didn’t reach across the aisle in Massachusetts like he claims. Instead his … Continue reading »
Tonights debate – what the President will say and what Mitt won’t say
President Obama will be debating today’s version of Mitt – but let’s keep in mind what he’s said before. At tonight’s debate, President Obama will talk about what we’ve accomplished over the last four years to rebuild our economy and restore middle class security, and his specific plans for the next four years to continue … Continue reading »
A primer on tax planning using Romney’s favorite ways to avoid paying his fair share –
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mitt-romney-s-tax-dodge-20121012# This story is from the October 25th, 2012 issue of Rolling Stone. Mitt Romney’s Tax Dodge A guide to how the multimillionaire twists the law to hide his massive fortune – and avoid paying his fair share in taxes by: Tim Dickinson Mitt Romney illustration Illustration by Robert Grossman How does a private-equity kingpin worth … Continue reading »
Which Mitt will show up next Tuesday – the flip or the flop?
Mitt v. Mitt, The story of two men trapped in one body. Learn more at http://MittvMitt.com Continue reading »
Vice President Biden Won Last Night’s Debate Because Facts Matter, Details and Honesty Matter, and Paul Ryan Didn’t Offer Any
Vice President Biden won last night’s debate. It was a clash between forthright facts and authentic conviction on one side and glib lines and empty promises on the other. It exposed the extreme risk Romney-Ryan economics pose for American middle class and to our leadership in the world. o Must Watch: … Continue reading »