In regards to the Obama email dating problem from last night, looks like Bill Clinton is getting involved now, too.
Number-crunchers over at the Bureau of Labor and Statistics realized today that between April 2011 and March 2012, there were 300,000 more jobs created than originally estimated. If this upward revision is correct, President Obama is now in the green for job growth, having overseen a net gain in roughly 100,000 since taking office. This has just been an astonishingly bad week for Mitt Romney. source
it’s like i broke up with obama and he’s not taking it well
Snorting
He keeps saying it’s the absolute last time he’s going to ask me to dinner and it keeps being a lie.
You think Obama’s bad? Biden wants to take me out for a cup of coffee.
And Michelle was having trouble getting a birthday card signed.
You’d think she’d leave me alone after that, but …
So much pressure.
(Source: tockthewatchdog)
And for a conservative, voting for Virgil Goode is a vote for Barack Obama. Virgil’s not going to win.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell yesterday during a radio interview, when asked if Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode would sway the national election.
Goode recently received permission from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to stay on the Virginia ballot. The state’s Republican party sought to remove Goode from the ballot, citing irregular petitions to get on the ballot for the national election. (via The Roanoke Times)
Mitt Romney, who has been criticized by members of his party in recent weeks for not campaigning aggressively enough and who trails President Obama in polls in most swing states, placed the blame for his campaign’s struggles squarely on the president himself Sunday afternoon.
Speaking to reporters as his private charter plane flew from Los Angeles to Denver, Mr. Romney blamed his relatively languid campaign schedule — five public events in the past seven days, compared with 11 fund-raisers — on the president’s decision to opt out of the federal campaign finance system four years ago, and criticized Mr. Obama for, he said, “trying to fool people into thinking that I think things I don’t.”
… or perhaps being a better campaigner?
Obama’s new ad hits on Romney’s “47 percent” gaffe, tax returns: This battleground-state ad, only running in Ohio, serves up the kind of criticism that a comment like Mitt’s makes obvious: “Doesn’t the President have to worry about everyone?” Romney’s tax returns also take a hit. (ht USA Today)
(Source: youtube.com)
Governor Romney is a very skilled debater, so clearly the governor has the advantage.Obama campaign manager Jim Messina • Heaping a modest bit of dirt on the debate abilities of his boss. If this seems on its face like a gaffe, it isn’t — the name of the game in presidential debates over the last several cycles has been lowering expectations. It’s a strategy that worked well for President Bush in both 2000 and 2004, for a simple reason — diminished expectations allow a candidate to seem to shine (or to rise to the occasion) just by doing a competent job. Conversely, the Romney campaign’s strategy at this late date hinges so heavily on scoring knockout blows on the debate stage (it’s no secret that Romney’s been forgoing much campaigning post-convention, ostensibly to focus on debate prep) that they’ve done much the opposite — they want you to think Romney’s going to win. That could end up being true, to be sure, but on sheer poltiical calculus, it’s not a situation any campaign thirsts to be in. source
$313 spent at Chic-fil-A by Mitt Romney’s campaign in August
$152 spent at Dunkin’ Donuts by President Obama’s campaign the same month
Normally, we’d chalk an article like this up to a slow news week, but it hasn’t really been a slow news week. Anyway, if you’re interested in the fast food spending habits of the two major parties’ presidential campaigns, Politico has you covered. source
See, when they skipped town, Members of Congress left a whole bunch of proposals sitting on the table – actions that would create jobs, boost our economy, and strengthen middle-class security. These ideas have been around for months. The American people want to see them passed. But apparently, some Members of Congress are more worried about their jobs and their paychecks this campaign season than they are about yours.Obama calls out Congress for leaving early in his weekly radio address.
On alternative energy, Mitt Romney just endorsed Hitler’s method of liquifying coal. Not a joke.
“Liquified coal. Gosh, Hitler during the second World War…”
Things no politician should ever say: Oh, that Hitler, he had such great ideas!
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
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The National Review ran a magazine cover in which they Photoshopped signs at an Obama rally to read “ABORTION” instead of “FORWARD” as they originally did.
The top image shows the October 1, 2012 cover of “National Review” magazine.
The image at the bottom shows another photo taken at the same rally.
When Photoshop is used for evil.
6M Americans per year will pay a penalty under the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, according to a new CBO estimate
$8B in additional revenue per year will be collected via these penalties source
So, guys, you may have heard about this video. It supposedly makes Mitt Romney look really bad and stuff, like a total jerkwad with no chance of recovering from the stupid things he said. This might be true, but we’d like to make another argument: That Mitt Romney really wasn’t doing all that great in the first place and therefore a spare idiotic comment shouldn’t really surprise anyone. “What are you talking about, casually inquisitive blogger?”, you ask. Well … we’d like to remind you that Mitt Romney is already the unloved candidate. And has been for a really long time. Examples:
» A footnote: On this week’s Saturday Night Live, the cold open with Jay Pharoah playing Obama (about time, he deserved it) tells you everything you need to know about this race. Say what you will about Obama, but these races are won on perception, and Mitt has the effect of reminding us that, whatever frustrations folks might have with Obama, Mitt makes him look better every day.
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