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Cleveland.com is reporting that fewer than 200 people attended a unique get-out-the-vote rally for President Obama featuring legendary Motown musician and entainer Stevie Wonder. What a shame...
At first blush, associating President Barack Obama with deficits of any sort seems like a complete non-story. After all, this is the president who has presided over four consecutive trillion-plus dollar deficits after pledging to slice that number in half by the end of this term. He's also the man whose unanimously rejected FY 2013 budget would literally never balance, generating additional deficits as far as the eye can see. Nevertheless, seeing red ink splattered on Obama's re-election campaign's balance sheet still feels strange. This group once boasted that it would raise a billion dollars for this cycle -- and despite Obama's recent implications to the contrary, the facts show that his operation widely outspent his opponent's in the last election. So what to make of this? >>Read full story
President Barack Obama defended his attacks on Republican Mitt Romney‘s career at Bain Capital, saying if the former businessman thinks his private-equity experience translates to running the U.S. economy then he’s “missing what this job is about.
“When you’re president, as opposed to head of a private-equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference at the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Chicago. He added:”Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot.”>> Read more
President Barack Obama‘s re-election campaign has been on a mission to malign Bain Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by Mitt Romney.
Don’t look for Oprah on the Obama’s 2012 Christmas card. For that matter, don’t look for Oprah on the campaign trail for the president in 2012, either.
According to the recently released book “THE AMATEUR, Barack Obama in the White House,” Michelle Obama and Oprah are engaged in a subtle “Mean Girls” style battle of wills, with the first lady even criticizing Oprah’s “girth.”
When [Oprah] phoned, [Obama] dropped everything and took her call. They huddled over strategy. Of all of Obama’s unofficial White House advisers, Oprah had unparalleled access, input, influence, and power.
But according to the book's author, Oparah’s “prestige” within the White house inter-circle was short-lived. Soon after Obama won the election, “It soon became apparent that something had gone wrong between Oprah and the new administration — or, more precisely, between Oprah and Michelle Obama.”
Come to think of it, we haven’t seen Lil' Steve Wonder stumping for the president in 2012, either. Maybe he’s still smarting from this 2008 Los Angeles appearance with “My Michelle.”
Are Democrats and President Obama exploiting victims of domestic violence for political purposes?
In a recent telephone interview with Stephanie Miller of Al Gore’sCurrent TV, Rep. Gwen Moore (D) Wisconsin said she wishes the abuse she suffered "was something rare, but it's not" and calls the revised version of the Violence Against Women Act fake.
President Obama continues to stoke the flames of class warfare.
Huff Post has reported that President Barack Obama's reelection campaign on Monday morning opened a new front in its election faceoff with presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, releasing documentary-style videos and a full website portraying Romney as a job-destroying corporate takeover artist. Read the full story...
Of course, the Obama campaign left out a few FACTS.
FACT: Bain Capital LLC shut down in 2001.Romney left Bain in 1999, long before the plant closing, to run the XIX Olympic Winter Games in February 2002 in Salt Lake City.
FACT:A political power-player serving as a director of Bain at the time of the steel company's bankruptcy and layoffs--Jonathan Lavine.Lavine joined Bain in 1993. He is currently a Managing Director, and since its inception, managing partner and the Chief Investment Officer of Sankaty Advisors.
Blaming Romney for decisions made two years after he left the company is deceitful at best, but blaming predecessors is what Obama does better than anything else--it his trademark tactic. Lavine joined Bain Capital in 1993.
Monday, November 5, 2012 at 2:32 PM 
