Obama to stick with Biden as veep - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill. President Obama has no intention of getting rid of Vice President Biden as his running mate, the White House said Thursday.
Republicans are being “ridiculous” and are trying to “distract attention” with their focus on Vice President Biden and his controversial comments earlier this week, White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “They know that what they're saying about this is ridiculous," Carney said at a briefing with reporters, adding that it's an “obvious” attempt to take attention away from policy issues. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign lashed out at Biden and President Obama this week after the vice president in an address in Virginia said the Republican’s approach to the financial industry would “put y’all back in chains.”
Biden made the remarks in front of a racially mixed audience. The Obama campaign’s real game plan - The Plum Line. Posted at 01:23 PM ET, 08/02/2012 Aug 02, 2012 05:23 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost I strongly suspect that one of the Obama campaign’s key strategic goals is to fight Mitt Romney to a draw on who can fix the economic crisis.
The Obama team would take a win, but a draw may have to do. Punctuation Nerds Stopped. Obama switches to Mr. Nice Guy. President Obama is taking a softer, gentler approach in some of his campaign ads in light of poll numbers that show his own favorability ratings taking a lashing amid the incessantly negative tone of the campaign. Obama blames GOP for playing 'politics' on immigration - Reid J. Epstein. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — President Barack Obama on Friday bashed Republicans for blocking immigration reform and took a victory lap here before a national conference of Hispanic politicians.
One week after announcing he would stop deporting many young undocumented immigrants, Obama said that change is just the beginning of his work on immigration and called on Congress to find a permanent, bipartisan solution to fix the broken immigration system. Continue Reading “We should have passed the DREAM Act a long time ago; it was written by members of both parties,” Obama said at the annual conference of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. When the bill — which creates a path to citizenship for some young documented illegal immigrants who served in the military or went to college — came up for a vote a year-and-a-half ago, Republican members of Congress blocked it.
“The bill hadn’t changed. Romney’s campaign accused Obama of failing to live up to his own pledges. Obama blames GOP Congress for slowing economy, Romney fires back. Just hours after President Obama declared the private sector was "doing fine" -- a comment from which he later backed away -- one of the nation's major credit rating agencies affirmed neither the private nor public sector was flourishing.
Standard & Poor’s affirmed its long-term credit rating on the United States at AA+ and said its outlook remains negative. The credit agency made the announcement after Obama's said Friday morning that the private sector is "doing fine" and that the GOP Congress is slowing down the economy. It was immediately pounced on by Mitt Romney and other Republican leaders, resulting in the president backpedaling by the afternoon. Obama Blaming Israel for Fuel Prices - Global Agenda. 194.
Obama's to blame, not Israel Obama will not issue permits to oil companies that want to drill for oil here in the U.S.A. Obama did not want an oil pipeline from Canada to come through the U.S. either. Obama only wants to create a hatred for Israel and the Jews by fabricating this falsehood. A lot of Americans see through this phoney; sadly, not enough do. ReBecca, Los Angeles, CA (9/4/12) Reply to comment Delete Report comment 1 193. "Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said, according to The World Tribune, that the Israeli leadership saw Washington as attributing the higher gas prices to “Israel’s posturing” on Iran. " Jim, Yorba Linda (8/4/12) 192. Obama: ‘Google, Facebook Would Not Exist’ Without Government Funding. President Barack Obama speaks during the Easter Prayer Breakfast in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Obama Fights Back Against Koch Brothers in New Ad.
10:09 p.m. | Updated COLUMBIA, S.C. — Facing attacks on his character from some particularly aggressive and well-financed opponents, will begin running the first broadcast television ad of his presidential re-election campaign on Thursday.
To advertise so early in an election year is unusual. But it reflects the new reality of presidential politics, with large, anonymous amounts of money flowing into groups that can pay for potentially devastating advertising. The president’s campaign commercial is striking not only for its timing but for its sharply defensive tone toward a very specific target. Without mentioning them by name, it takes on Charles and David Koch, the wealthy conservative businessmen who have opposed Mr.