IT’S NOT gotten much coverage yet, but ABC News has now picked up the remarkable exchange, which opened out into a speech on religion from Clinton. SECRETARY CLINTON: Good evening, and although I am many weeks overdue in saying it: Eid Mubarak. No matter how belated we are honoring Eid and the end of Ramadan, [...]
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Top Story: U.S. Confronts BP on Gulf Disaster in Court Documents Citing “Gross Negligence and Willful Misconduct”
The U.S. Justice Department is ramping up its rhetoric against BP PLC for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it calls “gross negligence and willful misconduct.” The court filing is the sharpest position yet taken by the U.S. government as it seeks to [...]
Top Story: Bill Clinton to Set Economic Message Obama Never Could
“President Obama’s problem is that the truth about his abysmal record hurts,” said Romney spokesperson Ryan Williams in a statement Sunday. “Americans aren’t better off today than they were four years ago.” [The Hill] LET THERE BE no doubt about where we are today, compared to what has come before. This is an all hands [...]
Top Story: Democrats Prepare to Celebrate in Anti Union North Carolina
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Labor has no place to go.” – Chris Hayes WHAT WOULD Democrats be without labor? Where would they be? What would the American middle class look like without unions? Before we met, my own husband was in a situation for many years in [...]
Kathleen Parker Asks “What the *#@% Is Wrong With Republicans?”
It’s not just Akin. By pushing some of the most invasive state policies in modern history, the men of the GOP are driving their party off a cliff. – Kathleen Parker THE LAMENT from all quarters of the Republican Party as their convention gets underway would be sad if it weren’t completely self-inflicted. The Todd [...]
Top Story: How Badly Do American Women Need Barack Obama?
“If President Obama is reelected on November 6th, it will be primarily because he ran against Mitt Romney. It he were running unapposed, 2012 would be a very tough fight for him.” – Mark Shields, “The News Hour” HAPPY WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY, which on the eve of the Republican convention doesn’t seem like such a [...]
New Look, Broader Lens
WELCOME to the new TM.com. It’s a new-media magazine that gives viewers a snapshot of the day. Politics is primary, then anything goes after that. This means new topics, including subjects not regularly seen here before. It’s a new look accompanied by a much broader lens on what’s covered. We’ll see what develops. TM note: [...]
Top Story: RNC Platform Begins By Restating Reaganism that No Longer Represents Republicans
“… In other words, we said to Osama bin Laden we think getting rid of Saddam Hussein is seven times more important than dealing with you. – President Bill Clinton (2006) POLITICO GRABBED the RNC platform that was mistakenly uploaded on to the Internet. Republicans aren’t claiming it’s the final language. This is how it [...]
Top Story: Romney Shrugs off Critics, Pleased his Birther Joke Got a Laugh and Cheers
“The crowd loved it and it got a good laugh.” – Mitt Romney DEFLECTING THE QUESTION about what he said today in Michigan, Mitt Romney shrugged it all off as a joke when speaking to Scott Pelley of CBS News. It didn’t bother Mr. Romney that he was not only channeling Donald Trump, but embracing [...]
Top Story: What Will Republicans Do With Their Todd Akin Wing?
It wasn’t just Todd Akin that was treated with contempt by the thinly veiled attack on Todd Akin. It was all the people who have faithfully knocked doors, made calls, and made sacrificial contributions to elect Republicans because we thought we were welcome in the party. – Mike Huckabee ANTI-WOMEN CONTROL freaks evidently don’t understand [...]
Bill Clinton, Shadow Candidate in the 2012 Election
In his stump speeches, Obama frequently credits Clinton-era policies for the strong economy in the ’90s, arguing the country fared well under Clinton because he “understood what it takes for this economy.” “Nobody has a better grasp and understanding of the issues than this man,” Obama said at a June fundraiser in New York. – [...]
Top Story: Whose Party Is It, Mitt Romney’s or the Religious Right’s?
“Rape is rape and there’s no splitting hairs over rape.” As for the president’s claim that Romney-Ryan will restrict birth control, Ryan calls that ridiculous. “Nobody is proposing to deny birth control to anybody,” says Ryan. Ryan says women won’t fall for these side issues. “And I don’t think they’re going to take the bait [...]
Top Story: What’s the Matter with Todd Akin?
But for all of that the overall numbers in the race have moved very little. When we polled in May McCaskill was getting only 8% of the Republican vote, and even with the controversy around Akin she’s only pushed up to 10% of it. GOP voters dislike McCaskill so much they’re not going to vote [...]
Top Story of the Week: Medicare, Not the Economy
Mitt Romney’s advisers are orchestrating a four-day Republican National Convention that is not so much designed to make Americans fall in love with the nominee, but rather to fall in like with the idea of him as the nation’s leader and a uniquely qualified businessman who can fix the economy. – GOP convention’s focus: Romney [...]
Top Story: Voter I.D. Law Meant to Suppress the Vote in Pennsylvania Upheld
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A Pennsylvania judge has rejected claims that the state’s controversial voter-ID law disenfranchises poor, urban voters. As a result, the state’s 8.2 million registered voters will be required to present a state-approved voter ID when they head to the polls on November 6. [...]
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