A note to Governor Romney – Stop jumping on the easy looking Obama issues. They’re a trap. The BO (Forward) campaign keeps doing it. Stop falling for it. First it was the Church mandate - you did the same in Massachusetts. Second it was the assault weapons ban – you did the same in Massachusetts. Third it was too many to name.. Now this, “You can’t change DC from the inside!“ Governor, they’ve mined (data mine) everything you’ve said. Stop falling for the excitable issues.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/when-mitt-romney-said-you-couldnt-change-washingt
President Barack Obama took direct aim at China – and Mitt Romney -- on Monday with a World Trade Organization complaint about export subsidies and with stepped up rhetoric attacking Romney’s profiting from companies that shipped jobs to China.
The president announced the complaint at a campaign rally in Ohio, a state where the American auto industry supports one in eight people.
“Now, I understand my opponent has been running around Ohio, claiming… he’s going to roll up his sleeves and take the fight to China,” Obama said. “But here’s the thing: his experience has been owning companies that were called ‘pioneers’ in the business of outsourcing jobs to countries like China… Pioneers! Ohio, you can’t stand up to China when all you’ve done is send them our jobs.”
The WTO complaint alleges that China gave up to $1 billion to exporters of autos and auto parts between 2009 and 2011, distorting the market to the detriment of American manufacturers.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/obama-takes-on-china-romney-135753.html
No, don’t call it PC: call it “common sense.” Angry and hyperpartisan minds create things such as this; unhinged minds could be inspired by things such as this. Its latest incarnation comes in a display outhouse marked “Obama Presidential Library” at the Montana Republican convention, TPM reports:
The president of the White House Correspondents' Association has called today's "rude interruption" of President Obama by a Daily Caller reporter "discourteous," but said that the Daily Caller's status as a member for the White House in-town press pool is something that would need to be discussed by the WHCA board, of which she is a member.
"It was discourteous. It's not the way reporters who cover the White House conduct themselves," Caren Bohan, the current WHCA president and White House correspondent for Reuters, told POLITICO today, shortly after DC reporter Neil Munro shouted a question at the President while he was delivering remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
The nation’s employers produced a net gain of 115,000 positions, after adding 154,000 in March, the Labor Department said Friday. April’s job growth was less than economists had been predicting.
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee,immediately seized on the numbers, arguing that the lackluster report demonstrated that President Obama’s stewardship over the economy was lacking. “We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month,” he said. “This is way, way, way off from what should happen in a normal recovery.”
The White House accentuated the positive in the report, while acknowledging that it fell short of what was needed. “Today’s employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,” said Alan B. Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, “but much more remains to be done to repair the damage caused by the financial crisis and the deep recession.”
Obama is the man!! Spike that damn football.
President Barack Obama flew into Afghanistan Tuesday for a surprise whirlwind trip that will culminate in a live, televised address to the American people at 7:30 p.m.
Speaking on the first anniversary of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Obama will use the address from Bagram Air Force base to provide an update on Afghan withdrawal plans, administration officials tell POLITICO.
We'd heard a few times lately that the gun stocks (mostly Ruger and Smith & Wesson) had been surging lately, thanks to strong gun sales, but we have to thank Eddy Elfenbein for alerting us to how extreme the moves have been lately.
Ruger is up 14% from the Wednesday close after the gun company announced that itliterally could not keep up with demand.
Stocks climbed to new heights in part on rosy retail sales data, pushing the broad market to levels last seen in June 2008 and the Nasdaq composite index past the 3,000 milestone for the first time since 2000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/business/stocks-rally-to-pre-2008-heights.html?ref=business
