Michelle Obama dismissed a new book’s portrayal of her role as first lady, saying it played off an image of her as “some angry black woman” and insisting that she had played little role, at least directly, in the West Wing of the White House. “I don’t have conversations with my husband’s staff,” she told Gayle King of CBS News in an interview broadcast on Wednesday morning. “I don’t go to the meetings.” But she described herself as one of President Obama’s “biggest confidants” and said it ... more→
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Romney’s Opponents Intensify Attacks as Voting Nears
Appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, Newt Gingrich demanded that Mr. Romney explain in more detail the impact that Mr. Romney’s firm, Bain Capital, had on jobs, saying that the former Massachusetts governor “owes us a report on his stewardship” of the firm. “They apparently looted the companies, left people unemployed and walked off with millions of dollars,” Mr. Gingrich said. “Look, I’m for capitalism,” he added, saying that “if somebody comes in, takes all the money out of your company and then leaves you bankrupt ... more→
Iowa Caucus: Romney edges Santorum with 8 voices
Mitt Romney won the first presidential preference contest 2012 only eight votes Tuesday, barely edges from a rising Rick Santorum in Iowa political groups.The two men-of which none was only recently a month is expected to gewinnen-- ran neck and neck and finished in a virtual tie. The second place limited a remarkable surge in popularity for Santorum, who had concentrated his entire campaign and tight budget on Iowa.Romney 2008, but had his campaign 2012 on other early primary second in Iowa in the ... more→
The Caucus: Iowa Caucuses: Five Things to Watch
DES MOINES — Sometime after 7 p.m., all over Iowa, more than 100,000 hardy souls will gather in their communities to pick a Republican nominee for president. For the next several hours, the rest of the country will be waiting for those Iowans to pull the trigger on the starting pistol for the 2012 campaign. Some years the Iowa dynamic is clear — a yes-or-no, this-one-or-that-one proposition that is easily answered by the result at the end of the night. This won’t be one of those years. The three ... more→
The Caucus: Obama and Republicans Seek to Define 2012
DES MOINES – The 2012 presidential election, Mitt Romney said on Thursday, “could be our last chance” to save the United States from Greece-like bankruptcy. The nation, he said, is “only inches away from no longer being a free economy.” The task ahead, he proclaimed at another campaign stop days before the Iowa caucuses kick off ... more→
