If voters were looking to hear more from presidential candidates last night on U. S. leadership in the world, they were sorely disappointed. Presidential...
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama (pictured left) and Republican challenger Mitt Romney (pictured) are returning to the sometimes-nasty rhetoric of a close presidential campaign after a brief truce, renewing their focus on two battleground states and preparing for next week’s final, perhaps pivotal, debate. SEE ALSO:Mitt Romney And The Politics Of Disrespect[1] Romney and Obama set aside their differences — mostly — to poke fun of themselves and each other Thursday night at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner[2]. On Friday, it’s back to campaigning in Florida and Virginia, two of just a handful of states that will decide the election, now less than three weeks away. Obama was planning a speech at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., rallying college students in the northern part of the state. Romney was to fly to Daytona Beach, Fla., for a rally with running mate Paul Ryan. While they’re both focused on the South, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls released T ...
If you need an example of “taking one for the team,” read no further than the story below. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has taken all responsibility for the terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. ambassador, Chris Stevens and three others. According to Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden had no way of knowing that a threat was imminent, but that she should have, reports Reuters[1]. “I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000-plus people all over the world,” Clinton said in an interview on CNN. “The president and the vice president wouldn’t be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They’re the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs and make a considered decision.” Clinton says that she hopes her admission will avoid the partisan politicizing of the tragic event: “I know that we’re very close to an election. I want to just take a step back here and say from my own experience, we ...
