LOS ANGELES — Rumbling in to its final four weeks, the presidential campaign is playing out on both coasts and multiple fronts, with Republican Mitt Romney seeking stature on foreign affairs and President Barack Obama raising political cash by the millions. SEE ALSO:Bill Maher: Obama ‘Sucked’ During Debate[1] Negative ads, charges of dishonesty, and dwindling time are all setting the tone. Joining celebrities for fund-raising in Los Angeles on Sunday, Obama for the first time needled himself over a poor debate performance. But he declared he had the right focus and “I intend to win.” Romney was in Virginia, trying to bury the memories of his fumbled trip abroad this summer and knock Obama back on national security. “Hope is not a strategy,” he said in excerpts of a Monday speech at the Virginia Military Institute. The campaigns already had eyes on the next debate, the sole face-off between Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, which will grab attention as the Thursday ...
The issue: Unless Congress acts, the trust funds that support Social Security will run out of money in 2033, according to the trustees who oversee the retirement and disability program. At that point, Social Security would collect only enough tax revenue each year to pay about 75 percent of benefits. That benefit cut wouldn’t sit well with the millions of older Americans who rely on Social Security for most of their income. — Where they stand: President Barack Obama hasn’t laid out a detailed plan for addressing Social Security. He’s called for bipartisan talks on strengthening the program but he didn’t embrace the plan produced by a bipartisan deficit reduction panel he created in 2010. Republican challenger Mitt Romney proposes a gradual increase in the retirement age to account for growing life expectancy. For future generations, Romney would slow the growth of benefits “for those with higher incomes.” Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! — Why it matters: For millions of ...
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) may have come across as a few cards short of a deck in the twilight hours of the 2008 presidential showdown with then Senator Barack Obama, but his unique and intricate understanding of foreign policy, stemming from his famed naval career and the atrocities he experienced from 1967-1973 as a prisoner-of-war in the “Hanoi Hilton’ during the Vietnam War, has always been respected. This is why he has been thrust into the spotlight in the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11. Not only was he a close friend of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed during the attack along with 3 other Americans, but he has not been shy about what he considers to be an absurd response by President Obama. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! See his statements on CBS ‘This Morning’ below: “It’s disgraceful that we would say an attack such as this, on its face, was the result of a demonstration,” McCain said on “This Morn ...
