Kimberly Strassel of the Journal thinks the Obama attacks on Bain Capital are good for Mitt Romney because we've seen what the president's vision of venture capital.
What that proves is that even when the government is running business, which seems to be his idea of how you do it, you still get bankruptcies, you still get layoffs, what you also get is tens of millions of dollars of lost taxpayer monies...
Barney Frank is getting poor reviews for his Trayvon Martin inspired Hoodie joke over the weekend.
The retiring Democratic congressman made the crack at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth graduation, during which Civil Rights pioneer Hubie Jones was honored.
“You know, when you get an honorary degree they give these,” Frank said, tugging at the hood on his commencement gown, “and Hubie, I think you now got a hoodie you can wear and no one will shoot at you.”
“I have used the ‘hoodie’ line to ridicule the notion that a hooded sweatshirt is somehow sinister,” he said.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes has apologized for questioning the use of the term 'hero' to describe veterans - a point he made over the Memorial Day weekend. Here are his original comments.
I feel... uncomfortable about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen... But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic.
And here is the apology...
On Sunday, in discussing the uses of the word 'hero' to describe those members of the armed forces who have given their lives, I don't think I lived up to the standards of rigor, respect and empathy for those affected by the issues we discuss that I've set for myself," Hayes says in a written statement. "I am deeply sorry for that."
The president seemed to be attempting to isolate Hayes in these Memorial Day remarks at the Vietnam Memorial.
And decades from now, I hope another young American will visit this place and reach out and touch a name. And she’ll learn the story of servicemembers—people she never met, who fought a war she never knew—and in that moment of understanding and of gratitude and of grace, your legacy will endure. For you are all true heroes and you will all be remembered.
The president has to tear down Mitt Romney to win reelection says Jeff Zeleny, but the New York Times writer disagrees with those who say the Obama campaign has stumbled out of the gate on the Bain attacks.
Come August, we'll see where Mitt Romney is standing. If he's as strong in August as he is right now, the Obama campaign is in real trouble, and they realize that...
Remember Liz Warren's viral socialist rant against the successful - you know, the "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody." rant? Here's Ron Paul explaining why she's wrong.
The money had to come from productive effort... the government created nothing... all the government can do is... forcibly transfer wealth from one person to another... /
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
She's also wrong in simple logic - The all of us who paid to build the roads includes the rich guys - except that the rich guys paid more into the pot than the average guy, and in the US today half the population doesn't contribute federal tax dollars that are used for highway construction.
Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
There was no special advantage given to the rich guy that he has to pay a penalty for - in fact, he's already been penalized. We all have equal access to the roads, the rich guy has just given more back in economic productivity than the rest of us.
The guys who make middle class life possible - the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates types - they're the bad guys in the adversarial world of Liz Warren socialism.
Four years ago, the Obama campaign had all the money it could ever want, while John McCain's funds were limited. EJ Dionne warns it won't be that way this time, and that will negate many of the advantages Obama is seen as having over Mitt Romney in November.
I think the president goes in with structural advantages. I think the big difference this time from last time is the president vastly outspent John McCain in the last election. I think this time with all that Super PAC money coming in from the right, it's going to be a real challenge to the president.
Brit Hume thinks the president's attempt to disconnect job creation from profit shows his ignorance about capitalism. It seems much more realistic to assume that Obama's engaged in the same nefarious activity that engages him daily - trying to confuse voters.
... every business person who runs a hamburger stand understands you're trying to make a profit and the business of making a profit has jobs as a byproduct... I think it may in fact be true that he doesn't get how the whole system works...
The president's argument that Mitt Romney doesn't have the right business experience to fix the economy when Obama has ZERO business experience is bizarre, and the point is beautifully and concisely made by Carly Fiorina.
'I am qualified to be president, but Mitt Romney, the governor of a major state with 25 years of experience in the private sector is not qualified to be president...' I find it to be a very surprising argument...
Shall we add Bob Schieffer to the list of liberal Democrats who are unhappy with the ruthlessness of the Obama campaign?
He talked about Hope & Change... what ever happened to Hope & Change? Now, it seems he's just coming right out of the box with these old fashioned negative ads...
David Brooks said today what I've been thinking, that the president's negative campaign is eroding support for him by showing that he's not about Hope & Change.
People … like him personally, they admire him. And now I think he’s at a risk of throwing that away by starting negative, by going extremely tough and extremely hard, looking conventional.
