Doh! We Elected Obama Because He’s Black?
Speaking at a town hall meeting, Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) suggested President Obama was only elected president because he’s an African-American:
Day: May 2, 2012
Supreme Court’s Favorability Rating Hits 25-Year Low
52%
Of Americans offer a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court — a quarter-century low, according to a new Pew Research poll. “Unlike evaluations over much of the past decade, there is very little partisan divide. The court receives relatively low favorable ratings from Republicans, Democrats and independents alike.”
A Political Ad That Asserts a Universal Truth
Isn’t it about time we elected political leaders that have sense enough not to pee on electric fences.
— Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Roland Sledge (R), whose new ad that has a tagline with which few would disagree.
Rubio’s Credit Card Use Still In Doubt
Not so. Even putting aside the obvious — why would such a savvy politician continually use a state party credit card for non-party business, requiring him to reimburse the credit card company after the bill had been paid? — questions remain about the more than $100,000 in charges from Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2008.
— National Journal, not buying Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) claim that the matter of his using a Florida Republican party credit card for personal expenses was “totally resolved years ago.”
Moon Over, Newt
Poor Newt Gingrich didn’t make it to June,
Though he might have given up too soon.
But what’s hardest for Newt,
Now his campaign is kaput,
Is he’ll never get his colony on the moon …
Most Hispanic Catholics Back Obama
70%
Of Hispanic Catholics back President Obama, while 55% of non-Hispanic Catholics back Mitt Romney. Overall, the Catholic vote is split 46% to 46% between the candidates, according to Gallup.
WWMD: What Would Mitt Romney Do… If He Were Someone Else?
Mitt Romney has famously said that “of course” he would have made the same decisions that led to the death of Osama bin Laden as Pres. Obama did. Obama, we will recall, elected to launch a Navy Seals attack without tipping off the Pakistani government because he had good intelligence on bin Laden’s whereabouts and no reason to trust the Pakistanis. Had the plan gone wrong, “of course,” we imagine Romney would have found much to fault.
We also know that in 2007, when he was running for president last, Romney echoed the sentiments of Pres. George W. Bush, who said he didn’t give a rat’s ass if we ever found bin Laden. Romney put it this way: “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
Since Romney now says if he were president, he would have done exactly what Pres. Obama did, I think it’s a good time to list some of the other things that Romney would have done if he were the person who did them, which he is not.
New Republican Ad Just as Bad as the 2008 Version
The folks who tried to bring you John McCain apparently have learned nada in four years. They dusted off the “celebrity president” jibe that helped lose in 2008 to help lose again in 2012. See if this rings a bell:
What really bothers Republicans: Pres. Obama, a black man, is president. And he’s acting all black cool, like he’s not even ashamed of being black.
Did you catch that? Gas prices were soaring when George W. Bush was president. I thought that was all Obama’s fault. But more on that later.
Now take a look at the updated ad, which replaces the booming sound effects, foreboding music, and the frightened female narrator with a catchier tune and the guy from the super monster truck event going, “Oh yeah.”
Republicans Have Gamed ‘Meet the Press’ and Other Sunday Political Shows into Venues for Spreading Lies – Rachel Maddow Fights Back
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During a discussion about women’s pay on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Rachel Maddow attempted to state the fact that women are paid 77 cents for every dollar men are paid, but she could barely get a word in edgewise because of interruptions by Alex Castellanos, a Republican operative, who insisted that it was not true — that women and men are paid equally:
