Obama vs. Romney: A Deb...

John Harwood, NY Times WASHINGTON — The currency of political persuasion is emotion — and the way President Obama and Mitt Romney are spending it crystallizes their starkly contrasting appeals. An Obama campaign video portrays the president as a hero of government and...

Obama Alienates Centris...

Josh Kraushaar, National Journal Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker’s off-message criticism of the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s background at Bain Capital gave the campaign an untimely, unwanted headache this week. But more significantly, it exposed...

Why I Support ObamaR...

Ed Koch, RealClearPolitics The campaign for president "“ to be decided in the election in November 2012 "“ is going to be decided, most people believe, by the state of the economy and its impact on each of us as we enter the voting booth. I believe...

Private Equity and Chan...

David Brooks, New York Times Forty years ago, corporate America was bloated, sluggish and losing ground to competitors in Japan and beyond. But then something astonishing happened. Financiers, private equity firms and bare-knuckled corporate executives initiated a series of reforms and...

Obama Defends Ads Hitti...

Alexis Simendinger, RCP By Alexis Simendinger – May 22, 2012President Obama left no doubt Monday that his campaign's sharply negative advertising assaults on Mitt Romney's private equity business career, in which investors fared well at the expense of some workers who lost...

What Romney Should Have...

Ezra Klein, Washington Post Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., appeared on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC to act as a surrogate for President Obama’s reelection campaign. And he did a perfectly serviceable job. Asked about the...

Bain Attacks Get More A...

Chris Stirewalt, FOX News "To me, it's just we're getting to a ridiculous point in America, especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people are investing in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's...

Krugman, Ask China If S...

Gordon Chang, Forbes On Friday, Paul Krugman once again made the case to the Obama administration for more stimulus, calling for $300 billion a year in additional spending “until the economy is back on its feet.”  And the resulting debt? ...

Europe Driving Full Til...

Boris Johnson, The Telegraph I see the G8 has a brilliant solution to the problems of the eurozone. President Obama says it’s time for “growth and jobs”. Jolly good. That’s the stuff. Let me show you how to create employment – the Brussels...

WH Logs Show Extent of ...

T.W. Farnam, Washington Post Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama’s jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president.At 1 p.m.,...