2012 Elections

Samuel L. Jackson rants about Obama, race

Actor Samuel L. Jackson put politics aside when casting his vote for Barack Obama in 2008 and made his decision based on race.
“I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor recently told Ebony magazine via Page Six. “That’s [...]

First lady fixes on must-dos prior to election run

Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she’s trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else.
“It’s sort of like working before vacation — only it’s not a vacation,” she said in an interview with a handful of reporters. “It’s [...]

The Republican Primary, Winning the Battle, Losing the War

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
- This past Tuesday, former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum scored victories in primary contests in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. This is, at least for now, injecting much needed wind into the sales of Santorum’s fledgling bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
As former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney [...]

Analysis: Obama’s course correction shifts dynamic

President Barack Obama’s opposition is now the divided one.
For three weeks of heated rhetoric, Republicans cast the president’s new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees as an attack on individual liberty. The contentious issue united recently fractured Republicans, Catholic bishops and religious groups while badly [...]

What Barack Obama owes African-American women

Mitt Romney is going to face Barack Obama in what will likely be a much closer presidential election than anyone thinks. There’s no more “Hope and Change” out there, just the long difficult slog through what may turn out to not be a recession but a new level of economic hardship in America.
The Republicans and [...]


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