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May
Here we are in the most prosperous nation, but millions of kids are getting a third-world education. And, America’s minority children suffer the most. This is the civil-rights issue of our era.
Mitt Romney said Tuesday that under his new K-12 education plan, federal education funds will follow every low-income or disabled American child so that he or she can attend any school in the state, including private ones. (via ABC News)
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Rachel Maddow talks to Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker about the controversy surrounding his comments on Sunday’s Meet the Press where he called the Obama campaign’s attacks on Bain Capital ‘nauseating’ and the GOP’s response stating, “Here they are plucking soundbites out of that interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner, to use them for their own purposes… I’m very upset that I’m being used by the GOP this way.”
(Source: MSN)
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May
He is an unabashed, unapologetic believer that America is the Promised Land,” said Douglas D. Anderson, dean of the business school at Utah State University and a friend, and that leading it is “an obligation and responsibility to God.
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May
I’m not familiar precisely with what I said, but I’ll stand by what I said whatever it was.
Mitt Romney, when asked about previous comments he’s made regarding President Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
Mitt Romney just made flip-flopping an Olympic sport. Or something.
For the record, here’s what he said on Sean Hannity’s radio show:
“I think again that the president takes his philosophical leanings in this regard, not from those who are ardent believers in various faiths but instead from those who would like America to be more secular. And I’m not sure which is worse, him listening to Reverend Wright or him saying that we must be a less Christian nation.” [Hannity Radio, 2/7/12]
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Someone should send this to the Romney camp.
via reagan-was-a-horrible-president“I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” - Mitt “I’ll say whatever you want me to say” Romney
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May
Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
“I think this is one of his ‘Etch A Sketch moments.’ I don’t think anybody takes that seriously. People remember his position which was, ‘Let’s let Detroit go bankrupt.’ Had we followed his advice at that time GM and Chrysler would have gone under and we’d have lost probably a million jobs throughout the Midwest.” - President Obama on Mitt Romney taking credit for the revival of the U.S. auto industry.
