Tag: Mitt Romney
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Mitt and the Bain Capital Chronicles
In an all too familiar tale, during its heydays, when Mitt Romney and his posse rode into town on behalf of Bain Capital, someone’s dream was going to get crushed, usually a lot of someones. Hopes and aspirations are swiftly snuffed out. “I don’t think Mitt Romney is a bad man. I don’t fault him…
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GOP Veepstakes
Word is out this evening that Sen. McCain is finalizing his vice-presidential pick tonight. Because we may know as soon as tomorrow who he’s chosen, it’s now or never for another round of veepstakes. If I were advising McCain, here’s who would be on my suggested short list: Tom Ridge Kay Bailey Hutchinson As a…
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I'm just saying . . .
(Tableau borrowed from huffingtonpost.com) The two faces of Mitt Romney were seen arguing on Boston Harbor this morning: Mitt I: See, I told you, you shouldn’t have gotten out of the race. Mitt II: You? You said nothing of the sort. I wanted to stay in and you told me I should get out and…
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Stakes & Commitments
Photo by Max Whittaker for The New York Times: Barack Obama, then known as Barry, in a 1978 senior yearbook photo at the Punahou School in Honolulu. At Punahou, a preparatory school that had few black students, he talked with friends about race, wealth and class. Back at the time the New York Times explored…
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McCain Able
Newsweek has this profile of John McCain that is par for the course when it comes to how the Beltway pundits, especially allegedly liberal ones, treat his various perfidies. The broad outline is this: * McCain, a son of privilege, was a hellion who listened to no one, acted out whenever he felt like it.…