Obama Team Calls Romney-Friendly Super PACs “Contract Killers”
(Photos: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images; Justin K. Aller/Getty Images) By Joyce Jones Now that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have awakened from their dream of becoming president, each will be expected to...
View ArticleMitt Romney: Preppy Prankster or Old-School Bully?
(Photo: Courtesy Cranbrook Schools) Today’s edition of The Washington Post features an article about Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney that tarnishes the gleaming image he’s spent a...
View ArticleJumping the Gun or Ready for Day One?
(Photo: Mike Hewitt/ALLSPORT) By Joyce Jones Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has tapped Mike Leavitt, who served as Health and Human Services secretary and head of the Environmental...
View ArticleWhat’s Sauce for Romney Isn’t Sauce for Obama
(Photos from left: Joe Raedle/Getty Images,Rainier Ehrhardt/Getty Images) By Joyce Jones Last week Mitt Romney’s campaign sent a group of hecklers to disrupt a rally in Boston led by Obama senior...
View ArticleMisadventures in Twitterverse
(Photo: Courtesy MSNBC) Ah, Twitter. So alluring, yet so, so dangerous. Just ask Joe Williams, who may or may not be on his way out as the White House correspondent for the Capitol Hill newspaper...
View ArticleObama Cares
(Photo: Courtesy Sandra Brooks Green) Like the hundreds of other supporters and volunteers who lined up today to hear President Obama speak at Green Run High School in Norfolk, Virginia, Sandra Brooks...
View ArticleMaiden Voyages
(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) When you spend your workdays surrounded by hundreds of the nation’s most powerful men and women, it’s easy to grow a little jaded. You lose appreciation for the richly...
View ArticleTuesday at the White House
(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Remember when the Drudge Report was the first thing that the people who live and breathe politics turned to in the morning for the latest scoop? Now, it seems, not so...
View ArticleThings That Make Me Say Hmmm
(Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) Just last week Mitt Romney was simply aghast by what he called the negative tone of the presidential campaign and accused President Obama of taking things to a new...
View ArticleArtur Davis’ 180 Degrees of Separation
(Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) It felt like old times earlier today when I spent close to an hour stalking former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis while he participated in a Google meet-up here at...
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