Democrats Nominate Obama

Democrats have nominated Barack Obama for a second term as president, setting up a showdown this fall with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Patrick Slams Romney On Mass. Record

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick used his speech to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night to slam Mitt Romney, who held the job before him, and to call on Democrats to stand up for President Barack Obama.

President Obama: Romney Would Bring A 'Losing Season'

President Barack Obama is telling union workers in Ohio that Mitt Romney would guide the nation to a "losing season," using a sports metaphor to insist that voters should take his opponent's plan and "punt it away."

Vice President Joe Biden Hits Romney, Ryan On Middle Class Woes

Vice President Joe Biden hammered Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, in a speech in York, Pennsylvania on Sunday. Biden said, "the thing I most love about them is how they discovered the middle class at their convention."

President Obama: Romney Has No Plan For Afghanistan

Campaigning in Boulder, Colorado on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama criticized rival Mitt Romney, saying he has no exit plan for the war in Afghanistan.

President Obama: I'm Offering "A Path Forward" / "We Aren't Where We Need to Be" / Ryan Is the GOP's Ideological Architect / Romney Not Owning Up to Duties / Compromise Is Not "a Dirty Word" / Romney Is Locked Into "Extreme Positions" / Romney Doesn't Have a "Good Argument" / I'm Offering "A Path Forward"

President Barack Obama tells The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that his plan will help build a stronger middle class while Mitt Romney's will chiefly help the rich.

President Barack Obama conceded the economy isn't where it needs to be but adds Mitt Romney's plan would make the situation worse.

President Barack Obama says Rep. Paul Ryan is the ideological architect of the Republican House who favors massive tax cuts to those who don't need them.

President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney needs to "own up" to some of the responsibilities that are required of those running for the White House.

President Barack Obama says in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press that if he is re-elected and Republicans maintain control of the House that he is willing to make a range of compromises.

President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney has locked into "extreme positions" on economic and social issues that he would undoubtedly impose on the country.

President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney doesn't have a good argument on how to make things better for the country.

President Barack Obama tells The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that his plan will help build a stronger middle class while Mitt Romney's will chiefly help the rich.

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President Obama: Health Care Ruling A 'Victory' For All / Mitt Romney: Supreme Court Ruling On Health Law Wrong

President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his health care overhaul is a "victory for people all over the country" and will make their lives more secure.



Republican Mitt Romney is promising that he will repeal the federal health care law the Supreme Court just upheld. He called the decision incorrect and said Thursday that it is a 'bad law.'

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President Obama Plunges Into Campaign / Obama: Romney "Rubber-Stamp" For Failed Policies

Plunging into his campaign for a new term, President Barack Obama tore into Mitt Romney on Saturday as eager to "rubber stamp" a conservative Republican congressional agenda.



President Barack Obama told supporters in Richmond, Virginia that if GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wins in November, he would be a willing and eager "rubber stamp" for conservative Republicans in Congress.

Mitt Romney On President Obama: Not Bad Guy, Policies Just Bad

A day after Mitt Romney became the all-but-certain Republican nominee for president with Rick Santorum quitting the race, he goes after President Barack Obama. Romney says the president's misguided policies have harmed America.

Wait, Isn't The Right Supposed To Be Racist?

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By: Jenée Desmond-Harris

As sexual harassment allegations against black Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain surfaced this week, conservative supporters rallied to his defense. Rush Limbaugh, who's famous for nothing if not his racist radio rants, has taken up for the gospel-singing, former Godfather's Pizza CEO who's leading in the GOP polls. Conservatives who would normally balk at any allegation of racism don't seem put off in the least by the assertion, made by Cain's PAC, that the attacks on him represent a Clarence Thomas-esque "high-tech lynching."

This seemingly unconditional embrace of Cain -- who brags that his ancestors were slaves, wants to be called "black American" instead of "African American" and has nicknamed himself "the Black Walnut" -- isn't new: He won the Florida straw poll and is neck and neck with Mitt Romney in Iowa. Republicans praise his plain-speaking debate style and call him "genuine." CONTINUE....

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Why Health Care Is Mitt Romney's Jeremiah Wright

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By: David Swerdlick

It's still 2011, but at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference, the 2012 presidential race may have found its Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Only this time, the candidate isn't President Barack Obama, and this year's Wright -- the preacher Obama broke with in 2008 to win over middle-American voters -- isn't a reverend at all.

This time around the candidate is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Romney's Rev. Wright is his own brainchild: the individual health care mandate put into law in Massachusetts and known as "RomneyCare." CONTINUE....