Yahoo! Politics!
July 2012
43 posts
“Romney, get your success! Be successful!”
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Lech Walesa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland, at his meeting today with GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney
Romney comments at fundraiser irk Palestinians
Mitt Romney ended his trip to Israel on a controversial note, angering Palestinian officials by suggesting Israelis have been more economically successful because of their culture.
“As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality,” Romney told a group of Jewish donors at a Jerusalem fundraiser that netted more than $1 million for his campaign.
Tim Pawlenty's first gubernatorial campaign had to pay $600,000 in fines for improper coordination with the state party
And two other attacks the former Minnesota governor will likely face if Mitt Romney selects him as running mate.
“Seventy-two percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll express a favorable opinion of the upcoming London Olympics overall, and 79 percent see the swimming competition favorably. Far fewer, 47 percent, hold a positive view of the horse-riding competition called dressage, in which a horse co-owned by Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, is competing.”
—Bad news for Mitt Romney? The sport in which his wife Ann’s horse is competing is viewed positively by less than half of polled Americans.
This is the best lede we will ever publish
Olivier Knox reports on the marriage of North Korea’s leader:
“Un” is no longer the loneliest number that you’ll ever do since Stalinist North Korea’s supremo Kim Jong Un has tied the knot. What do you send the leader of the world’s most secretive regime? If you’re the State Department, you send concerns about the people living under his rule.
“All of us should be rooting for a decisive election outcome. Why? Because a close or contested election would deal a body blow to the nation’s political health.”
—Jeff Greenfield: Why the country doesn’t need a nail-bitter election in 2012
“Wherever I go, and it’s been very strange, I can’t tell — because I’m a pretty open person — but I can’t tell anybody about this at all. My children and husband are really kind of upset, because they — they’ll start — I can sort of tell they’re plotting against me, and they’ll have like — dinner table — just a casual conversation, ‘Gee, who would be a good VP?’ And I just sit there silently.”
—Beth Myers, on the pressures of running Mitt Romney’s VP search
An RNC preview in GIFs (and pictures)
We asked our followers to tell us, in GIF form, how they felt about the the Republican National Convention. You answered, and we now have a 100% accurate picture of what the American electorate thinks.
The RNC is meeting in Florida, during one of the hottest summers in record? (afternoonsnoozebutton)
And it’s a week long? (aminatou)
Will Rick Santorum be there? Because I had this dream where he had been given a makeover by Hello Kitty (kimtaeyoon)
In any case, participating in the electoral process makes me feel so patriotic (surprisy-frown)
And maybe Mitt will pick me to be his running mate? (cognitivedissonance)
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