Election twins - Meet Mitt and Obama.
Millicent Owuor, 20, carries her newly born twin boys named after President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney inside the maternity ward of Siaya District Hospital, near Obama’s ancestral home village of Nyangoma Kogelo, Kenya.
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Early anecdote suggesting that he was destined for great things
According to his biographer David Maraniss, Obama wrote, in a school essay at the age of 8: “I live near the school. I usually walk to the school with my mom, then go home by myself. Someday I want to be president. I love to visit all the places in Indonesia. Done. The eeeeeeend.”
Douglas Anderson, now a business school professor and Romney friend, was in his first year at Stanford University when a student he barely knew approached him. “Do you know Mitt Romney?” he asked. Anderson replied that he didn’t. “Mitt Romney is the finest person I have ever known!” the student said, then walked away
“All right, there are 47% who are with him (Obama), who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”
He added: “These are people who pay no income tax.”
Mitt Romney confirms authenticity of video where he calls 47% of voters government-dependent, the latest in a gaffe-strewn Presidential campaign. He said only that the case was not “elegantly stated” and that he had “spoken off the cuff”.
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(Update: “Originally ‘yells at cloud’ in case anyone thought RNC was just doing a simpsons’ ref.” -thefremen)
Because there are too many Clint Eastwood posts to choose from. Here’s what we’re talking about
More ribbing of Mitt Romney by Barack Obama at the White House’s correspondents’ dinner - video highlights of his speech at this link.
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He dreams of being the next president of the United States, but one can’t help but notice Mitt Romney has something in common with another world leader. While the late Kim Jong-il found fame on Tumblr for looking at things, Romney takes it a step further with the frequent use of a point. Here are some of his best
Romney gestures as he takes the stage near a natural gas drilling rig in Shreveport, Louisiana Photograph: Steven Senne/AP
And we have a piece on how Mormons feel about Mitt Romney
Protesters and their dogs rallied against Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the Westminster dog show at Madison Square Garden in New York on Tuesday. They questioned Romney’s suitability to be president, citing allegations that in the 80s he drove from Boston to Canada with his pet dog Seamus in a kennel tied to the roof of his car
Protesters and their dogs rallied against Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the Westminster dog show at Madison Square Garden in New York on Tuesday. They questioned Romney’s suitability to be president, citing allegations that in the 80s he drove from Boston to Canada with his pet dog Seamus in a kennel tied to the roof of his car
Mitt Romney was subject to the latest in a series of ‘glitter bombings’ by gay rights activists from the Glitterati group at a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday in protest at the former Massachusetts governor’s anti-gay marriage stance. Previous targets have included Romney’s rival candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Santorum
Mitt Romney - the man behind the perma-smile
Mega-rich, Mormon, chilly and ruthless – Mitt Romney may emerge as the Republicans’ candidate to take on Barack Obama, but he has a good few obstacles to get over first. Read this profile by Ed Pilkington
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