(Akiit.com) Soaring gasoline prices are threatening to undercut President Barack Obama‘s re-election prospects and offering Republicans an easy target. With prices pushing $4 a gallon and threatening to go even higher, Obama sought Thursday to confront rising public anxiety and strike back at his GOP critics. Obama said dismissively that ...
(Akiit.com) It was only a matter of time before the enshrined celebrity tabloid obsession would ensnare the Obama family. They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth ...
(Akiit.com) Entering 2012, President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects are essentially a 50-50 proposition, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. It found that most Americans say the president deserves to be voted out of office even though they have concerns about the Republican alternatives. Obama’s overall standing in the poll ...
(Akiit.com) We’ve watched the Republicans dropkick President Obama for months now… the ones in Congress, the pundits on FOX, the wannabee candidates (Palin and Trump), and the gonna be candidates for the Republican nomination in the 2012 election. The race to get beat by Obama has been a funny one. ...
(Akiit.com) Even before President Obama publicly announced that he would tap Eric Holder for Attorney General, he knew Holder would be a tough sell job. So he quietly asked key Senate Republicans whether they would go to war to block his confirmation. The GOP response was at best a tepid, ...
(Akiit.com) The NAACP has been collecting information about early voting advocacy by black churches in Florida, hoping to convince the Justice Department to strike down a slew of new state voting laws it claims are intended to thwart growing minority participation at the polls ahead of next year’s presidential election. ...
(Akiit.com) Herman Cain is learning the hard way what it means to face the glare of the national spotlight. After captivating Republicans hungry for an alternative to 2012 GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, Cain has made a series of stumbles that have left some questioning whether he’s ready for the ...
(Akiit.com) GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s win in the Iowa straw poll is more disturbing proof that his candidacy may not be the flash in the pan that many think. Cain added to his string of straw polls wins by barely nudging out presumptive GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney in ...
(Akiit.com) American bankers are trying to kill us! The United States’ economic system is in need of some economic CPR and the world’s economy is on life support because beast bankers in this country are so greedy that they will kill the capitalist economic system rather than be responsible businesspersons. ...
(Akiit.com) After listening to President Barack Obama’s remarks at the recent Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, I couldn’t help but compare some of the responses to what we’ve been hearing from the Tea Party and their master party – the Republicans in Congress – and a few disgruntled Democrats, who with ...
(Akiit.com) The Republican Party, in all its iterations, held its breath this week in anticipation that New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, would enter the race for the 2012 Presidential Election. Christie, after taking conservatives to the brink of hope, has decided not to run. So, the search continues to try ...
(Akiit.com) There was a spectacle in Iowa last week. It was a demeaning spectacle in which President Obama got into a heated argument with Ryan Rhodes – a leading member of the state’s ultra-conservative Tea Party Movement. It makes little difference what the argument was about. My objection flows from ...