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When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set it ablaze.
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues:
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues, in brief:
President Barack Obama's evolution on gay marriage unfolded at a Darwinian pace, like that of the giant tortoise. For more than a year — eons in politics — he danced up to the edge of endorsing it, always stopping short, still "evolving."
For the better part of a year, Mitt Romney has tethered himself to an array of positions designed for the Republican presidential primaries, stances that put him to the right of where he's been through much of his career and raise questions about where he really wants to go. President Barack Obama's politicking has tacked to the left, thanks to all those speeches to Democratic fundraisers and other activist-heavy events that play up the liberal in him.
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues, in brief:
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues:
The Secret Service does not often get a black eye behind those oh-so-cool sunglasses. It's got a shiner now.
Did Vice President Joe Biden really call for a new global business tax on U.S. companies operating abroad? Could it be true that half of high school students in the 50 largest cities don't graduate? And is President Barack Obama pushing Roman Catholics to "violate the tenets of their faith" with his expansion of mandatory contraception coverage?
Mitt Romney has come up with an "amazing statistic" and Republicans inside and outside his presidential campaign are doing their utmost to spread it around: "92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women."
In an April 4 story checking the facts of presidential campaign speeches, The Associated Press erroneously reported that President Barack Obama has no history of saying "sorry" on behalf of the nation. Obama apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Feb. 23 for the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at a U.S. military base.
Few would quarrel with President Barack Obama's point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once embraced — even created. But making that case in a major campaign speech, Obama ignored realities in his own Democratic ranks.
Silly-season pollen seems to have infected the campaign trail.
Now here's a tag team for the ages: Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama.
Rick Santorum says oil drillers in the Gulf of Mexico are being slammed by "worse and worse and worse" delays in getting federal approval even as gas prices go through the roof. Actually, the wait for permits is getting better and better. Newt Gingrich boasts that small donors are powering his Republican presidential campaign. In reality, one deep-pocketed financial angel and other big money people have been doing loads of heavy lifting, too.
Is there any impulse greater in politics than to promise people the sun and the moon?
A look at where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming.
Michigan has become squirm central for Republican presidential candidates who are trying to explain their opposition to the auto bailout before the big primary in the home of automakers. Their tale is terribly tangled, and President Barack Obama isn't telling it straight either.
When a president introduces a budget, there are always phantoms flitting around the room. President Barack Obama's spending plan sets loose a number of them.
It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
Mitt Romney accuses Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a "ghetto language." Close, but not quite.
Here's where the 2012 Republican presidential candidates stand on a selection of issues.
Mitt Romney perpetuated one unsubstantiated claim, about his record at Bain Capital, and more or less corrected himself on another, about President Barack Obama's health care law, in the latest Republican presidential debate.
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