Okay Mitt, you're even in the polls, all you have to do is just sit tight and let those mean people make fun of your religion and let the economy do the rest. You know the drill old sport, don't rock the boat and—LOOK OUT! TRUMP! “I never really changed—nothing’s changed my mind,” Trump told CNBC this morning in reference to his skepticism of the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate. “I’ve been known as being a very smart guy for a long time,” Trump said, presumably as he exhaled a cloud of smoke that originated from a broken lightblub fashioned into a pipe. “I don’t consider myself birther or not birther, but there are some major questions here that the press doesn’t want to cover." more ›

Sure, Newark Mayor Cory Booker may save people from burning buildings and yuck it up with NJ Governor Chris Christie, but he's getting schooled in "What Happens When You Go Off Message, 101" after a disastrous Meet the Press appearance, during which he complained about President Obama's campaign attacking Republican contender Mitt Romney's stint at Bain Capital. Booker walked back his criticism, but not without a casualty: His communications director is resigning, effective today. more ›

Last week, it was revealed that billionaire TD Ameritrade founder, Cubs buyer and DNAinfo backer Joe Ricketts was considering a $10 million advertising campaign to attack President Obama, offering provocative, potentially race-baiting ideas to show the world "Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way." While Ricketts claimed he rejected the proposal, the NY Times reports today that he is involved in another effort slated for this summer, a documentary film based on a widely criticized book, 'The Roots of Obama’s Rage' by Dinesh D’Souza, "which asserts that Mr. Obama is carrying out the 'anticolonial' agenda of his Kenyan father." more ›

Yesterday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan led 43 Catholic groups in filing 12 federal lawsuits against the White House's birth control mandate, requiring religious institutions' insurance plans to cover birth control. Today, Dolan appeared on CBS This Morning to further his case that the White House is "strangling" them. more ›

Newark Mayor Cory Booker wants us to know that the stir over comments he made on Meet the Press condemning the Obama campaign's attacks against Mitt Romney's old gig at Bain Capital is all just a big misunderstanding. more ›

Billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts managed to crowd out Mitt Romney's good fundraising news, thanks to the NY Times' report about a study prepared for Ricketts—the study was titled, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good," and suggests spending $10 million to ruin the President, "The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way." more ›

President Obama is such a snob. During a pop culture pop quiz, the ladies of The View asked him if he knew the name of the “controversial sex book that’s on millions of women’s bedside tables"? And he said no! Why does he not know about the amazing trilogy by E.L. James that is re-igniting couples' sex lives (and helping sell out grey ties)—is he busy with other stuff or does he just read his own memoirs over and over again? more ›

According to a report by investigative journalist Wayne Barrett, Mitt Romney has accepted around $1.5 million in campaign contributions that stem directly or indirectly from two men who were involved in the graft that plagued the International Olympic Committee before Romney was charged with cleaning it up. But this being an arms race made entirely out of sweet, sweet "speech," who doesn't have connections to less-than-savory donors? more ›

Mayor Bloomberg gave a commencement speech to the graduates of UNC Chapel Hill today, and along with an obligatory joke at Duke's expense and a recitation of the school's fight song, he pointedly criticized the state's vote last week that banned same-sex marriage. Noting that America's generations "expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents," Bloomberg said that it was necessary that the graduates keep expanding. “And—I would argue—last week’s referendum banning same-sex marriage shows just how much more work needs to be done to ensure freedom and equality for all people." more ›

Today's New York Post has an Xclusive excerpt from the new book, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, written by renowned journamalist Edward Klein. Klein, who is best known for being the most important reporter to misspell the names of people he claims to know a lot about, writes in his new book that Oprah Winfrey has some freaky mind-meld (Shining?) going on with President Obama's mind and therefore the direction of the country, and that Michelle is pissed. Here are the five portions from the excerpt that likely made the book's team of capuchin monkey copyeditors howl with glee. more ›

David Maraniss, who wrote the great Bill Clinton biography, First In His Class, has a biography about President Barak Obama, Barack Obama: The Story, coming out in July, but Vanity Fair has an excerpt now. And perhaps timed for Obama's address to Barnard College on May 14, it focuses on his years in New York... and in love. more ›

Mayor Bloomberg isn't running for president this year (we don't think) so instead he's having meals with the 2012 candidates. In February, Bloomberg had lunch with President Obama and, today, he had breakfast with Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Isn't it great that Bloomberg Businessweek spiked that "battered Mitt" cover? more ›

Earlier today, Vice President Joe Biden spoke at NYU Law School, to ramp up Obama/Biden 2012 and to attack Romeny/Someone 2012. Of course, all that anyone remembers is how Biden recalled the Theodore Roosevelt line, "speak softly, and carry a big stick," by saying, "I promise you, the President has a big stick. I promise you." more ›

People, the presidential election is November 6, 2012. It might sound like a lot of time between now and then, but the Wall Street Journal wants to make sure its man—former Massachusetts Governor, lover of women who stay home with the kids and presumptive Republican candidate, Mitt Romney—is armed with all the advice he needs. So in today's Wall Street Journal, there's an editorial giving him advice on how to differentiate himself from President Barack Obama, PLUS an op-ed from Karl Rove about choosing running mates. This is better than going to Lucy van Pelt! more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Mitt Romney may have strapped his Irish setter Seamus to the roof of his car during a family vacation, but at least he never ate dog like Barack Hussein Obama did…when he was six…in Indonesia. Important D.C. publication The Daily Caller brings up a passage of Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, in which the future president describes being fed dog meat, snake meat, and grasshopper, by his stepfather in Indonesia. "Say what you want about Romney," hilarious web pundit Jim Treacher writes, "But at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth." Ha ha stop, stop, your DOGGONE jokes are killing us. Stop. more ›

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race and concentrating on making his ailing three-year-old daughter a lifetime NRA member, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is very confident in an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer. He says that President Obama should "start packing." Ann Romney, cause celebre/"daughter of privilege", added, "I believe it’s… Mitt’s time… It’s our turn now." more ›

The Obama campaign likes to tout that much of their war chest comes from small donors, people who give less than $250. But $250 only wins you the chance to win an awkward dinner with the president, and the joy of cleaning out your inbox every few hours. Want a roughly 75% of meeting the man in the White House? That'll be $100,000. No word on how much it'd cost to share a cigarette with the president. more ›

Just in case you were wondering, Rush Limbaugh is decidedly pro-Ann Romney in the "never worked a day in her life" controversy. The radio host said on his program today, "If I had a daughter, she'd look like Ann Romney." Reminder to everyone: The killing of an unarmed black teen is an actual controversy, whereas the semantic argument of whether stay-at-home moms work is not. more ›

Thanks to cribbing their views on women's rights from Mad Men and seeming hopelessly out of touch with the country's growing sense of economic inequality (see: car elevators), the Republican party's presumptive nominee is trailing President Obama in the polls, 48% to 43%. Somewhere buried under the Zimmerman / Santorum news cycle, President Obama was in Florida today to push for the Buffett Rule, requiring those who make more than $2 million annually to pay a minimum of 30% tax rate. But Ham Rove's American Crossroads PAC has a plan: make Obama and Buffett pay more in voluntary taxes. more ›

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney really wants to seal up the Republican nomination, so during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania (which is Santorum territory) he tried to reiterate how out of touch President Obama is, "We have a president, who I think is is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps." Of course, it's not like Romney admitted to the crowd that he went there, too! more ›

Former half-term Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin co-hosted the Today Show today (as part of the NBC's program to counter Katie Couric's stint on Good Morning, America). The show spoofed her love of printed media and also showed her "taking over" Matt Lauer's dressing room. How come Bob Dole never got a gig like this? more ›

Sheesh can the Leader of the Free World and the Handmaiden to Vlad the Shirtless ever have a private conversation? In his visit to South Korea for an international summit, President Obama spoke to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev when he believed the microphones were off about the testy issue of a missile defense system the U.S. is planning on building in Europe. “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” Obama says, referring to President-elect Putin. “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” You hear that? If Barry's reelected he's gonna institute MANDATORY YOGA. more ›