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Obama ad calls Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital firm a ‘vampire’

Monday, May 14th, 2012

President Obama’s campaign is out with a tough new ad, “Steel,” attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s record on job creation.
The two-minute ad focuses on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City, Mo., that was bought by Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital and went bankrupt soon after.
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Adobe backs down, patches critical Photoshop CS5 hole

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Paid upgrade fix row leaves a nasty taste
Adobe backed down on Friday and promised to release a fix for earlier versions of its Photoshop software after previously insisting users who wanted to safeguard themselves from a critical security vulnerability had to pay for an upgrade.…

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Courting women, Obama to give commencement speech at Barnard College, appear on ‘The View’

Monday, May 14th, 2012

President Obama is scheduled to deliver the commencement address to 600 female graduates of Barnard College in New York on Monday, a chance to hone his message to women in an election year when their issues have been front and center.
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The RNC and Obama, taking quotes out of context

Monday, May 14th, 2012

“President Obama might forget the recession but America hasn’t.”

–text from a new RNC web video, May 11, 2012

“When a woman in Iowa shared the story of her financial struggles, he gave an answer right out of an economics textbook. He said, ‘Our productivity equals our income,’ as if the only reason people can’t pay their bills is because they’re not productive enough. Well, that’s not what’s going on. Most of us who have spent some time talking to people understand that the problem isn’t that the American people aren’t working hard enough, aren’t productive enough -– you’ve been working harder than ever. The challenge we face right now -– the challenge we’ve faced for over a decade -– is that harder work isn’t leading to higher incomes. Bigger profits haven’t led to better jobs”

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Mitt Romney’s big gay marriage punt, and what it means

Monday, May 14th, 2012

During Mitt Romney’s address this weekend to the evangelical Liberty University, he made precisely one mention of gay marriage, saying simply: “Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman.”
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