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This is why the Bain issue is so horrible: the biographical contrast. “President Obama – who, like Mitt Romney, earned a degree from Harvard and all the opportunities that affords – began his career helping jobless workers in the shadow of a closed-down steel mill. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, made millions closing down steel mills.”

So I have been doing a little reading about Mitt Romney's father, George Romney. As you may know, George Romney was a Governor of Michigan in the 1960's, and he was for much of 1967 the frontrunner for not only the GOP nomination for the Presidency, but also the Presidency itself as he was leading Lyndon Johnson in the polls at the time. What I didn't know about George Romney is that he was not an American. Because he was never born here.

.... you either kill yourself or shower with steel wool. Sarah Palin, the failed Vice Presidential nominee and half term Governor of Alaska, a woman who currently holds no official or unofficial position within the Republican Party, government, organization or association, is making demands. She wants Mitt's tax returns and proof of a net gain of 100,000 jobs at Bain. So do I.

Yesterday, Attorney General Beau Biden, along with all of his counterparts across the country, called on Congress to re-authorize the Violence Against Women Act ("VAWA"). Biden's father, Vice President Joe Biden, drafted and sponsorsed the bill back in 1994, and he frequently points to it as one of his best accomplishments as legislator. Indeed, the National Organization for Women described the bill as "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades." But will VAWA be taken hostage by the radical right, or will they reauthorize it at all?

During the GOP debate last Sunday Mr. Pandora asked, “What is Romney’s Plan? What is his vision?” I opened my mouth to answer, but I had nothing. He went on to say, “Romney is incapable of specifics.” I agree.