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When candidate Joe Biden promised that if elected president he would unite the country, did he think he could do it alienating roughly half the population? Or did he mean he would unite the Democrats and independents against the “MAGA Republicans”? Thursday’s speech clearly indicates what he had in mind was the latter. Last week, Biden smeared Donald Trump supporters, calling them semi-fascists who practice “burn-it-all-down politics” and face “​​backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division.” One of the most appropriate and fitting responses we saw to this was Libby Emmons’ Biden Is The Semi-Fascist He’s Looking For in...

Dr. Sebastian Gorka speaks at the International Special Training Centre's Military Assistance Course, Pfullendorf, Germany, May 14, 2015. (Photo by 7th Army Training Command via Flickr) Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka fought back last week against former President George W. Bush’s thinly veiled attacks on President Trump in a recent speech, telling EWTN host Raymond Arroyo that while Bush criticized the current climate of “conspiracy theories” and “bigotry,” it was in fact President Obama who “drove the division” in America. “We just came out of eight years in which the White House drove the division,” Gorka said. “They looked...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Emboldened Republicans claimed a mandate Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump after his astonishing election triumph, and an emotional Hillary Clinton told crestfallen supporters the GOP victor deserved a "chance to lead." President Barack Obama pledged a smooth transition of power. "We are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country," the president said of the president-elect, the man who spent years questioning Obama's birthplace and challenging the legitimacy of his presidency. Obama, who had declared Trump unfit for the presidency, invited him to the White House Thursday. Trump was uncharacteristically quiet in the...

Obama wants 'revenge' and Biden's not a proud VP: Gaffes under pressure Obama Revenge November 3, 2012 By: Roz Zurko Obama vs. Romney is down to the wire and the pressure might be causing the odd gaffes coming from the President and the Vice President in the last few days. President Obama is asking the voters to go for “revenge” and Biden’s never been proud to be Obama’s Vice President, according to the Mail Online Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.

A source on the Rick Perry campaign tells Hot Air that the Texas governor conducted some Texas-size fundraising in the third quarter. Coming in just a little over halfway through, Perry raised $17.1 million. That number would put Perry somewhere between $4-6 million ahead of Mitt Romney’s rumored total for Q3, according to this report last week from the Boston Globe. It’s also likely to far outpace Herman Cain’s fundraising or that of the other Republicans currently in the race. The pace is even more impressive. Perry had 49 days in which to raise funds, rather than the full 92...

Democratic front-runner Barack Obama was supposed to unite the country, overcoming racial and even partisan division. How's that working out? As far as bridging the partisan divide, one may give him credit, but only in a backhanded way. His not-quite-insurmountable lead for the Democratic nomination has had the consequence of creating a tactical alliance between Hillary Clinton and Republicans, so that Mrs. Clinton has, at least for the moment, joined the vast right-wing conspiracy, as we noted last month. Mrs. Clinton even got the endorsement of Richard Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary. But a corollary...

x - close Recent Stories By Daniel Weintraub Arnold Schwarzenegger has demonstrated a flair for the political game. It's almost as if he'd been playing it all his life. Sacramento Bee/John Decker Daniel Weintraub: Here's the real uniter, not divider Gov. Schwarzenegger's first six months: A report card By Daniel Weintraub -- Bee ColumnistPublished 2:15 am PDT Sunday, May 16, 2004Two days after last year's recall election, having just vanquished Gray Davis by pledging to clean house in Sacramento, Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the capital city for the first time as governor-elect. The man who had campaigned as the ultimate...

So Charlie Crist has backbone after all By LUCY MORGAN, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief Published September 27, 2003 Our own Charlie Crist deserves an apology. From us, from everyone who called him a lightweight and suggested he was all form and no substance. As attorney general, Crist seems to be coming into his own. I always hate to say good things about a politician, because just as surely as I do they'll do something really stupid. But here goes. This week Crist appointed former Public Counsel Jack Shreve as his top consumer advocate to take on the state's telecommunications companies....