"The reason he is, he is one of the most incompetent Attorneys General in U.S. history. He is the guy who brought on gratuitously the fiasco of the KSM trial in New York that even the Democrats rebelled against. He's a guy that has led a Department that has been either totally ignorant or disingenuous or worse on the Fast and the Furious scandal.

President Obama says it is a misconception that he is "detached, or Spock-like, or very analytical." He also says that he is a "softie." Transcript below. Barbara Walters, ABC News: "What's the biggest misconception about you?" PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Me being detached, or Spock-like, or very analytical. People who know me know that I am a softie.

"If the NAACP invites me to their annual convention, I'm going to come there and I'm going to invite them to join us in getting America back on the right track, so that every American can work," Newt Gingrich said at a campaign event today. (h/t FOX Nation

"Special Report" on Ron Paul's race-oriented newsletters and political philosophy.

Rick Perry did not have the necessary 10,000 qualified signatures to have his name appear on the Virginia primary ballot. Virginia's primary is on March 6, also known as "Super Tuesday." Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the only candidates who have qualified to appear on the ballot. The Virginia Republican party is currently reviewing if Newt Gin

“What I can promise you is this – when you get out of college, if I’m president you’ll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job,” Romney said.

"It's probably from, you know, growing up in Hawaii and it's sunny outside, and sitting on the beach," President Obama also said on an interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters set to air Friday night on "20/20." In the full interview, set to air tonight, President Oba

First lady Michelle Obama tells Barbara Walters in a 20/20 special that it is "practical" for her to put her self highest on her priority list. Obama says she found her self slipping "pretty low" on her own priority list because she was "so busy caring for everyone else." Michelle Obama says she spends time with girlfriends and going out in

“I said it was critical for Congress not to go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million working Americans, and I’m pleased to say they got it done. I want to thank all the members of Congress for ending the stalemate and making this happen," President Obama said on Friday.

New York City forced a business that allows you to roll your own cigarettes with loose tobacco to close due to tax reasons. The business allowed you to avoid paying cigarette taxes, which are upwards of $6 per pack in the city, by rolling your own cigarettes with a less-taxed product of loose tobacco. The company was charging around $4 a pack t

This new ad from the Perry campaign features honored veterans sharing their support for Perry's presidential bid. It also has a voiceover from the candidate promising to restore American to "preeminence in the world."

Barbara Walters, ABC News: "What is your biggest peeve of each other?" President Obama: "I don't have one." Walters: "Aww." Michelle Obama: "My list is too long."

From a 1990 C-SPAN terview in which a caller asks Ron Paul to comment on the "treasonous, Marxist, alcoholic dictators that pull the strings in our country," the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. (via Slate) "You referr

The panel discusses an outbreak of sectarian violence in Iraq.

Bob Shrum fires back at Mitt Romney's comments on President Obama killing Osama Bin Laden.

Author Ron Reagan and Salon.com's Joan Walsh join Hardball's Chris Matthews to discuss Boehner compromising with the Senate's plan for the payroll tax cut. "They really thought that they can do anything to get away with anything as long as it made him look bad and, you know, I'm very happy to see him in the last six month realize that you can't

Karl Rove discusses the latest war of words between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.

Mark Levin talks about 2012 and the GOP field in an interview with Don Imus on his morning show. Levin says if he had to vote today, he would vote for Michele Bachmann or Rick Santorum. (h/t The Right Scoop)