NBC's Andrea Mitchell says the media has given Mitt Romney a "free ride" by not dwelling on how long it took for his former primary rivals to formally endorse him. Mitchell says the media has always laid off of examining Romney's record and the clash between the elements that make up the Republican party. "They believe that the Bain Capital r

"Mitt Romney can’t be surprised at these attacks or at these questions about his private sector experience because he does tout that as the criteria to be met in order to lead country," Sarah Palin said about the Obama campaign game plan. "He needs to forcefully and candidly and proudly defend his record. If he does not then Obama and his surroga

"My outrage, really my frustration, was about the cynical, negative campaigning, the manipulating of the truth. And so here they are, plucking soundbites out of the interview to manipulate them in a cynical manner to use them for their own purposes. And that slogan is really what had me and basically my entire staff really fit to be tied," Newark,

“This is not a distraction,” President Obama said about criticizing Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital. “This is what this campaign is going to be about.” "If your main argument for how to grow the economy is that I knew how to make a lot of money for investors, then you're missing what this job is about," Obama lectured Romney. "That do

"He (Romney) is saying he is a business guy, and this is his business. And when you're president as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits, your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot," President Obama said at a NATO news conference today.

"The news there, I think, was probably the president's deft handling of that sabotage, intended or not, by Cory Booker the other day on "Meet the Press." I have to tell you, in the years of covering politics, I've never saw anything like what we saw on 'Meet the Press.' They should call it 'Mess the Press' or 'Meet the Mess.' I don't know what we'r

In a recent episode of his podcast "Penn's Sunday School," comedian Penn Jillette laid his opinions on the Obama drug policies out on the table. Jillette, who has never done drugs or drank alcohol in his life, expressed particular concern over the policies' broad-sweeping, all-inclusive nature. Namely, that people are going to prison because of

President Obama's attacks on free enterprise have triggered a backlash among many—even among those in his own party. In just the past few days, everyone from former advisors to his own surrogates have criticized the Obama campaign's attack on free enterprise. With no record to run on, it is no surprise that the Obama campaign has resorted to misl

"I love Cory Booker, he's a great mayor. If I were -- if my house was on fire, I'd hope he was my next door neighbor," Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC this afternoon. "I agree with

Wolf Blitzer, CNN: I was shocked recently when I heard that you denied permission to an American Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a member of the House -- the House Foreign Affairs Committee, subcommittee chairman. He was with a congressional delegation about to fly from Dubai into Kabul. And you said you're not going to let this Democratically-electe

New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor appeared on MSNBC this morning to discuss an investigative report she did on Mitt Romney's Mormon church, his values and what his fellow worshipers say about him. "What we were re

“When you look at something like the NAACP siding up with an organization like Planned Parenthood, that has as part of its history, and its charter, and its existence, you know, the use of abortion to uh eliminate and, and limit the number of African American and other minorities in this country, to me is just beyond the pale," former RNC Chairma

"With respect to Mitt Romney’s period of time as the governor of Massachusetts, in that four years as governor he created, on a net basis, somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 jobs," senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told Andrea Mitchell on her MSNBC show. "That is more than President Obama has created for the entire nation," Fehrnstrom sai

"You've explained why Cory Booker has made it all the more tougher for the president to get reelected. And a couple more Sundays like this by the way we're going, the president won't make it past August," Chris Matthews said on his MSNBC program Monday evening.

"The only other thing I'll say about this is, thank you to everybody who endured the traffic situation. Obviously, Chicago residents who had difficulties getting home or getting to work or what have you, you know, that's -- what can I tell you? That's part of the price of being a world city," President Obama said at a news conference at the NATO su

"I would not have backed off the comments if I were Mayor Booker," former U.S. Congressman Harold Ford Jr. said on "Morning Joe" today. "I understand him wanting to make the point that legitimate questions can be made about whether or not at Bain they made bad decisions about certain businesses." "Overall, I agree with the substance of his comme

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry says due to his "interracial heritage" President Obama has "access to white privilege." However, Harris-Perry says Obama has chosen not to use such "privilege." Conversely, Harris-Perry says the same issue of "white privilege" is a major political liability for Mitt Romney. Perry says Romney has chosen to embrace

"That is the definition of a hostage video," Joe Scarborough said about the dispatch from Cory Booker in which he backtracked on his criticism of the Obama campaign using Bain to attack Romney. "Can we see that o

"To see him reduced to an object of degradation is a source of pain," Jesse Jackson said of Rev. Jeremiah Wright on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" today. "It reminds me so much of Dr. King [becoming] a 'communist,' was kicked out of his own convention. The attempt to use Dr. King as an object of degradation was real too, Chuck," Jackson said to Chuck T

Williams: "Our politics are broken. Remember, there'd be no constitution in this country without compromise. We wouldn't have been formed without compromise. Going without compromise makes you a highly principled person, but it can often lead us to a government that is not attuned to the needs of the people." (Source:

60 Minutes: Roger Waters, the creative force behind Pink Floyd's legendary album "The Wall," is performing the rock opera to sold-out stadiums around the world. Steve Kroft reports.

Obama campaign: With American Pad & Paper (Ampad), Mitt Romney and his partners took a small but successful paper products business and merged it with other companies in the industry, piling up debt as they went. Ultimately, the company was unable to keep up with the interest payments on its debt and was forced into bankruptcy, but not before Romne

"For all the policy disagreements that we may have with the president, it is hard to understate how much he inspired people across this country four years ago, with his promises to unite America and lift it up," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said at a South Carolina Republican Party fundraiser on Saturday night. "The man who today occupies the White H