Month: July 2012

By Hindustan Times / Press Trust of India Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has trashed Barack Obama, saying the US President was the “most liberal and incompetent President since Jimmy Carter”. Speaking at a fund-raising lunch for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana on Monday, Jindal attacked Obama for running “an increasingly desperate and negative campaign.” “We have a president who hadn’t run anything before he was in the White House,” Jindal said. The governor later referred to Obama as the “most liberal and incompetent president since Jimmy Carter. No offense to Jimmy Carter,”...

By Fox News Trying to make the shift from defense to offense, Mitt Romney’s campaign accused President Obama Monday of making “political payoffs” to cronies while the middle class suffered. The charge was part of a new line of attack, unveiled after the Romney campaign endured a harsh week that at times seemed to put the GOP candidate on his heels. Romney, though, made clear in an interview with Fox News on Monday that he’s going to get tougher on the president by more closely scrutinizing his background. “The best offense is to look at the president’s record,” Romney...