CAMPAIGN 2012
What a 5-year-old’s request says about Obama’s race role
- An enduring White House photo shows a black boy touching the president’s hair to see if it feels like his.
In Mass., joy, caution, and condemnation for Obama
- President Obama’s announcement was received with particular poignancy by advocates and opponents of gay marriage in the state that first legalized same-sex marriages in 2004.
In change of stance, Obama backs gay marriage
- President Barack Obama said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the first time he’s declared support for making gay marriage legal.
SCOT LEHIIGH
Bill Maher, Ted Nugent pollute the political dialogue
- Maher and Nugent have each made highly offensive comments about women. President Obama and Mitt Romney’s camps should show some integrity and reject these men.
DAN WASSERMAN
Editorial cartoon: A Harvard education
Obama’s uncle may still be deported
- Immigration officials have notified Onyango Obama that they want to discuss his possible removal to his native Kenya. He has been living in the US illegally for 20 years.
(ALLAN JUNG/METROWEST DAILY NEWS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Obama blasts GOP’s “radical vision”
- President Obama stepped up his election-year rhetoric, saying Republicans have moved so far to the right that even Ronald Reagan could not win a presidential primary today.
President Obama, Mitt Romney vie for female support
- Both campaigns are trying to exploit very different issues as they stake their claim on women, a coveted group of swing voters who will play a pivotal role in the fall election.
