Journalists roast Romney as “perfect” candidate
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney was playfully skewered Saturday night at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington.
To the tune of “Fly Me to the Moon,” Romney was touted as the perfect candidate – “His hair, his teeth, it’s evident, he’s preordained to be president!”
Founded in 1885, the invitation- only Gridiron Club is the oldest organization for Washington journalists.
Veteran challenges Biden’s views of war
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden found a ready critic for his views of the war in Iraq as the senator campaigned Saturday in the hometown of Shaw Air Force Base.
The Delaware Democrat told a crowd of about 60 at the University of South Carolina at Sumter that he is the only presidential candidate with a real solution for the war.
But John Stevens, 79, a disabled Air Force veteran, had his own criticism. “The war’s being lost in Congress by the people who give aid and comfort to the enemies that are killing our troops,” Stevens said.
Gingrich mocks use of languages besides English
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Saturday equated bilingual education with “the language of living in a ghetto” and mocked rules that ballots be printed in multiple languages.
“The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up” to vote, said Gingrich, who may enter the GOP presidential race.
“Citizenship requires passing a test on American history in English. If that’s true, then we do not have to create ballots in any language except English,” he told the National Federation of Republican Women in Washington.
