Whatever that weird thing is with black churches and gay people is one step closer to being resolved, following an action by the NAACP, which followed an action by Pres. Obama.
Florida is home to the largest city in the country that still offers no protection in housing or hiring based on sexual orientation
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Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected

Tweet on the First Lady’s Twitter feed, signed “-mo” to show it was posted by Michelle Obama herself, in response to Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen’s comment that Mrs. Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.”

The trailer for a 15-minute Obama campaign spot is out, while the full-length feature is set for release on March 15. I would think the Obama folks would wait until after the primary to start making his case to this extent but it looks like it will be a rousing short film whenever it arrives.

335,154

Number of voters in Maine, where Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) announced she will not seek another term, who are registered to vote but are “undeclared” for any party. An additional 294,586 are registered as Democrats, 256,520 as Republicans, and 31,064 are members of the Green party. Snowe was facing a tea party challenger in the Republican primary.

Our team definitely has the cool guy on it. Republicans, you can have Mittens and Little Ricky, along with the fat blowhard and the old crank. We’ll keep this guy.

Happy President’s Day to my personal favorite, @BarackObama. –mo

A tweet from the first lady’s Twitter account.

25

Number of additional seats Democrats must win in order to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012.

Nobody is thinking very hard about what’s next for Laura Bush.

Bill Keller, in a New York Times column urging Pres. Obama to draft Hillary Clinton as his running mate later this year. Keller argues that Obama should have Vice Pres. Joe Biden swap places with the Secretary of State.

If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party, because they have an incredible propaganda machine.

— Rep. Allen West (R-FL), quoted in The Hill, comparing Democrats’ communication efforts to Nazi propaganda.

The Bain years are central to Romney’s narrative. If you think about the arc of his life, on a personal level, he seems to be an exemplary man. He was born with every advantage of wealth, power, and privilege. But he used all of those talents to enrich himself and his wealthy friends — and to screw the middle class. That feeds into his policy agenda.

— Democratic strategist Paul Begala, in an interview with Greg Sargent, on how Democrats plan to paint Mitt Romney “as a symbol of the predatory, unfettered capitalism that landed us in our economic crisis.”