Questions from the week …

1) Did the New York Times story on Joe Ricketts’s supposed plans
to attack President Obama’s ties to his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright (which Ricketts now denies), help Republicans get Wright back in
the spotlight? Or did the whole episode create another distraction for
Obama from his record and afford his campaign an opportunity to attack
extremists in the GOP?

2) Did House Speaker John Boehner’s announcement on Tuesday that he
would not agree to raise the debt ceiling again without a greater amount
of spending cuts make House Republicans look like they are seriously
concerned about the fiscal cliff we’ll arrive at in December, when $8 trillion in
tax cuts expire while spending cuts go into effect?

3) After running for president for more than six years, when will Mitt Romney come up with an answer about his record at Bain Capital?

4) Was Vice President Biden supposed to be helping President Obama’s reelection effort when he screamed that the rich “don’t get us, they don’t get who we are!” at a rally in Ohio on Wednesday?

5) Was it smart for President Obama to say on “The View” this week that “JPMorgan is one of the best-managed banks there is. Jamie Dimon, the head of it, is one of the smartest bankers we’ve got — and they still lost $2 billion and counting” before reporters pored over his financial disclosure reports to find that POTUS has between $500,000 and $1 million invested with JPMorgan?

6) Will people please stop speculating about the potential for a John Edwards comeback? Please?

Send me your answers, please.

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