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She looked humiliated when she went on Fox News to defend herself.
She got PWNED pretty hard, but the Obama campaign is smart to just let someone not associated with the campaign due the dirty work of calling her out on her bull .
Ann Romney isn't a stay at home mom like the millions of other moms in America, she had nannies and maids to raise her kids while she 'worked hard" at being a mom...
Yeah, right...
Why Hilary Rosen Is Right
by Jessica Valenti
April 12, 2012
Read the full article at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/167370...el=emailNationRosen was responding to Mitt Romney’s constant trotting out of Ann when he gets a question on women’s issues:
Guess what, his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we—why do we worry about their future?
There’s nothing there about stay-at-home moms, or the idea that that raising children isn’t work. Rosen was referring to the fact that Ann Romney—an incredibly rich and elite woman—likely does not understand the economic concerns of most American women. Again, it was unfortunate choice of words—but she wasn’t wrong.
Focusing on this slip-up just brings more attention to the way in which a Romney presidency wouldn’t support mothers. Because empty pla udes about motherhood “being the hardest job in the world” doesn’t change the reality of most moms’ lives, or make their job any easier.
But it’s not just that Romney is bad for women (whether they work outside the home or not). What’s being lost in this conversation is the incredibly facile and insulting notion that just because a woman made the decision to marry Romney and occasionally talk to him about other women, that he is somehow well-informed on women’s issues. Ann Romney is not an expert on women’s issues just because she happens to be one. And she’s not an expert in what mothers need just because she has children. Believing otherwise is infantilizing and reduces women’s very important and complex concerns to beauty parlor chitchat.
She looked humiliated when she went on Fox News to defend herself.
She got PWNED pretty hard, but the Obama campaign is smart to just let someone not associated with the campaign due the dirty work of calling her out on her bull .
Hilary Rosen is kinda hot to be honest. Like a chubby white girl that would treat a brotha good to stay in the clique.
Also, politics.
Sounds like she's got more executive experience than Obama!
You got that right!
this is going to hurt obama in the electorate.
You hope.
Certainly isn't going to help.
Only if enough women are stupid (or vote their ideology (same thing)) will this hurt.
The Dem point that hyper-wealthy, anti-women Willard Gecko and his trophy, never-employed, multi-cadillac wife are out of touch with most Americans is a solid, true campaign point. Willard Gecko's wife's money problem is how to spend it, now how to get it and pay the bills like most working (single) mothers.
Obama unleashed his es
It's hilarious watching the board progressives defend Rosen. A. Romney has MS. You don't ing work alot with MS. What a bunch of ing hacks.
If this had anything to do with policy, I'd agree it could hurt Obama.
If Republicans want to play the victim card here, that's their right.
Equally ludicrous is the tacit implication that if you become wealthy and successful, you lose touch with "average" Americans.
lol @ multi-Cadillac wife.
Why do the democrats hate welfare mothers? Just like Mrs. Romney they never worked a day in their lives and stay at home with their kids.
Yeah..there's about zero policy impact, really. But elections are based on perception as much as performance.
Banging on an MS patient and then calling the idiot out who does this, is not playing the victim card. Rosen straight up ed up. The White House couldn't back away quick enough.
Yes, Rosen ruined her chance at becoming president in 2012.
Meet The Romney Campaign’s Anti-Women Surrogates
Donald Trump: The flamboyant reality show star is “a top Mitt Romney surrogate” according to Politico’s Mike Allen. Trump recorded robo-calls supporting Romney in primary states and he participated in “a ton of talk radio for Romney in Michigan, Arizona and Ohio.” Trump also has a long history of sexism, including telling the male contestants on his reality show to “rate the women” contestants on how sexually attractive they are. Calling TV personality Rosie O’Donnell a “big, fat pig” and an “animal,” after she criticized Trump. And, just this month, offering to expose his “very, very impress[ive]” penis to a top woman attorney. The top Romney surrogate, however, is also quite unfazed by criticism of his sexism. As he told Esquire in 1991, “it doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of [expletive].”
Bay Buchanan: Yesterday, in an attempt to overcome Romney’s weak poll numbers with women voters, the Romney campaign hosted Bay Buchanan on a press call as an official campaign surrogate. Bay, the sister of disgraced former TV pundit Pat Buchanan, has a long history of opposition to women’s rights. In a 2003 speech on the “four failures” of feminism, Bay Buchanan claimed that women are being “sold a bill of goods” when they pursue careers instead of having children, and she compared modern women to “alleycats” with respect to sex.
Robert Bork: Former judge and failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork is the co-chair of Romney’s “Judicial Advisory Committee.” Bork opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans employment and other discrimination against women, calling the idea that laws can require private companies to cease discriminating a “principle of unsurpassed ugliness.” More recently, the top Romney legal advisor mocked the very idea that gender discrimination even exists. In Bork’s words, “[i]t seems to me silly to say, ‘Gee, they’re discriminated against and we need to do something about it.’ They aren’t discriminated against anymore.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...en-surrogates/
lol deflection. lol thinkprogress
Every Single One Of Romney’s Model Justices Voted Against Lilly Ledbetter
Yet for all of Romney’s equivocating on whether or not he actually believes that women should be paid the same amount as men who do the exact same job, Romney cannot hide two important facts. The Ledbetter Act was only necessary because of a 5-4 Supreme Court decision which overruled decades of precedent protecting equal pay for equal work; and Romney promised to appoint more justices like the ones who voted against Lilly Ledbetter.
Last November, Romney listed four sitting Justices as the models he will follow if he gets to appoint a justice of his own — Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. Every single one of these justices voted against Lilly Ledbetter and against equal pay for women in the workplace. Just like they have voted in favor of corporate immunity from the law on issues ranging from forced arbitration to enabling corporations to buy and sell elections.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...lly-ledbetter/
The VRWC/Repug War on Women, on their vaginas, on their paychecks, is do ented, real, factual.
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the sad state of US politics
Republican: mommy, he bit me mommy!
Democrat: but mommy she kicked me. mommy!
bunch of es
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