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that rings pretty hollow just like your feigned piety when you make a response about Romney not releasing his return with a birther comment.
I'm not a birther nor do I care about seeing Romneys tax return. God bless
that rings pretty hollow just like your feigned piety when you make a response about Romney not releasing his return with a birther comment.
The trendy thing with phrases is ing stupid. No one remembers the issues, just the one liners and memes. Fat ass stupid Americans.
they hardly discuss the issues. Nietzsche was right in that regard.
lebads
Mr. Romney's Version of Equal Rights
It has dawned on Mitt Romney that he has a problem with female voters. He just has no idea what to do about it, since it is the result of his positions on abortion, contraception, health services and many other issues. On Tuesday night, he bumbled his way through a cringe-inducing attempt to graft what he thinks should be 2012 talking points onto his 1952 sensibility.
In the midst of their rancorous encounter at Hofstra University, President Obama attacked Mr. Romney for vowing he would end federal support of Planned Parenthood and for criticizing the provision in the health care law that requires employers - except churches and religiously affiliated ins utions - to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives.
Clearly agitated, Mr. Romney said in response, "I'd just note that I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not, and I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives."
Perhaps his notes were scrambled and Mr. Romney was merely trying to say that the issue is who pays for contraceptives, not whether women can use them. But his remarks underscore how hard it must be to remember where he stands at any given moment, since his positions change so frequently.
In any case, you cannot untangle questions of funding from questions of access. Mr. Romney's stated zeal to "defund" Planned Parenthood is either a rote ideological posture, or a belief that it is right to end the federal support that makes it possible for many poor women to get access to mammograms, cervical cancer screening, family planning and other services. As Mr. Obama said: "That's a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country. And it makes a difference in terms of how well and effectively women are able to work."
Having fumbled that one, Mr. Romney made things worse when he tried to talk about equal opportunity for women, which was made much harder by his opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He told a strange tale of his early days as governor of Massachusetts when he "had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men." He said he went to his staff about it and was told that "these are the people that have the qualifications."
So far, not so terribly bad.
But then he started a slow, painful slide into one of the most bizarre comments on this issue we've ever heard, which became an instant Internet sensation. "We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet," Mr. Romney said, sounding as if that were a herculean task. An appeal to women's groups, he said, "brought us whole binders full of women."
This was important, he said, because "I recognized that if you're going to have women in the work force that sometimes you need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school."
At this point we could practically hear his political consultants yelling "Stop!"
But Mr. Romney did not. "She said, I can't be here until 7 or 8 o'clock at night. I need to be able to get home at 5 o'clock so I can be there making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school."
Flexibility is a good policy. But what if a woman had wanted to go home early to study Spanish? Or rebuild an old car? Or spend time with her lesbian partner? Would Mr. Romney have been flexible about that? Or if a man wanted similar treatment? True equality is not satisfied by allowing the little lady to go home early and tend to her children.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=...&sub=Editorial
Gecko's best hope is that Americans' famous amnesia stays active through 6 November.
I'd like to think that, but I haven't seen him up stand up to any of the extremer members of his party, and I just don't think he would in office either.
Mr. Romney's Version of Equal Rights
It has dawned on Mitt Romney that he has a problem with female voters. He just has no idea what to do about it, since it is the result of his positions on abortion, contraception, health services and many other issues. On Tuesday night, he bumbled his way through a cringe-inducing attempt to graft what he thinks should be 2012 talking points onto his 1952 sensibility.
In the midst of their rancorous encounter at Hofstra University, President Obama attacked Mr. Romney for vowing he would end federal support of Planned Parenthood and for criticizing the provision in the health care law that requires employers - except churches and religiously affiliated ins utions - to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives.
Clearly agitated, Mr. Romney said in response, "I'd just note that I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not, and I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives."
Perhaps his notes were scrambled and Mr. Romney was merely trying to say that the issue is who pays for contraceptives, not whether women can use them. But his remarks underscore how hard it must be to remember where he stands at any given moment, since his positions change so frequently.
In any case, you cannot untangle questions of funding from questions of access. Mr. Romney's stated zeal to "defund" Planned Parenthood is either a rote ideological posture, or a belief that it is right to end the federal support that makes it possible for many poor women to get access to mammograms, cervical cancer screening, family planning and other services. As Mr. Obama said: "That's a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country. And it makes a difference in terms of how well and effectively women are able to work."
Having fumbled that one, Mr. Romney made things worse when he tried to talk about equal opportunity for women, which was made much harder by his opposition to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He told a strange tale of his early days as governor of Massachusetts when he "had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men." He said he went to his staff about it and was told that "these are the people that have the qualifications."
So far, not so terribly bad.
But then he started a slow, painful slide into one of the most bizarre comments on this issue we've ever heard, which became an instant Internet sensation. "We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet," Mr. Romney said, sounding as if that were a herculean task. An appeal to women's groups, he said, "brought us whole binders full of women."
This was important, he said, because "I recognized that if you're going to have women in the work force that sometimes you need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school."
At this point we could practically hear his political consultants yelling "Stop!"
But Mr. Romney did not. "She said, I can't be here until 7 or 8 o'clock at night. I need to be able to get home at 5 o'clock so I can be there making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school."
Flexibility is a good policy. But what if a woman had wanted to go home early to study Spanish? Or rebuild an old car? Or spend time with her lesbian partner? Would Mr. Romney have been flexible about that? Or if a man wanted similar treatment? True equality is not satisfied by allowing the little lady to go home early and tend to her children.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=...&sub=Editorial
Gecko's best hope is that Americans' famous amnesia stays active through 6 November.
Do you have the ability to put together a paragraph or do you just regurgitate other sources? Can't you just make a low level program that does that automatically so we don't have to see your user name?
Do you have your original birth certificate? And I mean the original one and not a forged one damnit.
Lol Romney the King of flip flops. Drink that red koolaidLOL etch-a-sketch Obama's promises vs. his actions...
That can be said of many things....TV shows, movies, books, etc. If you don't remember the issues you are not paying attention.
I was thinking the Obama dog-grilling meme had legs. It didn't.
There's a joke in there somewhere fighting to get out.
Romney tying his dog to the roof on a long road trip was funnier and trendier...
http://stdoa.ca/will-crategate-derai...sidential-bid/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_dog_incidentA Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey found that 74% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 63% of Republicans consider it inhumane to put a family dog in a kennel on the roof of a car. The poll did not mention the windshield. The poll also found that 35% of voters would be less likely to vote for Romney because of the Seamus incident, whereas 55% of voters said that it would not affect how they vote.[23] As of September 2012, New York Times columnist Gail Collins had mentioned the Romneys' car trip more than 70 times.[24][25] [26]Seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of the family's Chevrolet Caprice station wagon for the 12 hour trip
its a social regression to give women even more rights than what they already have. es already have roughly the same rights as men in the society, the rights to vote, to work, to drink alcohol and to seek random sex outside of marriage etc... but they still want more. their greed will keep driving them towards the feminist end and eventually they'll reach a stage where they will rule the world in a matriarchal society, the complete upside down version of what it should be. they want to overthrow the men-dominated society and makes us all their slaves tbh.
it's a and a brain that makes a man different than a woman IMHO
My dog is jealous. Crazy rides in the front but hangs her head outside the window.
Yes sir. God bless
It shouldn't. God bless
No, mainstream doesn't want anyone to think about the issues. They want them to think of cool phrases to put on T-shirts.
Binders and Big Bird. Welcome to Idiocracy.
" The poll did not mention the windshield." lolRomney tying his dog to the roof on a long road trip was funnier and trendier...
http://stdoa.ca/will-crategate-derai...sidential-bid/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_dog_incident
I agree with Mark Halperin
Maybe in and of itself - but in the larger context, they both are representative of and consistent with his views on women and the poor.
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