The week began with a shake-up in the GOP primary, when Rick Santorum announced that he was suspending his campaign. That left Mitt Romney with a lock on the nomination. The Obama White House/campaign signaled going into the holiday weekend that it intended to make Mitt Romney’s wealth a centerpiece of its messaging, and on Monday the president made good on that and started a major push to support the Buffett Rule. That rule is essentially a surtax on millionaires, and the point of highlighting it was to point out that Romney is rich and to drive up resentment against him. The Buffett Rule serves no other purpose; by Democrats’ own admission it will not meaningfully reduce the deficit. It punishes success and sound investment.
The president and vice president hit the trail to promote the Buffett Rule and needle Mitt Romney for being rich. Obama adviser, Democrat strategist and frequent White House visitor Hilary Rosen (35 visits in three years) did her part, taking to CNN to quip that Ann Romney, mother of five and survivor of cancer and MS, “never worked a day in her life.” It was a blatant attack on stay-at-home mothers and the families who are blessed to have them. When she faced criticism, Rosen doubled down on Twitter and in a column for the left-wing Huffington Post. Ann Romney took to Twitter to defend herself. Democrats who were not in on the attack got nervous. The White House/campaign stood silent. Criticism mounted. Rosen apologized. But let’s take a second look at that apology and note the highlighted parts.
Let’s put the faux “war against stay at home moms” to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women’s financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.
Whom is this apology really about? How many sincere apologies have you ever heard that began and ended with attacks, and were filled with me and I and me and I? Is such an apology intended to heal, or to justify?
Can someone please find out if the Homosexual and activist Rosen is paying someone to take care of “her” kids or if her partner is the one staying home??? it would be interesting for her to call herself a “working mother” if she has a nanny or her partner is the actual “mother” by staying home and taking care of the kids.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Liberal/Leftist.
Rosen is a multimillionaire. As a lobbyist and Democratic National Committee consultant, she has gotten a salary of $1 million per year. With that kind of dough she can afford nannies, day care, boarding schools, tutors, the works.
That’s what I find so ironic about this. It’s a case of one wealthy woman accusing another wealthy woman of having it too easy.
(Ann Romney suffers from MS. Anyone with MS does NOT “have it too easy.”)
also had breast cancer.
the bell has been rung…i don’t resent the romney’s being wealthy..they have earned it..more than I can say for the Obama’s, sharptons, jacksons, waters of the world..
These people resent mitt and family because they represent a decent family. so they start on the mom..you can’t unring that bell of what was said..Yes, maybe she had a nanny, cook etc..so did Michelle Obama…infact their private chef moved to the white house with them..Michelle’s mother now lives in the WH with them..and tends to the children’s needs we’re told..
Nothing that Hilary Rosen said was untrue. Ann Romney has never been a working mother. By that she meant a mother who also works outside the home to earn a living for her family. While there is nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom, let us not kid ourselves into believing that Ann Romney was your average mom. She wasn’t in any way shape or form. Ann Romney had legions of servants and nannies to help her raise her boys. Ann Romney didn’t ever have to worry about making ends meet. Ann Romney never had to think about whether or not she had enough money to pay the rent, etc. You get the picture.
Now I’m not hostile towards Ann Romney for the life that she married well into. She seems like a perfectly nice lady, and a good mother. I, like Rosen, am simply pointing out that she is not in a position to be speaking on behalf of the issues that concerns average working moms. How could she? She isn’t or has never been one. Ann Romney identifies with working moms about as much as Leona Helmsley would have identified with the plight of migrant workers.
Ann Romney had legions of servants and nannies to help her raise her boys. Ann Romney didn’t ever have to worry about making ends meet. Ann Romney never had to think about whether or not she had enough money to pay the rent, etc. You get the picture.
And you know this how? Got proof or just economic penis envy?
Because she herself has said so.
Than I guess mooooooochelle can’t talk to us about being thin. 0b0zo can’t relate to women – period. What a stupid statement! I suppose she could have gotten into a consulting business (with Mitt’s money) and paid a nanny to stay home and raise the children that they decided to have. I guess that’s the dem story, right? Women are only honored if they do what the nags want. Black people are only valuable if they are progressives. It goes on and on.
Here from another web site:
JWB
Kaysville
“Ann Romney has been the wife of a Governor, the head of the 2002 Winter Olympics and of an effective and very efficient businessman. She was the wife of a Stake President and Bishop besides having her own callings along the way in the LDS Church and supporting many activities over the years with five children. Most women don’t have that kind of responsibility and unpaid responsibility in most of the cases. She still had to meet all the schedules of a busy family along with the formal activities required of a spouse (unfunded mandate) in any governmental, church and volunteer organization. The rigors of the campaigns she has been involved with since the 1990s and her MS illness is such a pioneer spirit to keep on going. These people that defame her and attempt to deride her are out of bounds if they had any knowledge of what all these things involved that she has devoted her life to. Mrs. Romney displays the highest dignity and integrity and should not be questioned about those things she has done in her life to better humanity and our nation’s goals set by our founding fathers. She is pure American.”
You really ought to read this Ann Romney interview, given back in 1994, before you try to claim that she has no idea what it’s like to run a family without having a lot of money to spend…
http://www.therightscoop.com/rush-reads-1994-ann-romney-interview-which-obliterates-lefts-out-of-touch-narrative/
Ask Ann Romney how much a gallon of milk sells for, and be prepared to laugh.
Wrong! Mitt didn’t have a full time job until their third child was born. The first child was born while they lived in a $62 per month apRtment. The problems with liberals is they always lie and are too lazy to get the real facts.
Here are the facts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rodifJlis2c
Do you think that Hilary Rosen identifies with working moms???
She’s a multimillionaire with a yearly salary of at least $1 million a year. She’s a lesbian. She’s a Washington lobbyist who was paid by the recording industry to destroy online music delivery. You really think SHE has a lot in common with your average heterosexual wife working as an administrative assistant or supermarket cashier???
This is what is interesting about liberals like you. You give wealthy liberals a pass while dissing wealthy conservatives for their wealth.
Evidently if a woman *talks* liberal, then she gets an automatic pass no matter what she has done or how she did it. Right?
Hillary Rosen can now join the ranks of Bill Maher as loose lipped liberals with hoof n’ mouth disease who just don’t know when to shut up. It is refreshing however to watch the left self destruct.This is what happens when you run on thin air with no substance of any type to call your own.Excrement happens.
Exactly. When Ms. Rosen stops making speeches and pushing papers in a climate-controlled office, she can try really, really working for a day, say cleaning hotel rooms (you’d be surprised at what people leave behind) or wiping up feces and vomit like nurses and ordinary day care workers do. Or she perhaps could come home covered in sweaty, salt-encrusted clothes and smelling of diesel like many men.
Now tell us again who has “never worked a day in her life”?
The Romneys didn’t start their marriage as multi-millionaires. Mitt Romney is 65 years old. Shouldn’t he have achieved some measure of wealth as a result of his 40 years of working so that he could retire in comfort? Isn’t this a part of The American Dream? I’ll be 65 in July. After almost 40 years of working, I’m finally retired. Isn’t this what we all strive for? To be as independently well-off in our retirement years as we can be, so that we can live in comfort, as well as not be a burden to our children–or to our government? I admire Mitt Romney for his success, and I’m happy for him that he’s wealthy. I want lots of people to be wealthy. It’s only the liberals who want everyone to be poor and dependent on the government.
Everything is topsy-turvy now. Success, achievement, excellence, rigorous standards, hard work–are all these things evil now? It seems as if The American Dream now is about how a person can outdo someone else in being mediocre or even inferior. We have a president who champions failure and losers over success and high achievers. The end of that road is dependency, dictatorship, and tyranny, which are exactly what this president wants.
More Cynical Wonderment!
You appear to be defending the notion that Ann Romney is not qualified to offer her opinion on economic realities to her husband because she does not work outside the home. If that is the criterion then Michele must also be muzzled because she has no outside employment. Democrats better stop doing focus groups with welfare moms (who don’t work outside the home either). Since employment is suddenly the determining factor in who gets to have an opinion in this country, all those people on 99 weeks unemployment and all the millions who have left the workforce have now been excluded from having an opinion as well. That’s the new ROSEN RULE! The only thing Hillary Rosen has actually accomplished here is to bring all the conservatives who didn’t support Romney as the nominee rushing to stand up for his wife. Thank you Hillary and Cynical Wonder for uniting the opposition!
oh please cynical, your contrived talking points are boring. but then everything from the obama “campaign” is.
The argument was pointed at stay-at-home mothers in general (not just at wealthy Romney), because Rosen repeatedly stated that ‘they’ don’t have to worry about the things that the average ‘working’ mother does. Plenty of stay-at-home mothers are not married to wealthy men, don’t have hired help, and struggle and worry about how the bills are going to be paid. That’s not a domain owned exclusively by working mothers. And whether wealthy, middle class, or low-income, ALL worry about their children having to eventually answer for the massive national debt accumulating every day. Just because you are a SAHM does not mean you are ignorant to the financial goings-on of the world around you.
Rosen isn’t running for office or being put out there as a “surrogate” to inform the potential nominee of what the concerns of women are, so you diversion pertaining to Rosen’s financial background is irrelevant. The focus is whether or not Ann Romney is qualified to speak on behalf of working women. Since she’s never been one or faced any of the struggles they deal with on a day to day basis I’m not sure how anyone with a straight face could conclude that she can. Can she empathize? Yes. Can she relate? No.
Ann Romney is the issue because her husband made her one. If they don’t like the heat then get out of the kitchen because there’s a lot more heat coming. You betcha!
Keep attacking the wife of the candidate. It’s a great idea. Really.
How is a discussion on whether or not Ann Romney is qualified to speak on behalf of working women an attack? Since you called it an attack you need to back that up and specifically point out how that is so. Thanks.
Ann Romney is fully qualified to speak about working women. She is an full fledged citizen of this country and fully participating in the debates on issues of our day. She’s fully qualified to speak out and have her ideas heard on most any subject she desires.
Any attempt to say she’s not qualified to speak and have a valid opinion is nothing less than an abrupt marginalization of her into the back of the bus. Isn’t the core goal of women’s liberation focused on fighting that marginalization?
@ zdudey
“Ann Romney is fully qualified to speak about working women. She is an full fledged citizen of this country and fully participating in the debates on issues of our day. She’s fully qualified to speak out and have her ideas heard on most any subject she desires.”
She can most certainly speak! There’s a thing called the First Amendment, so of course she can say whatever she wants. That isn’t the issue, but good try in attempting to twist things into something they are not. I support Ann Romney’s right to say whatever she wants. No one is trying to muzzle her. I also have a right in that regard to point out what I’ve been saying, and that is that since Ann Romney isn’t a working mom herself and has never faced the struggles that most average American women face, how is it that her life experiences inform her ability to speak on these matters and report back to her husband who is incapable of speaking to women directly himself? Can you answer that?
“Any attempt to say she’s not qualified to speak and have a valid opinion is nothing less than an abrupt marginalization of her into the back of the bus. Isn’t the core goal of women’s liberation focused on fighting that marginalization?”
Again, she has every right to speak, but considering what I said above I question whether her opinion could be “valid.” Nevertheless, she has every right to put it out there just as we have every right to question it. And believe me, unlike the rest of us (especially working mothers) Ann Romney won’t be going to the back of the bus anytime soon, she has several Cadillacs, private jets, and chauffeurs to get her to wherever she needs to go.
Cynical Wonder;
You have demonstrated you are a taxicab for the Democrat/Liberal Party agenda.
You have more time to spend here, than the editors.
Are you one of the numerous Michelle Obama personal attendants that has so much spare time?
Anyone, like you, that spends so much time at a Conservative site belittling Conservative values and ideals, has to be a paid Party hack.
People like you do experience remorse. And you can do it right here with complete anonymity!
Eh, Bryan, CW demonstrates time and again that she ranks so low in the campaign that she didn’t get the President’s memo to lay off the candidates’ wives and families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXtfPtgJ3dQ
(Yeah, she spends a lot of time on YouTube, yet missed this one. How strange.)
It’s ok, I’m sure she’s gonna spend AT LEAST another three weeks beating this dead horse until the new “war on women” talking point is distributed by Media Matters.
Hilary Rosen has NO RIGHT to be speaking on the issues of working class women. She is part of the wealthy Washington elite.
She’s a lobbyist who tried to stop the advance of online music delivery and to make BP look good (right in time for the big oil spill of 2010), which to me makes her a parasite.
Next time, get yourself a more representative spokesperson.
How about John Kerry?
Did you have a problem with HIS wealth?
He got rich by marrying a rich widow, Teresa Heinz.
I don’t remember ANY Democrats like you claiming that Mr. and Mrs. Heinz-Kerry (she gets equal billing since it’s her money) were out of touch with working women or the working poor. Did you ever think to ask Mr. and Mrs. Heinz-Kerry how much a gallon of milk cost?
Why do you believe that wealthy liberals understand the problems of the working poor and working middle-class women? Does mouthing the right slogans get them a free pass?
Lies and lies are all the know:
“That’s another trillion dollars in tax cuts over the next ten years going to the top 1%”
Tax cuts “GO”, Mr. Biden, to no one.. Tax cuts ONLY mean a little less of a persons money flows into The Great Black Hole of Government….and a little more does something so completely unremakable, I dont understand WHY it upsets you so…
It simply stays right where it is…right where it was created, right in the hands of the preson it belongs to… the person who earned it, or (gasp!) risked it, and through risk, found a small reward.
A tax CUT cannot “take” nor “give” nor “cost” anyTHING, to anyONE.
Period.
Hint to Republicans:
Stop ASSUMING you dont need to say this…
Stop ASSUMING it doesnt need to be a, or even THE, principal part of your message.
Stop ASSUMING its “already so obvious”, and think people need to hear something more complex, hip, and sexy about your plans.
Its about two completely OPPOSITE views over who’s money it ultimately is, ours or theirs.
So SAY it.
Make THAT message, THE message, over and over.
Every damn time the they complain about the “cost” of a tax cut, or how to “pay” for a tax cut, your immediate response MUST be, to look them in the eye with agony and contempt saying:
“My God, seriously?…you really dont get simple math, do you?”
And re-enforce the message…
Imagine all Republicans on message in every interview and conversation, saying. “whoa, listen, tax cuts dont “cost” anything, and they dont have to be “paid” for…you HAVE to acknowledge that before we can continue”
Stop responding to their “reality”, and force them to acknowledge ours.
Simple Fact 1) You cannot take from someone something they never possessed!
Simple Fact 2) You cannot give to someone something they already possess!
Therefore there is no such thing as a Welfare Take Away or a Tax Give Away!
Simple.
Yet so completely foreign to the thoughts of people who watch the MSM Regularly.
I just love it when Marxists self destruct.Ann Romney must have looked like such a juicy target to ol’ hillary whatever(does the last name really matter they are both so alike)she was rich and never worked in her life.Trouble is when you are close to this regime as Rosen “was” you get cocky,fail to do your homework, and that old “truth of the matter” comes in and smacks you right in the face.ANd that fat _ _ _ _ _ got hit hard.
And as we saw the truth of the matter is that Ann Romney is a triumphant and hard working lady who not only survived breast cancer but MS as well! Two sacred cows of the left that can never be attacked even with a top leader of the dreaded Republicans.
whats even worse for the DNC/DBM is Ann has become a more than effective speaker who is really hard to counter and after this will be near impossible to counter.
Attacking Annromney just may be the regimes undoing–tell me there is not an invisible hand of capitalism at work here.
We win they lose.
Feature Mitt Romeny on the stage in Tampa with Sarah Palin on one side and Ann Romeny on the other,game,set, match.
There are two things Barack Obama has never faced in his life before he became president;
1) Actual Opposition to any of his proposals or plans
2) Being told NO.
It’s easy to look like a Genius Strategist when you are directing a Professional Football team against a High School Junior Varsity team. But when you take that same team onto a field with the Pittsburg Stealers you may suddenly appear to be less of a Genius as the four quarters of the game progresses.
This is the problem the Campaigner in Chief faces today. He really doesn’t know how to deal with adversity, nor with being rebuked. Hence his Petulance and his Litany of Excuses.
As a community organizer his skills and abilities were never tested because the opposition was to scared as to how they’d be painted in the local press (a problem that John McCain also adhered too) so the Prez was always able to get his way. He has no skill what-so-ever in mitigating adversity so his only gambit is to intensify methods and tactics that aren’t working. Like a Gambling Adict who is losing everything he’s somehow certain that the next hand, the next spin, the next roll of the dice is going to be his ‘Big Score.’
This campaign is going to get worse, Obama will become vile and nasty before November rolls around and in the end I predict the only states that he will carry are California, New York, Michigan, and Hawaii (with the possible additions of Washington, Oregon, Maine, and Illinois)
I guess it’s possible Romney might carry MA because he used to be its governor, but it’s hard to imagine the Republicans carrying Vermont, Rhode Island, or Connecticut.
Before Scott Brown, I’d have agreed with you on those states.
Every time Obama or one of his idiots opens his (or her) yap about Romney being wealthy, the RNC should run a montage of one of the Obamas’ luxurious vacations (Spain, Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, etc.)
How about a montage of where the taxpayers’ stimulus money went? $537 million to billionaire Kaiser’s Solyndra, 3/4 billion to Pelosi’s brother, billions to billionaire Soros’ Petrobra to find oil off Brazil’s coast, hundreds of millions to Perelman, another billionaire, to stimulate his pocket.
The GOP should be proud of their billionaires, emphasize the difference between free-market capitalists and crony capitalists, and who is benefitting from trillions of taxes.
Here’s a great montage…yes, I made it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIwd7aIXKQA
Are you really trying to compare the opulence of the Romney’s to the comfortable life the Obama’s now have, but worked for every bit of it? Both Romney’s inherited a boatload of dough from their families, neither Barack or Michelle did, so the comparison is a false equivalent. But I’m sure it will be a useful meme in your own echo chamber. The rest of us know better.
Romney gave his inheritance to the Brigham Young University. You could easily check this out…if you really wanted to know. As for Obama’s comfortable life, that is at the expense of the tax paying citizens of this country. You assume Romney has an “opulent’ life but you don’t know what his life is about. Only the daily talking points given out as gospel to those like you who would never seek out what the real story is. You say “The rest of us know better”, not hardly. Actually the “rest of you” know very little. You shallow comments prove this.
Like I said the comparison is a false equivalent. And as far as your snide remark about the Obama’s comfortable life being funded by the tax payer, I would just add that he is President of the United States and lives the same way other Presidents have be they Republican or Democrat (who funded Mitt and Ann’s lifestyle while he was Gov. of Mass.?). Both Mitt and Ann came from families of great wealth and privilege. I don’t fault them for that but for you to suggest that the background of the Obamas are in any way similar is, well, just a false.
Mitt Romney is the one trying to use his charming wife Ann to try and bridge the gender divide, because he can’t speak to women himself. Last week, he said that his wife “reports to me regularly” on what women care about, suggesting a disinclination to listen to women directly. Rosen was certainly wrong to minimize the work Ann Romney has done in bringing up five sons. She was absolutely right, though, to point out that Ann has “never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing,” and is thus hardly equipped to be her husband’s primary source of intelligence on the challenges confronting American women.
@CW
I know I am serviceing the troll here, but I am “in the industry”. You really have no idea what it took for this man to make his money do you? He reached the top of one of the most respected consultancies in the world and frankly saved it bacon through his efforts. You do not do this on “daddies money” or influence…what he did is beyond the realm of “others” to control; he did it on his on volition through what simply is a towering intelect and a personal drive that frankly has few equals.
I often say to people who are envious of my consulting position or level of income, “I will spot you the nuclear engineering and physics degrees, i will spot you the MBA 4.0 (easy compared to the nuke eng degree), i will spot you the 20+ years in the electric energy industry; just keep my schedule for 6 months…you would not make it 6 weeks”. It is true as the day is long.
Mitt Romney made it over many years, did quite a bit, some good, some not so. Point is he was in the game, not some back-bencher or heckler. He put his reputation and that of Bain on the line to say “we will invest ‘our’ money and make this struggling/dieing company live breathe and jump again” and a staggering number did.
Hilary Rosen has not dealt with the kind of issues that working women are facing either. With a salary of $1 million a year, that makes her part of the “1%”. (Yet you give her a pass for that, right?) She tried to be a self-appointed spokesperson for working women.
When in reality, all she is, is a lobbyist parasite.
Next time, get yourself a better spokesperson for working women than this parasite.
Gern,
I don’t envy you or believe that I deserve large portions of the wealth you have amassed through your hard work yada yada. I’d challenge you to keep up with MY workload, though. I’m a “NON WORKING” mother of eight, leading two GS troops (Daisy and Senior); also troop organizer for the school and registrar and annual encampment for the service unit (around 100 girls attend each year). There are also two Cub dens, three soccer teams, one rugby team, one basketball team, as well as another GS troop for one of the other daughters. Three different schools, Panera’s “Dough-nation” Thursday nights, and my hobby is helping to shut down a pervert-worshipping cult. Ten loads of laundry a week, dinner for ten each night, keep up on who has grown out of what, all on one income. Oh, and I had to be cookie mom for both troops this year, total of 1500 boxes or so. If someone says “Do you work?” in that nasty voice “working” women get, I respond “very hard. Do you raise your children?”.
Yes, it’s easier now that my husband has moved ahead in his business and we’re making better money, but I still remember those days when the only kind of meat we could ever afford was ground beef and leg quarters (those 10-pound bags).
Are you really trying to compare the opulence of the Romney’s to the comfortable life the Obama’s now have, but worked for every bit of it?
I want some details on this explosive claim.
When and where did the either Obama ever “work” for anything? Are you counting Michell’s fake “job” with the University of Chicago Hospitals as “work”?
By all means, let us compare Mitt Romney’s work history with that of Obama.
How Mittens made his millions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rodifJlis2c
Really!!!! Robert Reich!!!!
There’s an unbiased, honest opinion!!!
HOW THE OBAMA’S MADE IT TO THE WHITE HOUSE:
1. http://www.eeoc.gov/
2. http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/hiring/affirmativeact.htm
3. Qualifications for being elected President:
Article 2 – The Executive Branch Section 1 – The President
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
4. More “hurdles” they tripped over.
The Obama’s haven’t even demonstrated they can balance a check book.
Every housewife/single mother has to be able to achieve this to a small degree for survival.
Obama can’t even get a PROPOSED BUDGET to Congress that they will even DISCUSS.
cyncial, yawn this is getting boring. romney worked for what he got. and obama hasn’t worked a day in his life. he plays around watching tv, golfing, avoiding michelle and campaigning. if we had a real president instead of a loafer, liar, american hater, we’d be in much better shape.
This “working mothers” meme started last week ( further if you consider that it was probably part of the wider “republicans want to victimize women by taking their contraception” campaign ) and was coordinated across several layers of the Obama Presidential Campaign. If you listen to the messaging from the Obama campaign for the past week, you can see the “moms” attack laid out in clear order. This sort of deep layered messaging is their style and it works because it provides an attack across a broad front.
What we found out this week is that the Obama campaign isn’t composed of super genius, 10 foot tall, invincible aupermen. Its composed of fallible human beings who’s weakpoint is a worldview is framed by their own insular, echo chamber experience. Trust me, they got knocked back on their heels over this because it simply never occurred to them how insulting this would come across to other mothers.
Do not for one second kid yourself that this is going to be easy. We are going to have to fight like hell for every inch of territory between now and November and very possibly long after that.
What we also found out this week is that the Romney campaign can respond and can respond with coordination and sophistication. The Romney campaign not only worked up an effective response, but they pressed the attack home to the point that it caused a retreat. That, is very good news. The bad news? We need one of these every week between now and November to remain competitive.
That bad news is, well, it’s the Romney campaign.
no….that’s the good news
“What we also found out this week is that the Romney campaign can respond and can respond with coordination and sophistication.”
Is that really how you see it? The way I see it is the Democrats threw some chum in the water and the inexperienced Romney campaign bit. The Dems (really Rosen) took a little bit of a hit for a poor choice of words, but everyone (even Greta Van Susteren on Fox) knows what she was talking about. She was pointing out that Ann Romney can’t speak on behalf of working moms (who work outside the home AND raise a family) because she has never been one. That is the truth and it can’t be denied. The more important meme that is now circulating is that the focus became Ann Romney and that her own life experiences does not qualify her to speak on behalf of working mothers any more than Leona Helmsley could have spoken on behalf of migrant workers. So a soldier falls on the sword (really a scrape) to achieve a much broader objective regarding perceptions about Ann Romney. That is turf the Dems feel very comfortable fighting on from now until election day. I expect that the gender gap will only grow. Will the real campaign that understands coordination and sophistication please stand up!
The way I see it is the Democrats threw some chum in the water and the inexperienced Romney campaign bit.
I’m sure that you also see Obama as the Lightworker who can heal the planet and cure the sick.
There is nothing the Democrats can do which you will not hail as genius, and nothing the Republicans can do which you will not greet with derision.
I’m sure that you also see the GOP as the Lightworker who can heal the planet and cure the sick.
There is nothing the Republicans can do which you will not hail as genius, and nothing the Democrats can do which you will not greet with derision. FTFY
Cynical Wonder writes, “I’m sure that you also see the GOP as the Lightworker who can heal the planet and cure the sick.” CW, where have you been? Those of us who support the GOP—and I’m Canadian!—don’t believe that politicians are miracle workers. In fact, unlike you statists, we’re wary—as in cynical—about the power of both the state and politicians.
Using your utterly skewed and reductionist logic, I’m an uber expert on working moms: I worked full-time for nearly four decades and, from financial necessity, was back in the saddle within months after my children were born. They were cared for by family members, nannies, and at daycare. I was quite miserable about this. One does what one has to, but there are costs.
That said, in the reductionist, back-biting, soulless, mini-world of the progressives, I’m supposed to be an opponent of the Anne Romneys of this world. But, guess what—and, CW, by your own definition, remember I’M the expert here, not you—I altogether support Anne Romney and all other moms who stay home with their kids. I would have much preferred to—like most moms out there.
CW, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
What are you, eight years old?
(This is where you respond with, “What are you, eight years old?”)
you forgot to say “sticks and stones” and “nyah, nyah”. Back to the Kos echo chamber from whence you came!
I’m glad you brought up “light worker” and “heal the planet”. Hmmm, let’s see. Who was that said of before? How well has he worked out?
Unlike you folks on the Left,
I don’t swoon over politicians–even the ones I end up voting for.
Your near-worship of a nondescript junior Senator from Illinois with a mediocre voting record in the Senate was motivated solely by your hope that as a doctrinaire left-winger, Barack Obama would wipe away everything that happened in America since the 1970s and restart the Great Society.
Pathetic.
I guess all the Hollywood elites who work and speak with expertise on their favorite causes have no business opening their big fat mouths either, right? After all, George Clooney wasn’t born in Darfur and has no clue what life is like there, right? Therefore, he should offer no opinions on the subject.
Please don’t tell me, cynical wonder, that you have an opinion on global warming. Since you are not a climatologist or meteorologist and have no experience or expertise in the field of weather, you cannot, by your own logic, voice an opinion on the subject.
The Obama Administration is also at war against working women.
– over the weekend, but given it is tax time and distraction especially needed, expect Team O to raise subtly some LDS issue it figures Mitt won’t be able to defend, just so it regains the “high ground”.
There is a super mom who has no rich daddy, no rich husband, works and takes care of five kids. Horror of all horrors, she wants to be president! What do the Dems do? They attack her for not killing her handicapped baby. They ridicule her for being “stupid”. She is so “stupid”, she doesn’t know she is entitled to govt’ help to feed her kids. She is so stupid, she would rather make millions without govt. subsidies. She is so stupid, she doesn’t realize there are 57 states. She is so stupid, she can’t speak Austrian.
There is a mom who has a long term debilitating disease, had cancer, who stays home to take care of her husband and their five kids. What do the Dems do? They attack her for not working. Unlike some mom whose pay tripled after her senator husband earmarked a million taxpayer dollars to her employer. What’s this mom’s job that pays her $300,000, a job so important that is abolished when she moves on? Community outreach, of course. What does a person in community outreach do? To steer indigent patients away from her employer.
There is a woman who loves to screw around, spending $3000 a year to stop unwanted pregnancies which is cheaper than killing the babies or raising them. What do the Dems do? They want you, stay at home moms, working moms, single moms, grand moms, not-moms to pay higher insurance premiums to foot her baby-prevention-screwing-around expenses.
What are the Dems saying? Women are stupid. They can’t think deeper than what the Dems are telling them.
Leftist jackasses have despised suburbia, stay at home moms, “bitter clingers”, Joe the Plumber, the military, law enforcement, jocks, faith-based people (Bible version only), business people, anyone right of center, and people who love America (or Israel) with all their heart.
It has been that way for 50 years.
Why does it come as any shock that this piece of human excrement is any different from any other leftist piece of human excrement?
She attacked a stay at home mom, because in the metrosexual, hate American success, blamefest crowd…the stay at home mom is the poster child for all they despise.
Forget the faux “apology”. “I’m sorry if anyone was offended by my class warfare remarks, but then, you aren’t a small c communist if you were offended and you don’t matter a whit”
Hillary Rosen is a fat, ugly, intemperate, leftist asshole. I feel sorry for her children, whom she apparently believes are little props in narrative about what she is “free” to do in modern society. Having children with a gay partner is clearly not about quality time, it’s only about quality narrative air time, using those poor adopted kids as a prop for her self-absorption.
I don’t wish cancer or MS on her…or anyone.
But her assault on Ann Romney is NOT now simply a “distraction”. It is instead a “description” of the soul of leftism. It is now as it always has been.
The leftists will transform us, and clearly, they are willing to do so against our will. Hillary Rosen is a symptom of the disease. I pity her children. And all the children of this land of ours if these miserable cretins get four more years to destroy us.
“It is instead a “description” of the soul of leftism. It is now as it always has been.”
Excellent comment.
The 35 visits to the white house is a very telling thing. I’ve long since known Leftists are strategists. They pick just the right person to do the hatchet jobs. Want to attack women, don’t get one who doesn’t have children, go find the angry lesbian with the adopted kids and send her out. Whatever the issue, they find the least susceptible toady as their mouthpiece. So like a good foot soldier, Rosen got the orders to do in interdiction strike on Mitt’s flank.
You’re correct–except that it’s been that way for *sixty* years.
The first of the postwar liberal candidates, Adlai Stevenson II, used his considerable wit and sense of humor to make fun of the American people–while he was running for President and asking for their votes!
(Journalist: “Mr. Stevenson, you’re the thinking man’s candidate.” Stevenson: “Yes–but I need to win a majority of the votes.”)
Of all the things Obama and Co has done nothing has galvanized My wife and her sisters as this woman’s idiot remark.
Eight kids between all Four and everyone works and takes care of kids.
The only folks more stupid than Obama and Co are the people who vote for them.
Feminists have been waging war on Republican women for three decades now. My eyes were opened as to what the so called women’s movement was up to way back in 1982. That is the year NOW endorsed liberal Democrat Frank Luatenberg over the equally liberal Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick in the New Jersey US Senate race. When an organization prefers a man over a feisty career woman like Fenwick simply because she caucuses with the Republicans could it legitimately claim to represent women trying to free themselves from conventional rolls?
Local ABC news talking head emphasised twice that Rosen was NOT, was NOT a part of the Obama campaign staff.
Rosens apology wasn’t for Anne Romney it was an apology to Obama.
So Sorry Master I phuc up good.
This situation is ripe for any number of creative, devastating attack ads. Unfortunately, the wise Republican establishment (i.e., Romney’s campaign) has declared Obama to be off-limits for personal criticism, in case they may offend some undecided voter who would then naturally side with the One. Such are the wages of nominating a “moderate” Republican.
good for Romney…we are way above those people.
This sort of scenario will happen again and again over the coming months as Obama and the dems attempt to stitch together a coalition minority dissenters large enough to get to 270 in the electoral college. Facts will continue to bite them in the a$$. Rosen and her mouth will be one in a series. More self inflicted pratfalls to come.
Did you see the pitiful charitable contribution numbers for Biden. I wonder what the Catholic church thinks of Mr Skinflint? What a pathetic cheapskate! He makes almost 400k a year and gives less than two % to charity. Compare that to what Romney gives.
And you have to love that the Commander in Chief is apparently paying less in taxes than his secretary.
These hypocrits are going to have a tough 6 months coming up. Their pathetic attempts to balkanise the electorate are going to fail. These clowns are going to be judged on their record by the voters and it is going to be an interesting exercise in accountability.
We shall see if the Republicans have enough of a clue about a message to convey proper information. They have been presented with a batting practice fastball scenario. Ann Romney has the script, we shall see if the rest of them have a clue.
For the party that gave us John McCain I am not holding my breath.
MOTUS thinks maybe Ann should have hired a nanny so she could have done something important too. http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/04/failure-to-launch-what-fluke-is-going.html
Ann Romney is turning out to be a significant asset for team Romney.
She comes across as smart, cheerful, resilient and on message. In the face of significant personal health issues, she’s displayed none of the whiny, woe-is-me tone of the current first lady. In the face of direct insult, she’s remained calm and centered and shrugged it off.
She keeps bringing this particular war on women message back where it belongs: it’s all about the economy.
Now imagine how it would feel to have this strong, smart woman helping to represent us here and abroad. Have to say, I’m liking it.
“….The Founders wanted men of decent character to be our leaders. But even if the U.S. elected men of sterling character, their power, the Founders believed, should still be limited. Why? Because even outstanding people could make huge mistakes, or be corrupted by power. That thinking was reflected in the writing of the Constitution, which divided power among the president, the House and Senate, and the Supreme Court. The best chance to secure and perpetuate freedom, the Founders argued, was to divide authority among several groups.
The progressives disagreed. President Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), among others, believed in the perfectibility of man. If men were perfectible, they should be trusted with more power–so that they could overcome the fragmented power under the Constitution, and do good works directly for humanity. “[T]he only fruit of dividing power,” Wilson argued, “was to make it irresponsible.”
Once Wilson was president, he only wanted to be bound by a “living Constitution,” a document he could stretch to do good works. To do good works, Wilson needed much federal revenue. Wilson favored a progressive income tax, one where some groups would be taxed higher than other groups. The Founders, by contrast, believed in equal opportunity (on most issues) and protection of property. A progressive tax, by hitting some groups harder than others, is by definition unfair and a potential deprivation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to those highly taxed citizens….”
If Team Obama tries to make an issue out of Mormonism, I hope Romney has the guts to bring up Obama’s 20 year spiritual mentor, and draw comparisons.
What is amazing to me is that Democrats are the only people who can “apologize” without ever apologizing. Rosen launches into yet another stupid attack against Ann Romney without learning anything from the first attack. So I guess only rich Democrats can relate to the plight of working women. Hmmm, so I also guess that John Kerry and Teresa Heinz were really, REALLY, qualified to talk about the plight of working women in 2004. John Kerry, by the way, is one of the richest people in Congress, if not the richest. Yep, the hypocrisy on the left never ceases to amaze me.
The shot Rosen was trying to imply was, “We’re Domocrats and we feel your pain. They’re Republicans and they don’t know what pain is.” And people all over the country right now are seeing what a load of buffalo chips that really is.
I recommend reading Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse’s writings at the Ruth Institute (http://www.ruthinstitute.org/), and especially listening to her recent interview on Issues Etc . The so-called “war on women” is actually a war between two groups of women – between the radical, feminist, Marxist left vs the traditional minded women. “…stay at home mothers, women to want to be married….have always understood that the so-called feminist movement was directed against them.” One group understands only hedonism and the self, wishing only sterile sexual gratification; the other understands that family and the marriage are the fundamental bases of society and that women and men are not equivalent and interchangeable, thank you very much.
Paul, your username made me smile. (Great link, btw) My son, a history buff, lives in Alexandria and has become known to family and friends as Daniel of Alexandria.
They abused Cathilics during Lent, then they turned their guns on Ann Romney. Wonder who the next target will be?
As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women’s financial struggles.
Ha ha. “.. the plight of women’s financial struggles”? And she says this right after saying “As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen”?
Hilary Rosen is a very stupid woman who only managed to get very rich by being plugged into the Democratic machine from birth.
Any person, women included, that said that to my face would be picking their teeth up off the ground. Rosen is a low life attack scum dog and I’m enjoying watching the left self destruct. ES&D.
Truth hurts, huh? What specifically did Rosen say that was untrue? Be specific. Quote her exact words and tell us why you think they were false and what you believe they meant.
What specifically did Rosen say that was untrue?
How about “As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is”?
And “I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended”.
“How about “As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is”?”
I suppose you were a fly on her wall while she was raising them. I wouldn’t doubt it since you people want to put a spy cam in every uterus. I mean look at the war on women going on in Arizona. I predict that state will be blue in November.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/13/1083067/-Jan-Brewer-signs-life-begins-at-menstruation-bill-the-most-draconian-anti-abortion-law-so-far
And “I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended”.
You don’t think she was sincere? Tough …
What is undeniably true is that you are a complely mind-numbed lefty idiot. You’re a Talking-Point-O-Matic. You have no brain, no thinking ability; like an amoeba, you just respond to the stimulus with the conditioned response the communist professors programmed into you. You really need to go find some more amoeba to hang out with because sentient creatures don’t really want to associate with things like you.
Nobody thinks she was sincere, CW. And that includes this working mom. (Yeah, I’m one of those business-owning, worked several years in the public AND private sectors women who has had to juggle it all.) The more Ms Rosen opens her mouth, and the more I learn about her, the less I like her. She doesn’t speak for me or the working (and stay-at-home) moms that I know.
First rule of holes…..learn when to stop digging.
Time to find a new “war on women” narrative. Getting other people to pay for contraception didn’t work too well. This attack on Ann Romney isn’t working, despite your valiant efforts. Maybe third time’s the charm, but….I doubt it.
Just an outside guess but I bet you accepted Rush Limbaugh’s apology as honest and sincere, right? I’ve read almost all your posts here and I have to say, keep posting. Why do conservative people need to make a case when you are doing a fine job all on your own.
@CW
Paid to be here.
How much does a troll get paid to be on the tip of the spear so to speak?
I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women’s financial struggles.
Setting aside her miserable command of the English language, I think it is clear that Romney has a much better record when it comes to peoples financial struggles than does a child of nepotism like Hilary Rosen, who has never had to struggle in her entire pampered life.
Rosen, who doubtless thinks herself smarter and better educated than most people, doesn’t know the meaning of the word “fulsome.”
All you have to keep in mind in this comparison, is which one would be more costly to replace;
Mrs. Romney or Ms. Rosen.
You can find more Ms. Rosens clamoring for attention at any Liberal gathering in D.C. than you can find Mrs. Romneys.
Anybody that has ever been to D.C. is well aware of this fact.
And so the “mean girls” have grabbed the microphone again for their 15 minutes of shame…Rosen, Dowd, the usual suspects, all of them shrill.
The feminists who only support women making their same choices need to pipe down. I believed your bull growing up, that women could make their own choices that no one should decide everything for them. I went to school, paid my way and went to work. Luckily, I’m still working. Paid and otherwise.
I like and admire Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin. Ann Romney. And even though I voted against her husband each time, I absolutely adore Laura Bush. Lady Bird and Pat Nixon were great too. Never occurred to me that they weren’t great advisers or didn’t worked hard for their families.
Negativity is out. Stop trying to divide everybody and make the snarky-clever comment of the day. Many of us didn’t pay too much attention to Mrs. Romney until the ruckus started. I’m guessing I’m not alone, what I learned about her I really like. Her response was gracious. Romney 1, Rosen 0. Game over or will Ms. Rosen try to go for 2 out of 3?
Not only do stay-at-home moms have one of the most difficult, demanding and despised jobs in the world, but we’re in the vanguard of those working to keep the ship of state afloat.
http://crybelovedcountry.com/2012/04/open-letter-to-hilary-rosen/
@CW “Ann Romney won’t be going to the back of the bus anytime soon, she has several Cadillacs, private jets, and chauffeurs to get her to wherever she needs to go”
You give yourself away, Cadillacs indeed. There is absolutely zero chance that the Romney family owns or has owned a Cadillac. Cadillacs are only likely to be found down town or in the burbs.
The trusty surburban for such a big family and the mercedes S500 (or recent varient) is far more likely. I wonder if they have the vanity or foolishness to go the route of Bently or RR, I tend to doubt it.
Care to make a wager on that?
Maybe you got hit by hoola boola rays or something? Ann has two Cadillacs that she drives. One in Massachusetts, I forget where the other is. For what it’s worth, word is Mitt had an AMC Pacer (his dad was president of AMC way back).
I am appalled at all the Obama bashing going on in here. With his education, everyone here should listen to the words he speaks and try to learn and gain knowledge from his brilliance. If the Supreme Court goes against him, the Black Panthers may have to settle the score.
Every day, the President’s omnipotence shines through.
For instance, President Obama is the great man who personally telephoned Sandra Fluke after she was publicly lambasted and humiliated in a way Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and that tramp, Ann Romney, never were.
President Obama personally put through ObamaCare which gives women free abortions. And which lowers everyone’s premiums by at least a third.
President Obama personally redistributed more than 5 trillion dollars in less than four years while giving companies like Solyndra financial support so they could grow and employ thousands of people.
And he stopped the justice department from prosecuting the Black Panthers when they were wrongly accused of voter intimidation by white supremacists.
The magnificent Obama also gave the Martin family much needed consolation after their honor student, Trayvon, was gunned down on his way to church. In a wonderful gesture of concern and caring, President Obama told the world that if he had a son, he would look something like Trayvon.
Needless to say, when I say that Mitt Romney was leading our President in two polls today, I was greatly vexed and hugely disappointed. How could anyone not see the greatness in his every move. A leader like Obama this nation has never before experienced. He is one in a million.
November can’t come soon enough.
It’s always good to know that here in this free country where athletes and talk show hosts and pornographers and race baiters and community organizers and PR people are encouraged to make billions of dollars doing nothing but ragging on anyone who actually works. Oprah’s worth billions, Romney’s worth millions but who do people attack for being elitist? Why?
Because that doesn’t fit the narrative, that’s why. Rich white people are evil, rich black people are good. Long gone are the days and ideals of Dr. King who wanted his children judged by the content of their hearts.
Farrakahn, Jackson, Sharpton, Tyson, Obama, Rosen, Axlerod, Biden, Wright, just pull up what they’ve said this week and you’ll see the content of their hearts.
There are haters out there alright but the loudest, vilest and most hatefilled noise is coming from the left. That’s the main difference between the right and left. The right will disagree with a policy, law or talking point, the left will threaten to kill, maim, burn, blister or dismember anyone who dares disagree with them. They won’t be satisfied with anything less than all out war.
Bring it.
It’s the economy stupid……..do not get distracted
Agreed. I think Romney is smart enough to keep bringing the narrative back to the nose diving economy and Yo Mama’s divisive, racist rhetoric.
The question is, are enough Americans smart enough and informed enough to vote out Comrade Obama before he totally destroys us? I too am a “Cynical Wonderer” and doubt it. I will be overjoyed to shout it from the rooftop if I am wrong.
If everyone would stop responding to Cynical Wonder, he/she might go away. (I wonder by what tactic he will insult me). Yawn.
HALLIBURTONKOCHBROTHERS
I wish there was some way to literally split this country in half length-wise without Civil War. They hate us and blame us for all the country’s woes, so it should logically follow that they would be glad to get rid of us irritating evil capitalists. Let the East try to sponge off the kind of people who elect them. And for that matter, wouldn’t it be fun to hear them turn on themselves?
Of course, they’d blame it all on the damnable hosts who extricated themselves from the bloodsucking parasites and would make war to get us back.
I meant to say split us into East and West. I’d want the Rocky Mountains to protect us when O sent nukes our way.
Nice thought but it’s a one way street. The liberals can never let us go, we do the work and PAY THE BILLS!
I was a stay home mom for 11 years and have spent the last 20 years trying to undo the damages done to our youth by so-called “working” moms. The War on Women is really the War on Traditional Families.
Uh Bernice?
Please put at :/sarc at the end of your posts, that way will all know that your are being facetious, or at the very least sarcastic, other than that you illustrated the vapidity of the Obamaites very well.
and CW? I wish I could sit all day in my mommies basement and prod the right wingers, but she died and now I have my own family to support so my wife can stay home and finish raising and homeschooling our boys. Trust me, I would think Mrs Romney knows our situation better than Ms Rosen.
IamRalph
I’m wondering (facetiously) if this isn’t a brilliant Republican strategists’ trap the Lefties fell into. Just think, it seems to be uniting
stay-home moms and any moms with jobs and brains. Also good family men who respect their wives. I’m seeing Ann Romney as
a powerful spokesperson and asset for Romney, and Rosen invited her into the spotlight.
My brain seems incapable of anticipating all the shocking dirty tricks the Dems have pulled without compunction, but lately they
seem to have caught the Biden foot-in-mouth disease. In these last few weeks, they’ve managed to piss off Catholics, Jews, Whites enraged by Obama’s support of the race baiters in Florida, and now women.
I’ve gloomily felt that Soros the demonic strategist has known all along how to successfully steal O’s re-election. He certainly knew
the time was ripe to abandon Hillary, the first female Prez, and give the job to the first Black one. I wonder if he overestimated his
ability to steal the re-election. The heretofore silent conservative Americans are finding their voices and shouting “We’re mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore!” Libs after all are just cowardly bullies with the MSM protecting them from their own idiocy. Their thinly veiled lies and false facts never will stand up to a debate with an informed conservative. I’m looking forward to seeing O call in sick to every debate with Romney.
Whatever the case, go, Ann, go!
From John Nolte/Breitbart
The Obama campaign would have us believe that last night on CNN Obama advisor and frequent White House guest, Hilary Rosen, spoke out of turn with her indefensible attack on Ann Romney and every woman who chooses to stay home and raise her family. But in a speech last Friday at “The White House Forum on Women and the Economy,” President Obama seemed to be laying the groundwork for exactly this attack.
By last Friday, it was already apparent that the only thing stopping Mitt Romney from becoming the GOP presidential nominee were mere formalities, and talk had already begun among Obama’s media allies that Ann Romney, the wife of our likely nominee, was going to be a huge asset for the Republican ticket. Attractive, charismatic, warm, well-spoken, intelligent, and likeable on sight, she would do much to not only soften her husband’s edges but also to help shore up the so-called gender gap.
As we’ve all seen since President Obama stabbed the Catholic Church in the back a couple of months ago, Obama is cynically plotting a path to re-election through a phony “war on women.” Because he can’t run on a failed record, the White House and the media are hoping this divisive tactic will scare enough women into voting against Romney.
When that’s your sinister plot, a woman like Ann Romney is a serious problem.
So last night on CNN, Hilary Rosen attacked Ms. Romney. But almost immediately afterward, the Obama campaign assured us Rosen doesn’t speak for them.
Baloney.
Obama might suck as a president, but when it comes to campaigning and message discipline, this White House knows what it’s doing (it doesn’t hurt to have the MSM carrying your water, either). Speaking of his wife Michelle just a few days prior to Rosen’s attack, President Obama launched a little theme that should sound familiar after last night’s fireworks:
“And once Michelle and I had our girls, she gave it her all to balance raising a family and pursuing a career–and something that could be very difficult on her, because I was gone a lot.
“Once I was in the state legislature, I was teaching, I was practicing law, I’d be traveling,” he said. “And we didn’t have the luxury for her not to work.”
Oh, boo-hoo for the Harvard graduate.
Obama’s mother in law has been living in the White House since they have been living there, and her purpose was to take care of the kids, which is a continuation of what she did in Chicago.
Those “kids” are now in their teens, and can pretty much take care of themselves; Evidence-Spring break to Mexico WITHOUT mother in law.
The mother in law continues to enjoy the White House life, (champagne, caviar, and Kobe beef), as well as Secret Service protection.
THIS IS NO SMALL COST TO THE U.S. TAXPAYER.
AND, there are all those other “PERSONAL ATTENDANTS” that are on the TAXPAYERS PAYROLL.
“Cynical Wonder”, and all the other idiots trying to spin their talking points and “logic”, don’t want to address those details.
The Obama’s can flash a bigger EBT card than any other family in the United States. And they’re using it like it’s never been used before.
Now; THAT’S A LEGACY TO BE PROUD OF!
You forgot arugula (sp?).
Just an errant thought with regard to O’s continuing quest for a catchy campaign slogan. So far, he’s leaning towards the line “Everybody gets a fair shot, everybody plays by the same rules” ( of course with intentions to vilify the rich). I take this as an indication that he’s going to end Affirmative Action…right?
How about “Lean Forward?”
“Lean Forward”? I think you mean “Bend Over”. Or, how about “Lie Back and Think of England”?
Never mentioned or discussed are the terrible words “affirmative action”. Yale is renown for it. Is that the real reason Obama’s transcripts are sealed, or is it his classification as a “foreign student” that drives these otherwise innocuous records underground?
I think it’s time to ask if these records exist at all. Surely conservative news hounds have been hard at work in their efforts to bring forth reports about Obama as a student from fellow students. No such reports are noted; I think this speaks volumes about the strong likelihood that O is a huge fraud among other really bad things.
I hate to do the newspaper’s reporter’s job for you. But if Obama was born an American citizen, his parents had to have submitted a federal income tax form. If there are no such tax records, then, presto, the President’s claim to be an American citizen vanishes, like the magician’s scarf.