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I hope these communist traitors keep this up - this will only make people like myself who are luke warm to romney at best start really supporting him.
November election - Obama or America - you can't have both.
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Obama campaign runs from strategist's insult on Ann Romney
FOX NEWS ^ | 4/12/12
The Obama campaign was scrambling Thursday to distance itself from comments made by a top Democratic strategist who accused Ann Romney, wife of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, of having “never worked a day in her life.”
“Guess what, (Romney’s) wife has actually never worked a day in her life,” Hilary Rosen said Wednesday evening on CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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Yeah pointing how a candidate or their wife has never worked a day in their lives makes that person look like a sad and pathetic moron. ;)
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Looks like the Dems are waging war on stay at home moms. :-\
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Looks like the Dems are waging war on stay at home moms. :-\
Democrats are waging on a war on all taxpayers - men and women alike. They are nothing but communists socialists and tyrants. The agenda of the modern day leftist is no different than that is the Communiset Manifesto's 10 planks.
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Democrats are waging on a war on all taxpayers - men and women alike. They are nothing but communists socialists and tyrants. The agenda of the modern day leftist is no different than that is the Communiset Manifesto's 10 planks.
They're doing what's best for the country. 3.5 years in and 0 sign of recovery.
#winning
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They're doing what's best for the country. 3.5 years in and 0 sign of recovery.
#winning
romney said the economy is coming back.
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Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago.......?
I wonder how that is going to play out in this election.
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Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago.......?
I wonder how that is going to play out in this election.
There is not one single item for the average person better than 4 years ago. Is the market up? Sure, but its on thin ice and showing signs of possible bear market again.
Inflation is terrible, jobs are terrible, debt/deficit are horrible, etc etc
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There is not one single item for the average person better than 4 years ago. Is the market up? Sure, but its on thin ice and showing signs of possible bear market again.
Inflation is terrible, jobs are terrible, debt/deficit are horrible, etc etc
I don't necessarily disagree. But its not facts I am too worried about its perception.
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Twitter Is Destroying The Democrats For Hilary Rosen Putting Down Ann Romney
Jaywon Choe | 16 minutes ago | 2,438 | 4
You knew it was going happen. Both Ann Romney and Hilary Rosen are already trending on Twitter.
As soon as news broke of Democratic advisor Hilary Rosen' criticized Ann Romney by saying she has "never worked a day in her life," comments started pouring into Twitter.
While some came to the defense of Rosen, overwhelmingly, the sentiment was that she was out of line for saying Romney, a mother of five, hasn't worked.
Here are some of the best tweets to come out so far.
Check Out What Twitter Had To Say >
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hilary-rosen-and-democrats-are-getting-shredded-on-twitter-2012-4#ixzz1rqCX0ymc
Mittens needs to let his wife run - she has more balls and gusto than he does.
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Yeah, but it could be another thing that already hurts the GOP's retarded campaign as working women struggling in this economy look at her as some rich lazy bitch.
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Yeah, but it could be another thing that already hurts the GOP's retarded campaign as working women struggling in this economy look at her as some rich lazy bitch.
Not likely. Even the Obama regime is distancing themselves from this woman's comments.
What's retarded is thinking that there's a GOP war on women. Hook, line and sinker, sheeple.
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Yeah, but it could be another thing that already hurts the GOP's retarded campaign as working women struggling in this economy look at her as some rich lazy bitch.
Other than free condoms - tell me what the democrats offer anyone who goes to work for a living?
BTW - funny tweets here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hilary-rosen-and-democrats-are-getting-shredded-on-twitter-2012-4#-7
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Not likely. Even the Obama regime is distancing themselves from this woman's comments.
What's retarded is thinking that there's a GOP war on women. Hook, line and sinker, sheeple.
Its dumb, but dumb doesn't mean won't buy into it, especially in this country.
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Other than free condoms - tell me what the democrats offer anyone who goes to work for a living?
BTW - funny tweets here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hilary-rosen-and-democrats-are-getting-shredded-on-twitter-2012-4#-7
Not arguing what dems offer or don't. Simply saying this kind of thing could bode the wrong way for the GOP.
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Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago.......?
I wonder how that is going to play out in this election.
Actually I am.. much better stock market wise... not sure how much Obama has to do that with, but answering the question... yes.
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Obama on Why Michelle Was a Working Mom (at $316K Per Year): ‘We Didn't Have the Luxury for Her Not to Work’
By Terence P. Jeffrey
April 9, 2012
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Michelle and Barack Obama (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking Friday at what the administration called “The White House Forum on Women and the Economy,” President Barack Obama said that after his two daughters were born, he and his wife—both Harvard Law School graduates—could not afford the “luxury” of having her stay home with the children.
In 2005, when Obama began serving in the U.S. Senate (and his daughters turned 4 and 7), he and his wife were earning a combined annual income of $479,062. Barack Obama was paid a salary of $162,100 by the U.S. taxpayers, and Michelle Obama was paid $316,962 to handle community affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
“And then there is the woman who once advised me at the law firm in Chicago where we met,” Obama said of his wife in his Friday talk. “Once she gave me very good advice. That's why I decided to marry her. 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.
“And I know when she was with the girls, she’d feel guilty that she wasn’t giving enough time to her work,” said Obama. “And when she was at work, she was feeling guilty she wasn’t giving enough time to the girls. And like many of you, we both wished that there were a machine that could let us be in two places at once. And so she had to constantly juggle it, and carried an extraordinary burden for a long period of time.”
Mrs. Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, according to The Complete Marquis Who’s Who. Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991.
When her daughter, Malia Obama, was born on July 4, 1998, Mrs. Obama (who was born on Jan. 17, 1964) was 34 year old. She had been out of Harvard Law for 10 years.
During those ten years, according to Who’s Who, Mrs Obama had worked at the Sidley and Austin law firm from 1988 to 1991, as an assistant to the mayor of Chicago from 1991 to 1993, and as the founding executive director of Public Allies-Chicago from 1993-1996. (The Chicago Sun-Times described Public Allies as “part of President Clinton’s Americorps effort").
In 1997, the year before Malia was born, Mrs. Obama started working as an associate dean of students at the University of Chicago.
For his part, Barack Obama was 36 years old and had been out of Harvard Law School for seven years by the time his eldest daughter was born. During those seven years, according to Who’s Who, Obama had worked in 1992 as executive direction of Project Vote, from 1993 to 1996 as an associate at the Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland law firm, and starting in 1996 as “of counsel” at that firm.
In 1997, the year before Malia was born, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.
By the time daughter Sasha was born on June 10, 2001, Barack Obama was still of counsel with Davis, Miner firm and still in the state senate. Michelle Obama was still an associate dean of students at the University of Chicago.
In 2002, according to Who’s Who, Mrs. Obama became the executive director of community and external affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
On Sept. 1, 2004, when Barack Obama was campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat he would win that November, the Chicago Tribune published a long profile of Michelle Obama. Written by reporter Cassandra West, it was headlined: “Her plan went awry, but Michelle Obama doesn’t mind.”
“A month after daughter Sasha was born, Obama got a call from the new president of the University of Chicago Hospitals, Michael Riordan,” the Tribune reported. “He wanted her to help build a vision for the hospital's nascent community affairs effort. It was a critical time for her, personally and professionally.”
“She was struggling ‘with wanting to be a good mother and was on the verge of saying ‘I'm not sure what I want to do [professionally], so I'm going to do what I haven't done before and stay home,’” the Tribune said.
“Like her husband had been, Riordan was a persistent suitor. He offered her ‘all the flexibility’ she desired. She took the job,” the Tribune reported. “That flexibility is allowing her the time she needs--and wants--to play a visible role in her husband's campaign.”
Despite this flexibility in her job, Michelle Obama was well-compensated, earning $121,910 in 2004 and--as the Chicago Tribune would report in a Sept. 27, 2006 story--getting a raise to $316,962 the next year.
“Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs in March 2005, two months after her husband took office in the Senate,” the Tribune reported. “According to a tax return released by the senator this week, the promotion nearly tripled her income from the hospitals from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005.”
“Hospitals spokesman John Easton said Obama's salary was in line with the compensation received by the not-for-profit medical center's 16 other vice presidents,” the Tribune reported.
According to FactCheck.org, Mrs. Obama’s compensation from the University of Chicago Medical Center decreased after 2005. By 2007, she earned only $103,633 when, according to FactCheck.org, she “actually started working part-time.”
“In fact, Mrs. Obama’s income in 2006, a year after her promotion, had decreased to $273,618,” said FactCheck.org. “And for 2007 (the year she actually started working part-time), her income was $103,633, according to the couple’s tax return for that year. She took an ‘unpaid leave of absence to work on her husband’s presidential campaign’ in 2008, but still received $62,709 from the hospital. However, [University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman] Easton noted that her final reported salary ‘consists of accumulated but unused vacation time plus the final payout from a supplemental executive retirement plan.’”
As president, Barack Obama is paid $400,000—or $79,062 less than the combined income he and Mrs. Obama earned in 2005, when she was a working mom with a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old, and he was a United States Senator.
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By Jim Geraghty
April 12, 2012 8:08 A.M. Comments
A Democratic consultant with ties to the Obama administration sneering that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life” is an opportunity for the Romney campaign, but a small problem in the big picture. In the big picture, women who are unable to find work in Obama’s economy are a bigger one.
Having said that, White House visitor logs indicate that “Hilary Rosen” visited the White House 35 times.
Gen. David Petraeus, head of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the current CIA director, nine times.
Further perspective: Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. (Guests are listed by name, not by title, so it is theoretically possible these totals count a separate person with the same name. In the case of Chu, I’m presuming he is the one listing of “Steve Chu” as well as the 15 “Stephen Chu” listings.)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki has visited 19 times.
Former CIA director and current Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, 12 times.
Perhaps most surprisingly, the name “Joseph R. Biden” appears . . . 6 times.
At least Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner managed to get into the White House more frequently than Rosen, but not by much. He has visited 40 times.
So the notion that Rosen is just some Democrat talking head, completely disconnected from the Obama administration and campaign is . . . not plausible.
UPDATE: Arriving in my e-mailbox this morning:
ROSEN & SKDKNICKERBOCKER CONNECTIONS TO OBAMA/DNC
Hilary Rosen Is A Frequent Visitor To The Obama White House And Advised The White House On Messaging During The Obamacare Debates:
Hilary Rosen Visited The Obama White House At Least 35 Times. (White House Website, www.whitehouse.gov, Accessed 4/11/12)
Rosen Advised The Obama White House On Messaging During The Obamacare Debates. “Demonstrating the political element of the health care debate, the records show that senior adviser Axelrod held what was described as a ‘communications message meeting’ on March 13 with 18 people, including prominent Democratic strategists Brad Woodhouse, the party’s communications director, and his predecessor Karen Finney; Steve McMahon, a campaign veteran and media strategist; Hilary Rosen, the former top lobbyist for the music industry; Jennifer Palmieri of the liberal Center for American Progress, John Edwards’ former press secretary and a veteran of the Clinton White House; Maria Cardona, a specialist in Hispanic outreach at the Dewey Square Group; and Simon Rosenberg a founder of the centrist New Democrat Network.” (“Records Show White House Health Care Talks,” The Associated Press, 11/25/09)
The Obama Campaign Enlisted Rosen’s Help As A Political And Media Advisor To The DNC:
The Obama Campaign Enlisted Hilary Rosen As An Advisor To DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Obama advisers have occasionally told her to ‘tone it down’ and ‘back off a smidgen,’ Ms. Wasserman Schultz says. She agreed with them to enlist two seasoned Democratic female pros, Anita Dunn and Hilary Rosen, to begin giving her occasional political advice and media training, advisers say.”(Monica Langley, “Combative Top Democrat Gains Clout In Campaign,” The Wall Street Journal, 2/16/12)
Rosen’s Firm, SKDKnickerbocker, Is A Paid Advisor To The DNC And Played A Prominent Role In The Obama White House & 2008 Campaign:
Since 2010, Hilary Rosen Has Served As Managing Director Of SKDKnickerbocker. “Hilary B. Rosen is a well-known Washington, DC strategist who effectively navigates the intersection of communications, media, and politics. Rosen joined SKDKnickerbocker in 2010 and specializes in the firm’s strategic communications and public relations practice.” (SKDKnickerbocker Website, www.skdknick.com, Accessed 4/12/12)
Former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn Also Serves As A Managing Director At SKDKnickerbocker. “Since returning to SKDKnickerbocker after serving as White House Communications Director for President Barack Obama, Anita has developed SKDK’s public relations and strategic communications practice.” (SKDKnickerbocker Website,www.skdknick.com, Accessed 4/12/12)
During The 2012 Election Cycle, SKDKnickerbocker Has Been Paid At Least $120,864 By The DNC For Media Consulting, Communications Consulting, And Media Production. (CQ MoneyLine Website, politicalmoneyline.cq.co m, Accessed 4/12/12)
SKDKnickerbocker’s Website Includes A Section Highlighting Their “Broad Role” In The Obama 2008 Campaign. (SKDKnickerbocker Website, www.skdknick.com, Accessed 4/12/12)
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Actually I am.. much better stock market wise... not sure how much Obama has to do that with, but answering the question... yes.
You are a government worker - NO SHIT ! ! ! !
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Ann Romney, cancer survivor, has MS, raised 5 sons, beautiful, articulate, intelligent WHITE CONSERVATIVE. Everything the left hates! But if you're an angry black, unemployed, welfare-receiving stay at home mom with 5 kids, well then by god you're the left's hero!
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hilary-rosen-and-democrats-are-getting-shredded-on-twitter-2012-4#ixzz1rqUcl6iL
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Yeah pointing how a candidate or their wife has never worked a day in their lives makes that person look like a sad and pathetic moron. ;)
ZIINNNNGGGGG!!!
Some people can't see their own hypocrisy until it smacks them in the face.
Especially when their so called "job" is conducting epic cut and paste quests on the internet daily.
;)
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ZIINNNNGGGGG!!!
Some people can't see their own hypocrisy until it smacks them in the face.
Especially when their so called "job" is conducting epic cut and paste quests on the internet daily.
;)
LOL - and you ? You exist to stalk people and hurl insults at people. You are pathetic troll.
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I don't insult people. I describe them.
Sorry the truth about yourself hurts so much.
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ZIINNNNGGGGG!!!
Some people can't see their own hypocrisy until it smacks them in the face.
Especially when their so called "job" is conducting epic cut and paste quests on the internet daily.
;)
Ann Romney isnt running for president you twit. She would make a great First Lady.
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Ann Romney isnt running for president you twit. She would make a great First Lady.
Michelle Obama wasn't running for President. Yet it didn't stop the board loser from saying the exact same thing and worse about her.
Hypocrisy. Too bad they don't make meds for it.
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Michelle Obama wasn't running for President. Yet it didn't stop the board loser from saying the exact same thing and worse about her.
Hypocrisy. Too bad they don't make meds for it.
That fat ghetto slumming marxist racist hog gave us good reason to attack her remember?
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You are a government worker - NO SHIT ! ! ! !
has nothing to do with the stock market..
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Hilary Rosen: 'Spare Me The Faux Anger' On Ann Romney 'Never Worked A Day In Her Life' Remark
ibtimes.com ^ | April 12, 2012 | Howard Koplowitz
Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen wants Republicans to spare her the "faux anger" as backlash against her continues to build for saying Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, "never worked a day in her life."
The remarks were seen as an attack on stay-at-home mothers, being that Ann Romney cared for her five children -- Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig -- as a housewife.
"Guess what, [Romney's] wife has actually never worked a day in her life," Rosen told CNN, referring to Ann Romney.
Ann Romney used her first tweet to suggest raising five children amounted to a job.
"I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work," she tweeted.
Politicos on both sides of the aisle condemned Hilary Rosen's remarks, including top advisers to President Barack Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
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I hope these communist traitors keep this up - this will only make people like myself who are luke warm to romney at best start really supporting him.
November election - Obama or America - you can't have both.
That's fucked up but Obama is already spoken out against those comments
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Video: Obama Lays Groundwork for Rosen's Attack on Ann Romney
Breitbart Big Goverment ^ | 4/12/2012 | John Nolte
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 likable 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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That fat ghetto slumming marxist racist hog gave us good reason to attack her remember?
In your delusional little mind perhaps. And how can someone that is 5'5" with a 40 inch waist call another person fat?
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has nothing to do with the stock market..
Are you sure? I mean, barring common sense and basic reality, isn't there some way you can connect the two? I got the name of a great India blogger if you need help.
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Are you sure? I mean, barring common sense and basic reality, isn't there some way you can connect the two? I got the name of a great India blogger if you need help.
LOL - where do you think all that fake money printed by the fed wound up moron?
Sure a ton of it wound up obama's nose and into mobaccas fat ass, but the fed injected the money into the market to prop it up.
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More delusional bullshit.
Have you ever seen a psychiatrist?
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More delusional bullshit.
Have you ever seen a psychiatrist?
What part of what I said wrong?
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They're doing what's best for the country. 3.5 years in and 0 sign of recovery.
#winning
I'd hate to see what losing looks like if this is winning
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Ann Romney Just BLASTED Democrats And Hilary Rosen On Fox
Brett LoGiurato | Apr. 12, 2012, 10:44 AM | 45,854 | 147
Ladies (and gentlemen, too), Ann Romney has entered her voice into the general election.
She was on Fox this morning with Martha MacCallum, discussing comments from Democratic consultant Hilary Rosen that have caused a complete firestorm in the past 14 or so hours.
Click here to see how Twitter is now destroying the Democrats >
Ann Romney was impressive and civil toward Rosen and began shifting the conversation to her husband's policies on women, which Democrats have been lambasting for the past few weeks in a so-called "War on Women."
Some of the key quotes from Ann Romney's appearance on Fox:
• On her gut reaction to the initial comments: "She should have come to my house when those five boys were causing so much trouble. It wasn't so easy."
• On her career choice as a mother: "My career choice was to be a mother."
• On what concerns she hears from women: "Guess what women are talking about? They're talking about jobs, and they're talking about the legacy of debt that we're leaving our children."
• On Rosen's comments this morning (SEE BELOW): "Maybe I haven't struggled as much financially as some people have, but I can tell you, I've had struggles in my life. I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling. That's why we're running. We care about the people that are struggling."
On Rosen's comments that he doesn't treat women equally: "That does bother me. That is not correct at all. ... He has so many women in his circle. ... Mitt Romney is a person that admires women and listens to them, and I am grateful that he listens to me."
Meanwhile, Hilary Rosen was on CNN this morning, refusing to back down from her comments. She repeated that she was not trying to insult Ann Romney, saying that "being a mom is the hardest job in the world." And she tried to shift the subject to Mitt Romney's policies on women — to little avail.
"Mitt Romney has brought his wife into this conversation. It's not about Ann Romney. This is about the waitress in a diner someplace in Nevada who has two kids, whose daycare funding is being cut off because of the Romney-Ryan budget, and she doesn't know what to do. This isn't about whether Ann Romney or I or other women of some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids.
"Most women in America — let's face it — don't have that choice. They have to be working moms and home moms. And that's the piece that I am not hearing from the Romney camp."
The Republican National Committee also got involved, blasting out an email to supporters and press early Thursday morning. It called on the Democratic National Committee and President Obama to denounce Rosen's comments. Here's the statement, from RNC Press Secretary Kirsten Kukowski:
"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz should immediately apologize for the insulting and insensitive comments of her adviser, Hilary Rosen. To suggest that any mother has 'never worked a day in her life,' is an affront to mothers everywhere. Democrats continue to attack Republicans for a 'war on women' even as they attack women with devastating economic policies and offensive rhetoric. The hypocrisy is appalling."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ann-romney-hilary-rosen-fight-2012-4#ixzz1rr9Fx7md
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ANN ROMNEY - WINNING
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After insult Romney hits back with lightning speed
by Byron York Chief Political Correspondent
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann wave as they leave at an election night rally in Schaumburg, Ill., (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Want a preview of the hyper-speed political warfare that will mark the general election campaign? Look no farther than a skirmish, conducted first on Twitter and later everywhere else, that erupted Wednesday night over a Democratic strategist's accusation that Ann Romney has "never worked a day in her life."
It started on CNN, when Hilary Rosen, a longtime Democratic operative, appeared in a segment alongside fellow Democrat Paul Begala and conservative blogger Erick Erickson. Rosen denounced Republicans for -- she claimed -- wrongly attributing the phrase "war on women" to Democrats. And then, Rosen said this:
With respect to economic issues, I think actually that Mitt Romney is right that ultimately women care more about the economic well-being of their family and the like. But he doesn't connect on that issue, either. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing. 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 why we worry about their future.
Within seconds, Rosen's statement that Ann Romney has "never worked a day in her life" began to burn up Twitter. Mrs. Romney, after all, had raised five children, as well as dealt with MS and cancer. That was work, no matter how much money her husband made.
The Romney campaign jumped on Rosen's remarks with a speed that no Republican campaign has shown in the past. First, campaign staffers sent out tweets hitting Rosen. "Obama adviser Hilary Rosen goes on CNN to debut their new 'kill Ann' strategy, and in the process insults hard-working moms," said top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom. The campaign then sent out word that Rosen, who has worked for the Democratic National Committee and other Democratic organizations, is now part of the same firm, SKDKnickerbocker, as Anita Dunn, a prominent member of the Obama circle. And then came word that Rosen had visited the White House at least 35 times, according to publicly-available White House visitors logs. And then that Rosen attended last month's state dinner at the White House.
Sensing an opportunity, the Romney campaign rolled out the big guns and had Ann Romney, who had never sent out a message on Twitter before, send out her first: "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work." Mrs. Romney quickly had thousands of followers.
The story really took off when Obama campaign officials scrambled to distance themselves from Rosen. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina tweeted: "I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly. Her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. She should apologize." Top Obama aide David Axelrod added, "Also disappointed in Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive."
Rosen herself was in no mood to apologize. After the controversy erupted, she tweeted, "When I said on [CNN] Ann Romney never worked I meant she never had to care for her kids AND earn a paycheck like MOST American women!" Rosen added the hashtag "#Truth" to emphasize her point. Rosen later tweeted that Mitt Romney "now makes up false concern for women's economic struggle" and "he should stop saying that she is his guide to women's economic problems. She doesn't have any." To that, Rosen added the hashtag "#IsntItObvious?"
Rosen later posted an extensive explanation at the Huffington Post. "I have nothing against Ann Romney," Rosen wrote. "She seems like a nice lady who has raised nice boys and struggled with illness and handles their long term effects with grace and dignity…What is more important to me and 57% of current women voters is her husband saying he supports women's economic issue because they are the only issues that matter to us and then he fails on even those.
With the Romney campaign on offense and the highest levels of Team Obama on defense, the press quickly picked up on the fight. It was clearly news in light of the recent sparring between the campaigns over women's issues and polls showing Obama with a significant lead over Romney among women voters.
But the episode showed something else, and that was about the Romney campaign. Presented with an opening, Romney's staff jumped on the controversy with impressive speed, forcing top Obama officials to respond before most people even knew there was a story. The fracas suggests that Team Romney is determined to aggressively -- really aggressively -- pursue any chance to press an advantage against Obama. If the president's re-election team thought they were facing a slow-moving, not-up-to-the-task Republican rival, they learned differently Wednesday night.
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http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/12/pro-marriage-group-thinks-irs-employee-leaked-mitt-romneys-donor-info-to-human-rights-campaign
Yeah the timing hear is not suspicious. ::) ::) ::)
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Michelle Obama wasn't running for President. Yet it didn't stop the board loser from saying the exact same thing and worse about her.
Hypocrisy. Too bad they don't make meds for it.
That was a mistake on his part. Michelle Obama has been a far better First Lady than her husband has been president. But 33 isnt a high level advisor to Mitt Romney nor anyone in the GOP, and I certainly dont think he will be visiting a Romney White House 35 times.
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Was Hilary Rosen The Obama Spin Doctor Behind Sandra Fluke?
Bretibart ^ | 4/12/12 | staff
With the new reports today that DNC consultant Hilary Rosen has been an incredibly frequent visitor to the White House – at least 35 times, including five times directly with the president of the United States – questions are arising about her role in the furor surrounding the Sandra Fluke incident. As Bill O’Reilly first reported, Sandra Fluke’s press relations was run by SKDKnickerbocker, the firm of Anita Dunn and Rosen. Fluke testified before Congress in February; on February 29, Rush Limbaugh attacked her on air, using the word “slut,” for which he later apologized.
The timeline suggests that Rosen personally was an integral part of the coordinated leftist strategy to attack Limbaugh. On March 2, President Obama waded into the debate, calling Fluke personally.
On March 20, Eric Wemple of the Washington Post contacted Dunn to ask about her representation of Fluke and her level of coordination with the White House. She responded:
You should put this question directly to the White House, but I wasn’t involved in Sandra’s testimony or any arrangements around it …. My firm’s involvement with Sandra, through a friend of a friend, came about days after Rush Limbaugh attacked her on the air and the crush of media requests became more than she and a helpful friend could handle.
The connection happened within days. Within three days, no doubt, just in time for President Obama to jump into the mix.
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BBBBOOOOOMMMMMMM ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Glad that these radical communist pofs are being outed.
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Wolf Blitzer Just Destroyed Hilary Rosen For Attacking Ann Romney
Grace Wyler | 15 minutes ago | 249 | 3
Democratic advisor Hilary Rosen was back on CNN this afternoon, appearing on Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" to apologize for saying yesterday that Ann Romney had "never worked a day in her life. "
The comment has launched a political firestorm, as Republicans accused Rosen — and by extension Democrats and President Barack Obama — of attacking stay-at-home moms. Although Rosen initially doubled down on her remarks, she apologized in a statement earlier this afternoon amid pressure from high-level Democrats and Obama campaign officials.
But Rosen's apology on CNN was half-hearted, at best. And Blitzer called her out on it.
The host kicked off the interview by commenting on Rosen's slight smirk.
"I see you are smiling a little bit, I don't see why you are smiling," Blitzer remarked.
Rosen looked a little taken aback, but then held her ground, launching into a tirade against Mitt Romney's campaign:
This is a distraction that the Romney campaign is forcing on the American people to avoid his record on the issue.
Rosen also attacked Romney's record on women's issues, and slammed the candidate for using his wife to reach out to women about economic issues.
"When she goes out there and says she is his economic surrogate, come on, I’m not bringing her into this conversation," Rosen said, adding that Romney's record on hiring women during his career at Bain Capital was "terrible." (She didn't offer any evidence to back up the claim.)
When Rosen ran out steam, Blitzer remarked: "I didn't hear an apology."
Slightly embarrassed, Rosen mumbled something about having issued a statement and then turned to the camera:
"I apologize, working moms, stay-at-home moms, they are both difficult jobs," she said. "I should not have chosen words that seemed to attack her chosen path in life."
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Obama Tries To Quell The Firestorm And SLAMS Hilary Rosen's Comments
TBI ^ | 4-12-2012 | Brett LoGiurato
Obama Tries To Quell The Firestorm And SLAMS Hilary Rosen's Comments
Brett LoGiurato
April 12, 2012
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President Barack Obama tried to quash a brewing political mess this afternoon by absolutely slamming Hilary Rosen's comments on Ann Romney.
First, he told an ABC affiliate: "There's no tougher job than being a mom." Not even the President, apparently.
Then he doubled down on past comments that a candidate's family should be off limits:
“I don’t have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates,” he told KCRG.
“My general view is those of us who are in the public life, we’re fair game. Our families are civilians,” he said. “I haven’t met Mrs. Romney, but she seems like a very nice woman who is supportive of her family and supportive of her husband. I don’t know if she necessarily volunteered for this job so, you know, we don’t need to be directing comments at them. I think me and Governor Romney are going to have more than enough to argue about during the course of this campaign.”
He didn't address comments from Republican members of the House of Representatives earlier in the day, one of whom suggested that Obama would have said the same thing as Rosen. Members of Obama's staff had already distanced themselves from the comments, including David Axelrod and Press Secretary Jay Carney. Michelle Obama also joined in the backlash on Twitter, tweeting that "every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected."
During the 2008 campaign, Obama said the same thing about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's family after it was revealed that her 17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant.
"Let me be as clear as possible. I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children
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what's the big deal,she didn't work, she stayed at home ::)
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what's the big deal,she didn't work, she stayed at home ::)
WAR OF THE WOMEN IN NOVEMBER 2012
MOMS VS THE SLUTS !!!!!
Romney/Bachman vs. FLUKE/LEWINSKY!
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she probably wasn't your average stay home mom taking care of the kids,she probably had nannies,cooks to feed them, butlers and don't forget the chauffeurs to drive them around ;D
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she probably wasn't your average stay home mom taking care of the kids,she probably had nannies,cooks to feed them, butlers and don't forget the chauffeurs to drive them around ;D
I'm sure you can relate given that in most group homes they transport people around in maxi vans and transports.
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I'm sure you can relate given that in most group homes they transport people around in maxi vans and transports.
i know you can't relate,you would actually have to leave your apartment
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I don't condone the comment but I find it amusing that certain people on here who have devoted hudreds of hours of their life criticizing Michelle Obama suddenly find this one tiny comment to be such and outrage
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I don't condone the comment but I find it amusing that certain people on here who have devoted hudreds of hours of their life criticizing Michelle Obama suddenly find this one tiny comment to be such and outrage
I don't know that I find it amusing, it's mostly sad that a person can lose themselves so much like that.
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NOW Prez: Ann Romney Lacks 'Life Experience' And 'Imagination'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on April 12, 2012 9:54:43 PM EDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Back up the bus! After bouncing Hilary Rosen beneath the Greyhound, President Obama and friends might have to throw it in reverse again over the person of Dem surrogate Terry O'Neill. The NOW president told Ed Schultz tonight that Ann Romney, along with Mitt, lacks the "life experience" and "imagination" to understand most Americans.
For good measure, in the very same segment Dem congresswoman Maxine Waters called the Republican candidate for president Mitt "Rot-ney." Classy bunch!
View the video here.
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I find this to be the most amusing:
Flashback: Hilary Rosen Slams Republicans For Attacks On Michelle Obama
Overnight, DNC strategist and CNN analyst Hilary Rosen became a lightning rod of controversy after attacking Ann Romney for, “never working a day in her life.”
That attack quickly escalated after Ann Romney joined Twitter to defend herself and Rosen refused to apologize, doubling down on her controversial statements.
In 2008, Rosen derided Republican attacks against Michelle Obama as an example as “stupid strategy.”
“You know essentially, you’ve taken on sort of the most sympathetic person in the candidate’s realm, the wife, who is taking care of the children, supporting the husband, doing everything she can because she loves him,” Rosen said on Anderson Cooper 360 according to a CNN transcript from May 19, 2008.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/rosen-2008-attacks-michelle-obama-stupid/476771
These stupid, hypocritical leftists can't help but contradict themselves every chance they get.
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Biden’s Turn To Drive The Bus Over Rosen, Calls Her Attack On Ann Romney “Outrageous”…
Weasel Zippers ^ | 4/12/12 | zip
Posted on April 12, 2012 9:32:51 PM EDT by Nachum
Whose job is it to grab the spatula and scrape Rosen’s flattened carcass off the road?
(National Journal) — Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday continued the White House’s condemnation of Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s comment that Ann Romney “hasn’t worked a day in her life.”
“That’s an outrageous assertion,” Biden said during an interview that aired Thursday night on MSNBC’s The Ed Show.
“Look, I fought my whole career … to get to one point where my daughter is able to make whatever choice she wants and no one question it,” Biden continued.
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Has this Rosen woman ever worked a day in her life? She was a fucking lobbyist for the music industry and helped BP lie through their teeth after the oil spill. Not exactly what I'd call 'honest work'.
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Has this Rosen woman ever worked a day in her life? She was a fucking lobbyist for the music industry and helped BP lie through their teeth after the oil spill. Not exactly what I'd call 'honest work'.
What these idiots don't get is that it's stuff like this that turns me from a tepid Romney voter into a full. Blown supporter.
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being a parent that stays with the kids is tougher than a lot of 'real' jobs.
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Axelrod to CNN: Rosen is 'your employee, not ours'
Comments (93) By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 4/12/12 7:03 PM EDT
Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod suggested Thursday that the Romney campaign jumped on Hilary Rosen's comments "like a raft in the deep blue sea" as they drown in "their own problems."
"It was an unfortunate comment," Axelrod said on CNN's "John King USA," following up on a Wednesday night tweet in which he described Rosen's remarks -- made on CNN -- as "inappropriate and offensive."
(Also on POLITICO: 10 things about Hilary Rosen.)
Axelrod reminded King that Rosen is "your employee, not ours."
Though some Romney supporters have identified Rosen as an Obama adviser, Axelrod noted that "she works for CNN. CNN, I think, wouldn't allow her to be an operative for our campaign or the DNC."
The president, vice president, first lady and several other top Obama advisers have all distanced themselves from Rosen in the last day, and Axelrod said that though Rosen is an Obama supporter, Team Obama did what was right in speaking out against her. "I think we have an obligation in politics and public life when someone, even friends, say things that are inappropriate to say so. In fact, in certain ways, when your friends say it, there's more of an obligation to do so," Axelrod said.
(Also on POLITICO: Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney in TV faceoff.)
"I've been disappointed on the other side of the aisle just recently when things happened where Governor Romney and others were not willing to stand up and denounce speech that most people would call inappropriate," he said, in an apparent reference to Rush Limbaugh's comments on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
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yeah, sorry, but this whole "the dems just declared a war on women..."
Cause of what this one dipshit (who works for the media, and not obama), said?
Look, zimmerman was a democrat and obama voter. Can the dems claim him? ;) "Dems using stand-your-ground law inappropriately" cause ONE of them does it?
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What these idiots don't get is that it's stuff like this that turns me from a tepid Romney voter into a full. Blown supporter.
imagine what happens when these idiots find out your support for Vandersloot
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imagine what happens when these idiots find out your support for Vandersloot
He will wait until he has had his ass kicked for 8 pages and then go with the weak "i was just kidding" routine in order to make the beatings stop.
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He will wait until he has had his ass kicked for 8 pages and then go with the weak "i was just kidding" routine in order to make the beatings stop.
What the fuck are you talking about?
BTW - can you go stalk someone else - you are creepy and sick.
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imagine what happens when these idiots find out your support for Vandersloot
Still never addressed this.
I guess when you reveal how Obama is stepping down and not running, it will make up for your shitty taste in candidates.
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Still never addressed this.
I guess when you reveal how Obama is stepping down and not running, it will make up for your shitty taste in candidates.
I would support Vandersloot over obama no doubt - why not?
Joran at least gets shit done and does not make a big thing about it. With thugbama all we get is Castro like speeches every day, day after day, and more divisive communisitic bullshit while he and he ghetto hog of a wife soak up tax dollars like a vacuum to finance their grift.
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I would support Vandersloot over obama no doubt - why not?
Of course you would. Stupid people do stupid things like this. It's expected from them and proven from you.
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Of course you would. Stupid people do stupid things like this. It's expected from them and proven from you.
You voted for obama remember?
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You voted for obama remember?
Sure did.
Will be voting for him again if Romney pulls a brain dead move like McCain did and pick a dumb ass running mate like Palin.
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You voted for obama remember?
;D
It's incredible that they believed voting for Obama in 2008 was the correct thing to do because the economy was bad, but now that the ECONOMY IS WORSE they don't believe in replacing him.
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she probably wasn't your average stay home mom taking care of the kids,she probably had nannies,cooks to feed them, butlers and don't forget the chauffeurs to drive them around ;D
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and Theresa Heinz?
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Has Ann Romney actually ever worked?
Mitt keeps bringing her up as his "advisor" on women and what they are interested in so she is fair game to be criticized (I know the right wingers on this board who criticized Michelle Obama's clothes, body, and words won't have an issue with this)
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Has Ann Romney actually ever worked?
Mitt keeps bringing her up as his "advisor" on women and what they are interested in so she is fair game to be criticized (I know the right wingers on this board who criticized Michelle Obama's clothes, body, and words won't have an issue with this)
93% of people on the liberal HuffPo's poll came out against Rosen. I take it you're one of the 7% who thought otherwise? Keep up the good fight, soldier. ::)
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Has Ann Romney actually ever worked?
Mitt keeps bringing her up as his "advisor" on women and what they are interested in so she is fair game to be criticized (I know the right wingers on this board who criticized Michelle Obama's clothes, body, and words won't have an issue with this)
Its about the hypocrisy fool.
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93% of people on the liberal HuffPo's poll came out against Rosen. I take it you're one of the 7% who thought otherwise? Keep up the good fight, soldier. ::)
try to pay attention - I already said I don't condone the comment
I don't condone the comment but I find it amusing that certain people on here who have devoted hudreds of hours of their life criticizing Michelle Obama suddenly find this one tiny comment to be such and outrage
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Its about the hypocrisy fool.
You mean yours?
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try to pay attention - I already said I don't condone the comment
And then you crap all over yourself by posting this garbage. But, you can't help it. You are an idiot
Has Ann Romney actually ever worked?
Mitt keeps bringing her up as his "advisor" on women and what they are interested in so she is fair game to be criticized (I know the right wingers on this board who criticized Michelle Obama's clothes, body, and words won't have an issue with this)
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Its about the hypocrisy fool.
Rosen doesn't speak for the POTUS or the party
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Rosen doesn't speak for the POTUS or the party
Yes she does - she has been in the obama Black Hut 35 times and was coordinating messaging w Anita Dunn. She is also on Debbie Is a Man Shultz payroll and just repeated what the communist hags on the left always spout.
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And then you crap all over yourself by posting this garbage. But, you can't help it. You are an idiot
I don't agree with her choice of words but I have no problem with the point she is trying to make
I don't think Mitt or Ann Romney have any clue what working families (men and women) are going through in this country
If I want to know about remodeling a Malibu beach house or specs on putting a car elevator in my house then I might be interested in Mitt and Ann's opinion on that
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Yes she does - she has been in the obama Black Hut 35 times and was coordinating messaging w Anita Dunn. She is also on Debbie Is a Man Shultz payroll and just repeated what the communist hags on the left always spout.
is she a paid spokeperson for the POTUS or the party
If so, then I'll agree with you
If not, then she speaks only for herself and is offereing only her opinions
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And Obama does? Who the fuck cares if obama knows what i am or am not going through under his disastrous presidency? The fact is that he cant fix or improve anything and he needs to go.
"I feel your pain" is no longer acceptable. People want to hear "I will fix your pain"
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is she a paid spokeperson for the POTUS or the party
If so, then I'll agree with you
If not, then she speaks only for herself and is offereing only her opinions
Considering she is in the WH more than panetta, geithner, petraus, etc - i believe she does.
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And Obama does? Who the fuck cares if obama knows what i am or am not going through under his disastrous presidency? The fact is that he cant fix or improve anything and he needs to go.
"I feel your pain" is no longer acceptable. People want to hear "I will fix your pain"
is this your way of avoiding the subject of the thread and admitting defeat ?
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Considering she is in the WH more than panetta, geithner, petraus, etc - i believe she does.
what is it you believe again?
you believe she has an imaginary paycheck as a spokesperson for Obama ?
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Considering she is in the WH more than panetta, geithner, petraus, etc - i believe she does.
Hahaha... since when does anyone care what a sociopath with no credibility believes?
Try getting a real life and maybe the delusions will clear up.
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LOL - where do you think all that fake money printed by the fed wound up moron?
Sure a ton of it wound up obama's nose and into mobaccas fat ass, but the fed injected the money into the market to prop it up.
Then thank you Feds for my 19% return
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Then thank you Feds for my 19% return
You got it on end and lost it on the other since now your purchasing power is down in the things you purchase.
Where you got it in the market you lost it in your gas tank, food cart, insurance premiums, goods purchased etc.
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You got it on end and lost it on the other since now your purchasing power is down in the things you purchase.
Where you got it in the market you lost it in your gas tank, food cart, insurance premiums, goods purchased etc.
Had the stock market went down 19% all those things would still be true... Man, can't you find anything to be happy about? You're life must really suck... no offense, I mean that.. let it go man.... life's too short.
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Had the stock market went down 19% all those things would still be true... Man, can't you find anything to be happy about? You're life must really suck... no offense, I mean that.. let it go man.... life's too short.
aaahhh - the life of a government worker never beholden to the reality of the private sector and funded by tax receipts of people on average making half of what you do.
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aaahhh - the life of a government worker never beholden to the reality of the private sector and funded by tax receipts of people on average making half of what you do.
ahhh - a "lawyer" who is never beholden to the "truth" and is only motivated to "win" at all costs.. driving up insurance with frivolous law suits and getting predators set free on technicalities...
we could do this all day.. not sure I see your point
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ahhh - a "lawyer" who is never beholden to the "truth" and is only motivated to "win" at all costs.. driving up insurance with frivolous law suits and getting predators set free on technicalities...
we could do this all day.. not sure I see your point
I don't do criminal or tort law. Shit - even within my own specialty i wont do medical or credit card collections because I dont want to pile on people.
I stick mostly with commercial transactions and most lien foreclosures and bond claims.
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having to monitor what your nannies and house keeper are doing all day is a lot of work :D :D :D
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having to monitor what your nannies and house keeper are doing all day is a lot of work :D :D :D
Theresa Heinz, pelosi, feinstein all agree.
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their not the ones making a big deal of it ::)
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their not the ones making a big deal of it ::)
MOMS VS THE SLUTS IN 2012!
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just more fake outrage from the repubs to get the women vote they desperately need :D :D
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just more fake outrage from the repubs to get the women vote they desperately need :D :D
Yet obama's claim of a war on women is real and sincere?
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differance is he has their vote,nice try anyway ;D
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differance is he has their vote,nice try anyway ;D
LLLLMMMFFFAAAAOOOO!!!!
Ha ha ha - yeah - they dominate him like I posted about.
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the white house immediately criticized this comment.
romney sure didn't go out of his way to criticize that 'slut' comment.
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There is not one single item for the average person better than 4 years ago. Is the market up? Sure, but its on thin ice and showing signs of possible bear market again.
Inflation is terrible, jobs are terrible, debt/deficit are horrible, etc etc
I dunno... I keep saying that my life compared to 4 years ago is probably better.
That's just my own personal self though... I can't speak for everyone and I certainly see how other people may not be.
It is certainly a rough time to be an American.
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President Obama has emerged with an impressive lead in swing states around the country — thanks to women voters abandoning the GOP in droves, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll showing President Obama leading among women voters in the top dozen battleground states by a whopping 18 points — greater than the 12-point gender gap he won with in 2008. ;D
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President Obama has emerged with an impressive lead in swing states around the country — thanks to women voters abandoning the GOP in droves, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll showing President Obama leading among women voters in the top dozen battleground states by a whopping 18 points — greater than the 12-point gender gap he won with in 2008. ;D
Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll (Romney 48%, Obama 44%)
rasmussenreports.com ^ | April 13, 2012 | staff
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2012 1:05:22 PM by BarnacleCenturion
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17.
In a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup, Mitt Romney earns 48% of the vote, while President Obama attracts 44%. That's Romney's biggest advantage in over a month.
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I dunno... I keep saying that my life compared to 4 years ago is probably better.
That's just my own personal self though... I can't speak for everyone and I certainly see how other people may not be.
It is certainly a rough time to be an American.
I'm definitely better off now than I was as this time in 2008
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I'm definitely better off now than I was as this time in 2008
You are getting free condoms and your balls washed by obama's govt lackeys' right? I guess you feel you hit the jack pot then.
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yeah great argument ::)
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yeah great argument ::)
I thought it was pretty good myself.
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most would agree that it's not great but it's a hell of a lot better then 2008,excect for the right wing hacks ;D
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most would agree that it's not great but it's a hell of a lot better then 2008,excect for the right wing hacks ;D
LOL - you mean 2 years of a demo congress and lame duck quasi-socialist bush resulted in a mess?
Obama has spent TRILLIONS and what has is gotten us? zilch. Oh I forgot - free rubbers and a few africans' balls washed.
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i said right wing hacks, like yourself
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There is not one single item for the average person better than 4 years ago. Is the market up? Sure, but its on thin ice and showing signs of possible bear market again.
Inflation is terrible, jobs are terrible, debt/deficit are horrible, etc etc
I think you should not be as hasty in saying that everything is worse now than it was four years ago. Not even for the average person -- whoever the hell that may be.
You see, I consider myself pretty average. Overall, I'm quite a bit better now than I was four years ago. I have a new job (which came with a pretty substantial salary increase), my brokerage account is in the black (although it could fare better), I bought a large house two years ago which I own free and clear and I don't owe anyone a dime (except for the balance on my credit card which I use for bills throughout the month to get points and then pay off fully come bill time).
Are there things I'm unhappy from a political standpoint? You bet. But they don't affect my life on a day to day basis and they're certainly not enough for me to say that my life is worse now than it was four years ago.
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I think you should not be as hasty in saying that everything is worse now than it was four years ago. Not even for the average person -- whoever the hell that may be.
You see, I consider myself pretty average. Overall, I'm quite a bit better now than I was four years ago. I have a new job (which came with a pretty substantial salary increase), my brokerage account is in the black (although it could fare better), I bought a large house two years ago which I own free and clear and I don't owe anyone a dime (except for the balance on my credit card which I use for bills throughout the month to get points and then pay off fully come bill time).
Are there things I'm unhappy from a political standpoint? You bet. But they don't affect my life on a day to day basis and they're certainly not enough for me to say that my life is worse now than it was four years ago.
Come September/October, republicans might not want to be asking the question: "are you better off than 4 years ago" A lot of people will answer yes.
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Come September/October, republicans might not want to be asking the question: "are you better off than 4 years ago" A lot of people will answer yes.
just like the war issue peaked in the spring of 2008 (when the war guy mccain won)...
maybe the economy issue peaks in spring 2012 and something new matters most in october 2012.
Romney in 2008, with the economy crashing 2 months before the election - would have had a MUCH better chance of winning than mccain, whose only claim was "i dont know much about the economy... but I sure do know about the war that is winding down!"
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http://www.conservativecommune.com/2012/04/lying-badly-axelrod-tips-cnns-suicide-pact-with-white-house/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
BUSTED. CNN is not biased? Fng please!
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The Democratic Party Is Rotten Through and Through
American Thinker ^ | 4/14/2012 | Neil Snyder
Posted on April 15, 2012 9:50:31 AM EDT by IbJensen
Hilary Rosen is a frequent visitor to the White House. According to White House visitor logs, she has visited the president's home 35 times since he took office, but on Thursday, Press Secretary Jay Carney did his best to distance President Obama from Rosen because of her remarks about Mitt Romney's wife, Ann. Carney's claim that he knows three Hilary Rosens was a feeble attempt to defuse a ticking time bomb.
Rosslyn Smith had an interesting blog in Thursday's American Thinker in which she said:
Let us count the Hilary Rosens in Jay Carney's world. There is Hilary Rosen spokesperson for RIAA and lobbyist for SOPA. There is Hilary Rosen the CNN [c]ontributor. There is Hilary Rosen single mother and [LGBT] activist. There is Hilary Rosen current partner of Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers. (That Hilary Rosen was half of the several gay and lesbian power couples at the recent state dinner honoring British PM [David] Cameron.)
That sure is a lot of Hilary Rosens.
Wait! They are all the same Hilary Rosen you say? So they are[.]
Rosen wasn't sharing her personal views about Ann Romney on CNN, comments that launched a thousand denials. She was reciting the Democratic Party line, when she said:
Guess what? His [Romney's] 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 why do we worry about their future.
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Perfect example of the typical leftist fanatic.
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White House Allowed Hilary Rosen Back-Door Lobbying Privileges
Breitbart ^ | 4/15/12 | staff
Posted on April 15, 2012 4:52:55 PM EDT by Nachum
Hilary Rosen, the Democratic National Committee consultant who told CNN last week that Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life,” has used her power with the White House to swing special lobbying privileges for her friends – all without meeting reporting requirements. One senior Democrat told Ben White at Politico:
Serious Dem operatives are aghast at Hilary Rosen’s misguided attack on Ann Romney’s work history. She and others at PR firm SKD Knickerbocker have represented many clients that have raised hackles with senior White House staff. It’s an open secret in the Dem consultant community that SKD has been signing up clients based on ‘perceived White House access’ tied to prior relationships and employment.
In other words, SKDKnickerbocker has been using its “ins” at the White House to sign up its biggest clients. As The Nation reports, Kaplan Education hired SKDKnickerbocker to help block Obama’s anti-college companies legislation; Win America, a lobbying campaign, has used SKDKnickerbocker to push for big tax breaks; food manufacturers paid SKDKnickerbocker to battle food regulations. The list goes on and on. Anita Dunn, Hilary Rosen’s partner over at SKDKnickerbocker, even used her access to the White House to sign up big businesses for anti-Buffett Rule lobbying while working as a “paid media” advisor for another PR firm.
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View the original article at: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/revealed-michelle-obama-masterminded-ann-romney-mom-smear
REVEALED! MICHELLE OBAMA MASTERMINDED ANN ROMNEY MOM SMEAR!
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By RICK EGUISQUIZA, NATIONAL ENQUIRER
Photography by: Zuma Press
Political sources revealed to The ENQUIRER that MICHELLE OBAMA brain-stormed the scheme to sic a pit bull strategist on the GOP contender’s wife ANN ROMNEY and it backfired!
Talking head Hilary Rosen set off a firestorm when she mocked Mitt Romney for relying on his wife for advice on the economy, sniping that Ann – who raised five sons, has battled breast cancer and suffers from mul tiple sclerosis – “never worked a day in her life!”
Rosen was forced to apologize, say ing her words were “poorly chosen.” Even President Obama got into the act, saying there’s “no tougher job than being a mom.”
A publicly sympathetic Michelle, 48, tapped out a message on Twitter, writing: “Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be re spected.” But behind the scenes, her fingerprints were all over the scandal, said an inside source.
“Michelle had her claws out to get Ann, but it quickly backfired and Barack was livid when he heard she had secretly directed the attack,” said the source.
“What Michelle didn’t remember was that when Barack was running for president, he told ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ that it was unfair to attack Michelle, saying his wife was off limits. Here they were, however, doing the same thing to Romney’s wife four years later.
“But even though Michelle was the instigator, the political grenade blew up in the president’s face.”
The White House also caught heat when it was revealed Rosen had been a guest there 35 times – three times more often than Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
“Michelle thought Rosen, an out-of-the-closet lesbian and close pal, could be their attack dog, but she miscalculated badly by going after stay-at-home moms,” said the source.
“Behind the scenes, Michelle has vented that she worked hard as a lawyer in addition to being a mom.
She also made jokes about Ann Romney ‘working at leading a rich lifestyle,’ includ ing the fact that Ann competes in horse shows.
“Michelle is determined to do whatever it takes to keep her husband in the White House. She’s learned politics is a dirty business. It’s only a matter of time before she comes up with another plan to go after Ann.”
BUT ANN, 63 – a dedicated homemaker who’s been married to the former Massa chusetts governor for 43 years – is getting the last laugh in the first face-off of what promises to be a months-long catfight. She’s stepped up to become a champion for the rights of stay-at-home moms.
“My career choice was to be a mother,” Ann told a TV reporter. “And I think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make.”
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Since Ann Romney called this phony controversy "a gift" shouldn't she be thanking Rosen?
Who gets a gift and doesn't say Thank You?
Also, who is so stupid as to call something like this a gift and make it so blatantly obvious that they are a political whore
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So Romneys wife is a lazy lib who doesnt want to work and is one of the people who doesnt pay any income tax in this country. Interesting..
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http://www.conservativecommune.com/2012/04/lying-badly-axelrod-tips-cnns-suicide-pact-with-white-house/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
BUSTED. CNN is not biased? Fng please!
who said CNN wasn't biased?
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Has Mitt ever allowed his wife to have the dignity of work?