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In the Daily Fix, NBC's Andrea Mitchell talks to The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza and the Daily Beast's Michelle Goldberg about the widening gender gap in the general election and Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney.
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The war on woman should start in the White House where woman make 18% less than man, in this administration more woman than man lose their job.
Stop watching FOX News and get the real facts, you are in error.
redvirginia -- All Americans including women should have a level playing field in regard to opportunities and advancement. This begins with the working poor and middle class being able to improve their status with good-paying jobs, affordable health care, education, etc. Romney has no clue and only gives vague lip service to this. Until these most basic issues are addressed, along with discrimination, women will not break the glass ceiling.
So what's your point? That Romney and the GOP plan to correct the fact that women make 18% less than men? Really? Like voting to pass the Lilly Ledbetter equal pay legislation? What Republican did that? Au contraire, Republican douche-bag Scott Walker of Wisconsin just repealed equal pay for women.
As for GOPee Wee Romney and his "I know you are, but what am I?" fallacious rhetoric against President Obama, to quote Reagan, "there you go again." Romney trying to deflect from his own MANY flaws by trying to project these on your opponent -- This is because Romney lacks merit and qualifications to run on. The only way he can run is negative campaigns against his opponents, and LOTS of money to do it thanks to Rove and Crossroads Super Pac and the Kochs and others.
Women make 80 percent of what a man does performing the same work. Obama has done nothing to close that gap. The National Organization for Women is too busy making sure lesbians can play golf at Augusta National to care. The "war on women" isn't being waged by the right, my friends. Open your eyes.
Actually the Lilly Ledbetter act is the best step in that direction, totally opposed by the right. Oh, and that was the first piece of law signed by Barack Obama. You aren't my friend and my eyes are open
First it was the going after woman's rights, then Planned Parenthood, Pro Choice, Contraception, Equal Pay for Equal Work and now the ruckus about Romney's wife. They are millionaires and can afford for her to stay home and take care of her children, as a matter of fact, she stays home in a whole different level than any of us "regular folks" do. She has help at home since I don't see her cleaning toilets, probably had a Nanny or Au Pair there too, and the workers he laid off for being illegal, remember them? plus being able to have her kids attend private schools, their local country club where they could take swimming, tennis and who knows what else after school activities. I don't think she had to worry about how she was going to pay the mortgage or utility bills, or had to save up when the kids had outgrown their shoes either.... so for them to say that she is the same as every other woman / mother is silly and unrealistic..... she's NOT like us and they don't live like the rest of us. Period.
I would have loved to be able to stay home and care for my kids yet my husband worked nights while I worked days so one of us was always there for them. We budgeted like crazy to feed and clothe them and they all went to public schools and no fancy after school care. We don't have any health coverage or life insurance and to this day we've never been able to afford to buy our own home, we're still renting and now that my husband had to retire, we live off his small pension and smaller social security money, and while I'm younger and able to work, I work at anything I can get even though I am educated and experienced but I'm 58 and they don't want older women in the workforce, so I get minimum wage which they also want to mess with, they probably don't even know how much that is. We can't afford my husband's Medicare premium either! How's that for being "the same as them", huh? Now our youngest has had to withdraw from college because we can't afford any more student loan debt, I'm sure the Romney's never had to go through this, did they?
So stop insulting people with your stories of how "down to earth" you all are, truth is that you're millionaires who have NO concept of what the working poor are going through. THAT'S THE TRUTH! On top of all this they want to do away with any social services that might give all of us a helping hand (we get nothing since we're all adults and I work) and all those other Machiavellian plans they have to sink us even deeper in despair.... while they make even more millions. I don't know about you, but this isn't what I want at all!!!!!!!!!
So you're a failure and jealous because someone else isn't? I hate to break it to you but most people don't live like you, nor do they want to thank goodness. Perhaps if you'd spent more time taking care of business and less blaming others you wouldn't be nearing 60 and still renting. But you know what'll make it all better for you? Just tax those evil wealthy people because since your life sucked so should their. Nevermind all you'd be doing is forcing the "wealthy" to just hire less people or choose not to expand their business.
What a waste..
liberty75 -- The politics of envy is an old dog that don't hunt. I hate to break it to you but most people have the brains to realize that making the rich richer only makes the rich richer.
It is about fairness. The richest 1% aren't "job creators," especially those in the financial sector (investment bankers and hedge fund managers) who are the only ones enjoying special tax breaks (a 14% tax rate, really?) -- The very jagoffs who nearly destroyed our economy and country with their greedy risk-taking shinanigans (privatizing profit and socializing debt). If anything, these guys should be in jail doing time.
Plutocrats like Romney who support the Paul Ryan budget of cutting programs for the working class in order to give more breaks to the rich are the ones who started class warfare. No one begrudges success -- folks just want everyone to have opportunity for success. And we sure as heck don't want more deficits as a result of even more tax cuts for the rich.
Come out of the right-wing Echo Chamber and Cone of Silence!
B Garcia, it's all about choices. It sounds like instead of paying for your kids education through debt,
you could have gotten an education yourself to be a doctor, a lawyer, a professor? and would have
been able to afford a better lifestyle. Don't blame others, we didn't have anything to do with your
decisions. Using one's will to achieve an end rather than pursuing desires, is how things turn out well.
I don't see Ann Romney doing housework either and it's not because she's wealthy. It's because she has MS and lives every day in a great deal of pain. Get your head out of your envy and try to feel some compassion. Does she complain about it? Do you ever listen to her speak?
"The one thing that this disease has been for me is that it has been a wonderful teacher. With that comes an ability for compassion for others that are suffering. And for me, I just want to make my family bigger. Those that are suffering from ms or from cancer or from any disease, I feel like I just want to throw my arms open and say welcome to my family. And welcome to the place where I’ve been."
Gosh I can't see the Forest for the trees. Here's the real Romney, from January,"Even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work" also "I want the individuals to have the dignity of work." You see Mr. Miller, Romney only want's rich women to stay home and "work". I did like Ann Romney talk about respecting women's choices, I absolutely agree. That would go for abortion also.
Ol' Etch-A-Sketch is heading for a political debacle of biblical proportions in November without the support of women voters, and all of the spinning in the world isn't going to help him get their votes. The GOP is an inherently misogynistic political organization and nothing Mitt can do or say will change that cold, hard fact.
Yeah because women don't work or pay for gas am I right?
Anyone who pays for gas and works knows what a failure Obama has been. We knew it at the mid-terms and you liberals know it now. That's why you have to fabricate crap like this "war on women" because you certainly know you can't run on the state of the economy and certainly not on his foreign policy.
This is liberals in panic mode plain and simple.
No panic, just fact. Women voters are abandoning the GOP for a more rational Democratic Party choice. Mitt will not win without the support of women voters and the GOP has done virtually everything it can to alienate and insult them. Read 'em and weep.
Also, since gas prices haven't dragged President Obama down in the polls, it seems that your shrill suggestions that women are going to reject our president over something he cannot control are worse than wishful thinking...they are lies.
Two national polls now put Romney ahead of Obama. Might want to keep up with the news friend.
Fox and Rasmussen. No surprise there. Next you will be bragging about what the KKK says about President Obama's chances.
Damn.
Until God's Own Party get's it's fascist hands out of a womans uterus, women will only keep flocking to Obama. What next, bring back the 19th century laws allowing wife beating ?
Romney's spin is going nowhere. Romney said: " Obama seeks to replace our merit-based society with an entitlement society". Proof positive the TEA-GOP-Republican establishment would kill every Social Program we have in place like, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, while giving away special perks and tax breaks to the top mega-millionaires and billionaires. The top 20% earners would receive a 5.4% tax reduction of $16,134.00 and top 1% earners would receive an average $725,000.00 reduction in taxes. The bottom 20%, earning less than $17,000.00 would see their federal taxes increase 1.3%. Romney and the TEA-GOP-Republican's are dead-set on protecting the super affluent and their taxation benefits. Romney is so disconnected, I for-see a landslide for president Obama.
This Ann Romney is worth TWO HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS. She can not relate to my struggles everyday. PERIOD!!!!!! As far Romney helping the middle working class like me... Share the wealth donate 50 million to unemployment for my friends out of work. I work 2 jobs to make ends meet. I can't understand how they want republicans like me to donate to his campaign. Ask Ann your better half.
Why are your friends out of work? Think hard on that one and then say who should donate money to them. By the way, are you able to give each of your children $12,000 a year? Obama and Michelle do. Sure, they aren't as wealthy as the Romneys, but they ain't hurtin.
By the way. . .JFK and Jackie both came from great wealth. I don't recall anyone EVER criticizing them for that.
Ann Romney's big mistake
A certain political party better get hip to this asap.
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Ann Romney's Big Mistake
A certain political party better get hip to this asap.