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can you source your opinion? I doubt it...
butlers? nobody has butlers anymore.....
I'd like one.
can you source your opinion? I doubt it...
butlers? nobody has butlers anymore.....
I'd like one.
can you source your opinion? I doubt it...
butlers? nobody has butlers anymore.....
Why we have such a massive disconnect in our country. The president doesnt need to be 'sympathetic' or be governed by 'fairness' and 'feeeeelings'. The president needs to lead a country, to be decisive, to be strong, and to promote strong ideas with regard to economics. We dont need to have a national election for the nations nanny or big borther...we need a President. We need someone that understands business and industry. We need a government that is fiscally responsible. So far...both major parties have failed this country miserably. If you want a buddy...if you want a pro tem daddy...fine...do that on your own time. The country needs a LEADER.,
On that note - I don't think ANY of our candidate can ever relate to what the average American knows and deals with. . . they're ALL the 1% - they're all the elite.
just because we haven't heard about it, doesn't mean it wasn't done....
like I said, I know more than a few rich Mormons, and they DON"T have nannies.....
Retirement at least denotes that you worked hard and achieved something.
But I don't see myself wanting to do so - I'm 31 and have yet to get back into my career as management.
Well that's how it was for me - sort of. . . but him making enough money wasn't the sole reason there.
I guess I'm just baffled as to how people can look at a capable person and say 'don't work, that's ok - it's one thing to be a stay at home mom - but Ann's not a stay at home mom anymore. . . that should simply be a temporary status.
But whatever: I never liked him as a candidate even without this housewife thing.
I haven't mentioned a nanny. She never has to worry about healthcare, she never has to worry about gender inequality in pay, she never has to worry about the things most people and/or most women deal with. She's not the best sounding board for what's important to women.
Neither is Obama or Romney. Or even Michelle, considering the lifestyle she's able to live.....at least if we're going to insist that you must be a middle-class woman working with babies in daycare to understand the challenges women face.
That's like saying I can't understand the needs of abused dogs because I'm a human.
They have to prove they aren't out of touch just like they need to prove they are good family men/women. That they are energetic. That they are tough. That they are decisive. These all are attributes people find important in a President.
It's important to be sympathetic to the concerns of Americans....which is pretty closely linked to understanding the concerns of Americans. There is relevance. It's the core of what dictates what policies they push.
I haven't mentioned a nanny. She never has to worry about healthcare, she never has to worry about gender inequality in pay, she never has to worry about the things most people and/or most women deal with. She's not the best sounding board for what's important to women.
You can demonstrate your qualities and your policies without having to pander constantly to the masses' lifestyle by showing up at the local pub or landing a job as a plumber in your 20s. Basic "connecting" is a current-era campaign requirement, but pretending to be "like us" is no demonstration of one's coming administration, despite what liberals (right now) want you to believe.
neither do I, but it doesn't mean I haven't been there, or some place similar....
and I can certainly recognize a stupid statement, which is what this thread is about.....
Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen on Thursday apologized to Ann Romney, wife of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, for criticizing her for having "never worked a day in her life." Ann Romney has been a stay-at-home mom, raising her five children with Mitt.
"I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended," Rosen said in a statement. "Let's declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance."
Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To 'Faux War' Against Moms
Well, that's your choice and your right, but I don't have a problem if someone doesn't work, so long as they aren't sponging off the public or charity. I think it depends a lot on how much one enjoys his or her work. If you love your work it's not really work. If you hate it, I don't see any great virtue in doing it just for the sake of doing it.
Perhaps not the most heartfelt apology ever, but an apology nevertheless....
There is great virtue in keeping the lights and water on and your family fed.
I don't know what kind of job you have, but mine is work. I think it's valuable, and there is much about it that I love...but it requires me to be up early every morning when I'd like not be, to dress up every day when I'd rather be wearing jeans, to tackle chores including meetings that I hate, and to leave my home, which is where I want to be.
Seems President Obama has gotten into the fray and called Ms. Rosen out for her comments. I predicted earlier we'd hear it on the 8 o'clock news, but it came early. I guess she won't be visiting the WH anymore.
Ehhh...like I've said I don't think it's a stupid statement. It's factually correct unlike a lot of stuff I see defended on this board.
It may be stupid in a political context because it adds really nothing to the conversation and honestly....the Republicans are drowning and the last thing Democrats need is to throw them any sort of rope but to me it's not a stupid comment.
Now on the note of a president being unfaithful to his wife: if he can't abide by his marital vow how can we expect him to abide by his oath as president? I think it shows character - very poor character. And a complete lack of respect for others and poor integrity.
How awkward that just a few years ago, what Michele Obama wore and where she traveled was an issue for Republicans on this forum. The Obama's were constantly called elitists because they supposedly couldn't identify with never went to college Joe Blow and his plumber abilities. Now the shoe is on the other foot and wives are irrelevant, wealth is irrelevant and it's okay to be a rich snob with a lot of education. Oh Republicans...