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The Romney's would have us believe that "mom" gave those kids a bath, got them dressed, and fed them? Maybe did the grocery shopping? BS. They have nannies, butlers, and house crew for that. A simple check on any number of their homes would prove this. The Romney's know nothing of the poor or the middle class and Ann Romney is hardly the poster girl for America's woman.
The Romney's would have us believe that "mom" gave those kids a bath, got them dressed, and fed them? Maybe did the grocery shopping? BS. They have nannies, butlers, and house crew for that. A simple check on any number of their homes would prove this. The Romney's know nothing of the poor or the middle class and Ann Romney is hardly the poster girl for America's woman.
But that has little bearing on other stay at home moms, who generally manage the house, the funds, and all of the other school activities and crap that come along with it.
The point is made though, that the Romneys have never faced hard times, they've always had the means and ability to delegate responsibility to others, and Mitt and his wife are not representative of the middle class. The same can truly be said of the Obama family as well, although I think their life has been more like mine then Mitts has been, considerably.
Nothing wrong with coming from a family steadily in the middle class with some ladder rungs that many never enjoy. But to make Mitt out to be some kind of working class hero, along with his wife being some ideal house wife that took care everything is more then a logical stretch.
I'm not the least bit offended by Rosen's remark. I know what she meant.
It is pathetic that this CNN pundit's (or whatever she is) off-handed remark has sparked yet another vicious battle of the never-ending mommy wars, especially given how many of us have walked both paths.
Democrats as a group are not opposed to SAH motherhood, nor are Republicans as a group secretly wishing to send women packing from the workplace. This is all totally ridiculous.
Lol, talk about INTERFERING with a woman's right to make choices. You wingnuts would return us to the good olde dayz of coat hanger abortions if you had your way.
FYI, working or not working isn't a "choice" for a working poor single mom, it is a matter of survival. Take if from a former kid, one of six, who's disabled working daddy routinely gave my mom $50 a week to feed all eight of us. Until you have been there you have no idea what there is.
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Pardon my bluntness but why do these people not respect a woman's right to choose to stay home with her children? Why do the people below feel that a woman who chooses to raise her children at home isn't capable of understanding economic issues? This thread is sickening, especially when the people below claim that some other group is starting a "war on women".
I'm not the least bit offended by Rosen's remark. I know what she meant.
It is pathetic that this CNN pundit's (or whatever she is) off-handed remark has sparked yet another vicious battle of the never-ending mommy wars, especially given how many of us have walked both paths.
Democrats as a group are not opposed to SAH motherhood, nor are Republicans as a group secretly wishing to send women packing from the workplace. This is all totally ridiculous.
Not too sure about wingnuts having empathy for stay at home moms. I think you could find hundreds of their posts attacking single moms as welfare queens.... Who's to blame there, the deadbeat absentee daddy??? Other than a runaway daddy how are welfare moms any different than a stay at home mom?
Wingnuts on both sides are outliers, and we need to revoke their airtime, because they have skewed the discussion. As a group, Republicans are not opposed to birth control, and as a group, Democrats are not out to denigrate SAHMs.
Of course it's not offensive. Anne Romney didn't have to deal with the economic issues of the real stay at home moms because she was wealthy. What is the problem with saying that. But the republicans had to do something to help boost their ratings with women. So they are trying to milk this and turn it into an issue when none is there. I think the republicans call this faux outrage lol
So "real" stay at home moms are what? Not rich? What about those stay at home moms that pop out kid after kid, smoke crack, and collect welfare? Are they who she should be more like? Are they more "real"?
You stay at home and RAISE your children, you can relate.
Lol, talk about INTERFERING with a woman's right to make choices. You wingnuts would return us to the good olde dayz of coat hanger abortions if you had your way.
FYI, working or not working isn't a "choice" for a working poor single mom, it is a matter of survival. Take if from a former kid, one of six, who's disabled working daddy routinely gave my mom $50 a week to feed all eight of us. Until you have been there you have no idea what there is.
I fully support a woman's right to an abortion, I actually endorse it in cases where the mother is likely to raise the child in a home that would typically produce a tax dollar loving, government dependent, mindless Democrat child.
So basically your mother had no choice but to be a working single mother due to her choices in life and you have a problem with Romney's wife being able to choose to be a stay at home mom because of the choices she made in her life. You should admire Romney's wife for being a better judge instead of attacking her for being a successful stay at home mom of a beautiful family.
Yes they are and to think otherwise is just ridiculous
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This thread is sickening, especially when the people below claim that some other group is starting a "war on women".
