Posted on 04/12/2012 2:41:29 PM PDT by blam
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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Where’s the Barf Alert?
A retraction from the architect of division. His flying monkeys do HIS WORK and anyone who thinks otherwise is as dumb as a modern day media journalist.
That’s a huge Bus!
Where is the question about this Rosen visiting the
white house so many times?
“I don’t have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates,” he told KCRG.
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Amazing—I’ve found something to respect in Obama. A first.
Though, I have no doubts AT ALL— that Ann Romney can take care of herself.
I hate Santorum but his wife was my favorite of candidate wives. We never got to know Callista, though I suspect she would have been the most classy FLOTUS of the bunch. I will certainly regret that loss.
He's the architect of the "Republican war on women".
Oh, Obambi....that is rich....YOU YOURSELF began the bashing, albeit in a more subtle way, last week.
Don’t worry, bambi...your girl Hilary said it...you remember Hilary, the girl who has been to your current residence several times....and the girl you got to work for your DNC lap-poodle....
the record is clear, Bambi. You hate stay at home moms.
Obama is a hypocrite. He brought all this stuff into it wiht his “Michelle had to work” rhetoric.
His words today are a charade.
Thirty five (35) times, I believe it is.
The women on the local talk radio station were PISSED! Rosen struck a nerve and they’re still on fire about it.
This is beginning to look like a “Sister Soulja” gambit.
Typical Progressive modus operandi. Throw out poison one day then apologize the next day and just say “nothing to see here ...move along”. The trouble is the progressive new media, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN give them a pass on it. My hope is that if this Republic falls, I see all those alleged news companies shut down and all those alleged journalists arrested before they come to get me.
Obama is a liar you can not listen to a word he says.
Republicans are often idiots, but Democrats are even worse...I can’t think of a BETTER WAY to galvaninze support for Romney from conservatives than this. Great job! And then, leave it to Dumbo to chime in with pithy comments!
PS: Axelrod - the next time you try this, do see if you can find someone who is not a consumer of flooring products.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Yeah? How about being a roofer. In Phoenix. In July.
You said it well brother!! I am not at all thrilled with Romney at top of the ticket... however, this boils my blood. I go back and forth on voting for Gary Johnson (L), but these comments remind me how stupid these people are and will probably make me pull the lever for Romney.
Obomba is more like a Mafia Don....someone else does his dirty work...
they started this four years ago and it hasn’t stopped, it’s just become more public.
I expect them to go after her like nobody’s business via the superpac.
LOL! No thanks!
I think it's a very good idea to listen, attentively. Normally, he does not make grammatical errors like this:
I think me and Governor Romney are going to have more than enough to argue about during the course of this campaign. (Emphasis added)
Certainly President Obama's teleprompter provides better grammar than that, and he knows better. When really flustered, that's the sort of thing he says. It's good to hear him when he is that flustered.
Nope. It was planned to turn GOPers into lesbian badgers.
Trust me.
Hopefully soon he will have to quell another firestorm...
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE...
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security Number (SSN) is being used by President Obama: Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama’s current SSN) rec’d on or about March 1977. Mr. Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut. Because of that, his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few reserved for Connecticut residents. Barack Obama never lived or worked in that state!
Therefore, there is no reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042. Now comes the best part - J.P. Ludwig spent the final months of his life in Hawaii, where he died. Conveniently, Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals. The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig’s death, and because he never received Social Security benefits there were no benefits to stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised. The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro, simply scoured the probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig’s Connecticut SSN for Obama.
Just wait until US CITIZENS get past the birth certificate and onto the issue of Barry O’s use of a stolen SSN. You will see leftist heads exploding, because they will have no way of defending Obama. Although many Americans do not understand the meaning of the term “natural born” there are few who do not understand that if you are using someone else’s SSN it is a clear indication of fraud.
Posted by giveusliberty1776 at 12:02 PM
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2012/04/from-blogosphere_12.html
Good cop, bad cop.
Good point.
Obviously, look who he's married to. You don't start a fight when you know the other side has sooo much more ammunition to work with.
Barack Obamah Surrenders In WAR ON WOMEN Due To Self-Inflicted Wound!
Good point.
That's what our campaigns have become. The Super PACS and supporters dish the dirt and the candidate rises above it.
This was no “mistake” by Hilary Rosen. Go back through BHO’s comments and he was setting the stage to trash Ann Romney.
I have no use for Mitt Romney, but attacking Ann Romney, raising five children at the same time she was battling breast cancer and MS is beneath contempt.
And just who us Hilary Rosen? Barry’s campaign manager, who visited the WH 36 times to meet with Barry and Valerie Jarret.
A lesbian mother of adopted twins whose “partner” was head of far left organizations, just like Hilary Rosen.
These are the people around your POTUS, my FRiends. I’m glad she outed herself as a vicious attack dog willing to do anything to keep her master in power.
Every single one of these people needs to be investigated and vetted.
I would have thrown Rosen out as well if I were Obama. She disarmed Dims’ campaign point of GOP war on women and put themselves in defensive situation.
First it was Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student, wanting taxpayers to fund her $3,000 a year contraceptive bill.
Now it's Hilary Rosen attacking Mitt Romney's wife.
Just who the hell do you think you are, Kenyan-born, Muslim-eduacated, Marxist-indoctrinated usurper? Sorry, because it won't fly. Now you've totally stepped in it, big time! It couldn't happen to a nicer dipwad.
Yup.
George Stepanopolus (Main Stream Media) set that up so well, eh?
Where are you getting the idea that Obama is good w grammar? The few actual examples of his writing available on the Net are rife w errors. Or do you subscribe to the idea that he [not Ayers] wrote Dreams, and that he did so w’out heavy editorial input?
Here’s some Obama grammar for you. It’s an actual quote from an exam he gave when he was lecturing at the U of Chicago law school—i.e.: Post Harvard.
“Law week, two men, Richard and Michael, walked into you office and asked for your help.
You learn that they are a monogamous, gay couple who have been living
together for the past ten years. Both men are successful architects, and after devoting the past decade on their respective careers, they have now decided that they want to marry and raise children together.”
Presumably he wasn’t particularly flustered when he wrote out his exam questions. He just isn’t that good w English.
Yeah? How about being a roofer. In Phoenix. In July.
They are about the same.
”I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign.”
Thanks blam.
What about Sarah Palin’s family?
How about the child and ex-wife of Jack Ryan, eh Zero, ya lying dirtbag?
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