Obama deigned to show up mentally tonight! Romney seems angry and aggressive. Totally different from last time. It's like both of them amped it up a few notches.
Romney looks strung out, like he's barely keeping his emotions in check. And he keeps going over time and talking over the moderator. He is looking like the entitled, selfish jerk millionaire he really is.
I say this as someone who was absolutely enchanted by Romney's last performance. I thought he was really charming.
I liked Candy Crowley's mix of town hall questions with her own questions/clarifications. I thought she did a great job keeping them on track and using her wealth of info to shape the discussion.
Post by GailGoldie on Oct 16, 2012 22:14:55 GMT -5
pugz, really? are you going to take that "quote" as fact? He made an example... mentioned dinner - and that's what the libs are goign to run with. You know- b/c women never cook dinner and God forbid Romney mention that we ever do.
obama lied his ass off some more about lybia... rose garden transcripts?? haha. right. yeah, that shows again, he knew and lied some more for 2 more weeks...
pugz, really? are you going to take that "quote" as fact? He made an example... mentioned dinner - and that's what the libs are goign to run with. You know- b/c women never cook dinner and God forbid Romney mention that we ever do.
No, it's not some lie that "libs" are running with.
The question was about what each candidate would do to close the gender gap with regard to pay.
After his "binders of women" comment, Romney introduced an anecdote of a particular woman who said she needed to leave work at 5, not 7, so she could cook dinner for her kids. Feel free to find the transcript and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Romney ever actually addressing the issue of equal pay in response to the equal pay question.
pugz, really? are you going to take that "quote" as fact? He made an example... mentioned dinner - and that's what the libs are goign to run with. You know- b/c women never cook dinner and God forbid Romney mention that we ever do.
No, it's not some lie that "libs" are running with.
The question was about what each candidate would do to close the gender gap with regard to pay.
After his "binders of women" comment, Romney introduced an anecdote of a particular woman who said she needed to leave work at 5, not 7, so she could cook dinner for her kids. Feel free to find the transcript and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Romney ever actually addressing the issue of equal pay in response to the equal pay question.
ROMNEY: Thank you. And important topic, and one which I learned a great deal about, particularly as I was serving as governor of my state, because I had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men.
And I -- and I went to my staff, and I said, "How come all the people for these jobs are -- are all men." They said, "Well, these are the people that have the qualifications." And I said, "Well, gosh, can't we -- can't we find some -- some women that are also qualified?"
ROMNEY: And -- and so we -- we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet.
I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.
I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my Cabinet and my senior staff, that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states, and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America. Now one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort.
But number two, because I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school. She said, I can't be here until 7 or 8 o'clock at night. I need to be able to get home at 5 o'clock so I can be there for making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. So we said fine. Let's have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you. We're going to have to have employers in the new economy, in the economy I'm going to bring to play, that are going to be so anxious to get good workers they're going to be anxious to hire women. In the -- in the last women have lost 580,000 jobs. That's the net of what's happened in the last four years. We're still down 580,000 jobs. I mentioned 31/2 million women, more now in poverty than four years ago.
What we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy, so strong that employers that are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their workforce and adapting to a flexible work schedule that gives women opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford.
pugz, really? are you going to take that "quote" as fact? He made an example... mentioned dinner - and that's what the libs are goign to run with. You know- b/c women never cook dinner and God forbid Romney mention that we ever do.
obama lied his ass off some more about lybia... rose garden transcripts?? haha. right. yeah, that shows again, he knew and lied some more for 2 more weeks...
Please. He was asked about equal pay. He gave an example about bringing qualified women into the work force by offering them flexible schedules...so they could be home to cook for their kids. That's not running with anything. He could have talked about bringing qualified women into the workforce by offering them pay equal to the men in the same field but chose not to do so.
As for Lybia - Romney is the one who was flat out wrong in his adamant claim about what Obama said the day after...even the moderator pointed out he was either wrong or lying.