Is Obama's Ad 'Offensive' to Women?
Columnist says the president should apologize and pull the commercial.
I am a fairly intelligent woman; college-educated and self-employed. I daily read a good portion of several national news sources, keep up to some degree with international events and policies and I am fully capable of developing and articulating a well-informed opinion on most family, business and political subjects
And this is exactly why the current commercial being run by the Obama reelection effort, an ignorant portrayal of women as uninformed, single-issue voters, is profoundly offensive.
“…a scary time to be a woman … Romney backed a bill outlawing all abortions … even in cases of rape and incest…”
I’m smarter than that and so is every other woman in America. First of all, the ad is so blatantly false that Politifact gave it a rating of “Pants On Fire”. Romney never supported such a bill because (and here’s how you can tell I am smarter than the average bear) no such bill ever existed. The commercial is a complete fabrication.
I suppose by now we should all be accustomed to the truth-twisting that has become rampant in politics, but this is offensive on a whole different level. It presents a verifiable falsehood and assumes that women everywhere will just stupidly play along, without a modicum of independent thought. I am sick and tired of the arrogant liberal elite painting the Democratic Party as the great defender of women’s rights and the voice for women’s issues.
What exactly are “women’s issues” anyway? Are we to believe that men are unconcerned about access to healthcare and the education of their children? Do the Democrats really believe that women are not concerned about the economy and national defense? More importantly, do they really believe that women are so dumb, so feeble-minded, and so malleable that we are going to buy into the destructive and divisive message of “us against them” – that is, mean, scary, Republicans against we meek, weak, defenseless little women?
The most offensive assumption of politics is that somehow women need the protection of a political party at all – we do not. Regardless of our social, economic or educational background, women are just as capable of independent thought as the next guy. What is shocking is that we have to make that point at all in 2012.
As such, we know that the so-called recovery has progressed much more slowly for women than for men and that in fact unemployment among women is actually higher today than it was when the President was elected. While the recession ended in June 2009, “…we have not seen it in a recovery of jobs for women,” according a senior economist at the (left-leaning) Center For American Progress.
We know that poverty hits women harder than men, and his risen steadily under this President. According to Leslie Bennetts, author of the article, “Women: The Invisible Poor” extreme poverty among women, – that is, income below half the federal poverty line – is the highest ever recorded. Bennetts also writes that poverty among minority women is even worse – 25.6 percent among black women and 25 percent among Hispanic women, and under this President, more than 40 percent of single mothers now live in poverty.
In fact, if it wasn’t for President Obama’s war against the economic security of women, this would be the most exciting time in the history of mankind to be a woman: more freedom, more opportunity, more independence, more education than at any other moment in history.
Women do not need the Democratic Party, the liberal elite or the President of the United States for that matter, protecting us from some politically fabricated “bad guy.” We are intelligent enough to make our own choices and manage the consequences of those choices. In a world where birth control costs as little as $7 a month, the argument that it is a “right” that should be funded by taxpayers just plays into the strategy of trying to make women feel more dependent rather more empowered. In a world where more women are earning more advance degrees than ever before, they don’t need government protection, they need jobs.
The President should pull this commercial and apologize for approving it in the first place.
Anyone but Obama
10:14 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
It's an Obama commercial. You can't expect anything but deceit and lies. That's all the guy knows. Worse than that though are the ignoramuses that fall for his crap.
Caitlyn Entwistle
10:39 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Do you really agree that Romney is a better choice? That would make you pretty much an "ignoramus" yourself.
Richard C Barnes
12:40 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Of course he's running on deceit and lies, he doesn't have a record he can run on so it's all he has.
Even the comments here take one of two approaches, either like Caitlyn the propose "Do you really agree that Romney is a better choice?" which simply implies Romney might somehow be worse then what we have or like several others here who repeat the talking points of Obama ads which even the above article points out are false.
They are running on "what ifs" and lies because it's all they have.
If you want to see how someone treats women Obama has a record already and it's not a very good one:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/obama-hold-on-sweetie/
So to answer Caitlyn's choice, while I didn't support Romney in the primary and I would put him near the bottom of the choices Republicans had to choose from, do I think he would be a better choice then Obama? Yes without a doubt.
When Obama has lead us to the bottom there isn't anywhere left to go but up.
Jane Bingum
2:57 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
@Richard Barnes you think that article downgrades President Obama on how he treats women? Now that's funny. First it was back in 2008 and he called to apologize. He has never to my knowledge been against women's rights like Romney is today in 2012. The only reason I can see why people do not like Obama is because of the color of his skin..even though no one who attacks him has admitted to this it's probably true. President Obama has more compassion and his interest is focused on the people and not the politics. He is a Community Organizer who puts people first and that's not how the Washington Politics works. Money, greed and power is what moves Washington. That's just the way it is..so how do we combat that?
Richard C Barnes
4:34 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Jane, he apologized after it made national news.
I also love how you jump right to playing the race card.
I'll give you plenty of reasons I dislike Obama and not a single one has anything to do with the color of his skin.
1) ObamaCare is the largest tax increase EVER passed in this country and the majority of it falls squarely on the middle class.
2) Obama called for the assassination of a US Citizen without due process as guaranteed by the 5th amendment
http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/
3) Obama not only broke his promise that he would eliminate the Patriot Act but extended it far beyond what Bush had already done allowing the government to now also spy on US Citizens.
4) The US Deficit under Obama with Democrats in control of both the house and Senate jumped from an average of $400 Billion a year as we saw under Bush while Republicans were in charge to $1.7 Trillion a year.
5) While publicly stating he was going to freeze the salaries of White House personal he turned around and authorized raises to 74% of the staff, most of whom where earning over $100k a year. And too boot the raises averaged three times the average increase of the private sector. And did the same for 54% of the staff the following year as well.
6) In his book he openly admitted to eating Dog.
7) He started his political career in the living room of a terrorist who murdered police.
Out of space - should I go on or do you still think its just about race?
JIM
8:09 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Once again Jennifer Horn shows why she is a leader and obama is a divider and class warfare breeder, I personally haven't seen any of the dear leaders adds every time I see his face on TV I turn the channel . I here the cartoon network its more factual and truthful than any of obamas political adds
Flora
10:27 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Regardless of this commercial, we are lucky to have Obama and hopefully will have him for another 4 years!
Anyone but Obama
8:11 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
You're delusional. You have absolutely no idea of just what plan Obama is following. But I can guarantee you one thing..........if Obama should bere elected , you will not like the outcome at the end of his second term.
JIM
8:11 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
I guess if you hate American values then your ''lucky'' you have comrade obama
Jan Schmidt
10:35 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Oh for goodness sake, Romney has held every position on abortion there is to hold...
He did say he'd sign a law on banning them if he could, and if he gets in and R's take over Washington we'll see this bill, he WILL sign it.
Caitlyn Entwistle
10:36 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The fact that you are a woman, Ms. Horn, and are refusing to believe that there is a ridiculous amount of attacks on women's health and rights in our country right now is outrageous. I completely agree with this ad. I have researched Mr. Romney's plans if he is elected president, and many of them are extremely anti-women's rights, such as cutting Planned Parenthood, healthcare reform, and our right to choose. You may think you know what it's like to be a middle class or poor woman in the United States, but you have no idea. Do you really think that most women can afford to pay for their birth control each month? Maybe you should take a few steps outside and talk to the thousands of women who struggle on a daily basis instead of making assumptions based on your own bubble of a life. Your article is extremely ignorant and I agree that you are "fairly" intelligent.
Anyone but Obama
8:16 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Women should pay for their own birth control products. That's not a health issue anymore than paying for a haircut is. Perhaps you feel so entitled that you think the government should pay for your haircuts and makeup too - with taxpayers dollars. I for one don't want my money being used to pay for abortions for women who don't know enough to use birth control measures or simply to keep their legs together.
maribeth schonberg
8:39 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Good on you, Caitlyn! I couldn't have said it better myself. Ms. Horn, step outside.
maribeth schonberg
8:44 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
You are so right, Caitlyn! I agree completely. I can't believe the racists we have in NH!
The Shill
10:44 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Yes Anyone That's not a health issue anymore than paying for a haircut is. but what you are forgetting is that you got that haircut after the insurance company paid for your minoxidil so you could could grow that hair. You don't want to pay for bithe control but then you don't want to pay to support the babies that are born because you don't agree with welfair also. the only things conservatives care about is more money in their own pockets and everyone else be damned. You talk about love of country but all you love is money and self you don't care about the rest of your countrymen.
Essie Hull
11:02 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
President Obama supports women and women's rights fully, and Romney does not. The Affordable Health Act now mandates full coverage of: many more health issues than were covered prior to passage of that act. He fully supported the Ledbetter Bill, which mandates equal pay for equal work regardless of gender. It was Neanderthal not to have that mandate in place for so very many years. President Obama has been very active in supporting women, and a wonderful father to two daughters. Candidate Romney supports restrictive and unequal legislation. A woman who votes for a candidate who feels that she ought to earn less than a man for the same job, is a fool. The choice is a no-brainer for any woman who is honest with herself.
News Flash
11:15 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Excuse me, Obama pays his female staff 20% less than men.
David Victory
11:33 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
@ NF
That claim about pay disparity is utter nonsense. You've posted it before. It was a lie then. It's a lie now.
News Flash
11:39 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Women paid significantly less in Obama White House than their male counterparts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128513/Women-paid-significantly-Obama-White-House-male-counterparts.html
Obama White House Pays Women Less Than Men
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/04/11/war-obama-white-house-pays-women-less-men
Looks like David Victory is wrong again. I have never called you a liar David but you seem to be loose with that accusation. Change your last name to loser
JIM
12:04 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
you cant believe the racists we have here ...I cant believe the communists ,socialists and marxists we have here ...who always play the race card ...comrade sharpton is that you ?
Jane Bingum
10:49 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
No Apology needed.. what President Obama has stated is made clear on Naral.
Thank God we have a choice.
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/2012/gop-presidential-candidates/mitt-romney.html?gclid=CMfdvaPVxrECFSJoOgoddlsA4w
Caitlyn Entwistle
10:55 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Thank you, Jane! You found the link before I could :)
Bob Samson
11:08 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Obama Accused Of Condescending To Women
Hufffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/obama-stop-condescending-to-women_n_1530327.html
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/obama-condescending-to-women.html
"WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men. It’s all so tired, the kind of fake praise showered upon those one views as easy to impress. As I listen, I am always bracing for the old go-to cliché: “Behind every great man is a great woman.”
maribeth schonberg
8:46 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Wait a minute! Paternalistic???? You're thinking of W! He thought he could protect us or at least make us think he was protecting us. Obviously he was wrong!
Mike Healey
11:19 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
HB 3803 would criminalize abortions DC without an exception for victims of rape or incest. 222 Republicans cosponsored that law YESTERDAY.
fred030
11:29 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Great link, thank you ladies.
News Flash
11:35 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
What is offensive is the Unemployment Rate among Black Women, Latino Women, all Women as a matter of fact. Obama does not know how to manage the economy for ALL OF US.
Mike Healey
2:10 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Over 4 million Jobs have been created since President Barack Obama's polices went into effect. We lost 4.5 million under the same polices that Mitt Romney wants to go back to.
News Flash
4:19 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
These Stats are offensive:
Number of Unemployed 12,700,000,000 , 12.7 million
Number of Long Term Unemployed 5,700,000,000, 5.7 million
Number of Underemployed 8,200,000,000,000 , 8.2 million
Current statistics per Bureau of Labor Statistcs
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm/
Mike Healey
4:52 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
And making unemployment numbers smaller is better, right?
News Flash
4:55 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Pretending failure is a success is worse.
Mike Healey
10:29 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Pretending that stopping the loss of 4.5 million jobs and adding back 4 million can't be considered nothing short of a success.
LJoel Hackbart
12:47 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/08/03/employment-situation-july
LJoel Hackbart
1:19 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
The Dems wish to create jobs.
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/08/03/employment-situation-july
The repubs wish to destroy them. Now THAT is offensive.
www.thestand.org/2012/.../gop-blocks-bring-jobs-home-act-in-congr
Mike Healey
11:39 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I guess the real question is, which one of the many positions Mitt Romney has taken is his REAL position. He has said:
"regardless of one's beliefs about choice, you would hope it would be safe and legal."
“I would welcome a circumstance where there was such a consensus in this country that we said, we don’t want to have abortion in this country at all, period. That would be wonderful. I’d be delighted.”
Romney also told Mike Huckabee that he would support a constitutional amendment saying life begins at conception, endorsing Huckabee’s pet Personhood cause. Mike Huckabee "Personhood Clause" would even ban contraception.
Sure, we can say that Mitt is only pandering to demographics to get votes, but who is he pandering to and who does he REALLY agree with? Nobody knows, Mitt Romney might not even know where he stands on a given day.
Anyone but Obama
8:20 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Just once....just once.......would you make an attempt to post an intelligent sounding comment that isn't composed of DNC talking points, misinformation, distortions and outright lies. Your credibility on here is is at absolute zero.
News Flash
9:09 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Impossible.
Mike Healey
10:32 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The moniker you hide behind is an actual GOP talking point which makes your claim of my bias exceptionally hysterical.
I am posting Mitt Romney quotes, are you claiming that Mitt Romney is only talking in DNC talking points?
Your disconnect from reality is breathtaking.
Mike Healey
11:45 am on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Jennifer's life of privilege has given her the sense that all women enjoy the same advantages she had. I guess we all see the world from our own minds eye, but that is why we do more than just casually think about this stuff. Hearing "Let them eat Cake" from a woman of privilege does not help the millions of American women who didn't marry well, who weren't raised upper class, who were not as privileged to dabble in things that tickled their fancy.
Christine Giuda
2:42 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
And who are you to say that Jennifer lived a life of privilege or any woman lived a life of privilege unless you saw it yourself. Why is it there are those who believe that because a woman made the right choices for herself and was able to "dabble" in things not all women can afford or do she is a woman of privilege. Many, many women who choose to direct their path in a direction that will give them satisfaction with their life WORKED to get there, yet we are considered "women of privilege". Many women could enjoy advantages, they have to decide how badly they want it and how willing they are to work for it. It really does come down to choices for the majority, not always how you were raised, not who you marry, not even if you are college educated. It is how you choose.
News Flash
2:48 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
More lame crap from Healy.
Mike black
4:46 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
You are jealous of her lifestyle, mr Healey.
Mike Healey
4:52 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I didn't mean to imply that she is better off than me, just better off than a majority of American women.
ForThePeople
11:25 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Christine, lots of people work hard. Very few enjoy privilege. There's a reason for that.
Mike Healey
9:35 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Could I add forthepeople, That there is nothing wrong with taking advantage of your privilege. Its the denial that you have been blessed with gifts that not everyone has and your denial that you have a shared obligation to your community.
Use your gifts, succeed, but don't deny the advantages that got you where you are, and don't deny that those with lesser gifts work just as hard and long with lesser results.
News Flash
12:11 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Now this is Offensive
Michelle Obama comes to NH to talk about Obesity (Taxpayer paid)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/11183419-418/michelle-obama-brings-childhood-obesity-fight-to-new-hampshire.html
Maggie Hassan announces Ice Cream Social Tour
http://nashua.patch.com/articles/hassan-launches-ice-cream-social-tour-of-nh-00a9aa79
Is Maggie Hassan going to tell NH Taxpayers we should fund an Anti Obesity Campaign and we are evil if we do not?
You just cannot make this stuff up.
maribeth schonberg
10:15 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Who is the lardo talking about obesity? Certainly no the First Lady. She's in better shape than most of the US. You guys really get creepy.
News Flash
1:02 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
More examples of OFFENSIVE
He went from peddling the “audacity of hope” to sheer hopelessness
“Surprise: I’m here to ask you for money.”
“To be frank, we’ve gotten our behinds handed to us,”
It might be “crass,” she pretends to worry, but says the campaign is desperate for money — “a whole lot of it.”
Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/hurt-the-smallness-of-the-new-obama/
ForThePeople
2:14 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I'm sure we can look forward to completely unrelated spam from our forum trolls, as we move towards 500 comments on this thread that have nothing to do with the topic.
Fact: Romney has changed his position on abortion so many times at one point or another this campaign commercial would be true or false. Romney's campaign website does not mention any caveats to his opposition to abortion, only that he would like to overturn Roe versus Wade. That would mean it would be up to the states, and we all know about the personhood amendment which would make it so that no matter what the reason, nobody could get an abortion.
You're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts.
News Flash
2:36 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Fear, loathing and hate is spam
ForThePeople
6:41 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Why yes it is, news flash!
News Flash
8:32 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Down with fear, down with loathing, down with hating, that is what I say.
Joe A. (Average)
2:57 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Are women not equal? That is news to me. Why don't women finally put aside their fight against sexism? It seems most women are still caught up on this sex agenda and wasting a lot of time and resources that could be helping those who are less fortunate. Women, primitively, concern themselves with their own sex's agenda still and when compared to men in politics they are wasting time by doing this!
Men: Basic political views are liberty, democracy, and justice.
Women: Basic political views are sex, liberty, democracy and justice.
What a waste of political time and resources if you ask me. I earned seniority in my career which took years, why do they get a free ride to becoming my boss?
Robert B Butts
9:34 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I don't think anyone did ask you. It's one of the most foolish statements I've ever read. If you took a second to think about it, you'd see it's self defense, which has to take priority.
ForThePeople
10:10 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
I wish you had used your real name so that women everywhere had fair warning.
Timothy Harden
3:26 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Yes the ad is offensive to women and it is offensive to Americans.
Ted Sizer
3:46 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The Obama legacy is a COMPLETE FAILURE. In order to pander to women, this is what he comes up with.
This is one of the best op-eds on how Democrats pander to women, that I've read in a long time.
You expressed what many of us have seen for a long time. Democrats see women as victims and idiots. They NEED big daddy Govt. to take care of them because they are incapable of doing those things for themselves.
An independent and intelligent woman has figured out how to live a successful life. Those who see themselves as perpetual victims will continue to look to the govt. as their savior.
What is great about this op-ed is, we can see by this failed administration that liberal policies offer women no real hope.
They try to buy their vote by forcing insurance companies to drop their co-pay for birth control. This is a bribe and forcing these mandates on insurance companies drives up the cost of insurance for all of us.
Again, they think women are stupid and will not figure this out.
Essie Hull
7:39 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Woman are not stupid, and we clearly see that our President supports all gender equality and that the candidate Romney does not. We do know what's real and what's not real. We know that candidate Romney will decrease our rights and that President Obama will support them and in fact will support fairness in all forms. When I read the disrespectful, dishonest drivel that several posters on this thread spew, I so fervently do not want the world to be populated by those beliefs and those attitudes. Those sorry excuses for contributors foment hate and nothing more. We can tell the difference, and we do vote.
News Flash
4:52 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
More Offensive than an ineffective and dumb Obama Ad
Team Obama Releasing Illegal Aliens Who Kill
Oh no, its that Fox News again telling the truth
http://nation.foxnews.com/illegal-immigrants/2012/08/01/team-obama-releasing-illegal-aliens-who-kill
Marianne Ramsay
6:12 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Not an issue. After all the Republicans' attacks and their war on women, this is nothing.
Anyone but Obama
8:25 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Obama will pander to any group or audience or "evolve" on any position if he thinks he can scratch up a couple of votes by doing so. The man is an arrogant, deceitful liar.
Robert B Butts
9:43 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Arrogant politician that panders and lies. I believe you just described every major candidate for national election for at least my lifetime.
"Anyone but Obama" really means "Mitt Romney" so perhaps you should tell us more about Mr. Romney's humble campaign of truth.
Anyone but Obama
8:27 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Hey you left wing loons........Google Harrison Bounel and see what you come up with.
Bob Samson
10:01 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The declaration by Obama that the "Private economy is doing fine" is particularly offensive to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8GSkkeXH0
Mike Healey
10:34 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Romney said the same thing, are you offended by him?
David Victory
11:29 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Corporate America is sitting on $3,000,000,000,000. They ARE doing fine. It's just not helping the little guy.
News Flash
10:18 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Obama is desperate to divert attention from his performance as President. Expect a lot more of these offensive ads on a wide array of topics before November.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/14087561-452/obama-insults-small-business-owners.html
The Shill
10:49 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Mitt Romney has take every position on every issue nobody knows where he really stands. You could have a compleate debate with only qoutes from Mitt Romney. He was for abortion he was against abortion he was for obomacare he was against obomacare. he has been on both sides of every major issue. He can't find a running mate because no one in his own party wants anything to do with him.
David Victory
11:31 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Mitt has flipped more than a crackhouse mattress.
A sampling of said flips can be found here: http://mittromneyflipflops.com/
WARNING: It's really funny!
Hilltopper
8:41 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
When a Dem politician changes his opinion, he "evolves" and when a Repub politician changes his mind he "flips flop" -- got it
JIM
4:07 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
obama was against huge deficits befor he was for them
obama was against gay marriage befor he was for it
obama supported the military befor he gutted it with defence cuts
obama supported the DOMA befor he was against it
obama supported dont ask dont tell befor he was against it
obama was for transparency in govt befor he sealed all his records
obama was a muslim befor he was a christian
obama was for our space program befor he was against our space program
obama was for religious rights befor he was against them
obama was for jeremiah wright befor he was against jeremiah wright
obama was for smoking pot befor he was against smoking pot
obama was for snorting coke befor he was against snorting coke
obama was for Israel befor he was against Israel
obama was for the constitution befor he was against the constitution
obama was for upholding our laws befor he decided to uphold only the laws he wanted to
LJoel Hackbart
12:58 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
H.T.
Do you mean when Bush changed his position like the wind he was "evolving"
and when Kerry started learning facts about the Iraq war he was a "Flip flopper"?
Got it.
David Victory
11:39 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Any woman who values their rights, yet identifies as "conservative" is wildly confused.
Think "conservatives" supported a women's right to vote?
Think "conservatives" believe you're smart enough to make your own reproductive decisions?
Think "conservatives" believe you should get equal pay for equal work?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may want to research the phenomena known as Stockholm Syndrome.
Anyone but Obama
6:06 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Anyone, male or female, supporting Barack Obama is more than simply wildly confused. They are naive and extremely gullible victims of the Smoke & Mirrors Show this arrogant liar has put on since 2007.
JIM
3:43 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
comrade dave speaks for all women !!!
JIM
4:10 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
actually ABO obamas whole life has been a smoke and mirrors show
David Victory
12:18 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
@ ABO & Nützlicher idiot JIM
Neither one of you addressed the points in my post. You're both lightweights.
David Victory
11:41 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"Planned Parenthood - we're going to get rid of that." -- Mitt Romney
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
PP has done tremendous good for women (and men, btw). How could a woman ever vote for this jerk?
Anyone but Obama
6:15 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Who is Harrison Bounel???
News Flash
12:19 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Republican ads woo disillusioned Obama voters
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57483339/republican-ads-woo-disillusioned-obama-voters/
Easy pickens as there are a lot of disillusioned democrats. This is further exacerbated by the offensive ads like the one talked about in this article.
JIM
11:57 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
NF all comrade obamas supporters are delusional.
News Flash
12:55 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Obamas campaign is based on falsehoods and dishonesty. Isn't this offensive to all of America.
http://townhall.com/video/obama-campaign-based-on-falsehood-and-dishonesty
Anyone but Obama
6:14 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
From day one, Obama has been spewing deceit and lies with his Smoke & Mirrors Show. Only the gullible and politically naive support or believe anything this con artist says.
News Flash
1:35 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Obama Campaign Attempts More Damage Control With Second Small Business Ad
http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/07/25/obama-campaign-attempts-more-damage-control-with-second-small-business-ad/
Someone should tell Obama his campaign is offensive
LJoel Hackbart
12:50 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
You are clearly upset because Obama will not be " Hortoned" or "Swift Boated."
I am glad to see that the Obama campaign is ON the offensive!
Anyone but Obama
6:12 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
They say democracy isn't the ideal form of government, but the alternatives are so much worse. Well, Mitt Romney may not be the ideal candidate for president.....but the alternative is so much worse. Four more years of the con artist at the helm and you can kiss the America you know goodbye.
David Victory
12:21 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Why is Obama worse? Be specific. Don't give me "socialism" - that's a child's answer. You're an adult, right? Act like one. Answer my question.
News Flash
6:38 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Obama's $50 Million Negative Ad Attack Fails to Move Polls
People do not like Obaas Offensive ads.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/09/Good-Money-After-Bad-Obamas-50-Million-Negative-Ad-Attack-Fails-to-Move-Poll-Numbers
News Flash
7:22 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
'You Didn't Build That' Ads Are 'Flat-Out Wrong'
This is probably nthe most offensive Obama ad ever.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/obama-ads-you-didnt-build-that_n_1699661.html
LJoel Hackbart
12:13 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Offensive to you because it hits the nail on the head. And thanks for the link.
The electorial map on the right looks good for Obama.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/obama-ads-you-didnt-build-that_n_1699661.html
David Victory
12:26 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
@ NF
Why do you post links? It's because you want the reader to click on them and learn something, right?
Once again, YOU DIDN'T BOTHER TO DO IT YOURSELF!
"On July 13, Obama said, "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Obama was referring to the "American system" and "roads and bridges," not the business.
Nevertheless, Mitt Romney and Republicans have jumped on the line to paint the president as hostile to businesses. Romney has run with the line in recent stump speeches, and his campaign has aired ads featuring business owners."
So embarrassing. NF, I can understand why you hide behind a pseudonym.
48 Years in Salem NH
8:33 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Let's be clear whose opinion we're discussing - that of a party hack like Horn, who's writing a piece of campaign propoganda. She's following a script from her own Politburo. Here's the drill: the Republican Party is so adamantly anti-woman and women's health issues because of their fear of the anti-abortion religionists who have taken control of the Republican Party that they are desparately trying to shift the issue to overcome their gender gap. Nobody believes that Romney will stand up to the looney-tune right-winger religionists in his party, because he has never done so before. Instead, he just changes his position on the issue. That's not presidential, it's just public relations. Suggesting that Romney has Presidential timbre is like arguing that a morgue is a hospital.
JIM
11:03 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
so comrade, you denounce the ''anti-abortion religionists'' who have taken control of the republican party and embrace the communists,socialists and marxists who have taken control of the democrat party, where where you from before you moved to Salem, Russia ?
Anyone but Obama
9:02 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Abortion and birth control is not a health issue. You don't "catch" pregnancy from germs on a door handle. You get pregnant by willingly performing a sex act. And in your entitlement minded world, you think I should cough up the money to eliminate the predicted result of your promiscuity. Yeah, right!
David Victory
12:29 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
@ AbO
Preventing unwanted pregnancy benefits the entire country. It's worth it to the taxpayer to make contraceptives widely available. It's very, very cheap compared to the alternative.
Celia Brown
9:09 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Im Republican and i know for a fact the war on women put forth by democrats. No Question. The senator from WA mouthing off about equal pay when she is the worst offender in terms of pay disparity of males and females in her staff. Taking away my personal choice for healthcare and propping up reproductive services and rights. All while trashing the constitution. Bashing female republicans on a daily basis. Republicans have done more for me than the democrats can ever do in the past 3 years. I'm worst off financially, the outlook for my daughter is worse based on the attacks on personal freedoms brought froth by Obama and his moonbats.
David Victory
12:33 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
@ Celia
Would you have your father's baby?
Paul Ryan believes that's your only option.
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/politics-elections/243689-ryans-abortion-stance-could-widen-gender-gap-in-swing-states
What's wrong with you?
News Flash
9:10 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Obama Says Private Investment is Bad For The U.S. Economy
WASHINGTON - President Obama's anti-capitalism attacks on Mitt Romney's long career as an investor who bankrolled businesses and created jobs isn't playing well in some Democratic circles.
Indeed, the Democratic backlash Obama's campaign has been getting about its ads attacking Bain Capital, Romney's venture capital investment firm, is the political equivalent of a "man bites dog" story.
Even one of Obama's own economic advisers winced at the sorry spectacle of the president's campaign trying to argue that Romney's private capital investment company has been bad for the economy.
Read the whole thing.
http://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2012/05/23/obama_says_private_investment_is_bad_for_the_us_economy/page/full/
Obama continues with his OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICA
Timothy Harden
9:17 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Natl Debt $15,933,700,000,00
Women make up more than 50% of the population. It is offensive, if not disgusting for President Obama and the Democrat Party to do this.
David Victory
12:34 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
What was the debt when GWB took office?
ForThePeople
10:03 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Sure, Mike. It's the insinuation that rich people earn it and poor people are lazy. It's the marketing job that everyone can be rich if only they put in enough effort. By definition, for there to be an elite there must be poor.
I know for a fact from folks in my own life, who work close to minimum wage with no benefits, at all hours, weekends, doing hard work...all it took was one doctor visit to set this person back months. It's not that this person is better or worse than anybody else but is not privileged.
Lastly, there is this propaganda from the right that Democrats hate success. The left does not hate success; there is surely a lot of it on that side. The issue is acknowledging that not everyone is going to achieve that, by definition, and there is genuine suffering, mortality, and abuse going on because of the huge gap between the 1% and everyone else. That is why we need basic human rights supported by our government.
"How can someone win if winning means that someone loses?"
-Scatman John
essay
10:09 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
What are women's issues? How about this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/romney-ledbetter-act_n_1429961.html
JIM
11:14 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Comrade hull, who are you here portraying today ? the evil rich business owner or the poor 99 %er looking for your ''fair share'' and ''social justice for all ''
JIM
10:40 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
BHO IS GOT TA GO !!!!! coming soon to a TV near you !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qaPYafuZpNE
JIM
11:10 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
COMRADE OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS WAR ON WOMEN CONTINUES !!!!
Female staffers on Obama campaign earned less than male coworkers in May and June, WFB analysis finds
http://freebeacon.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=43d75a21bb9bfafcbd472bee2&id=57d5f31b88&e=cab4fcfe0d
David Victory
12:40 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
It's crap. The Washington Free Beacon is a 6-month old blog started by right wing kids. Even if correct, it shows only the average pay - it does NOT compare, by gender, the pay for jobs of the same title.
JIM
11:53 am on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Is Obama's Ad 'Offensive' to Women?
Columnist says the president should apologize and pull the commercial.
actually comrade obama should apologize, resign and leave the country, if he agrees to these terms we will not prosecute him for high treason ,felony forgery and a host of other crimes that he is guilty of.
The Shill
12:07 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
The facts do not lie; conservatism, or as I call it, Corporatism, does not work. It’s not just one part of it that isn’t working, it’s all of it put together. In truth, some conservative principles would work fine with our system of free enterprise. I believe that there really does need to be incentive for businesses to hire in economic downturns, and sometimes, tax cuts help. I believe that small businesses should receive greater tax breaks than large corporations, considering the fact that it is the small business sector that historically creates sixty percent of the new jobs coming out of a recession. But conservatives want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, who over the last ten years, have created zero jobs. Yes, you read that correctly; job growth since the Bush tax cuts has been negative, not positive; so the tax cuts have had a zero, or negative impact on American job creation. Since they didn’t work, and cost our country trillions in new debt due to lost revenue, it’s time to do the smart thing, and end them.
The Shill
12:08 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
From supply side to deregulation, from tax cuts for corporations that ship American jobs overseas to the race to the bottom, conservatism does not work. It’s not real conservatism, anyway. Real conservatism looks more like the Libertarian party. The brand of Republicans calling themselves fiscal conservatives today aren’t conservatives at all; they’re Corporatists, and their every word and act reveals this. Against extending unemployment benefits that add $30 Billion to the deficit, but for extending the Bush tax cuts that add nearly $1 Trillion to the deficit..every year. That’s right; if we ended the Bush tax cuts today, our actual deficit would be somewhere around $600 Billion, and all of the Bush years would have seen budget surplusses.
How’s that for conservative economics?
Anyone but Obama
2:56 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Man, you need to take Economics 101 and stop embarrassing yourself.
Simon Says
3:09 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Not even close to amateur economics. Start with there is a 'Direct Relationship between Tax Rates and Growth Rate". The reason that Obama and democrats are failing on the growth side is NOBODY trust the fools not to raise taxes and redistribute money as they please. Oh yeah whomever votes for them gets the tax breaks.
JIM
4:13 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
facts ? this is your opinion , nothing more
The Shill
1:16 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
The great feeling that comes with being a Tea Partier is that you don't have to take responsibility for anything. It's a religion upon itself with forgiveness built in. A basic premise of the TP movement is that whatever is wrong in America is someone else's fault. The ridiculous war in Iraq that virtually all these TP followers supported even after it was obvious that we had been lied to by the Administration is someone else's fault. The horrible economic policies of the Bush Administration that led us into bankruptcy, "Not my fault," says the TP follower. If you are a TP type, it's O. K. if you supported it then, but don't worry, you have no responsibility for the consequences now. You just blame that socialist president and you are forgiven, if not him, just be sure to blame someone.
The Shill
1:16 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Another great thing that comes with the Tea Party label is the right to ignore the truth and make up even the most preposterous scenario to support the Tea Party position. Go ahead. You can do it. Your programmer says it is O. K. You can say that the President is a Muslim even though everyone (including you) knows he is not. You can say that the Health Care Bill contains a provision for death panels even though it simply isn't now, and never was true. You can blame the economic collapse on liberals even though the economic policies you supported caused it. You can insist there is no separation of church and state in the Constitution or that there is no right to privacy. It's all O. K. because your programmer told you it was. Honesty is no longer important in the world of modern conservatives. All you have to give up is the right to think for yourself. After all, you've bought into the corporate, bi g-time religious and super wealthy fantasy that making them more powerful and richer will improve your life. Good luck!
JIM
8:18 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
said the OWS protester the shill as he defecates on police cars and wiggles his fingers in your face and refuses to move his plastic tarp tent he has been living in all summer at one of the OWS love-ins
The Shill
11:55 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Occupy Wall Street had more in common with the Boston Tea Party than today's Tea Party does. The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.
They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to global trade run by the East India Company that was destroying local economies, this small, masked minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Tea Party resembled in many ways the growing modern-day protests against transnational corporations and small-town efforts to protect themselves from chain-store retailers or factory farms. The Tea Party's participants thought of themselves as protesters against the actions of the multinational East India Company.
The Shill
11:56 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Although schoolchildren are usually taught that the American Revolution was a rebellion against “taxation without representation,” akin to modern day conservative taxpayer revolts, in fact what led to the revolution was rage against a transnational corporation that, by the 1760s, dominated trade from China to India to the Caribbean, and controlled nearly all commerce to and from North America, with subsidies and special dispensation from the British crown.
The Shill
11:56 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
A pamphlet was circulated through the colonies called The Alarm and signed by an enigmatic “Rusticus.” One issue made clear the feelings of colonial Americans about England's largest transnational corporation and its behavior around the world: “Their Conduct in Asia, for some Years past, has given simple Proof, how little they regard the Laws of Nations, the Rights, Liberties, or Lives of Men. They have levied War, excited Rebellions, dethroned lawful Princes, and sacrificed Millions for the Sake of Gain. The Revenues of Mighty Kingdoms have entered their Coffers. And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin. Fifteen hundred Thousands, it is said, perished by Famine in one Year, not because the Earth denied its Fruits; but [because] this Company and their Servants engulfed all the Necessaries of Life, and set them at so high a Price that the poor could not purchase them.”
Ali Rung
12:12 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
There is nothing more offensive to me, as a woman, than hearing men give their opinion concerning women's health.
JIM
2:48 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
thats fine and there's nothing more offensive to me as a tax payer than having to pay for you women's health and not having a say in how MY money is spent, pay for it yourself and we will keep our opinions to ourselves, other wise TDB
Lee
3:29 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
A wise woman once said... "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women".
JIM
4:26 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Pastor: “Obama Has No Honor!”
another racist has an opinion about obama !!!!!
http://westernjournalism.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b58f5402a9ab54bddf0c908c8&id=5d1d96d42f&e=971aba07ec
JIM
5:35 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting
this is offencive to every man woman and child in America
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/02/obama-campaign-sues-to-restrict-military-voting
David Victory
1:17 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Nützlicher idiot JIM,
Breitbart? That alone should invalidate this post.
But... http://factcheck.org/2012/08/obama-not-trying-to-curb-military-early-voting/
More lies from you, and your slippery crook of a candidate.
Timothy Harden
1:04 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Obama: Stop Condescending to Women
By Campbell Brown
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/obama-condescending-to-women.html?_r=2
Obama is condescending to women.
News Flash
9:06 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Reason for Obamas low approval rating in NH at 38%
David Victory
12:46 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
No link, no cred. If you don't provide backup, you're just lying.
Kind of like Mitt - he won't back up his claim that he pays 13% in taxes (which alone is outrageous, of course), we're just supposed to TRUST HIM!
News Flash
11:27 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Moderates 34.9%, Conservatives 36.7% equals 71.6% v only 24.4% Liberal in New Hampshire. Big reason Obamas approval rating is only 38%. Topics such as this one are out of touch with the people of this State. Do not let the extreme liberals who post on this article convince you otherwise
David Victory
12:47 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
No link, no cred. If you don't provide backup, you're just lying.
Kind of like Mitt - he won't back up his claim that he pays 13% in taxes (which alone is outrageous, of course), we're just supposed to TRUST HIM!
News Flash
2:48 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Can Obama Keep Centrist Dems in 2012?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/05/can_obama_keep_clinton_dems_in_2012_115006.html
News Flash
3:19 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Who Will ‘Reagan Democrats’ Support in 2012?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/166473/who-will-reagan-democrats-support-2012#
News Flash
3:50 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Return of the Reagan Democrats
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/06/08/the_return_of_the_reagan_democrats_114424.html
Ryan
12:08 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
I'd say the lens through which you view the commercial is the real problem. You are a conservative and as such find fault with the President regardless of what he says.
I have no doubt if he just stood there silently, you'd come up with something.
It's a bit silly to present yourself as some kind of objective outsider who 'suddenly' came to this uncomfortable conclusion.
Brass tacks. You're voting for Romney and you'd vote for whoever the Republicans put up there. And I highly doubt you voted for Obama in 08.
News Flash
12:22 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Obamas add is offensive to women.
David Victory
1:14 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
How would you know?
News Flash
2:02 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Well then, how would you know?