“I do think there was something a little bit off-key about the president slow jamming and appearing to make light of the fact that students are struggling. I don’t think it’s something to slow jam about or to make light of it. If that skit was brought to the governor, he would have declined.”
—Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom • Criticizing President Obama’s role on a recent episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which you may have seen. Basically, President Obama “slow jammed” (really just deliberately spoke, more than anything else) about student loan interest rates, an issue he’s pushing hard at the beginning of his 2012 reelection campaign. We get why Fehrnstrom (and the Romney campaign) might be frustrated by this — it was an extremely crafty political message, and delivered in a particular way that is completely inaccessible to Romney himself. His conclusion, however, that President Obama was making light of a serious situation for students, is countered by the very real political effect of his pushing the issue; just yesterday the GOP-led House voted to extend the fixed, lowered interest rates that Obama has been harping on. source (via • follow)
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“Let’s move forward, not backward. I believe in young people and I’m going to fight for you.”
—President Obama on why you should vote for him instead of Mitt Romney in 140 characters or less. (via kileyrae)
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“Essentially, the idea of a “slut” is a myth told to women to keep them in their place. Just as Santa will not actually bring you coal on Christmas if you break a few of the house rules, you will not actually turn into an intrinsically tainted, unpalatable creature if you break one of society’s rules and have sex with one too many men. The word “slut” isn’t a criticism for having too much sex necessarily, but for being a woman: a real, living, breathing woman with quirks, foibles, normal sexual feelings, and personality; and failing to live up to the societal ideal for a woman: the passive, pliable, perpetually innocent, and sexually available Barbie doll.”
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Richard Grenell, a former Bush official, removed hundreds of Tweets and comments from his online profile this weekend after reporters zeroed in on his penchant for snarky comments about women in politics.
“Hillary is starting to look liek (sic) Madeline Albright,” Grenell wrote on his Twitter page, comparing current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the the first female secretary of state, who served under Bill Clinton.
Grenell was tapped Thursday as a foreign policy spokesman for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
His knowledge of foreign affairs became irrelevant as reporters immediately began going through his Twitter comments and flagged some of his less chivalrous jibes.
In a swipe at First Lady Michelle Obama, an exercise buff who has led a national campaign against childhood obesity, he claimed she was “sweating on the East Room carpet” after working out.
Grenell also zeroed in on GOP nominee Newt Gingrich’s wife Callista, wondering whether her “hair snaps on.”
…“I didn’t mean them that way and will remove them from twitter. I apologize for any hurt they caused,” Grenell wrote.
Some 800 tweets were then scrubbed from Grenell’s accounts between Friday and Sunday, noted Huffington Post media reporter Michael Calderone.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who Grenell said was a “dead ringer” for teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber, was not amused by the comments, nor appeased by his apology.
On Friday’s show, she asked if Team Romney showed “any sign that they understand that a long string of really nasty, sexist tweets about Callista Gingrich’s appearance might be alienating to people who might otherwise consider voting for Mr. Romney,” the Huffington Post reported.
The flap over the tweets followed some conservative backlash on his selection since Grenell is openly gay.
” —1) No one is surprised that Romney picked a woman-hating dicksmack to be an official spokesman; 2) No one is surprised that conservatives have a problem with Romney picking a spokesman who is openly gay; 3) Welcome to the Republican Party, y’all.
