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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear Melinda Henneberger: You can raise 5 boys, battle MS & cancer, and still not be a good person
Ann Romney takes Obama to task
July 8, 2012 12:02 am
By Melinda Henneberger
I believe Ann Romney when she says she's tougher than she was even four years ago. And nobody who's raised five boys and gone up against both breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, as she has, was any hothouse orchid to begin with.
Recently, the presumptive Republican nominee's wife told the Miami Herald that what she most wants the public to know about her is "that I am pretty direct and pretty honest and I don't pull any punches." Message received, Mrs. R! After your latest remarks about President Barack Obama wanting to "kill Romney," though, you might consider dialing back on the kapow.
Now, nobody who is in the public eye every day gets off gaffe-free or phrases everything just as intended. Thank goodness, too, or our tightly scripted politics would be even more devoid of humanity and our elections even more in thrall to those scary voices in the ads.
But was Ann Romney's over-the-top assertion that Mr. Obama's campaign strategy can be summed up in two words -- "kill Romney" -- even an oopsie? I don't think so, because later in the same joint CBS interview with her husband, she interrupted him to repeat herself.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/ann-romney-takes-obama-to-task-643769/
July 8, 2012 12:02 am
By Melinda Henneberger
I believe Ann Romney when she says she's tougher than she was even four years ago. And nobody who's raised five boys and gone up against both breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, as she has, was any hothouse orchid to begin with.
Recently, the presumptive Republican nominee's wife told the Miami Herald that what she most wants the public to know about her is "that I am pretty direct and pretty honest and I don't pull any punches." Message received, Mrs. R! After your latest remarks about President Barack Obama wanting to "kill Romney," though, you might consider dialing back on the kapow.
Now, nobody who is in the public eye every day gets off gaffe-free or phrases everything just as intended. Thank goodness, too, or our tightly scripted politics would be even more devoid of humanity and our elections even more in thrall to those scary voices in the ads.
But was Ann Romney's over-the-top assertion that Mr. Obama's campaign strategy can be summed up in two words -- "kill Romney" -- even an oopsie? I don't think so, because later in the same joint CBS interview with her husband, she interrupted him to repeat herself.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/ann-romney-takes-obama-to-task-643769/
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Dear Melinda Henneberger: You can raise 5 boys, battle MS & cancer, and still not be a good person (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Jul 2012
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IMHO, when Queen Ann made her "kill Romney" comment about President Obama, she made herself
kestrel91316
Jul 2012
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kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)1. IMHO, when Queen Ann made her "kill Romney" comment about President Obama, she made herself
fair game for any and all attacks until this campaign is over.
Eff the people who say we should leave her out of it, being as she's the poor innocent wifey and all.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)2. I think she may be the puppeteer in that tribe. She's a self-centered over-privileged dyonne...n/t
JI7
(90,118 posts)3. i'm not impressed with how she raised her kids
Look at the Obama kids helping the poor at Christmas etc.
Look at the Romney boys avoiding military service and serving their country in a travel home shilling for daddy.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,235 posts)5. Sure - when you have the best medical care available,
a team of people to tend to your every need, manage your household(s), grounds, personal needs, and raise your kids, you don't have odds to face that even puts you on a "hothouse orchid" scale.
The entire argument is void.