Thursday Afternoon Thread: The First Lady on The Colbert Report

FLOTUS ROCKS!!!

Michelle looked gorgeous! Dang, I want her shoes! She is so charming, so poised & warm hearted with a great sense of humor. It amazes me that anyone could think Ann Romney can compete with this. Eat Michelle’s dust, Annie Bananie!

Gotta post this comment from Balloon Juice about the Hilary Rosen non-traversy and how supporters are playing into the GOP/RW/R-Money trap:

Catsy Says:

Everyone knows what she MEANT to say. (lamh35: this is rom previous commenter)

This is a joke, right? It’s not about what she MEANT to say, it’s what she DID say that is being completely omitted by everyone—including you—who is still flogging this manufactured outrage.

She (lamh35: Rosen)
DID in fact say of Ann Romney:

Rosen: She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we—why do we worry about their future?

She DID in fact say that immediately following the words that everyone is removing from their context.

Rosen’s only offense was a single line that was twisted into being offensive solely by entirely removing it from the context of everything else that came before and after it.

(lamh35, preious commenter)
And I guess she sees that since she has now, after engaging in drama all day, and fanning the flames of what is a ridiculous fire, APOLOGIZED.

An apology which very notably—and properly—does NOT back down from the point she was making or concede ground to the right’s attempt to frame this as an attack on stay-at-home moms.

Rosen: “Let’s put the faux ‘war against stay at home moms’ to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his poor record on the plight of women’s financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.”

Good for her…

The only reason this issue is having any traction at all is because people like you are helping the right wing lie about what she said.

Stop doing their job for them.

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Two More Companies — Including Candymaker Mars, Inc. — Sever Ties With ALEC |

The American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing corporate front group that helped passed “stand your ground” laws and voter suppression initiatives in states across the country, lost two more member companies. In an email sent to Color of Change, a progressive group organizing the petition against ALEC, Mars, Inc., the maker of M&M’s and Snickers, announced that they have “decided not to renew the ALEC membership in 2012.” Arizona’s largest energy company, Arizona Public Service, has severed ties with ALEC as well. Following pressure from progressives, a host of other companies announced they would no longer contribute to ALEC in the past two weeks, including Coca Cola, Pepsi Co, Intuit, Kraft, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wendy’s.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/12/463893/mars-inc-severs-ties-alec/

While Dems were running to protect Ann Romney, this happened:

Governor Jan Brewer Signs Arizona’s Extreme New Abortion Law

Despite its name, critics derided the Women’s Health and Safety Act that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law today as cruel, dangerous, and hostile to women—likely to deter many Arizona women from seeking an abortion, and to distress those who nonetheless go through with one.

Life starts earliest in Arizona, which now defines gestational age as beginning on the first day of a woman’s last period, rather than at fertilization. In practice, that means the state has banned abortions after about 18 weeks (20 weeks from the last menstruation) except in the case of medical emergencies. While that provision has been much discussed, abortions after that point account for only about 1 percent of the procedures currently performed.

more here
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/12/governor-jan-brewer-signs-arizona-s-extreme-new-abortion-law.html

Miranda – - –WATCHIN’ — -REP. Maxine —- —☻”HAIR” neatly coiffed. -:>) – -

– -☻RE-ITERATED – —in an “UNLEASHED MANNER” – — The RE-THUGS have a WAR ON WOMEN!! – —THAT! IS! ALL!!

Annnd – - – ,☻ she POSITIVELY acknowledged – - -MR. PRESIDENT’S SUPPORT of WOMEN —especially with the – - -LILY LEDBETTER ACT.

WAY-ELL! – –:>)

Ok, I”m done with “Rosen-gate”. there are way more VIP things in the world, and so far NO ONE I know outside of blogs, twitter, political press has any idea about this bullshit.

Anyway, I said yesterday, that I don’t like hte Martin’s lawyers, and after all the interviews today, I’m still throwing them the SEOD.

IMHO, now that an arrest has been made, the parents need a mintues to digest and grieve and ease their minds from the ordeal of advocating and protesting in hopes of an arrest, these interviews are not good.

And I suspect that it’s the lawyers who are advocating doing these interviews. With each subsequent interview, the parents espeically Trayvon’s mom just seems tired and when you are tired, things like the “Trayvon’s killing was an accident” statement gets made.

I hope someone, maybe Rev Al is counseling them to rest from interviews.

Anyway, good hope for the family.