Obama to Women: Mitt Romney Wants to Drag You Back in Time

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The Republican Party has handed Barack Obama a perfect wedge issue by waging total war on women’s rights, and the President is exploiting it — as he should: Obama: Mitt Romney ‘Backward’ on Women.

President Barack Obama told a group of women on Friday that he has been their fiercest advocate and warned that Mitt Romney’s positions on women’s issues represent a step back in time.

“The choice between going backward or moving forward has never been so clear,” Obama told several hundred women at the National Issues Conference, a big-ticket annual fundraiser that’s been hosted by the Democratic National Committee for nearly two decades.

“And as long as I’m president, we are going to keep moving forward. You can count on that. You don’t have to take my word on it – you’ve got my signature on it,” he said, referring to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, before adding a jab at the Romney campaign, which expressed uncertainty recently about whether the candidate supported the law. “Because something like standing up for the principle of equal pay for equal work isn’t something I’ve got to ‘get back to you on’ – it’s the first law I signed.”

UPDATE at 4/28/12 10:13:11 am

And a typically illiterate response from the world’s dumbest wingnut blogger: OBAMA DECLARES WAR on CHRISTIANS… Says Not Supporting FREE Birth Control Is Like “Being in a Time Machine” | the Gateway Pundit.

Race war, war on the rich, war on women, now this…
Barack Obama Declared War on the Catholic Church and US Christians today.

In Obama’s world, free birth control is a natural human right and should be supplied by the state.
But he’s not a socialist?

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20 comments
1 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:13:26am

But, women are happier at home with the children.

/gah

2 William of Orange  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:13:26am

Damage for "Komen for the Cure" far from over.


This is what you get when politics mess with charity. We've seen what happened when Komen made the political decission to defind Planned Parenthood. Still, the damage is far from over.

3 Irving  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:15:03am

...and now Romney will try and "bracket" Obama by defending his position on women again, an issue that he has no way of winning at this point. The incumbent's attacking the challenger, letting him lead. Who on earth is advising Romney? Good God, I could do better.

4 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:15:26am

My new Mantra --

pass it on.

disclaimer --my store, my design, any (I don't anticipate any) proceeds are shared with the local battered women's shelter.

5 Obdicut  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:20:49am

And here is the problem in shifting radically to the right, as the GOP has done: Romney is a 'moderate' on women's issues according to the GOP. He supports the 'right' of states to ban abortion, he equivocates about the simple issue of equal pay, his endorsement of the Ryan Budget would severely hurt women. This may make him 'moderate' to the GOP, but it puts him far, far, far outside the mainstream in the US, especially among women.

6 [deleted]  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:27:54am
7 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:32:58am
8 Mich-again  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:40:44am

Time for the GOP/Tea Party to Mittigate the losses.

9 Randall Gross  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:47:01am

The birth control is not free, it's part of the employee's compensation package. Nothing you get through insurance companies is free, none of your benefits are free.

10 Charles Johnson  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:49:41am

re: #9 Randall Gross

The birth control is not free, it's part of the employee's compensation package. Nothing you get through insurance companies is free, none of your benefits are free.

Of course. Jim Hoft is either lying or too stupid to understand the difference. Probably the latter.

Stupidity and blind hatred is a bad combination.

11 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 10:50:34am

Did I post this yet?

12 Kronocide  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 12:03:19pm

Government birth control = War on Christians

Facking Idiocy, how does it work?

13 Stephen T.  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 4:36:22pm

re: #7 ggt

hmmm


FCC Requires Top Market TV Stations To Post Political Ad Data Online

I can see the need for this. A television station in my area charged more for one candidate than it did for another a little while back.

14 rwmofo  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 7:02:07pm

OK, I'll admit I'm chiming in on a "dead thread," however, I only see 13 comments ahead of me. So I'll allow myself a little leeway here. This article is supposedly addressing our ("Our" being us right-wing extremists of course) "War on Women."

Do any of you "characters" who have been so adamant that we've actually declared a "War on Women" have, like, one documented, credible source who has openly said "Yes. It's official. We've declared a 'War on Women'"? NO!!! You don't!!! You left-wingers have made it up because you're so desperate for your government takeover of our individual freedoms that you make shit up, throw it against the wall and pray (Whoa, how does praying go over with the wacko left-wing crowd? More on that later.) that the gullible will buy into this crap.

I'm a right-winger - according to the label so many here gleefully tag on someone who supports our Bill of Rights, as opposed to those who can't get enough of government control over our daily lives.

I'm on record here for all us "crazy, nut-job, right-wing, extremists" saying here, today: "We haven't declared a "War on Women." We love women. We want women to have all the freedoms that males have, particularly those delineated in OUR Bill of Rights. Here's a major difference between the right and left. We on the right don't dumb down the notion that all women are the same, all races are the same, all southerners are the same, all union members are the same (Yowza!! There are actually some conservative union members!! Smithers, release the hounds!!)

You got it wrong!! Not only do we want women to be our equals, we are fully behind them surpassing us, curing cancer, finding that sock we lost doing the laundry, showing us how to hit a curve ball - the list is endless!!!

That's right!!! I said it!!! I love women!!! I want women!!!! I NEED women!!! We all do actually. Even you off the rails, left wingers who only want to use women for political gain.

I dare you clowns to down-ding this post.

15 Interesting Times  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 7:35:28pm

re: #14 rwmofo

Stuff this down your throat:

The bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 has passed the Senate, and every single Senator who voted against it was a Republican man.

...and this up your ass:

In addition to these laws, more than 120 other bills have been approved by at least one chamber of the legislature, and some interesting trends are emerging. As a whole, the proposals introduced this year are more hostile to abortion rights than in the past: 56% of the bills introduced so far this year seek to restrict abortion access, compared with 38% last year. Three topics—insurance coverage of abortion, restriction of abortion after a specific point in gestation and ultrasound requirements—are topping the agenda in several states

16 Sophia77  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 8:39:46pm

Indeed, sir, if you love us so much and want us to have "freedom," like MEN, how dare you force us to undergo intrusive and unnecessary medical procedures, some of which amount to emotional and even physical torture?

Or limit our pay?

Or restrict our ability to control our own fertility, our own bodies?

No. You don't have to declare a war on women, it's pretty obvious from your behavior that the Right is waging one though.

This is also a war on ideas, on freedom, since much of these attacks have a religious basis. The Right has decided that its morality is what we all must follow and believe in, including the idea that contraception is bad (per Santorum) and that on the one hand, men have a right to free Viagra and women can't get equal access to contraception.

So the war isn't just against women, it's against freedom and the right to form our own moral code and follow our own religious beliefs.

17 wheat-dogg  Sat, Apr 28, 2012 11:32:21pm

re: #14 rwmofo

I took your dare. I downdinged you. Now whatcha gonna do?

And this remark of yours bears some reply: "You left-wingers have made it up because you're so desperate for your government takeover of our individual freedoms that you make shit up, throw it against the wall and pray ..."

Which political party has been going out of its way to legislate AGAINST women getting low-cost medical care, contraception, etc? Which political party wants to legislate morality vis a vis same-sex marriage? Which political party is hellbent on legislation to make the lives of immigrants, legal or otherwise, more difficult? Which political party is trying to restrict access to the voting booth with nonsensical voter-ID laws?

IIRC, it ain't the Democrats.

18 Flavia  Sun, Apr 29, 2012 2:15:53am

re: #12 Kronocide

Government birth control = War on Christians

Facking Idiocy, how does it work?

Yeah, I would hate to even be near someone so stupid as to believe that even if you hand out birth control like candy, it's a "war" on ANYONE or ANYTHING! How is "letting people who want it have it" the same as "FORCING YOU TO TAKE IT AGAINST YOUR WILL ZOMG ELEVENTY!" Because"forcing people to take it" is about the closest I can think to it being a "war" in any way, shape, or form.

19 kirkspencer  Sun, Apr 29, 2012 4:38:34am

re: #14 rwmofo

[snip]
Do any of you "characters" who have been so adamant that we've actually declared a "War on Women" have, like, one documented, credible source who has openly said "Yes. It's official. We've declared a 'War on Women'"? NO!!! You don't!!! You left-wingers have made it up because you're so desperate for your government takeover of our individual freedoms that you make shit up, throw it against the wall and pray (Whoa, how does praying go over with the wacko left-wing crowd? More on that later.) that the gullible will buy into this crap.
[snip]

ahem.
"War on Christmas."
"War on Guns."
"War on Religion."

Heck, Jon Stewart did a whole segment ridiculing your point.

.

So much for that claim.

20 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Sun, Apr 29, 2012 11:14:41am

re: #14 rwmofo

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Not a high intelligence specimen, are you?


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