First lady weighs in on Hilary Rosen controversy

[Little Star]

First lady Michelle Obama on Thursday voiced her support for mothers with a brief posting on Twitter.

"Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected. –mo," she said in a message posted as controversy swirls over Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's comments about Ann Romney.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/04/first-lady-weighs-in-on-hilary-rosen-controversy-120338.html


Good on Michelle Obama! What a classy lady!

[patrice]

1. respect is basic.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. The "Hilary Rosen controversy" is right wing generated horse manure.

Michelle has to play nice. But let's be honest, Every mother works hard, but some have to work much harder than others.

Most mothers are not in the 1%. Ann Romney isn't just in the top 1%, she's in the top 0.1%.

[Little Star]

3. True. But regardless, Michelle's comment was pure class.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Yes they were

Michelle is a classy lady.

[PearliePoo2]

4. Horse manure is right....

...and Ann has some VERY expensive horse flesh manufacturing that manure.

[Larkspur]

8. The house my mother raised by 2 brothers and me in is worth less than

1 of Ann "Lovey Howell" Romney's Austrian dressage horses.

My mother was a stay at home mom until my dad died and she had to go back to school to get a teaching degree and find a job as a teacher. We were better financially than others in my mom's predicament, but we were also light years away from Ann's pampered lifestyle. We were fortunate that my father's brothers pooled their resources to pay off the mortgage to our house that dad had bought before he died. But even my paternal uncles, who were small businessmen, combined could not come near Mitt's millions and my mother still had to pay our of her own pocket the property taxes and daily maintenance on the house. She prayed every day that we were not hit with a personal or natural catastrophe. If either my mom, my 2 brothers or I had suffered a major illness, it would have made us homeless. Ann Romney never had to worry about that.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Doors are closing on this faux controversy

But watch the Right beat it to death anyway. They'll go overboard, and lose whatever value it may have had to them for a news cycle. They always do.

[SpencerShay]

7. Good Grief.

I'm disappointed in Michelle Obama for doing this. She played into right-wing's framing of this "non-troversy." Hillary Rosen wasn't picking on mothers, at all. Her point was that Ann Romney is rich, and never had to struggle, like the average working-class woman. Or, man. Ann Romney can't relate, and is not the right spokesperson to reach out to these women. Ann Romney is lucky that she had the choice of never having to earn a paycheck.

[wildflower]

9. Michelle's father had MS, as does Ann Romney

I wonder if her knowledge of how difficult it is played into her speaking out.