I have two boys and let me tell you, I can't imagine raising 5 (I originally stated 7 but double checked and it is 5). Between the sports, school activities and friends, I am constantly running them around!
I was a SAHM for nine years and went back part-time now that they are in school. DH works lot's of hours so the amount of stress added to him and the family if I worked full-time would be too much for us. If DH made a ton of money I probably wouldn't work either. There are a ton of things one can do to be a useful and contributing member to society without getting paid.
Obama never held a private sector job....
I was actually trying to focus on what this reflects of *his* views and *his* beliefs and how that might effect his decisions as president . . . not so much reflecting on her choices in life.
I just can't connect to her - women like her (like my mother in law - and my grandmother in law) I wouldn't choose her path (their path) in life: I would have felt like I failed as an individual if I spent my entire life caring for my kids and grandkids and became nothing more than my husband's sidekick and trophy wife. Honestly - until I started college I did feel like that about myself and it damn near drove me to suicide. So maybe I'm putting myself in her shoes and imagining myself wanting to claw my eyes out as I only became tethered to his hip my whole life - a mere dependent child that never grows up - and dies forever reliant on someone else's welfare to carry me through . . . not a feel-good thing to me at all.
I have one and she just about drives us both crazy. Love her with everything in me though.
I'm raising a 10 week old puppy and she's about killed me. :lol:
Yeah, a much better strategy is to attack hispanics, women, and the poor. The Republicans have that down to a fine art.
I expect raising your two would have been a lot easier if you'd had Ann Romney's staff. Somehow Ann doesn't look like the changing diapers, making school lunches type. Of course she might have taken them to school in one of her two cadillacs. Or had her driver do it.
Neither can I, which is why the husband will be getting "fixed" after two. I think that'll be my max. :lamo
But at some point you stop being a stay at home mom - their youngets child was born in 1981, making him one year younger than me. . . she is no longer a stay at home mom for her children - that is no longer her description in life and does not account for their actual beliefs at present.
What does she do - if anything - with all these years she's had? Where does he fall in his beliefs? If we bring the President's career choices and his wife's career choices into question (yes - I was here last election: I remmeber all of that quite clearly and it wasn't all a negative issue) then why can't we question this and what it reflects on them as people of this country.
I have a serious problem with a grown capable woman who does not find employment - ever. My husband's mother is one and she's lowly in my view: living freely and welloff on the hard work of others and has done nothing to earn anything for herself. It is a questionable existance: it's wealthy laziness.
This was a colosally stupid thing to say.
Axelrod and Messina are running for the hills. The ridiculous "War on Women" meme has been completely shattered in the last 48 hours.
This was a colosally stupid thing to say.
Axelrod and Messina are running for the hills. The ridiculous "War on Women" meme has been completely shattered in the last 48 hours.
Irrelevant point and needless stereo typing. Good fall back plan when your argument has failed. :doh
I don't know if the Romney family had nannies, but I do know some very rich mormons in Logan, Utah who don't have nannies...they do have housecleaners come in once a week, tho. We used to hire house cleaners, and we aren't rich.
The families I am thinking of have businesses, and often the wife will work there. In one case, the wife is the majority owner of the business and works full time at it.
And most of them did not start out wealthy....can't speak for all of them.
fixed? you mean broken.....he ain't broken now, but you plan on breaking him.....but better to be broken that broke, kids are expensive.
Been There Done That.....
Does she really have MS? I wasn't aware of that. If that's true I seriously hope it didn't flare up until her children were older. Battling MS while raising children is hellacious from what I've observed.
Actually, a far more accurate point than the one you weretrying to make.
And I was making no argument, just an observation.
I know you have a post to prove this point, yes? Now run check you Libby sites, surely someone has been snooping on the Romney's at home.
So a female liberal says a mother of five never worked a day in her life, and here is a thread full of excuse making for what she said, and all sorts of other diversions.
Had a man, or worse, a (R) made such a comment, these are the same kind of people that would be outraged.
Go figure. Another day, another wheelbarrow of hypocrisy.
MS itself is a nightmare, whether you are raising kids or not. I used to play benefits to raise money for MS, and was a chili cookoff judge. Yes, I was certified to be a chili cookoff judge too. I donated a lot of time to this cause.
Here's the deal. People need to lay off both Obama's wife and Romney's wife, and deal with the issues at hand. I know that this is difficult because both Romney and Obama have injected their wives into their campaigns, and some will say that makes them legitimate targets. But neither wife is a candidate for President of the United States either. That is where all the ****ing dishonesty comes in, and make no mistake about it - Talking heads for both sides are doing this crap. If the American people want to fall for this game, then they have no right at all to complain that their government is not working for them. After all, it was THEY who decided to go after family instead of giving a damn about the issues at hand.
Just my 2 cents on the matter.
I could have guessed a puppy would take you under. You just don't seem to have a strong constitution. :lamo
You got that right. This is a Axelrod and Messina "cover the President's butt" scramble. One little big mouthed Demo/Libby just shot the admin in the foot.
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