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Romney: Binders full of women

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Phokus said:
Here's what the actual group had to say, nice shitty blog you have there:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-responds-to-mitt-romney-on-women-appointees/

TLDR: It wasn't Romney's initiative, he lied.
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Thanks for the link. It directly contradicts the timing in the original blog link.

MassGAP statement:
Following the election, MassGAP formed committees for each cabinet post in the administration and began the process of recruiting, interviewing, and vetting women applicants. Those committees selected top applicants for each position and presented this information to the administration for follow-up interviews and consideration for appointment.
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Original blog statement:
They did the research and put together the binder full of women qualified for all the different cabinet positions, agency heads, and authorities and commissions. They presented this binder to Governor Romney when he was elected.
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How did they present it to Romney when he was elected when they didn't start working on it until after the election?

Once again, how does that contradict what he said?
 
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Oh look! A squirrel! Pay no attention to the economy! Pay no attention to the Debt! Meanwhile, Obama pays the women on his staff less than the men on his staff. Which is exactly what the debate question was about. Women making less then men. But hey, that damn Romney! He has a binder full of women!
 
jjjayb said:
Oh look! A squirrel! Pay no attention to the economy! Pay no attention to the Debt! Meanwhile, Obama pays the women on his staff less than the men on his staff. Which is exactly what the debate question was about. Women making less then men. But hey, that damn Romney! He has a binder full of women!
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I looked at those articles.

How to lie with fake statistics.

Take all women and men regardless of position and use their median income as the mark for fair wage.

Shenanigans
 
I don't see the issue with that particular remark. I didn't think it was offensive when I listened to it in real time, and I don't find it offensive now upon reflection.
 
woolfe9999 said:
I don't see the issue with that particular remark. I didn't think it was offensive when I listened to it in real time, and I don't find it offensive now upon reflection.
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I'm as clueless as you in that regard. I asked my wife but all I got was a dirty glare and I wasn't fool enough to pursue the topic. I can see dumping on Romney for (a) using an anecdote to evade answering the simple direct question put to him-are you in favor of equal pay laws and (b) to add insult to injury, having his evasion anecdote be proven to be false, but neither of those seem to be what has gotten people hot.
 
Was the "binders full of women" comment offensive? No. Is it funny when taken literally? Kind of, funny enough for an Internet meme.

Instead, what was offensive, was romneys inability to answer a simple question, what will he do about equal pay for women? He didn't address the question and he made up a story that was unrelated to the question.
 
Binders presented to be looked through for qualified job applicants? Would use of the word folders change anything? Maybe Romney and his staff should have used piles then flipped these piles in the air and hired the applicants whose paperwork landed face up.

Using the word binders is business speak the point is there were many of applicants and they had to be organized somehow.
 
ivwshane said:
Was the "binders full of women" comment offensive? No. Is it funny when taken literally? Kind of, funny enough for an Internet meme.

Instead, what was offensive, was romneys inability to answer a simple question, what will he do about equal pay for women? He didn't address the question and he made up a story that was unrelated to the question.
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How do you answer a question premised on a lie?

You might as well ask him what he will do about the midwest unicorn problem.

The amount of double think required by liberals to believe that corporations only care about their profits and yet will continue to hire men at 133% the rate of women is ridiculous

EDIT: The correct answer would be to point out that Obama pays the men on his staff more than women (as was pointed out above). Doesn't seem like someone I would trust on equal pay to me.

If obama, then claimed the reasonable explanation for that. Then Romney could point out that the 77% stat is arrived at the same way. And the he, Romney, would work to improve the pay for all American's instead of divisively pandering to one group over another.
 
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nehalem256 said:
How do you answer a question premised on a lie?

You might as well ask him what he will do about the midwest unicorn problem.

The amount of double think required by liberals to believe that corporations only care about their profits and yet will continue to hire men at 133% the rate of women is ridiculous

EDIT: The correct answer would be to point out that Obama pays the men on his staff more than women (as was pointed out above). Doesn't seem like someone I would trust on equal pay to me.

If obama, then claimed the reasonable explanation for that. Then Romney could point out that the 77% stat is arrived at the same way. And the he, Romney, would work to improve the pay for all American's instead of divisively pandering to one group over another.
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Well shit! I'll trust you and your right wing sources any day (oh you didn't have any sources)!/s


Just because you don't believe there is a problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.


Oh and if the premise is a lie then should Romney have said he wouldn't have voted for the LLB act and then explain why? Of course you don't think that because it would have damaged him politically, instead he chose to talk about something else. What courage he has! What honesty he has! He is so good at addressing the tuff issues!
 
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woolfe9999 said:
I don't see the issue with that particular remark. I didn't think it was offensive when I listened to it in real time, and I don't find it offensive now upon reflection.
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It's a very tight race and neither side has made significant missteps lately. Therefore anything someone imagines might be spun to be offensive will be shouted as if the candidate had said something like "I like to eat baked children, because they are more tender than adults."
 
werepossum said:
It's a very tight race and neither side has made significant missteps lately. Therefore anything someone imagines might be spun to be offensive will be shouted as if the candidate had said something like "I like to eat baked children, because they are more tender than adults."
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I prefer mine deep fried. Kentucky Fried Children.
 
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