Posted on 08/08/2012 4:56:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: Mitt Romney wants to take women back to policies of the '50s By Amie Parnes - 08/08/12 04:46 PM ET
President Obama on Wednesday accused Republicans of wanting to take the nation “back to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century” during a campaign stop aimed at securing support from women.
Stumping on a two-day, four-stop swing through Colorado — a state where Obama needs strong turnout from women in November — the president sought to hammer home the benefits his healthcare law includes for families, such as free mammograms and contraception and cancer screenings with no copay.
But the president also emphasized the differences between him and his opponent, Republican presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who he said would take the Affordable Care Act and “kill it dead” on his first day in office.
“The decisions that affect a woman’s health aren’t up to politicians or insurance companies, they’re up to you,” Obama said during a fiery speech before a crowd of nearly all women.
Targeting Romney specifically, Obama said, “He said he’d ‘get rid of’ Planned Parenthood,” as the crowd booed.
“He joined the far right to support a bill that would allow an employer to deny contraceptive coverage to their employees,” Obama added. “Let me tell you something, Denver — I don’t think your boss should control the care you get. I think there is one person who should make decisions on your healthcare, and that person is you,” the president said.
Obama was introduced to the Denver crowd by Sandra Fluke, the recent law school graduate who wound up at the center of controversy earlier this year after she was targeted by Rush Limbaugh for publicly supporting the administration's contraception coverage mandate.
In brief remarks, Fluke credited Obama, who she said “defended my right to speak without being attacked.
“Mr. Romney could only say those weren’t the words he would have chosen," she said. "Well, Mr. Romney, you’re not going to be the candidate we choose." Fluke also chastised Romney, adding, “we know he’ll never stand up for us and he won’t defend the rights that generations of women have fought for.”
Meanwhile, a new Quinnipiac University/CBS/New York Times poll shows the president trailing Romney 50 to 45 percent in Colorado, a state he won with a 9-point margin in 2008.
Even before the president landed in Colorado to deliver his first speech of the two-day tour, Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman Sharon Day accused him of “pandering to women today, hoping to distract from the devastating effects Obama policies have had on female voters."
“Today, unemployment among women is higher than when President Obama took office," Day said. "More women are out of work in the Obama economy, and the few jobs that are created go disproportionately to men. Women who manage the household budget are forced to make do with less as grocery store prices rise and wages fall. Mothers are terrified as they see their children’s future mortgaged by reckless government spending.”
Amanda Henneberg, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, also weighed in, saying that Obama's "four years in office haven't been kind to women.
"Hundreds of thousands of women have lost their jobs, poverty among women is highest in nearly two decades, and half of recent graduates can't find a job," Henneberg said. "Middle-class families have struggled in the Obama economy and Mitt Romney has a plan to strengthen the middle class and get our country back on the right track."
During his speech, Obama said Romney would take the country backward on women’s issues.
“Let me tell you — there’s nothing conservative about a government that prevents a woman from making her own health decisions,” he said. “Freedom is the chance to determine the care you need, when you need it.”
But the president didn’t just focus on women’s health issues. He also reminded the crowd that he was the one who tapped Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
“The next president could tip the balance of the court in a way that turns back the clock for women and families for decades to come,” he said.
He also mocked Romney for not coming forward with a firm answer on equal-pay issues.
“When my opponent’s campaign was asked if he’d fight to guarantee equal pay for equal work, they said ‘we’ll get back to you on that,’” he said.
I was born in 1952 ...I’d love to go back .
Meanwhile Obama wants to take men and women alike back to the 1950s policies of Stalin’s Russia...
You have a viable alternative?
Nah, didn't think so obot.
Romney needs to play it cool as a cucumber in a bowl of hot sauce.
Let us see how this will work as there is no record of achievement to run on:
Scare the hell out of Black Folks with images of Jim Crow:check!
Scare the hell out of Hispanics with rumors of the Tea Party shooting illegals at the border:check!
Scare the hell out of Jews with rumors of Israel attacking a peaceful Iran before the elections:check!
Scare the hell out of Asian with rumors of economic failure like Japan in the 1990s unless we spend more:check!
Scare the hell out of Women by convince them that they will be taken back to the 50’s after 4 years of living in the 30’s:Oh big check on that one!
Romney could quite easily obliterate this charge from the Democrats - by bringing Sarah Palin into his inner circle, making her VP or Secretary of the Interior.
(Note: I believe the Department of Energy should be eliminated and a Bureau of Energy incorporated into the Interior Dept.)
Why would Mitt get rid of Planned Parenthood when...
...he attended a Planned Parenthood event in '94?
...his wife donated $ to Planned Parenthood in '94?
...he pursued abortion industry voters' guides -- two of them -- to be included in 2002?
...he ensured as governor in 2006 that Planned Parenthood would remain part of the "payment policy advisory board" for RomneyCare?
NOTE: Romney could exercise veto power to portions of Commonwealth Care. Did Romney exercise this power? (Yes, he vetoed Sections 5, 27, 29, 47, 112, 113, 134 & 137). What prominent section dealing with Planned Parenthood as part of the "payment policy advisory board" did Romney choose NOT to veto? (Section 3) That section mandates that one member of MassHealth Payment Policy Board must be appointed by Planned Parenthood League of MA. (See chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, section 3 for details).
Also, Mitt was on and off the board for the Marriott...back on again after pulling out of the POTUS campaign in '08...then guess what corporation that Life Decisions Intl placed on its boycott list for supporting Planned Parenthood?
(That's right...the Marriott)
Ahhh, the good ol' days before global cooling was over taken by global warming, nobody knew about any murder rate in Chicago, and presidents didn't lie every day.
SAY WHAT?
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Oh yeah, sure he does, you ****ing Indonesian punk.
How awful if women could live like the 50s again.
No more sluts giving it away for free. A lot less sex out of wedlock, a lot less abortion, a lot more intact families, a home that was actually run by one adult all day, actual decent fresh home cooked meals, someone to supervise and help kids with homework and discuss issues and problems with....?!?
Yeah it just makes me shudder Barry. Proves this commie faggot Kenyan has no idea about America, no love at all for America, and no idea that he continues to insult America when he says crap like this.
Backfire again, Barry.
If Mitt was smart, he’d say I’d rather take the whole country back to the 1950s than Obama, who wants to take everyone back to the 1800s, and some may say the 7th Century where Sharia law is concerned.
And none of that would be an exaggeration in the least.
And also the medical care capability of the 1950s but with the population and diseases of 2012.
I was born in 1956. Wait for meeee! (Why *don’t* like minded people form their own communities- not “communes”, but communities? It isn’t as if there isn’t a decent amount of rural, highway accessible property at reasonable prices.)
My eyes water whenever I see that part of Back To The Future when Fox walks into his Dad’s hometown in the 50’s and Mr. Sandman starts playing and the cameras pan the clean city devoid of porno theaters , homeless bums sleeping on benches , trash in the streets , etc...
It’s easy to lie like this when you know the MSM will back you at any cost.
Barack Hussein Obama said that he would make abortion “more rare”. Obama also said he did not support gay marriage and would defend federal law (Defense of Marriage Act)
Now he has the ultimate government teat sucker, Sandra Fluke, supporting him.
Make no mistake. This is about providing free abortions with our tax dollars. The birth control distraction clouds the true goal. God knows what will happen when women can get unlimited access to abortions.
One thing for sure is that life produced by a man and a woman no longer will have that level of significance that our culture has given it through the ages. Instead the act of creating new life will be secondary to the use of each other’s organs for masturbation.
I know. Those of us in larger cities keep getting pushed farther & farther out. Or being able to take your dogs for a walk in the evening (or go shopping) without wondering if you’ll end up as a casualty on the news. The left is trying to implement “planned communities”. Why aren’t we?
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