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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, like so many other debates on this issue, you are ignoring the full text of what Rosen actually said.

She didn't merely say that AR hadn't worked a day in her life.  She is somewhat being taken out of context.  She was talking about whether AR has had to wrestle with the economic issues most of us confront.

"What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country, saying, 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life," Rosen said.

"She's never really dealt with the kinds of[b] economic issues [/b]that a majority of the women in this country are facing, in terms of [b]how do we feed our kids[/b], how do we send them to school, and why do we worry about their future," Rosen continued, adding that Romney "just seems so old fashioned when it comes to women."

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11:07 here.  As Frank Bruni points out, many politicians have never dealt with the economic issues many of us face.  This is true of both Democrats and Republicans.  And many or most professors and economists and other people who advise politicians haven't either.  Elizabeth Warren is an exception.

In the end, you know, it was just a dumb remark for Rosen to make.  Everyone takes things out of context, whether it's Democrats attacking Romney for saying he isn't worried about the very poor or Republicans assailing Rosen for saying Ann Romney never worked a day in her life.  Rosen knows that.  You don't hand the other side a sound bite like that.  And you don't do it in a way that comes across as a personal attack on a candidate's wife, which is another point Frank Bruni makes. It will be out of the collective mind in a few days, but it leaves a lingering impression that some Democrats don't actually practice what they preach in terms of feminism which is, again, supposed to be about choices.  [/quote]

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