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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frank Bruni -- no Republican sympathizer, he -- wrote a thoughtful column on this.  Here's a link:

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/bruni-working-and-women.html[/url]

I agree with many of his points.  I especially like this:

[quote]What’s most bothersome about Rosen’s comment, though, was its betrayal of what the Democratic Party and feminism at their best are supposed to be about: recognizing the full diversity of human experience and empowering everyone along that spectrum to walk successfully down the path of his or her choosing, so long as it poses no clear harm to anyone else.
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I don't think Hilary Rosen is an effective voice for the left, and I don't think she lives in the real world any more than Ann Romney does.  It's worth noting that many if not most pundits, on both sides of the spectrum, live in a world that's fairly detached from the workaday economic concerns that Rosen says Ann Romney is unfamiliar with.

President Obama and the people he is associated with are wise to detach from Hilary Rosen and her comments.  There is absolutely no gain to be found in devaluing the work that stay-at-home mothers do.  I bet Michelle Obama thought it was a particularly dumb thing to say.[/quote]

+1000[/quote]

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