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Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected
Tweet on the First Lady’s Twitter feed, signed “-mo” to show it was posted by Michelle Obama herself, in response to Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen’s comment that Mrs. Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.”
You know essentially, you’ve taken on sort of the most sympathetic person in the candidate’s realm, the wife, who is taking care of the children, supporting the husband, doing everything she can because she loves him. Michelle Obama is a pretty terrific woman I have to say, and I think that attacking her is a dumb strategy on the Republican’s part.
— Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen, quoted by the Washington Examiner, on CNN on May 19, 2008. Last night, Rosen attacked Ann Romney on CNN saying she has “actually never worked a day in her life.”
Everybody is on my list. I’m not taking anybody off the list, alright?
— Mitt Romney, quoted by ABC News, on picking a running mate before pointing out, “I actually don’t, I don’t have a list, yet.”
Sure, it would be a major development if [Obama] and his party were to officially endorse gay marriage this year. But look ahead to 2016, when the Democratic nomination will be open. It’s striking how many of the prospective candidates — Andrew Cuomo, Martin O’Malley, Deval Patrick, Sherrod Brown, Dan Malloy, Elizabeth Warren — are on-board with marriage equality. Their position is rapidly becoming the position that all aspiring national Democrats will be expected to take, and it’s virtually inconceivable that the ’16 platform won’t reflect this.
— Steve Kornacki, writing in Salon, noting this will likely be the last election where both presidential candidates oppose gay marriage.
