"Dignity Of Work" Was Touted By Obama-Biden
Mitt Romney has come under fire for a comments made at a January 4th New Hampshire town hall unearthed by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes saying mothers without jobs on welfare need to know “the dignity of work.” The comments seem to undermine the Romney campaign’s attack on Democrats for dismissing stay-at-home mothers. But the focus on the “dignity of work,” and on ending old-fashioned welfare, was also championed by both President Obama and Vice President Biden in 2008 when touting Obama’s record on welfare reform in the Illinois State Senate.
HOT ON
More Buzz
Facebook Conversations
1 Response So Far
- toughlove2 thinks "Dignity Of Work" Was Toute... is WTF
- Dr. Colder thinks "Dignity Of Work" Was Toute... is Fail
- jeena11 "Dignity Of Work" Was Touted By Obama... and thinks it’s Win
-
taylorl7 a year agoRomney was completely outraged at the very idea of someone suggesting that motherhood wasn’t work. Romney’s camp also trotted out the slogan that “ Moms do Work“ and claimed that liberals think motherhood isn‘t work. So far, we have video from this year in which Romney states that “ Even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to work.” And another video from 1994 in which he says “ This is a different world than it in the 1960s when I was growing up, when you used to have Mom at home and Dad at work. “ Pointing to President Obama, VP Biden or even former President Clinton’s support for welfare to work like they so clumsily tried to do earlier today won’t erase the fact that as of Sunday his current position was that all mothers work, motherhood is hard work, and anyone who even slightly suggest otherwise is a mommy hater.
-
Special Reactions
Your Reaction?
React with an animated GIF!
READY. SET. REACT!
GET STARTED