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[Professor H]

Obama Advisor - talks down to "Stay at home mom's"... 

Now a review of his own staff and "equal" pay issues... 

Stop Obama’s War on Women Staffers!
By Deroy Murdock
April 12, 2012
Speaking of a War on Women, look who pays his male employees 18 percent more than what he pays his female staffers: President Barack Obama!

Yes, the Great Equalizer of Women and Men, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Feminism, turns out to compensate men at the White House almost one-fifth more money than women who work at the Executive Mansion, according to a report by Andrew Stiles in the Washington Free Beacon. Stiles’s article on Wednesday, in turn, was based on an analysis of the “2011 Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff.” This document provides the names, titles, and salaries of 454 of Obama’s workers. While women at the Obama White House earned median annual salaries of $60,000 last year, the equivalent remuneration for their male colleagues was some $71,000 — roughly 18 percent higher.

This gender inequality is slightly worse than the sex-based income gap at Obama’s former Senate outposts on Capitol Hill and in Illinois. Disclosure filings show that men who worked for Obama’s legislative offices earned 17 percent more than women on his staff. If anything, the pay disparity between men and women on Team Obama has widened marginally as his power has grown, along with his pay.

Why so many women left behind?

One explanation for Obama’s pay inequity is that he apparently is just not that into women in high places. Since his Senate days, top salaries have tended to benefit predominantly male senior staffers, while the lower-paid junior ranks have been the likelier places to find women.

More at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295875/stop-obama-s-war-women-staffers-deroy-murdock

[Professor H]

Democrat hitwoman Hilary Rosen visited at the White House, including at least 5 POTUS meetings
   
By Michelle Malkin  •  April 12, 2012 10:57 AM

White House visitor logs show that Hilary Rosen, the DC lobbyist/Anita Dunn colleague who attacked Ann Romney’s stay-at-home-mom status on CNN last night, visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. at least 35 times.
(Remember: White House logs are an inaccurate measure of ACTUAL White House visits, as liberal media outlets/watchdogs themselves have reported and as I’ve reminded you many times.)


More illuminating than the number of visits is the info about who Hilary Rosen visited. (Note: The vast majority of entries list “Hilary B. Rosen” as the visitor; Rosen’s middle name is Beth. White House press secretary Jay Carney lamely obfuscated earlier this morning about whether the Rosen in question was indeed the visitor listed in logs or another of the “three” Hilary Rosens he knows.)

The records are a mess, so let me break it down for you:
3/11/09 Meeting with White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett.
3/13/09 Meeting with David Axelrod.
3/30/09 Meeting with top Big Labor operative and political director Patrick Gaspard.
9/21/09 Meeting w/Natalie Bookey, East Wing aide, and unidentified visitee.
10/8/09 Meeting with WH senior press lead, Jesse Lewin.
10/13/09 Meeting with POTUS — President Barack Obama.
10/22/09 Meeting with Anita Dunn, former WH communications director.
10/28/09 Meeting with POTUS in the East Room.
11/25/09 Unidentified East Wing (First Lady Michelle Obama’s office) meeting.
1/26/10 Rosen visited Dagoberta Vega, White House broadcasting media official and director of surrogate booking.
2/1/10 Rosen visited top White House official Jim Messina, now Obama’s 2012 campaign manager.
2/24/10 Rosen visited White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett.
3/24/10 Rosen visited White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett.
7/7/10 Meeting w/Jocelyn Frye, East Wing aide.
12/10/10 Rosen visited Ellie Schafer, White House Visitors Office director, in the East Wing.
12/10/10 Meeting with POTUS.
9/8/11 Meeting with Kristina Schake, East Wing aide.
12/7/11 Meeting w/POTUS and Marie Aberger, White House press assistant.
12/7/11 Meeting with Ellie Schafer, White House Visitors Office director.
1/6/11 Meeting w/Dagoberta Vega, White House broadcasting media official and director of surrogate booking.
1/21/11 Meeting w/Meredith Carden, an aide to First Lady Michelle Obama, Old Executive Office Building.
1/24/11 Meeting w/Samuel Wilson, deputy director of broadcast media for the White House office of communications.
1/28/11 Meeting w/Jason Dempsey, White House fellow.
2/2/11 Meeting w/Obama bundler and top aide to both POTUS and FLOTUS, Tina Tchen.
2/24/11 Meeting w/POTUS.
2/24/11 Meeting at WH Visitors Office.
2/14/11 Meeting w/Samuel Wilson, deputy director of broadcast media for the White House office of communications.
3/19/11 Meeting w/Alexader Lasry,strategic engagement aide.
3/18/11 Two meetings listed with Jeremy Bernard, White House social secretary.
6/15/11 Meeting w/Dag Vega, WH surrogate booking director.
8/5/11 Meeting w/Ellie Schafer, WH Visitors Office director.
Plus: 12/15/09 – 12/15/10 – 12/15/11 — Incomplete entries, no visitee identified.

Bottom line: For the last three years, Hilary Rosen has met nearly three dozen times with top Obama communications and political strategists from Valerie Jarrett to David Axelrod to Anita Dunn to Jim Messina to the president himself.
Any notion that her frontal assault on GOP women was an accident or lone wolf move is contradicted by the long paper trail of her intimate working relationship with the White House campaign/media team. The data also puts the disavowals of Messina/Axelrod last night into much-needed perspective.
They can’t disassociate themselves from one of their most frequent visitors and associates.
They just never expected the fierce online/social media pushback they got from conservative women, who are beating them at their own medium.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/04/12/heres-who-democrat-hitwoman-hilary-rosen-visited-at-the-white-house-including-at-least-5-potus-meetings/

[blue2]

Rosen is a Anita Dunn colleague.  Dunn is one of Obama's special assistants and an admitted socialist.  Another associated is the little sweety from Georgtown U that wanted free birth control.  She kind of disappear since she was exposed.

[lordfly]

Why, exactly, is "socialist" a bad word?

[ussoccer26]

Why, exactly, is "socialist" a bad word?

Nazi: National Socialist German Workers' Party

The group that came to power in the USSR was socialist.

There are many more examples throughout history where socialists do more to oppress the people than they do to free them of their hardships. That is why.

[SMASH]

Well that pretty much sums it up.

[Frenchfry]

LOL...aside from those that mistakenly think that Socialists/Socialism means Nazism...

Hilary Beth Rosen (born 1958) is an American lobbyist and Democratic pundit. She worked for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 16 years where she was CEO from 1998 to 2003. She is currently with the unregister lobbying firm SKDKnickerbocker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Rosen

Good luck finding the photo where Obama has his hand up her backside and playing puppeteer.

It's inconceivable that anyone could blame Obama for what another person says.

And it's possible that Rosen may have been right....Ann Romney probably has servants to do everything.

I love the photos on this site:
http://www.sternfannetwork.com/xen/index.php?threads/ann-romney-has-never-worked-a-day-in-her-life.658471/

[Frenchfry]

Found this:

Ann Romney is rich

Extremely rich. She has servants and horses and car elevators, for chrissake. Wasn’t that the point Hilary Rosen was trying to make when she said that Ann Romney has “never worked a day in her life”? Yes, I believe it was, Batman. Rosen’s word choice was extremely poor, I grant you: taken out of context, it certainly could sound like she was saying that being a stay-at-home-mom isn’t work. But Rosen, who is herself a mother, clarified in a blog post:

    Now let’s be clear on one thing. I have no judgements about women who work outside the home vs. women who work in the home raising a family. I admire women who can stay home and raise their kids full-time. I even envy them sometimes. It is a wonderful luxury to have the choice. But let’s stipulate that it is NOT a choice that most women have in America today.

    Why does this even matter? It matters purely because Mitt Romney put the issue of his wife’s views squarely on the table.

    As Ruth Marcus noted in her column yesterday in the Washington Post, Romney, when asked last week about the gender gap, twice said he wished his wife could take the question.

    “My wife has the occasion, as you know, to campaign on her own and also with me,” Romney told newspaper editors, “and she reports to me regularly that the issue women care about most is the economy.”

    So it begs the question, is Ann Romney Mitt’s touchstone for women who are struggling economically or not? Nothing in Ann Romney’s history as we have heard it — hardworking mom she may have been — leads me to believe that Mitt has chosen the right expert to get feedback on this problem he professes to be so concerned about.

One more time: the Romneys are rich. Super rich. Ann Romney has never had to worry about money, never had to juggle an outside job with childcare, never had to stretch a dollar to feed her kids. That was the point Rosen was making.

In a subsequent statement, Rosen added:

    “Let’s put the faux ‘war against stay at home moms’ to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his poor record on the plight of women’s financial struggles…

    “As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let’s declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.”

Anything beyond this is just the wingnuts doing their quadrennial dance wherein they pretend to be the “real” feminists by sticking up for rich housewives and nice white ladies with lots of kids, etc., etc., etc. I’m going AWOL on this sh*t.
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2012/04/12/ann-romney-is-rich/

[ussoccer26]

LOL...aside from those that mistakenly think that Socialists/Socialism means Nazism...

Good luck finding the photo where Obama has his hand up her backside and playing puppeteer.

It's inconceivable that anyone could blame Obama for what another person says.

And it's possible that Rosen may have been right....Ann Romney probably has servants to do everything.

I love the photos on this site:
http://www.sternfannetwork.com/xen/index.php?threads/ann-romney-has-never-worked-a-day-in-her-life.658471/

NAZI was the German socialist party! There is no mistake about it.

[Frenchfry]

NAZI was the German socialist party! There is no mistake about it.

And to you that must mean the word "socialist" cannot mean anything other than Nazism?

[Frenchfry]

CNN should apologize for Wolf Blitzer' bullying Hilary Rosen into (another) apology to Ann Romney

[ducksoup]

Nazi: National Socialist German Workers' Party

The group that came to power in the USSR was socialist.

There are many more examples throughout history where socialists do more to oppress the people than they do to free them of their hardships. That is why.

In April, 1920, Hitler advocated that the party should change its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Hitler had always been hostile to socialist ideas, especially those that involved racial or sexual equality. However, socialism was a popular political philosophy in Germany after the First World War. This was reflected in the growth in the German Social Democrat Party (SDP), the largest political party in Germany.

Hitler, therefore redefined socialism by placing the word 'National' before it. He claimed he was only in favour of equality for those who had "German blood". Jews and other "aliens" would lose their rights of citizenship, and immigration of non-Germans should be brought to an end.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnazi.htm

The Nazi Party was the Nazi Party.  Hitler used a socialist organization to corrupt to his distortion.

I can site examples of Republican's oppressing the people, does that make them Nazi"s?

[lordfly]

Nazi: National Socialist German Workers' Party

The group that came to power in the USSR was socialist.

There are many more examples throughout history where socialists do more to oppress the people than they do to free them of their hardships. That is why.

North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Obviously, democracies, republics, and people are evil.

[ussoccer26]

And to you that must mean the word "socialist" cannot mean anything other than Nazism?

I actually read the wording of your previous statement wrong, my bad.

[ussoccer26]

North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Obviously, democracies, republics, and people are evil.

I'm sure it is when it comes from a socialist's point of view.