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Last night’s presidential debate was far-and-away better than the first round. Not because the conversation was any less of a political circus, but because the conversation was actually about relevant issues—funny how when you open up questions to an audience, rather than just an moderator, topics like birth control, equal pay, and student debt are suddenly on the table. The word “women” wasn’t mentioned once in the first presidential debate, last night it came up 31 times.
Anyway, here were my three favorite quotes from the debate:
1. “Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives,” said Mitt Romney. Hooray! I’m so glad he changed his stance on repealing Obamacare, which includes a provision that entirely covers the cost of birth control for women with insurance. He has also apparently changed his mind about supporting the bill that would allow employers to ban their insurance from covering birth control for religious reasons. Both of those changes, which Romney used to back, would limit access to contraceptives for American women.
2. “These are not just women’s issues. These are family issues,” said Barack Obama, referring to women being routinely underpaid in every state. As I wrote about last week, underpaying women hurts the people we support as well as our ability to be retire with any kind of self-sufficient savings. Obama’s understanding of this didn’t stop headlines like this, though.
3. “We need moms and dads, helping to raise kids,” said Mitt Romney, explaining how he would reduce gun violence by, uh, encouraging marriage?
Here’s a novel idea. Pay for your own fuckin’ contraception or make that bearded douche you’re spreading your hairy legs for pay for it.
Personal responsibility. Isn’t it a bitch? Grow up.
Yeah, bitch, pay for your own cervical cancer medicine!
Ignorance is bliss, isn’t it? Go scream at telephone poles, lunatic.
“Psyched for Romney’s Free Birth Control Plan!”
What part of the headline did you miss? Christ, man. And you call me a lunatic?
Don’t call me a bitch, you lint licker. hahahahahaha.
And following me around like a little fanboy does nothing but add to my legend. Thanks.
I am sad for you.
My favorite was “…if you’re going to have women in the workforce”. You know, if these ladies are going to work and make less money than us, they need time off to have babies.
Whaaaaat? Women don’t have babies anymore? Who does? Is there a law against babies? I know Humpy hates stupid, stupid babies but c’mon now. Are we doomed as a species? How will we procreate? How WILL WE SURVIVE?
Please tell me who to hate for this! Romney? Gotcha! I hate THAT fucker now. He hates women? Babies? What? Wait…..hold on…. he hates women? That doesn’t sound right. Heeeey. Wait a minute…..I see what’s happening here…..
You guys are funny. Women already have many, many choices and yeah, the income inequality shit does suck for them but that has been explained very well that it is due mostly to childbirth and child care, not some ominous plan by men to keep them “in their place”.
To suggest otherwise is the height of hilarity. I gotta hand it to you guys, you sure are good for a laugh. Please don’t stop posting. I would miss you all. C&B. D&W. AT&T….
I HAVE SO MUCH SPARE TIME!
@SJR: AMAZINGLY, NO ONE WOULD MISS YOU IF YOU STOPPED POSTING.
WHY WOULD YOU WANT ME TO STOP POSTING, GRAHAM? IS IT BECAUSE I TELL THE TRUTH? OR IS IT BECAUSE YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL AND CANNOT….STOP….YELLING?
Seriously, show some internet manners. Fuck I’m funny. I’ll now refer to you as Old Yeller.
I missed his line about guns and single parent households. Was it about how a lot of the recent psycho killer shooters emerged from nuclear families, and that Obama and B Clinton came from single parent households, so maybe single parent households aren’t so bad after all?