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Campbell Brown Slams Barack Obama: ‘Stop Condescending to Women’
It appears the White House’s dishonest, media-assisted plan to concoct a Republican “War on Women” has failed and failed miserably.
Take for example former CNN anchor Campbell Brown who in Sunday’s New York Times published an op-ed surprisingly titled “Obama: Stop Condescending to Women”:
WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men. It’s all so tired, the kind of fake praise showered upon those one views as easy to impress. As I listen, I am always bracing for the old go-to cliché: “Behind every great man is a great woman.”
Some women are smarter than men and some aren’t. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
My bigger concern is that in courting women, Mr. Obama’s campaign so far has seemed maddeningly off point. His message to the Barnard graduates was that they should fight for a “seat at the table” — the head seat, he made sure to add. He conceded that it’s a tough economy, but he told the grads, “I am convinced you are tougher” and “things will get better — they always do.”
Brown then shared some employment statistics that belie media assertions Obama’s policies are helping women, in particular college graduates under 30:
According to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, about 53.6 percent of men and women under the age of 25 who hold bachelor’s degrees were jobless or underemployed last year, the most in at least 11 years. According to the Pew Research Center, if we broaden the age group to 18- to 29-year-olds, an estimated 37 percent are unemployed or out of the work force, the highest share in more than three decades.
Brown then surprisingly took a shot at Obama’s “silly and embarrassing” new ad targeting women:
The women I know who are struggling in this economy couldn’t be further from the fictional character of Julia, presented in Mr. Obama’s Web ad, “The Life of Julia,” a silly and embarrassing caricature based on the assumption that women look to government at every meaningful phase of their lives for help.
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Milwaukee Mike
May 20th, 2012
“Campbell Brown is a former news anchor for CNN and NBC.”
I think I know why now
historicus
May 20th, 2012
Campbell Brown spits instead of swallows.
Moe Tom
May 20th, 2012
But she’ll still vote for him.
John F.
May 20th, 2012
Has there been an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” event at CNN? That’s the only explanation I can see for this kind of MSM polito-heresy.
scr_north
May 20th, 2012
If he starts losing a ditz like Cambell Brown he’s in real trouble. In the last election if became the trendy thing to do to vote for Obama. This time around it may be trendy to show how you can’t be led by voting for Romney. Doesn’t mean you’ve actually given the choice any thought, it just means you want to look cool and different.
FreeMan - Save Me Sarah
May 20th, 2012
Bit OT here
Robin Gibb dead at 62.
No word on where JR was at the time.