Good move. I still believe that there's a kind of double standard, in that women who are wealthy are lauded for being stay-at-home moms while poor moms are forced to take minimum wage jobs, having been forced out of education programs by the 1996 welfare reforms. So, we want those mothers in the job market as that convenient pool of labor available in good times to employ at low wages. But we don't want them to be able to nutrure their children and do not give them this choice. Thus, the disparities widen and include women and children. So even if your comment was misleading or mistaken, it was not entirely wrong. You're a fine journalist and many of us support your smart work.

'Hilary Rosen' was correct Ann Romney has no clue what its like to not have money for rent or food- or to balance between paying her car note or paying her rent.. im not say she has no clue about struggling with life- as she is a survivor of cancer an MS- but lets not paint the picture of her seeing eye to eye with women all over- her struggles are very much different-- its sad when you have no idea -like Romney does- about people that make under 50 gran a year.. this is something he would never understand

She's just doing what she was told by the administration/media and trying to push this fake "War on Women" by the Dems. Then when what she said blows up, she gets thrown under the bus by the same libs! Good to see it backfired!

Good for her and classy too!

Come on people; let’s not act like we don’t know what Hillary Rosen (Democratic Strategist) was talking about. It’s not about common middle class and or less fortunate moms, it’s about stay at home moms who can tell THEIR CHILDREN’S NANNY, “I’ll be back” and leave their children in good hands as opposed to a mother less fortunate, who has to or must leave, do so, hoping the kids are going to be ok until she returns. It’s about wealthy stay at home moms who are able to prepare breakfast, dinner and supper nutritiously at set times as opposed to looking in the refrigerator time and again as if something magically is going to appear when she know there’s nothing to prepare
for the full day. It’s about stay at home moms who are financially wealthy be it inherited , matrimonial or hard work, either way they are as opposed to working hard to become independent, being less fortunate or looking to strengthen the family. people who live with wealth and has done so for a long period of time cannot fathom or chose to forget what life is like needing, their views of the world are skewed toward having as opposed to people who are not wealthy and never was, they cannot fathom shopping at Tiffany’s. Every aspect of life is traveled through different roads and through different lenses based on being able to afford. Raising kids are tough but it is much easier for those who have the luxury to provide immensely.

Neither Michelle Obama nor Ann Romney have had to work- One chose to stay at home and raise her children the other chose to continue her career. President Obama said Michelle didn't have the luxury to stay home- that wasn't exactly accurate- it's all a matter of degree. He was making more than most Americans with families when they had children -Michelle made a decision that she wanted a more upscale lifestyle and to continue her career. No one should criticize either woman but the facts do matter.

I understood perfectly what she said, and I think her prejudice against rich and poor people was evident and offensive. First of all, Rosen is herself quite privileged; she's a graduate of George Washington University, and has had a stellar professional career. She is on at least one board, and those pay very well. So let's not pretend that she can speak with any authority to Romney's class. They might be 1%, but I suspect she's in the top 5%. She certainly does way better than I do, but I'm a lowly surf who had to fight to get my degree from a state school. Oh, and I have no connections to network.

It's offensive for her to try to speak for working women out here who are worried about so much more than the "quality time" we get with our kids. We're worried about health care that either costs too much or that we can't afford to have. Everything from food, to hygiene products, to rent, to utilities, clothing, books fees, car insurance. These are the things we worry about, because we have to juggle a budget to afford them. Neither Romney nor Rosen can say they have recently, if ever experienced anything like this. They just write a check and wait for the accountant to balance the checkbook.

So Rosen can no more speak for me than Romney can, but I like Romney better because she's gracious and nice and doesn't try to "get in good" with me just so she can exploit/manipulate me for my vote. Romney never said she spoke for me, not even through implication. Rosen straight up claimed to speak for me, for all women in fact, which is a huge mistake that Democrats and traditional feminists make all the time. The rhetoric is judgmental and dismissive, arrogant and tone deaf. That's why Dems and traditional feminists are losing women.

My wife has been a stay-at-home mom for fourteen years. Every now and then I will meet someone who asks, "Does your wife work?"

My reply: "Don't you dare tell her she doesn't."

I only wish I could have stayed home to raise my child. It doesn't work that way for 99% of people out there. People who live in the 1% realm don't understand the struggles middle class famlies go through juggling work and family. I have a really hard time understanding all the negativity about Rosen's comment. We all know that the huge majority of the women in this country have to raise the kids and work outside the home. Rosen's comment was about Mrs. Romney not having to work outside the home. The rightwingers want to turn this into something it isn't. Rosen could have put it differently, but everyone in my life knows what she was talking about. And it wasn't a bashing of stay at home moms. We all know that is a luxury that very few people have.

Hold on now...what types of harsh, crude comments have been aimed at Michelle Obama, the President and others by the various pundits..without an inkling of an apology. It's not like Hillary was calling her a prostitute (ala Rush)...and yet she made a real apology (Rush did not). Yet the GOP attacks this commentator - falsely trying to attribute her comments as part of the President's - when there is no connection between the two. This distraction-oriented and misleading strategy by the GOP is just part for the course. Dave D - you are the doorknob out here ('my friend'). Think about how manipulated you are...maybe someday you'll realize this, but it will require a sense of self-awareness and that may be difficult for you to come by. That you can sit there and try to characterize the 'far left' as throwing 'vicious attacks' - is just the typical ploy that the GOP uses to project their own behavior onto their opponents. And that you are buying into those soundbites by the GOP is even more sad.

To Hillary, and to everyone else:

"Speak sweet words--tomorrow you may have to EAT them!

Hilary, I admire you saying what you felt and standing up for less fortunate moms out there who are not rich enough to choose whether to stay at home, have kids, work or all of the above.

It is ok you are staying out of the media this time, don't give the campaign ringmasters any more material for their need to make a circus out of every single sound bite so that they can desperately make scandal in hopes of scrounging more voters to their side when they should focus on policies that actually improve the lives of those people they wish to earn the votes from.

I support your message and never had a problem with it, on the contrary I dislike the inflated and desperate attempt to use it to make Romney appeal to female voters.

I would like to think that perspective female voters are paying attention enough to see how shallow a one-issue media circus is and how badly it exposes the Romney's for pushing policies that completely contradict their desire to convince the public that they have a pro-family agenda.

Nothing his wife could do would make me think twice about voting for Romney, especially when he and his wife gleefully claim to care about low-income mothers while contradicting themselves by supporting the policies of the GOP and Paul Ryan, policies that make it harder if not impossible for every mother or father to choose to stay home and raise their children.

Raising children while yourself battling illness is hard no matter your income but you know what is harder? Raising children without health care for yourself and them, food, shoes, a roof over your head and worst of all without the luxury of birth control to make a decision on when to do so.

The GOP would like to do away with women's choices on all sides. Republican lawmakers are active all over America pushing legislation that defines a war on women in clear easy to understand evidence that cannot be denied. Its documented and easy to find with a few minutes of looking into the states across America, seeing the anti-female bills they are trying and succeeding in passing. You don't need a phrase like war on women, you merely need to check with your local lawmakers and see what is being done.

They want to starve away the social programs and educational support for those who cannot afford it, yet they wish to take away birth control, a woman's choice to plan for her family so that she can stay off of those social programs and pay for her children's education herself.

They want to eliminate health care for those disabled people who might otherwise support themselves if they could be healthy. They want to forbid marriage for families that do not meet their 'standards' of humanity.

They are even discouraging adoption of all things, knowing full well that family planning directly effects the rate of children needing adoption, knowing full well that social programs that promote healthy parenting directly effect the rate of adoption.

The GOP is anti-family in every way outside of outright saying so. They have no business pandering to a voter base that they have no interest in supporting in legislative actions.

Ann Romney supports her husband and party. They all are on paper, on tape stating just how much they don't care about mothers who are not fortunate enough to be self-sufficient and able to choose a school, college, health care for themselves and their children or to plan for children with birth control while they make that foundation for themselves to have children in the future.

And women swayed by the Romney campaign and Republican lawmakers, hope you are financially able to afford to take care of yourself and your family through the full path of your lives because you will need it should they win.

Hope you don't need birth control and can freely have sex without worrying about being able to afford prenatal care.

Hope you are in a state that allows you to marry whomever you want and when you go to work, don't have to be concerned about being paid less than your male colleagues.

Hope that you can afford ID to vote for them because this is what you are voting for.

Don't let this quiet your voice Hilary. Thank you for speaking up for us. We love you for your courage to do so.

Mamas wake the heck up & don't be used as a pawn in a riche mans fight.

Riche stay at home mamas are NOT affected the same way as other mamas when it comes to economy/sacrifices. It is a FACT 99.8% of the time.

Middle class & low income mama's should be INSULTED that a mama (Romeny) with mary poppin's handbag banque acct claims she can relate personally to their struggles. 4$ for a gallon of milk does NOT affect her even close to the same. Yes she raised her kids & dealt with "emotional" issues, but I guarantee they werent overburdened with the stress of "where will we get the money to seek other medical care/tests? Where will we get the money for new shoes?" "How can we pay for a bebesitter to attend a function?" etc etc

Yah shut the front door on "kardashian reality show politician version" Imagination is not tough as being in the center of the cyclone.

So Rosen didnt say it flowery, but she said what needed to be said. The fact any everyday mama's took offense to it is a sheep reaction. THINK FOR YOURSELVES. Stop trying to grab on to Im a victim. You are aware of what life & motherhood is to you & chances are Romney truely has ZERO about everyday struggles & nor do her kids deal with having to get discounted meals at school etc & all the BS that goes with it. yah tough life to be a millionaire mama.

She may know about cost of living BUT has no clue how to juggle it on a "normal income".

Honestly, I think that Ms. Rosen used poor word choices during her interview. However, I agree with her. I don't believe that Ann Romney has ever faced the economic troubles of most women today. I wonder if she ever had to choose to feed her children Hambuger Helper over boneless skinless chicken breasts, or which child needs new sneakers the worst, or if she ever had to tell one of her children that they weren't going to be able to get a new bicycle for their birthday? I agree that raising children is a very hard job, but she didn't have to work a full-time job and raise her children at the same time. It truely troubles me when I hear women, who have never had to face the economic difficulties that everyday women face, talk about these troubles. If Ann Romney wants to talk about our troubles, and how she understands them, then she should live a few years in the shoes of women who face these troubles everday.

I was so disappointed with the Meet the Press segment this morning with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and former presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). I asked my husband to change the channel. Why was Michele Bachmann allowed to continue to say the same thing over and over again? Why is she allowed to answer every question "with Barack Obama?"Why is she not required to answer the question that is asked? That was such a weak and disappointing segment-it was a waste of air time!

As soon as I found out Rosen was not going to be on I changed the channel, instead you have that stupid big mouth Bachman adding her evil spin on it, the lady has apologized and it should be dropped. A lot of us know it is a hard job to raise kids, and whoever thinks this lady did it on her own is fooling themselves, but it is OK to stay at home if they can afford it. I wish Rosen would had been on instead of giving it more time without this ladies presence, but I guess it's easier to talk about someone when they are not there to defend themselves.

David totally lost control of the interview which allowed Bachmann to take over with the same old rhetoric. Meet the Press is becoming very predictable and not very enlightening or entertaining. We need a host that continues the previous tradition of real truth seeking.

Why don't more "pundits" say that Ms. Rosen was speaking about women who work OUTSIDE the home or work for pay? How can the Republicans twist that to say she was denigrating stay-at-home moms? STOP the crazy talk and start working toward fixing all the problems in this country!!

Those defending Hilary just don't understand logic OR if this is the logic the DNC wants to take us GOP folks will take it. Here's why:

1. Ann Romney can sympathize with those who have had cancer and MS. Obamas and Rosen can not.

2. Ann Romney knows more about how to make and take care of money than Obamas.

3. Ann Romney is MORE charitable than Obamas and Bidens put together since the Romney's gave 15% to charity and the mention 2 families gave 6%!!!!!!! What a joke!

4. Mitt knows more about building and fixing broken financials machines than Obama because he has done it many more times and much more effectively than Obama. His ROI was 80-1. Obamas is still in the red.

5. Mitt knows more about taxes because he paid more in taxes than Obama and Biden made last year.

6. Romney's know more about family because they raised 5 children, not 2. They have also ben happily married for over 42 years.

Are you seeing the flaw to Rosens logic? It was uneducated, uncalled for and just shows the hate that she really has for women like Ann. Good news is she energized the party and made Obama look like a fool.

Dave, your statement is the essence of the "Pink Slime" Neo con GOP spin to deflect attention from their own failings.

I support Hilary Rosen's comments. Working mothers with jobs outside the home has been an issue long before she put in her two cents (and I give her credit for doing so). I know plenty of working mothers (married, divorced and/or single) who have run the gamut of the survival experience in a sometimes cruel world. They face hard times but keep on for the sake of their families. They are the ones who deserve accolades in this discussion. Ann Romney should acknowledge the truth in Hilary's statement that her life wasn't all that hard and pass her appreciation on to the women of the 99%.

Neit 32, Ann Romney nor Mitt have NEVER had to worry about putting food on the table for their family every night.

Ann and Mitt have never had to worry about keeping a roof over their heads.

Ann and Mitt never had to worry about getting and keeping a job, but they sure know how to fire people and strip money, corporate assets and jobs from manufacturing facilities and close them down.

Ann Romney never had to worry about washing clothes, cleaning their houses, help with Day Care or maintaining their level of lifestyle.

Ann and Mitt never had to worry about the cost of energy or their groceries.

GOP has put government between a Woman and Her Doctor

GOP has eroded civil liberties and freedom, allowing the police strip to search of individuals for minor offenses such as not wearing a seatbelt or running a red light.

GOP has militarized our local governments with military vehicles, equipment, and troops

GOP has legislated laws allowing the government to view every computer email in the U.S. putting government in your life everyday

GOP passed a law in congress forbidding Medicare to negotiate drug prices from the manufacturers. Holding the public hostage to capitalist profiteers in the Pharma industry.

GOP wants to extinguish the FREEDOM of individuals to choose whom they can marry.

GOP wants to give employers the right to decide and choose what medications they will provide to women employees.

GOP wants to help Energy companies remain unaccountable for their degradation to the environment.

GOP wants to get rid of Laws keeping water clean, Food and drugs safe.

Just recently we learned that what use to used only ib Dog Food is now being shared with humans. I'm talking about "Pink Slime". It has never been considered minimally nutritional for Human consumption.

GOP is completely anti consumer and pro government control on individual civil rights.

Ann Romney should admit she had the easier life and pass on appreciation to the 99% 's "working outside the home mothers" who've survived the struggles of a sometimes cruel world in support of their families. She should also urge her husband to keep his nose out the hard fought civil liberties that women have so long struggled for.

To Nlet32, you have really drank the Kool-aid!

Your point #1: do you think everyone has to have cancer or MS to sympathize? What about all of us who have had loved ones suffer these diseases? And some without insurance?

#2: You don't have to be a multi-millionaire to know how to "take care" of money, actually one who doesn't have a ton of money has to learn great skills at handling less. The Romneys haven't had to worry much about money for a long time.

#3: How is $172,000 in charitable giving less than 6% of the Obamas $800,000 income for 2011? Get your number right before blowing so much hot air.

#4: Thousands of people lost their jobs when Bain Capital, under Mitt Romneys tutaledge, bought, sold and reworked companies.

#5: This is idiotic!!! Of course he paid more, he made many millions more! What you need to do is look at the percentage of taxes they pay compared to what they make! What the Romneys know well is how to shelter their income and use loopholes to pay fewer taxes!

#6: This is so stupid, it's not even worth commenting on.

Ms. Rosen does not speak for President Obama and she was speaking about women who work OUTSIDE the home to a earn a living, something Mrs. Romney has not had the pleasure of doing.

I'm glad Rosen made these comments because it hurt the president, embolden the GOP and showed the DNC true colors.

They want a godless and socialist society so that they don't have to work for what they get - aka Occupy sponsored by the DNC.

Hilary Rosen = Unhappiest Person in America