Mitt's "Binders Full of Women"

Originally posted by shavixmir
Did Mitt actually, really, suggest that passenger planes should have windows that can open...

Don't want to stir anything up that might have already been mentioned... just wondering... that's all...

Here's a UK newspaper take on the window story:
Mr Romney, who has a track record of verbal gaffes, had referred to an emergency landing by an airplane carrying his wife during a fund raiser in California. But his light heart objection to windows that “don’t open” was seized on by critics as his latest outlandish offensive against common sense. American media websites and blogs filled with mockery of the candidate. The storm scarcely abated when reporters at the event conceded Mr Romney had made a joke, albeit it one that did not translate outside the room.

During the $6 million (£3.7 million) fundraising event in California, Mr Romney brought up an incident at the weekend when his wife’s aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing. He mused that she would have coped better if she was able to breathe outside air during the fire.
"I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don't think she knows just how worried some of us were," Mr Romney said, according to the LA Times. "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no – and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she's safe and sound."

Seems the US media is so humourless that they can't tell the difference between a factual statement and a joke ...

Originally posted by sasquatch672
Red herring and non-issue. If you want to talk about this, let's talk about Obama's systemic practice of paying women less than men for equivalent work.

I doubt Obama's got a patent on this. Show me a country where women DO get equal pay for equivalent work, and I'll show you a country whose spoken language isn't English. Guaranteed.