Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was quoted this morning that he didn’t care about the very poor. He was trying to make a point that he was laser focused on the middle class of America and it wasn’t meant as some rich man saying he didn’t care about poor people.
But, as a very rich white man, [...]
02.1.12 | National Politics | pinkdome
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gave her first televised interview with Diane Sawyer and it brought me to tears when I saw the clip. They were not tears of sorrow, but tears to celebrate the triumphs we humans are capable of when needed.
Mrs. Giffords doesn’t have a word for anguish yet so she says “boo hoo” and [...]
11.15.11 | National Politics, Uncategorized | pinkdome
There’s a heat wave torturing most of us this summer, but it pales in comparison to the heated rhetoric coming out of Washington these days. As the media turns up the gas on the debt ceiling and budget talks and with a twisted glee almost hopes for a financial disaster just because it would make [...]
07.14.11 | National Politics | pinkdome