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Manhattan Diary by Cahir O'Doherty

Ann Romney feels your pain but doesn't share it

Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 09:34 AM

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Ann Romney wants you to know that she feels your pain. She may not personally share it, because she's richer than Croesus, but she sees, oh she sees.

'I know that people are suffering right now,' she told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. 'And for people to think that we don’t have empathy just because we’re not suffering like they’re suffering is ridiculous. And our struggles have not been financial, but they’ve been with health and with difficulties in different things in life.

'And one thing that I, again, like to remind people is that — multiple sclerosis has been my teacher. It has been at times a cruel teacher. But it has also been a great gift in my life because of what it has done, it has taught me to be more compassionate and caring for others that are suffering.'

I'm not sure who she's trying to convince here? Me, you, herself? Perhaps she was moved to talk to her house cleaners? Who will ever know? If there is one thing we have learned about the Romneys, it's that they like to keep the details of their lives under wraps.

Ann's compassion, of course, doesn't extend to securing legal protections for the children of gay families. They can take a number. And she won't be drawn on women's reproductive issues, because that's not what this election is about, she says.

On Sunday she claimed her husband is being 'demonized' for being 'heartless.' I don't know about that but the fact is he is being evasive, apparently believing that furnishing tax returns are for the little people, not presidential candidates.

I'd suggest that anyone who thinks that 'corporations are people' is having some issues with their own humanity. I mean to say, how can a man that makes a $10,000 dollar bet as casually as other people buy a scratch card really relate to the working man?

And I'm not sure if she's watched any of her husband's political ads lately, but the GOP and their mouthpieces demonize president Obama pretty relentlessly: Kenyan Muslim Socialist Jihadist anyone?

I'm not sure how much empathy it took for her husband to make hundreds of millions of dollars repeatedly buying struggling companies, then loading them with debt with loans that put millions in his own pockets, then getting out before they were forced to declare bankruptcy.

I'm sure it brought a tear to someone's eyes. Just maybe not the people she's thinking of.

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Tom Mo | Sep 12, 2012, 05:24 PM EDT

Looks like Cahir got a well deserved snot slapping. Good for you smart readers of Irish Cebtral.

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Canal Rat | Sep 12, 2012, 04:51 PM EDT

Speaking of earning money, why can't I ever find a job like Michelle Obama had in Chicago 360 grand as a "diversity coordinator." No heavy lifting.

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irishamerica46 | Sep 12, 2012, 02:48 PM EDT

The green eyed monster is alive and well at the O'Doherty's house!

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MegK311 | Sep 12, 2012, 02:14 PM EDT

Cahir, shame on you for bashing Ann Romney. Rich people feel pain just like everyone else. Why don't you spend your time checking Obama out. Our Ambassador to Lybia was brutally murdered and you choose to write a smear piece about Ann Romney. I guess it is ok with you that Obama is off to Las Vegas to campaign. That is more important than staying in the White House and working for the the people who pay him to run this country. Perhaps he will have time for a game of golf while he is there. My new name for Obama is "Good Time Charlie" Cahir, you write a bunch of rubbish.

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belfastbeauty69 | Sep 12, 2012, 02:07 PM EDT

The only thing you can criticize Romney and his wife for is their money, that he earned?? Please...The "Obama's" have done nothing but run America into the ground! Did you hear the latest from Obama regarding the Ambassador's death yesterday??? Report that, he apologized to the Muslim community, not the Ambassador's family, but to the Muslims! Romney/Ryan 2012 time to take America back!

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ceceann | Sep 12, 2012, 02:02 PM EDT

This is one of your worst and that is saying something for you. You give media bias a new low. Just read Obamas are worth 11 million. Tell me how they feel the pain of the people you are thinking of any differently than the Romneys. Has Mrs. O had breast cancer or MS. What pain does she feel?

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Eschetic | Sep 12, 2012, 01:43 PM EDT

I'm with a lot of today's readers who wish the coverage were more on point to the ISSUES in the upcoming elections. With the breaking news of rioting in the Middle East killing several U.S. Embassy employees and one U.S. ambassador - all provoked by an aggressively (and inaccurately) anti-Islamic film made by right wing Americans - our Secretary of State and President have responded admirably and with proper restraint (we *don't* need one more war to handle), but I have searched in vain for ANY response from my party's nominee (former Governor Romney) who has a large perceived problem with no foreign policy experience and certainly SHOULD speak out BOTH condemning the violence *and* the people who put out the racist film which provoked it and have the blood of these embassy officials on their hands. Could he be reluctant to say anything for fear of offending his "core supporters"? His primary campaign certainly raises that question more clearly than any Democrats could.

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Pbstein33 | Sep 12, 2012, 01:06 PM EDT

I really must miss something the Romney's enjoy and pay with money earned,The Obama's enjoy and waste money that the TAXPAYER work for,Seem's equatable to me YA Stupid friggin LIBERAL

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cillowen | Sep 12, 2012, 01:04 PM EDT

out of touch souls are these mormons

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Tom Mo | Sep 12, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT

Cahir O'Doherty is beginning,no, has begun, to get on my nerves. Is he on meds?

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johhnyb | Sep 12, 2012, 12:25 PM EDT

Hollabackgurl. You forgot the breast cancer and MS. Just an oversight undoubtedly.

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BrianO | Sep 12, 2012, 12:23 PM EDT

Hollabackgurl, The ambassador of Lybia is dead. how are you going to lie about this one.

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hollabackgurl | Sep 12, 2012, 12:06 PM EDT

Dancing ponies, Oscar De LaRenta gowns, giant yachts, $10,000 dollar bets, sixty years of jaw dropping riches, they're just like us.

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BrianO | Sep 12, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT

Oldperfesser, Harvard also said that Elizabeth Warren was an American Indian, sometimes Harvard stretches the truth for their types of people.

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hermitTalker | Sep 12, 2012, 11:23 AM EDT

Cut the leftist crud and focus on the election of Mr Romney and Mr Ryan, or Mr Obama and Mr Biden. Their wives are not running will not be in Government. None of the four men, or their wives, are free of original sin, human flaws. Stick with the FACTS and leave the guessing to other idiots and the judging to God. What has this story to do with IRISH CENTRAL anyway??

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