Back in June, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney encouraged business owners to attempt to vacillate their employees' political views, saying that it was peremptory that they should pellucidly state their personal preferences in regards to the upcoming election.
Romney apparently believes that the will of the business owner should interrupt how the employees desire American businesses to be run. This patronizing treatment of workers is not exactly archaic. It is an axiom that those in power tend to abuse that power, even if they do not realize it. It is considered an iniquity by many to usurp more than just a business or a position of power, but the people who then fall subject to said position.
Romney is perspicacious when it comes to manipulating words. He is abstemious in answering exactly what is questioned of him as to only prove the points he wants to prove, and expurgate his more muddled plans as a Presidential candidate.
More recently, in the Presidential Debate on tuesday, Romney made a comment that is making its rounds on the internet. When asked to address gender inequality in the workplace, Romney gave a personal account of his experience as Governor of Massachusetts in which he was brought "binders full of women" to hire out of. This comment was meant to showcase Romney's care of womens' equality and rights, but has not sat well with the online community and has become the joke of week.
Hearing the not-so-dulcet voice of our next possible President make ignorantly misogynist comments about women in the workplace is not reassuring. Granted, Romney has recently become the scapegoat of conservative republicans and probably wishes for a talisman to protect him from the constant questions and having every word that comes from his mouth go into a recording device.
In the mean time, the internet is an atelier for "Romney's Binder" jokes, with numerous facebook, twitter and tumblr parody accounts already high functioning from the moment Romney said "binder".
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