...especially in a two income family.

Child care costs have soared (along with gasoline and food prices) so a low paying job that keeps the mother away from her home better bring in a profit.

When my friend's daughter and her husband finally did the math they figured her full time job was netting their household an additional $350 a month.

They figured getting rid of their second car was a much easier way to do it and she stays home and he carpools. She also now has time to cook and doesn't rely on fast food and restaurants as much. That's an additional savings.

burleydee and limozeen, I did miss the main point and it cracks me up.

I guess this is the "recovery" that we got from those miserable years we had under the Clinton administration. (Though I'm not saying things were perfect then)

I guess the long "recovery" we are experiencing is beginning to crack because we might have another Dem for a President...then we can officially be in a recession again...after the damage has been done.

Elephantman, I also laugh when I look and I see teeny bops fainting and shrieking in the old days when they saw the Beatles or Elvis. The crowds freaked out and some were completely insane.

It sure didn't hurt the Beatle's or Elvis's popularity though, creepy or not. It may have even helped them with people that want to be in on the next beig thing.

A woman can still make an acceptable argument for staying at home and living off someone else's benevolence, but a man trying to make the same argument will have a much harder time of it.

I do know a couple of stay at home dads by choice, but they tend to be fairly affluent. Their wives are workaholics and driven. I don't think they are in any way living off their wife's "benevolence", they are making it easy for her to be out most evenings and work many weekends while they stay home and tend to the kids. Meanwhile, she doesn't have to miss work to pick up a kid form school who's sick, or take the dog to the vet and she has a nice, easygoing guy that handles most of their social obligations... another thing that lets her "move up" the ladder.

I think she was pointing out the ad was making some subtle hints at racism, not homophobia. Either way, why should that piss people off at her?

A number of the magazine headlines shown were about race.

Hell, Chris Matthews comments about kids hearing this speech were about race and how things are changing.

There's a contigent on the right that hates all change and this may well be a nod to some of them.

Though I think your assessment is probably the most likely of who this ad was directed to.

It was a shot fired across the bow of the media.

To be fair, Matthews is a "gusher". He says over the top nice, cringe worthy things about many of the politicians he covers. BTW, I don't think its an act. I think he likes the politicians he covers, it's similar to celebrity crushes.

Matthews talking about Fred Thompson "do you think there's a sex appeal for this guy, this sort of mature, older man, you know? He looks sort of seasoned and in charge of himself. What is this appeal? Because I keep star quality." This was right before he opined that he can imagine that Thompson smells of English Leather. WTF?

Matthews was the guy that said the press loves McCain, that they were his base. Also, about McCain, "He's kind of like a Martin Luther. He's going back and reforming and finding the pure conservative movement

On Bush "Sometimes it glimmers with this man, our president, that kind of sunny nobility."

On Bill Clinton, "When I watched him at Mrs. King's funeral, I just have never seen anything like it. ... There are times when he sounds like Jesus in the temple. I mean, amazing ability to transcend ethnicity ... in this country and, and speak to all of us in this amazingly primordial way."

Rudy makes him feel safer walking American streets, etc., etc. etc.

I think Matthews likes and respects celebrity, so whoever is in favor, gets his rave reviews...except Hillary, he doesn't like her, he thinks she's Madame DeFarge.

An example of the funny McCain....

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’

I thought McCain's joke about Chelsea was meaner, that was publically picking on an actual teenage girl for being ugly..and don't forget, yuck, yuck, her Mom's a lesbian, too, yuck, yuck.

I didn't find Bush's cute, folksy nicknames like "turdblossom" for Rove and "bald Jew" for Ari Fleischer particularly funny either.

Slackie, remember, Hitler ate healthy so people that advocate eating your veggies and cutting down on fat in your diet are the real fascists.

i thought my sencha was elitist.

It is. =)

Bill Clinton had a number of editorials rejected from the NY Times, too.

The NY Times job is not to put our free campaign puff pieces or hit jobs.