VIDEO: First Read Minute: Trading places

NBC's Domenico Montanaro on President Obama heading back to the heartland, visiting Ohio and Michigan.  In Ohio, he will visit a job training program.  

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Domenico is so cute.

(can't listen at work, so have no idea what he's saying, but I like his face :)

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Reply#1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:34 PM EDT

Terrific - more campaigning.

Just what we need.

Totally not like we need a budget, right gang?

Yeah, old Harry R put the big old kybosh on Conrad yesterday.

No budget, not how.

Shoot i wonder what the line item would have been for the GSA?

Say Amy - I bet your fantastic boss, captain of industry that he is, always has a budget.

Right Amy? Of course he does - see that cause it's his money.

Reid and the gang just plays with ours.

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#1.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:39 PM EDT

Spanky, rightwing shill.

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#1.2 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:48 PM EDT

Amy, Does your boss know you are chatting on line while on the clock? I bet he doesn't. Isn't that kind of like cheating?

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#1.3 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:51 PM EDT

Amy said: (can't listen at work, so have no idea what he's saying, but I like his face :)

Can't listen at work, but you sure can spend your bosses time posting on First Read. If I were your boss and caught you playing on the computer, you'd be one of Obama's unemployed statistics.

So Amy is one of those types of employees that spends her work time on the computer for personal business. See how liberals are? They scream and shout because they are treated with contempt but yet they do contemptible acts while feigning innocence.

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#1.4 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:53 PM EDT

Army, he sure does look cute. He is talking about Willard picking a VP and overcoming his Hispanic deficit. He also spoke of Rubio, Portman, or Mcdonnell as picks or someone of a Palin caviler.


The significant poll he spoke of is the middle poll which has our President up 4. He thinks we can't interpret anything until the dust settles.

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#1.5 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:54 PM EDT

That's right Beverly - support Amy's cheating the time clock while at work. Another liberal that has no idea of work ethic. See, this is the typical liberal viewpoint... rail against those who provide work for people like Amy, provide her salary, but support the idea of cheating the bosses out of money paid in salary for scamming the clock. And you liberals wonder why the right holds you in contempt and claim you are hypocrites.

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#1.6 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:13 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- According to the 2010 tax return released Tuesday by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, the Romney's paid for household help in 2010. Ann Romney employed four women: Rosania Costa, Kelli Harrison, Susan Moore, and Valerie Cravens Anae.

But these servants are only for one house, and the Romneys have at least three houses -- a 2,000 sq. ft. townhouse in Belmont, Mass., a 5,400 sq. ft. lake house on 11 acres in Wolfeboro, N.H., and a beach house in La Jolla, Calif., that is undergoing renovations to double its size.

The Romneys spent plenty of time in New Hampshire, with regular visits in the summer from five sons and their families. Bringing up the question, how many other servants did Ann Romney have?

A Romney campaign adviser declined to respond to questions from The Huffington Post about the housekeeping salaries.

Maybe the Romneys split up household cleaning between themselves on days when the housekeepers were out? After all, Mitt Romney was "unemployed" in 2010, as he infamously reminded a group of voters in Tampa, so he had some extra time. And Mitt even knows how to do laundry, according to a photo tweeted Monday by his son Tagg Romney.

UPDATE: 5:27 p.m. -- At least one of the four women paid for domestic work by the Romney family in 2010 also worked as chief of staff to the executive director of Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC at the same time, giving the Romney's the right to a tax write off for part of her salary.

Kelli Harrison was paid wages by the Romneys for personal assistant-type tasks and errands, said a source with knowledge of the situation. Harrison was the most highly paid of the four women listed as domestic employees of the Romney family, and the other three women did not work for the Romney PAC at all, the source confirmed. Harrison was paid for her PAC work with PAC funds. But where is the line drawn?

The designation of household employees is broad, and can include housekeepers, baby-sitters, personal assistants and other house-related tasks. It's also possible that the Romney's hired an outside cleaning service to clean their houses, but the campaign declined to elaborate on their arrangement.

Another employee, Valerie Cravens Anae, may be the same woman whose Facebook profile indicates that she attended the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University. Anae was paid for domestic work at the Romney house in 2010.

The campaign declined to specify whether Harrison was still working for the Romney family personally. The other two women listed as domestic employees, Susan Moore and Rosania Costa, could not be located.

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#1.7 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:15 PM EDT

BrianB,

Get a job and quit using your work time to lambast other working women. I, for one, am a stay at home mom with five boys, three houses and a full staff of servants, plus hired help. I can afford to be on MSN.com. You can't.

Thanks, Ann Romney.

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#1.8 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:20 PM EDT

You have to addMITT ....

MITT does at least understand math ....

Obama out in 2012 ....

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#1.9 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:33 PM EDT

It's alright Amy. BrianB is no boss. He doesn't know the first thing about corporate internet access policies, or he would certainly not be advocating firing you for posting here. Besides, he lives in his parent's basement with his other personalities, so what does he know.

I, however, do know a thing or two about corporate internet access policies. I've crafted them. Basically, most companies allow for personal internet use, so long as it does not jeopardize productivity, or in any way create liability for the company. Most assume that as an employee you understand personal reposnsibility and can prioritize your activities.

So post away. Don't feed the trolls, though. They may call you gay.

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#1.10 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:17 PM EDT

AnnRomneyusedservants???? WTF?? Another typical liberal who hasn't a clue about anything. What do you know about my financial status? Why do I need to find a job to satisfy you?

It is so hilarious that one of the typical liberal regulars sets up a different account with a name designed to portray an opinion that in some weird way is an attempt to show the liberal has a better handle on life... what a joke.

Don't be afraid of who you are... but like most liberals, you cower in your slick warped sense of reality.

    #1.11 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:52 PM EDT
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    Obama and his secret service on the road again ....

    Girls get ready .... "LOL"

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    Reply#2 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:29 PM EDT

    Don't you mean Taxpayers get ready?

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    #2.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:17 PM EDT
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    www.usdebtclock.org

    Time for a change in the Whitehouse.

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