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Obama’s for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males
obama says one thing for political expediency and in reality he does not practice what he preeches. he is truly falling deeper and deeper into a credibility hole.
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Comments (34)
Its a Middle English Glossary for those reading Chaucer. Just trying to be helpful...
June 30, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I take it Chaucer never wrote about aardvarks, then?
Hardly worth reading then, methinks.
June 30, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed - Down with Chaucer!
June 30, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Were you just putting out a Chaucer of Milk for a Grouching Puma?
June 30, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
nice
June 30, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm. First time I've seen a comment removed. I know it's not the first time it's happened, but it is the first time I've witnessed it.
June 30, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Free Mass Dem!
July 1, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Free Mass Dem
July 1, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Free MassDem!!
July 1, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
CAGE MassDem. He called me a PUMA!
July 1, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay that's long enough. FREE MASS DEM!
July 1, 2008 11:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
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June 30, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do the comments above makes this post into "twice-baked spam?"
June 30, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait how about we answer this rediculous charge. First the study does not take into account experience of female staffers. It failed to even ask the question were the female and male staffer of equal experience or doing equal jobs.
Talk about data mining just to make it come out the way you want it to come out.
June 30, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michelle -
Why not do a little investigation on your own. http://www.legistorm.com/member/76/Sen_Barack_Obama/37.html
I think you will see pay based on job titles is fairly equal.
June 30, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
jsfox,
Way to go! (Best response on the thread.)
June 30, 2008 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the proper response here would be a demand that the troll post definitive evidence, not a link driving traffic to another site.
Barring that unlikely event, the responses above are proper.
June 30, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you actually follow the self-referential links (I did), you'll find that in order to arrive at the conclusions they arrived at, they had to do some rather significant post hoc data massaging. And, reading between the lines, this post hoc data manipulation was rather deliberate. They didn't get the results they wanted (initially they found out that Hillary was also paying female staffers less), so they chose to ignore all staffers making less than $23,000, for example.
June 30, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I will not give traffic to trolls.
June 30, 2008 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do it so you don't have to. :)
June 30, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
The "info" comes from a CNSNews article on PUMA's site. Wikipedia's first line says it all:
oooh, michelle, you are a trolly thingy.
June 30, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sheesh, get a life PUMA McCainiac..
June 30, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
These folks are misinterpreting the numbers to advance their agenda. As jsfox mentions, you have to compare similar job functions and titles when considering pay. It's disingenuous to claim that women receive lower pay than men simply because there are a couple of very high earners with the campaign who are male. I would be concerned if you had, say, a male staff assistant or two who made more than the other (female) staff assistants.
What you have provided in your link is a very poor analysis of the data. If you would like to offer a more sound analysis here, in an attempt to defend your position, we certainly welcome that. What you have posted/linked is just silliness, and I am pretty sure you know that.
June 30, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did anyone notice? Michelle made it to the rec list. Why are we giving her the satisfaction? It only encourages them.
June 30, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, what? She only has 1 rec.
June 30, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is on the "Muckraker" recommended list, which only has one other post on it.
June 30, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's kinda funny. :)
June 30, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
This Kool-Aid has a funny flavour.
June 30, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is reported that Michelle is really Peter Boykin! Only one of many alisases used to post on several blogs...
"Entrepreneur, Political Activist, Persistent Achiever and founder of CLintons4McCain website" which also states about Peter:
.. 'Since it looks like Hillary will not be able to continue this time in the race, he has thrown his support in the direction of John McCain..." I have to support my second choice and that is why I am one of the founders of Clintons4McCain.com"
Peter is in the Information Technology field and a Webmaster and developer of many sites like http://www.misshillaryclinton.com and www.clintons4mccain.com and he assisted in the original domain name for justsaynodeal.com.'
Gee 'Michelle', we hardly knew ye (and like to keep it that way)!
June 30, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You post is simply beyond stupid. Obama is for "equal pay for equal work". You can't tell whether jobs held by men and women are equal by simply looking at the pay rates. And another thing: were these employees all hourly, or were some salaried? What is the male/female hourly vs. salaried breakdown? Were they all located in the same geographic area, or were some in Iowa and others in LA? Your post is not even misleading: it is b.s.
July 1, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
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July 1, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Free MassDem!!!!
July 1, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I am not a girl I don't know who michelle is are yall talking about michelle obama?
I am Peter Boykin founder of Clintons4McCain and the domain name slogan creator for JustSayNoDeal.
Thanks for listing info about me.
Look for me running for something political in the future.
July 14, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
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