The Greatest Story Ever Told

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ann-romney-20120828,0,957855.story?

A toughened Ann Romney's convention role is to show her husband's softer side
The Republican candidate's wife has been accused of cruelty to animals and of leading a pampered lifestyle, but she's learned to take attacks in stride.

...She might talk about how, when she was frazzled from staying home with five boys, he would assure her that his work as a businessman was fleeting but hers as a mother was forever. Or how he was at her side when the terrible weakness she felt at age 49 — so bad she could not summon the energy to open an envelope — turned out to be multiple sclerosis. And how, when the fatigue robbed her of the ability to cook, he held her and said he didn't care; they could eat cold cereal for the rest of their lives.

[barbtries]

1. too funny.

cold cereal for the rest of their lives. i seriously doubt that the ANN has ever been the family cook.

[JHB]

2. 'Cause learning to cook never occurred to Mitt...

...to tide over the long hours between them meals prepared by their private chefs.

[closeupready]

3. All this malingering on her illness ... doesn't it seem sort of

morbid or tacky to go on and on about it?

It's one thing to mention it in passing, or even as an anecdote, but it seems like she brings up her MS every single time she makes an appearance.

I don't recall that FDR brought up his own disability.

Further, if she were a single mom with MS, how would the Republican policy on health care help that woman live her life?