“Dismissive” is the correct word her — but will (independent) voters let this pass? And will an attention deficit news media that flits from one controversy of the moment to another and often forgets about follow ups forget or omit? Will it come up in debates? Ann Romney’s take on the issue:
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.