Mitt Romney's Binders Full of Women.

Apart from an exchange about the candidates pension funds which Obama seemed to turn into an argument about penis size the stand out comedy moment from last night's Presidential debate came when Romney claimed to have spent his time as Governor of Massecheutts ordering up binders full of women. Throughout the campaign Romney has been dogged by allegations that he is anti-women on issues such as abortion, reproductive health and even female sexuality. So in response to a question about gender pay gaps (why women get paid less then men) he told a story about how when he was Governor he realised that there was not enough women in his cabinet so he embarked on a search to find binders full of women who were either qualified to take on the top jobs or could be trained to take on the top jobs through a sort of affirmative action. Apart from being an attempt to remind voters that he has experience of government and challenge the notion he is anti-women this was also an attempt to steer the debate towards Libya by evoking memories of the binder that Muammer Qaddafi kept on former US Secretary of State Condolleezza Rice which featured many photographs, press clippings and more then one love poem. Unfortuantately as with most other things Romney tried in the debate this fell flat on it's face and left Romney looking like the sort of man who thinks women can be brought from a catalogue which is kind of the exact opposite of what he was going for and really not a good look for a Morman.

It also spawned things like this; http://instagram.com/p/Q3oSOswtJG/

And this; http://twitpic.com/b4ukni

And this; http://instagram.com/p/Q3wmlNC6jm

And this; http://twitpic.com/b4v2mj

And this; http://twitpic.com/b4v2m

And this; http://twitpic.com/b4usok


And they are just some of the clean ones.

12:00 on 17/10/12.