This election cycle has been a bit juicy, for all the wrong reasons. Among other things, we learned that former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s wife–Karen Santorum–shacked up with her abortion-providing boyfriend before she met Rick, fell in love with Jesus and then became a vocal pro-lifer. And now, in a new book titled ‘Barack Obama: The Story’ written by David Maraniss we get to hear about how Barack Obama was writing intellectual love letters to his white female college classmates in his pre-Michelle Obama days.

While Mitt has been crowing to the media about often he tells his wife that her job of raising their 5 sons (with plenty of household help) is more important than any job he has ever had, Mitt was telling poor mothers that they need to take their lazy behinds to work and get a real job. According to Mitt, poor mothers need to have the “dignity of work.”