Obama To Tenn. GOP: "Lay Off My Wife"
Democratic Candidate Fires Back At Online Video By State Party Targeting Remarks Made By Michelle Obama
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Democratic Presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, and his wife Michelle greet supporters in Raleigh, N.C. after winning the North Carolina Democratic presidential primary election on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. (AP)
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Obama, his party's presidential front-runner, and his wife, Michelle, were asked in an interview aired Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America" about an online video last week by the state's GOP taking her to task for a comment some considered unpatriotic.
"The GOP, should I be the nominee, can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record," Obama said. "If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable, the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family."
He called the strategy "low class."
The video, posted on YouTube, centered on remarks Michelle Obama made while campaigning in Wisconsin last February, when she said: "For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country."
The four-minute video replayed the remark six times, interspersing it with commentary by Tennesseans on why they are proud of America. In a news release that included a link to the video, Tennessee's GOP said "the Tennessee Republican Party has always been proud of America." It urged radio stations to play "patriotic music" during Michelle Obama's visit to Nashville last Thursday.
Michelle Obama later clarified the remark, saying she meant she was proud of how Americans were engaging in the political process and that she had always been proud of her country.
"Whoever is in charge of the Tennessee GOP needs to think long and hard about the kind of campaign they want to run, and I think that's true for everybody, Democrat or Republican," Obama said in the ABC interview, adding: "These folks should lay off my wife."
Obama said his wife "loves this country. For them to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her is, I think, just low class. I think that most of the American people would think that as well."
Tennessee's Republican Party was roundly criticized in March, including by likely presidential nominee John McCain, for a news release that used Barack Obama's middle name Hussein and showed a photo of him wearing what it said was "Muslim attire."
The release ultimately was removed from the party's Web site at the urging of the state's two Republican senators and Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan, who said he "rejects these kinds of campaign tactics."
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See all 1139 CommentsWe the people in order to form a better nation. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
When did it all go astray?
Make this election an historic 21st Century turning point in our national politics when the American people had their modern day resurgence to tear down the ivory towers of political cronyism and arrogance.
If the people dont win this one, if the people dont make politicians answerable now to us then we the people might not get another chance to really change the course of our prevailing political descent into an abyss of public desolation.
All those in power must play or pay by our rules not some privileged artificial construct of democracy without public accountability or rebuke.
Voters fix your bayonets of virtue and lunge toward a ballot box near you to save our nation from the enemy within.
Vote for them in political battle trenches isolating our nations leaders from their own citizens and putrefying spirit and intent of our countries founding principles.
If required, vote with your best gut instinct not with your party politics.
Then maybe when in a public speaking setting your wife should be less Martha Mitchell and more Laura Bush.
There''''s only one reason Obama has defeated Hillary for the nomination. The far left in the Democratic Party decided it was OK to slap around a woman, to lie about her, to use their filthy macho ego ********* jokes, to distort her statements and positions but boxed in the Clinton campaign so that any strong criticism of Obama''''s positions and questions about this experience, judgment and character were made to appear racist.
I dare and defy you gutless wonders to criticize anybody for lashing back at this racist old gasbag grump and calling her out on HER OWN WORDS that are on videotape all over the net!
Too bad the ''claws come out'' when you d/amn this country!
IF SHE''S GOING TO CAMPAIGN, SHE''S PART OF THE CAMPAIGN.
He''s carefully setting himself up as being victimized adn thus deflecting legitimate discussion because PC RINOs will not cross the line.
Very clever play of race.
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Posted by msay3
Maybe you should tell YOUR mother or wife that first!!!
The GOP can''t run on their record of success because they''ve only got massive failure to show for their time in power. That''s why they run with smear and fear. Americans see through it and are tired of it.
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Yeah that sounds real intelligent.
ONCE AGAIN, our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press, and CBS is an alpha member, is TRYING to supress and censor any "anti-Obama" news in Ameirca today.
This "story" is just one more attempt by our "free left-wing press" to dicate who they want in the White House.
And we can tell you right now it won''t be the Obama''s, although we fully expect their corrupt liberals pals in our wolfpack press to go to every extreme to "try" to make it happen.
Posted by msay3 at 09:25 AM : May 19, 2008
OOoooooo......baby got BACK? :) Is that what you''re trying to say? LOL Can you imagine the low frequency bass vibrations eminating from ''da house'' if these two get elected?
You will probably be able to hear the windows rattle from PA Ave.
Republicans have nothing to offer America except four more years of Bush''s failed policies. That''s why they are running on smear and fear.
Posted by perceptions5 at 09:27 AM : May 19, 2008
EXACTLY! Trying to stifle ANY debate regarding his associations, friends, and character (or lack there of).
What are you smoking?
You other brothers can''t deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
Wanna pull up tough
Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she''s wearing
I''m hooked and I can''t stop staring
Oh, baby I wanna get with ya
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But that butt you got
Make Me so horney
Ooh, rump of smooth skin
You say you wanna get in my benz
Well use me use me cuz you aint that average groupy
Republicans are very scared of Obama because they know they can''t defeat him. He will be our next president. Get Used to it. It''s about time we had a little soul in the white house. Maybe we can shake up the good ole boy mentality that is currently eminating from the white house.
In other words, she lied. Admit it. Get over your liberal white guilt syndrome and open your eyes.
Republicans are very scared of Obama because they know they can''''t defeat him. He will be our next president. Get Used to it. It''''s about time we had a little soul in the white house. Maybe we can shake up the good ole boy mentality that is currently eminating from the white house.
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HaHaHa best joke I''ve heard all year!
This clarifies nothing...she is a lying racist low life just like her husband...who despite repeated opportunities has refused to explain why for twenty years he remained an officer in a church based on Cone''s black liberation theology which held that if a religion did not aid in the destruction of the "white enemy", it should be cast aside.
As if this were not enough, the Israel-firster and America-laster, Neo-con William Kristol has said that he prefers Obama over Clinton. His campaign manager, Axelrod, is the protege of Representative Rahm Emmanuel--an IDF veteran who represents Israel from his perch in Chicago. His foreign policy handler is Zbignieuw Brzezinski who wants to renew the Cold War with Russia!
You''d have to be dumber than a bag of hammers to support this Manchurian candidate.
Go to the O!!!
Do Republicans have anything to offer other than fear and smear?
Posted by concorde5 at 09:36 AM : May 19, 2008
That''s not exactly true. We''re scared because McPusskator will be the nomineee (short of a heart attack from heaven) and has already said he will not go negative.
Neither will Ubama...the press will do the job for him (like this story illustrates.) And the countless other negative stories about McCain and his wife that will come out.
And McNiceguy will just sit there and take it.....and likely lose.
Posted by JACK3213
Who''s the IDIOT here? Surley you can''t spell !!
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I think the Obama''s have been in public life long enough to know how to let criticism roll off of them. Yes, I think a sense of humor would go a long way towards accomplishing it. They are grim, serious people who spend most of their time defending or apologizing. Let it go!!
If they are destined to be the First Couple, then they need to lighten up (no pun intended).
Rockefeller has his families own private intelligence network with connections all through the Middle East which would have told him the truth of the matter.
But, as Obama himself and Mad. Albright, Clinton''s secretary of State noted...US FOREIGN POLICY IS BIPARTISAN!!--that means BOTH parties were party to the fraud...both supported the war against Iraq for Oil and Israel. Note also that John Edwards was on the committee with Rockefeller and passed on this war without any hint of due diligence! He is also a Bilderberger attendee--prior to his selection as Kerry''s VP, he went to their meeting in Naples to be vetted.
Kerry and Edwards IGNORED THE THEFT OF OHIO by the Republicans. Kerry and his Republican wife flew away to party with the Schwartzeneggers...Two people are in jail for the Ohio theft.
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Posted by kittykatty2 at 09:43 AM : May 19, 2008
Please tell us what is wrong with replaying a public comment made by Mrs Obama. Seem like gair game.
Just like "...I will have unconditional talks with the leader of Iran, Cuba and Hamas."
Can they send any other kind? LOL
Sorry there Barack, you better get used to it, should she become the first lady...this is only the beginning my good man, only the beginning. And by the way, if you want the media to "lay off her and the family" you should keep her off stag at your rallies and should she make a speech, she should "engage her brain before she speaks"
By the way, why do some of you feel the need to post the same swill more than once? (One time is sufficient).
That''s how you stop a Bully.
Posted by jh6379
Because it has losers like YOU in it!
SECRET "OFF-LIMITS" "I will NEVER reveal" potentially "dirty" financial DEALINGS by "BARBIE" (they REALLY ought to CLEAR THAT UP BEFORE the GE - that 2 MILLION DOLLAR "investment" in GENOCIDAL SUDAN by her isn''t CHUMP CHANGE) might just TRUMP a long ago explained remark that is about a thousand times LESS QUESTIONABLE than the things King George says and DOES EVERY DAY.
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