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Obama tells critics to leave his wife alone
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Posted on 05/19/2008 6:21:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama tells critics to leave his wife alone Mon May 19, 2008 8:50am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Monday that Republican critics should stop picking on his wife Michelle.

"These folks should lay off my wife," Obama said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."

Obama was referring to a four-minute video posted on YouTube by the Tennessee Republican Party last week during a visit by Michelle Obama that portrayed a remark she made in February in an unflattering manner.

Michelle Obama's remark that "for first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country" stirred a controversy at the time. Critics said it sounded unpatriotic and suggested she had not been proud of her country before her husband's candidacy.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; elections; michelleobama; obama; obamawife
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he's pretty thin skinned.........
1 posted on 05/19/2008 6:21:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

This little effete twit wants the hardest job in the world and the best he can do is whine ...


2 posted on 05/19/2008 6:22:38 AM PDT by mgc1122
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To: Sub-Driver

How about she lay off the America bashing?


3 posted on 05/19/2008 6:24:14 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Sub-Driver

Thin skinned and big eared.

But perhaps he’s not so “thin-skinned” as much as he knows that her comments are reflective of his worldview, which he must keep hidden from the general electorate.


4 posted on 05/19/2008 6:24:15 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Sub-Driver

Which “skin” would that be? The WHITE half, or the BLACK half part of his skin?

I don’t think his ‘Whiteness’ is played up enough. As a Typical White Person, I’m offended because it’s racist to deny your White, Kansan Heritage! ;)


5 posted on 05/19/2008 6:24:37 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: jennyjenny

If anything, I want these America/Western Culture haters to spout their hatred as loudly as possible.

They can no longer be allowed to operate from stealth.


6 posted on 05/19/2008 6:25:33 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Sub-Driver
Same stuff, different thread
7 posted on 05/19/2008 6:26:12 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: Sub-Driver

Quinn on the Quinn and Rose show announced today about a Obama’s wife video. She shows great anger at white people. The video should be out soon. She will destroy Obama.


8 posted on 05/19/2008 6:26:46 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America in 1730.)
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To: MrB

It’s just amazing that she would PERSONALLY knock this country SPECIFICALLY as a black....’cause she sure is reaping the benefits of this country.


9 posted on 05/19/2008 6:27:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: MrB

“If anything, I want these America/Western Culture haters to spout their hatred as loudly as possible.

They can no longer be allowed to operate from stealth.”

I hear them more and more. It’s now acceptable to hate America. There is a noticable push in America to the left. Full on socialism is in our future, with communism hot on it’s heels.


10 posted on 05/19/2008 6:27:53 AM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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To: Sub-Driver

"You better watch it sucka"

11 posted on 05/19/2008 6:28:27 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll say!! It’s ok for her to criticize the country that gave her everything she has. But, not ok for others to criticize her ungratefulness.


12 posted on 05/19/2008 6:29:19 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s the Democrats in general who are thin-skinned. They spout any garbage they want, and then expect to be exempt from criticism. Their protests shouldn’t be taken seriously.


13 posted on 05/19/2008 6:30:00 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Concerned about the price of arugula)
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To: bmwcyle

“She will destroy Obama.”

She’s Obama’s “Bubba!” Love it!


14 posted on 05/19/2008 6:30:32 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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"These folks should lay off my wife,"

Your wife should STFU. When she opens her mouth it gets national coverage. She should learn that there are consequences for this. She's a big girl Barry. She doesn't need you to go to bat for her.
Unless she cried on your @$$ and told you to say something. Then that's a different matter. Heh, heh, heh.

15 posted on 05/19/2008 6:30:50 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The secret of Life is letting go. The secret of Love is letting it show.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Tell her to leave this country.....alone.


16 posted on 05/19/2008 6:30:53 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe his campaign could put out some guidelines about what is untouchable in this campaign:

His wife’s anti-Americanism
His endorsement by Hamas
His support of appeasement
His 20-year history of being a congregant of Rev. Wright
His friendship with Bill Ayres
His real estate deal with Tony Rezko
His silence on virtually all issues as an Illinois state senator
His middle name Hussein
His Muslim childhood
His over-stating his position as “law professor”
His comments that he had to lay low on support for “Palestine” in order to get elected President

Don’t bring up any of these, or you’ll be a racist.


17 posted on 05/19/2008 6:31:00 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: Sub-Driver
What a moron!

Hey, Obama, tell Michelle to get out of the kitchen!

18 posted on 05/19/2008 6:31:24 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Sub-Driver

Middle finger.


19 posted on 05/19/2008 6:31:29 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: brownsfan

I don’t think it’s becoming acceptable.

It’s just that the left is losing its understanding that it has to keep this hatred of traditional America under cover.

They talk to likeminded folks so much in their lefthanded circle jerks that they think that everyone else holds the same views.

Whenever they are openly exposed by us, they SQEEEEEEEEAL about it because they know it’s the road to their defeat.


20 posted on 05/19/2008 6:32:04 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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