Posted on 05/19/2008 8:38:48 AM PDT by indcons
Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee's Republican Party: "Lay off my wife." ADVERTISEMENT
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."
I’m submitting a new word to the American Heritage Dictionary people.
Obamad: To speak nonsense.
Lay off your wife? Get out from behind her skirts then!
Lay off his patriotism.
Lay off his pastor.
Lay off his race.
Lay off his Muslim birth and upbringing.
Lay off likening anyone to Neville Chamberlain.
Lay off his ears.
Lay off his thin skin.
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Other than that, he's a uniter.
He neees to shut his racist elitist mouth or someone should do it for him. The Messiah’s lips are purple from too much coke snorting as a youth. Can we find a tape of him snorting blow and having a homo relationship so the Nazi media can can again demand his past is totally irrelevant.
I agree that children are off limit, but wives? Open your mouth, Michelle baby, and people will react. Solution: STFU.
Hmm, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Bill Ayers, Ahminibadjob, any others?
Yes, and she’ll be a co-president like someone else we can’t mention did, and she most certainly wears the pants in the family. She always puts him down.
Brothers have always been OK to criticize. Carter, Nixon, Clinton... Wives have been criticized since the 19th Century, IIRC (if not longer).
Hey Grandpa Dave . . .if you don’t like the two, just say so. There’s no need to be shy about it !!! lol
s/o
Well, when you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a "post turtle". You know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just want to help the dumb shit get down.
Thats a "post turtle" and fits Obama to a tee.
My father used to use that term. It fits Obama perfectly.
Although Dems informally preach to maximize privileges while minimizing responsibilities, Michelle Obama is an adult and must take responsibility for what she says.
So what? I run into Michelle Obama's every day. Big mouth overbearing black women with chips on their shoulder. The only people who I see put up with them are other blacks, wimpy whites and kids (which just happen to be the same group that supports Obuma)
Society at large detests this type of creature. BO has a rude awakening coming in the GE.
At least Cindy McCain unabashedly states that she’s proud of her Country.
Personal issues and flaws are in one category, but attacking your country for which you’re running to be First Lady is a different one.
Tell her to lay off her black racism and “whitey” attacks, B. Hussein.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
You’d make a good lib, bashing Cindy like that. LOL
Cindy is twice the woman Michelle Obama is.
She is an astute businesss woman and a great humanitarian- and she has publically stated, “I was always proud of my country”.
Control your wife, Obama, then no one will have anything to respond to, is she runs her mouth about political issues, she is fair game for a political response.
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