Apparently, Republicans are to be seen and not heard.
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."
Exactly! We've all been hearing about the "first time" comment for 6 weeks now. Nothing new. Damage control!
I’m proudly “low class” (according to Obama) how about you?
Uniter, Orator, Healer - Divider, Fool, Appeaser
Michelle Obama seems to think she’s an Elected Offical. Therefore she’s fair game.
“whitey” tape?
Explanation please?
Another shoe to drop?
I only know of rumors I’ve read here...rumors there’s a Michelle Obama tape in which she’s “railing against Whitey”. Also, rumors the Hillary camp has something to do with the rumors. I don’t know the truth of any of it.
Mochelle should stay at home and make (bean cakes) and continue to teach her children to hate whitey.
Yes and have plenty of (bean teas) for her burqua wearing NOI friends.
The Facts,
NSNR
Maybe Orborta forget, Patriotic Americans will always attack the enemy form within. Word Up, BO and MO are not friends of America,or people who need to be in the Oval Office.
Duty, Honor, Country
NSNR
Apparently, Republicans are to be seen and not heard.
You should know your not allowed to say that.
Not supposed to vote for him for anything, especially President of the USA!
The ascendancy of Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtured by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deceiver who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Should Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama get a compliant Democrat Congress and Senate, the damage done to this country and to liberty as we have known it, would be incalculable. He is the most dangerous presidential candidates since Henry Wallace. Please check this link. It will tell you all that you need to know. There is credible info that could lead one to believe that his Indonesian stepfather to him to Mosque with the intent of making him Muslim. His own campaign said in a LA Time article that he was never a REGULARLY practicing Muslim, leading one to infer that he was an IRREGULARLY practicing Muslim. That is enough for the Muzzies to convict him as an apostate or to accept him as one of the faithful deceiving the dhimmis. Check the years 1971-1973 at the link below.
http://www.theobamafile.com/
Michelle Obama is a mean spirited, angry, calculating and bitter woman and she clearly wears the pants in that household. She must not be given a chance to wear them in the White House.
She said it. She meant it. They are her words. This isn't the first time she and Obama have tried and failed to wiggle out of something they've said. Words. just Words ... In her husband's own words... well sorta...
Obama: "Don't tell me words don't matter. 'I have a dream' -- just words? 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' -- just words? 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' -- just words? Just speeches?"
Yes, indeed, she is definately fair game. She'll get no hands off treatment from me.
I cannot stomach John McCain but the idea of her as First Lady is so repugnant to me that I am forced to support him..... well, at least I'll have to vote for him.
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