"Leave Michelle alone!!"
Posted on 05/19/2008 12:27:47 PM PDT by marthemaria
Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee's Republican Party: "Lay off my wife."
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."
If she doesn’t want to be be “fair game” she should not enter the “arena”. She’s no wallflower. She’s an all grown up woman. a lawyer in fact. She makes political statements, she opens the door for rebuttals.
Obama is playing the typical liberal tactic, of the “unassailable victim” attacker, through his wife.
What’s next? The paraplegic black female veteran transsexual down syndrome adoptive mother?
"Leave Michelle alone!!"
what “whitey” video?
Sorry a-hole, what you find unacceptible is a matter of supreme indifference to me. You are a been-nowhere, done-nothing liberal affirmative action dummy and your opinions are just not that important.
Hussein's thin skin is characteristic of pathological narcissism. Like his namesake, he's the kind of despot who would execute underlings for not addressing him with the correct honorific title.
“in fact i would bet that the VAST majority of the blacks who support you out of PURE racism, don’t even know where you stand on the issues.”
I would DEFINATELY make that bet also.
They don’t know where he stands and they don’t care. They see his skin color and that’s all of the convincing they need.
I’ve never seen a canidate or politician in my life with so many blind followers.
Exactly. If he was white we would still be hearing about his pastor and he would have been forced to drop out of the race.
But since he’s black it’s no biggie because in this country it’s just fine and dandy to be racist if your black.
BTW, it's still up over there.
Look at the comments. All negative.
They don’t over-moderate. They rely on shame.
I only defend them because it is paramount to defending us.
Do a search on FR for “Kennedy”. You’ll see alot of disgusting comments as well. Care to take responsibility for them?
And “It’s the Internet, stupid” was a generic stupid, not a specific one. Grow some skin.
Michelle Obama is a combatant. She’s carrying offensive arms and I don’t see no Red Crosses on her helmet. If she wants to be a stretcher bearer than she should STFU. Otherwise open fire on her a**.
That's what I am thinking. I think their might be some truth the Michelle Obama railing against whitey rumor.
It could be a whisper campaign or it could be real.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/17/who-wants-to-be-the-next-millionaire/
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.
Time for a reality check, Hussein ObamaHamas:
1. When you run for the highest office in America, you don’t get to set the tone of the discussions and set the limits about what is said about you, and you have an open field with your opponents to say any lies you want to say.
2. When you send your millionaire, loud mouthed, Black racist, spoiled America Hating B$tch of a wife out to knock America, the other candidates and to campaign for you. She becomes a legitimate target of how America feels about her and her bitter comments about America.
3. Last but not least, when you say this bs about leaving your Bitter wife out of the campaign, there must be something really bad that she has done. So are you trying to preempt the disclosure of what else she has done, said or worse?
Put some ice on it and stop your whining, you thin skinned elitist bastard!
Or should we say: “ Stop your Whining, you thin skinned Elitist Liberal Sweetie Bastard?
But since he’s black it’s no biggie
The great irony in all of this, is B-Hussein-O is not “black”. His father was black, and his mother was white. He just chooses to be “black” because it is politically expedient and conveniently forgets his white side. I often wonder how his mother’s family really feels about all of his “hate whitey” speech.
Hey fella, remember when YOU said this: "WORDS MEAN SOMETHING"?
That’s very true but nobody refers to him as bi-racial.
The Obama camp doesn’t want to remind black voters that he’s bi-racial because “first black president” sounds a lot better than “first bi-racial president” to them.
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