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Michelle Obama is Fair Game
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 27, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 05/27/2008 6:31:18 AM PDT by moderatewolverine

'Lay off my wife."

So says Barack Obama about his controversial spouse, Michelle.

The Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination has a grating tendency to dismiss any inconvenient fact as a "distraction" and to label every stinging criticism as "divisive." So even if he didn't have a husband's natural desire to defend his wife, he'd still probably denounce criticism of Michelle as beyond the pale.

Obama's comments came in the wake of a Tennessee GOP ad this month calling new attention to Michelle Obama's remark in February that she'd never in her adult life been "really proud" of America until the nation embraced her husband's hope-and-change campaign.

"If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful," Obama said on ABC's "Good Morning America" last week, "because that I find unacceptable, the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family."

Again, the Illinois senator's desire to protect his wife from criticism shows his heart's in the right place. The question is, where is his head?

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; candidate; election; goldberg; michelleobama; obama; potus
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Right on Jonah.
1 posted on 05/27/2008 6:31:19 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
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The Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination has a grating tendency to dismiss any inconvenient fact as a "distraction" and to label every stinging criticism as "divisive."

codewords for "RACIST!"

The Obama campaign boils down to "If you don't support me, you're a racist".

2 posted on 05/27/2008 6:34:03 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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Obama knows... as only he can what a NUT his wife is.... After all she has been taking it from that wackadole pastor of theirs for the last 20 YEARS!... Again 20 YEARS!!!!. Is it any surprise really?
3 posted on 05/27/2008 6:37:32 AM PDT by ElPatriota (Duncan Hunter 08 -- I am proud to support this man for my president and may be Huck?.. Naah :))
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To: moderatewolverine

—Jonah may not be quite in a league with Charles Krauthammer, but he’s always worth reading-—


4 posted on 05/27/2008 6:37:37 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: MrB

Mrs. Clinton and Sen Osama are boring—meaning folks staying home election night to watch CSI or Law and Order///


5 posted on 05/27/2008 6:40:19 AM PDT by kcm.org (Why are Pickens and Buffett always news--not Soros??????)
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To: moderatewolverine

He said to be very carefull. What the heck is the little plick with the big ears going to do if someone picks on his racist wife?


6 posted on 05/27/2008 6:47:33 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: MrB
osamabama and his bigoted ho wife are the biggest anti-American, POS racists that I have ever heard of running for office. He makes the “old” George Wallace look like Mahatma Gandhi.

LLS

7 posted on 05/27/2008 6:49:54 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Could I ever vote for mcstain? NOT if jerk-face keeps running his liberal mouth!!!)
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To: moderatewolverine

Should read: “Michelle Obama is Fair Game for Orthodontists.”

She could eat corn through a picket fence with those bucked teeth.


8 posted on 05/27/2008 6:56:37 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: moderatewolverine
The question is, where is his head?

Planted squarely up his bung hole.
9 posted on 05/27/2008 7:00:01 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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“He said to be very carefull. What the heck is the little plick with the big ears going to do if someone picks on his racist wife?”

Negotiate?


10 posted on 05/27/2008 7:02:26 AM PDT by vietvet67
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“because I find unacceptable the notion”

WHO cares what B.O. finds Unacceptable? He is Unacceptable on the Whole of Who He is and What He Represents, everything UN-American!


11 posted on 05/27/2008 7:14:20 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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Negotiate?

If you attack Michelle, he will vigorously negotiate.
12 posted on 05/27/2008 7:14:53 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: moderatewolverine

Boy it is amazing that the press is being so hard on the Democrats this year....what is going on????


13 posted on 05/27/2008 7:18:20 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: moderatewolverine
Time for a reality check, Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas:

1. Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas, 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, while you have an open field to say any lies you want to say about your opponents .

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?

14 posted on 05/27/2008 7:18:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S.to Blame for 9/11")
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To: vietvet67

Whats the olde saying? funnier than a three dollar bill:-)
“Say, dont pick on my wife or I will call you naughty names!
an will negotiate wth you like I will with Ahmad a Nutbar!’


15 posted on 05/27/2008 7:20:46 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’ll bet even Bill (Horndog) Clinton wouldn’t want to make a move on THAT Mug, he’d wilt so to speak.


16 posted on 05/27/2008 7:27:35 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: moderatewolverine

17 posted on 05/27/2008 7:34:20 AM PDT by End_Clintonism_Now (<==== NOW MORE THAN EVER !!!!!)
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To: moderatewolverine

B.O.HUSSEIN, We find both You and Your Wife Totally Unacceptable Citizens of Our Great Country. Just wait until Election day before You call this statement Devisive.


18 posted on 05/27/2008 7:35:35 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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WHO cares what B.O. finds Unacceptable? He is Unacceptable on the Whole of Who He is and What He Represents, everything UN-American!

I find it unacceptable that an American hating, closet Muslim, Affirmative Action recipient, empty suit would be this close to the presidency of the greatest nation in the world.
19 posted on 05/27/2008 7:41:40 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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“I’ll bet even Bill (Horndog) Clinton wouldn’t want to make a move on THAT Mug, he’d wilt so to speak.”

That Mug is probably more of a man than Horndog Clintoon is.


20 posted on 05/27/2008 7:42:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein Obama"Hama's" Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S.to Blame for 9/11")
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