Posted on 03/22/2012 10:56:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
'The Children Are Off-Limits': White House In Fury Over Rick Santorum For Attacking Malia Obama's Trip To Mexico
By CHRISTINE SHOW 22 March 2012
Barack Obama responded Wednesday with shock to Rick Santorum's recent criticisms that the President was an irresponsible parent for sending his daughter to Mexico.
President Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, ripped the Republican presidential candidate for raising an issue about Malia Obama's recent school trip.
She blasted Mr Santorum for targeting the child on the campaign trail.
'Children off-limits': Barack Obama's campaign team blasted Rick Santorum for criticising the President's decision to let his daughter to travel to Mexico
Ms Cutter told MSNBC: 'I think that children, for candidate purposes, have always been off-limits in presidential campaigns, and really any campaign.
'I'm surprised that Rick Santorum wouldn't agree with that.' The comments came after Mr Santorum talked with Glenn Beck on his conservative radio show on Tuesday about his opinion on President Obama's decision to allow Malia, 13, to visit Mexico after the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning there.
He told Mr Beck: 'What I would say is that the President's actions should reflect what his administration is saying.
'If the administration is saying that it's not safe to have people down here, then just because you can send 25 Secret Service agents doesn't mean you should do it.'
'Set an example': Mr Santorum called President Obama irresponsible for sending daughter Malia, 13, to Mexico despite State Department travel warning
Mr Santorum went on to say: 'You should set an example. I think that's what presidents do. They set an example. And when the government is saying this is not safe, then you don't set the example by sending your kids down there.'
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Faux outrage from the president. Yawn....
Rick’s criticism, like most of his criticism, is spot on, but not exactly well-placed, or well-timed. As the saying goes, ‘timing is everything’.
I’d be surprised if Rick had any musical talent, or athletic prowess.
“Go Newt!”
tell that to the Palins, dirtbag
Malia, your little tax payer leech.
He only sent the kid this year because he won’t be able to do it on our dime from prison. The Obama’s “big playdate” is coming to an end.
‘Children off-limits’
Sorry—the left changed that rule when they went after Sarah’s kids and decided to put out husseins kids as poster children for making ponts about abortion and other political talking points. Karma’s a bitch.
‘I’m surprised that Rick Santorum wouldn’t agree with that.’ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I am not surprised. Anyone who really knew ( as Obama does)what is happening in Mexico would never send their children to there. There is a travel warning issued by the Dept of State in regard to travel to Mexico, for good reason,
See it here:
Obama simply has nothing to fear, he has the support of every drug cartel.Thats the cold fact.Obama has even given the Mexican Drug cartels sanctuary on federal lands in Arizona.
Meanwhile the left and its press has not really reported what has been really happening in Mexico.The entire tier of states in Northern Mexico have been destabilized, and Obama wants that to creep into Arizona and New Mexico as well as Texas, the destruction of the soft underbelly of the USA is proceeding apace.
Obama send his children to Mexico and follows them, to meet with his thug accomplices in Mexico, after having authorized BATF “Gunrunner” as a act of war against the government of Mexico?
It is not wrong for Santorum to draw attention to this fact.
The rags are really fond of that tactic.
The obammy brats are using my money for their f-ing vacations.
I think I have a right then to call the brats little moochers after their shelf ass nasty mom.
“We know they exist, but no one knows what they say, think, do, how they behave, nothing.”
WE know one of them was wearing a shirt emblazoned with a peace sign while Obama had a troop surge in Afghanistan; truly inspiring.
He wasn’t attacking Malia, he was attacking the President.
Sure people that can actually understand english can easily see that. As much as I didn’t like diagraming sentences in school, I now know why we did it.
He can’t stand to be criticized.
Hey, if you had Obama’s wife, you’d probably be sensitive to criticism as well.
Whatever the case; given what is going on in Mexico; seems incredibly irresponsible by all parties involved in planning; and agreeing on location. Odd that the President and his wife; thought overriding 'travel advisories' for what could be a mudersously dangerous excursion.
Exactly!
bump for later.
Obama is proof that Marxists have children that grow up to be Marxists.
Obama is proof that Marxists have children that grow up to be Marxists.
Santorum did not attack Malia, but the headline says he did. That is the purpose of this story. The same dumb schmucks who think that Sarah Palin said "I can see Russia from my house" will think Santorum crossed a line and is a hypocrite for "attacking a defenseless 13 year old girl." Mission accomplished.
To me, they don’t look like Malcolm’s glasses but the picture is fuzzy. The question is why did Obama release that photo?
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