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Obama tells Tenn.’s GOP: ‘Lay off my wife’

May 19, 2008

An Associated Press reporter has written a very interesting article in which it details Barack Obama telling the Republican Party that his wife is off limits.

“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.”

I understand Obama’s need to protect his family.  That is a very innate feeling that most of us have.  Traditionally, however, it has been the children that have been out of bounds, not the spouse.  Think back to how relentlessly Hillary Clinton was attacked while her husband was president.

I do believe that the G.O.P. and the media should stay away from his children, but Michelle Obama has put herself out in the public sphere as she has campaigned throughout this country on behalf of her husband.  She is not off-limits.  Her controversial statements should be examined.  She is a very intelligent and capable woman that is more than able to defend herself.

Obama cannot continue to have it both ways…use his wife to campaign but make attacking her views somehow scandalous.

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Barack Obama, Politics 

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