Obama would have you all FIRED!

[peoli]

Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Obama on Palin: "Back off these kinds of stories."

"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's chidlren are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor and or her potential perfromance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics."

On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs:


"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if i thought there was somebody in my campaign who was invovled in something like, they that would be fired."


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[krawhitham]

1. we are his 527

[Richardo]

5. Don't flatter yourselves

He's disavowing your sorry asses.

[Moochy]

18. Always on the outside looking in at du

and spitting, you have not changed.

[Bluebear]

49. :nodding:

[BklnDem75]

25. My elf is already flattered, thanks

It takes a special kind of person to think Obama's staff means every Democratic blog and forum.

[Richardo]

33. "means"?

I'll trade my misspelling for yours. But mine was funnier.

[BklnDem75]

52. Oh? Did I misspell means?

How do you spell it?

[Moochy]

54. no he just did not comprehend what you wrote

Par for the course.

[the Sundance Kid]

55. you sure enjoy playing the self-righteous dude, don't you?

[azmouse]

2. Obama is a class act.

[CreekDog]

15. Obama's a class act.

I am not. :rofl:

[azmouse]

19. Well then...

:spank:


:P

[JVS]

30. Hell yeah!

[dkf]

3. Har har. I do agree that it is not his or his campaign's place to comment on this.

On the other hand we are free actors.

[stray cat]

4. Only if I was employed by him and paid staff

[LisaL]

6. Good thing we don't work for him, then.

LOL.

[greguganus]

32. He pays us what we're worth lol. n/t

[Joe the Revelator]

7. All Obama has to do it sit back, keep his campaign's mouth shut, and watch the republican ticket

implode.

Good statement by Obama.

[Kdillard]

8. We are not his campaign staff.

[LisaL]

9. No shit. And here I was wondering why I wasn't getting paid.

Bummer.

[Moochy]

21. But its fun to pretend!

Now back to my hall monitoring.

[TexasLady]

10. He and Biden sure do look confident

no damn wonder. McCain is byevye, toast, gone, outta here!

[ncteechur]

11. I am a voter. I am not on Obama's staff. It is important to me to know who is being presented for

the highest and second highest office in the US. Since McCain did a piss-poor job of vetting her, I have nothing to go on but what bloggers and others say.

I appreciate Senator Obama's position. He is correct. His campaign should have nothing to do with this.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Wow. The internet is his staff?

:woohoo:

:eyes:

[Fleshdancer]

13. I don't work for Obama

and I have absolutely NO opinion over Bristol being pregnant. My issue is with the lying and the cover up and the fact that McCain was stupid not to vet his own running mate.

[tbyg52]

20. Ditto. It's not about that poor kid, it's about the shennanigans of the adults around her. nt

[donco6]

14. I guess it's fortunate I don't work for him!

Onward!

[JVS]

16. So the fuck what? We chose him, He works for us.

And I'm delighted that he's taking the highroad on this.


I'm equally delighted that bloggers are taking the low-road on this.

[WeDidIt]

17. He can't fire me

I don't work for him.

[TheKentuckian]

26. I'm not part of the campaign

and make donations to it.

Obama needs to be above the fray, I certainly do not. I will use any opening to undo the opposition and have no problem hammering away at a supposed strength.

[seabeyond]

22. dodson, real family values. fox a real mom. mccains real mom. this is what she is running on

there is NOTHING else for her to run on

her decision to get on that plane in a life and death choices shows exactly how she fails at this mom thing. it has to be shown that her self interest is above the family. this is what they are selling her on. this is where her failure is

[Christian30]

23. If the intent behind this post is to chastise us...

it's not going to work. This is what should have happened. Netroots drive these stories, put them out to the media, allowing the campaign to be a class act. Let's not be naive enough to believe that Obama's campaign isn't delighting in this, and our role in it.

[tbyg52]

37. Don't think it is. It says what he has to say in his position.

He's right. That doesn't mean we're wrong.

[DefenseLawyer]

24. Not me.

Maybe some of you clowns, but the Obama campaign is on the edge of their seats just waiting to see what I post next, so they will know what to do. It is a huge weight to bear, but somebody's got to do it.

[jazzjunkysue]

27. The GOP got Bill impeached for a blow job. This is grass roots, and we're not

getting a sitting president fired.

No, if the GOP can dish it out, with right wing millionaires footing the bill, regular, concerned americans can have their say.

As long as this woman wants to tell me what to do with my uterus, and seat the next superme court with war apologists and civil rights exploiters, I will discuss her family, since she trotted them out on TV and told us her mothering skills were her #1 job qualification.


Her personal "morals" will be forced on me and my family if I don't stop her.

I'll stop her with her own story, if possible.

It's her story. It needs to be told. No apologies.

[BlooInBloo]

28. That's nice.

[Az]

29. Thats good enough for me

The kids off limits. Play fair.

[Gregorian]

42. Good to see you.

I was just wondering about you yesterday.

We're going to learn a few things from Obama before this is all over. I look forward to it. No personal attacking. He's a good fighter.

[busymom]

31. Thank you President Obama. I'll say it again. He is a

class act!

[CampDem]

34. Hear Hear!

Now on to a much more pressing and serious topic:
When will McCain make room on one of the 7 properties for Palin to park the trailer?


:evilgrin:

[Gregorian]

35. Personal attacks don't rise to his high standard.

He's going to teach this country a new way.

[swishyfeet]

36. Is there NOTHING we can agree on around here?

We should be celebrating the opportunity to slime someone with an (R), and now we gotta be nice.

:(

[NJmaverick]

38. Obama should stay classy and be the ideal

that doesn't mean that we should stop exposing the truth and hypocrisy. This story was a major blow to the McCain/Palin ticket and that's good news for our nation.

[vaberella]

39. Thank you Obama. We are not the fuckin GOP and Repubs. Let them act stupid.

I knew this shit would go back to Obama, but idiots on here wanted to keep pushing. We are not the only site, but people come on here and they do check it up, provides enough ammunition for the GOP to pull shit against our candidate.

[Meshuga]

40. Great response by Obama!!!

I'm really impressed with how he responds to all the bullshit that is thrown at his direction. Our past nominees would cower in the corner and take it. Obama knows how and when to throw the punches.

He does not take the bait from the RW bullshit and I am proud of him for it.

[high density]

41. Umm of course the campaign would say that

Last I checked, people chatting on a message board were not campaign staff.

[vaberella]

43. But you know as well as I do that the GOP and Repubs don't care. They'll take it where they can.

They'll take, use it and spin it and since they know how to spin the MSM who is totally against us as well. We have no bloody back up. We've lost the election before over less and these games can lead to more---message board or not.

[high density]

46. The GOP has already blamed it on "liberal bloggers"

And who cares if the "liberal bloggers" take a hit? Nobody.

[qwlauren35]

44. Hmmmm...

If I were to pick between someone having oral sex in the White House and covered it up vs. someone whose kid is pregnant and covers it up... yeah, they're about on the same level.

C'mon, folks. We're supposed to be looking at Palin's experience! Ooops. She doesn't have any. OK, should we just look at her Vogue photos?

When a candidate has minimal experience, then you look at their values and judgment. Since I'm diametrically opposed to her values, I'll just go with judgment. Frankly, Palin is getting a C- on judgment... and I'm being generous.

So then, who has worse judgment? Palin? Or McCain for picking her?

[CampDem]

45. Uncle Ted said it best

The internet is not something you dump something on, it's not a big truck. It's a series of Tubes!

Those dern internets...
:spank:

[tblue37]

47. Only if we were campaign workers. We are not.

He and his campaign cannot touch this and he wouldn't anyway. I beleive him when he says he cosndiers children off limits. But we are not him, and we are not his campaign workers. His comment has nothing to do with us here on DU.

[2008]

48. You guys made Obama CRY!

Please. Obama is loving this as much as anyone who wants to see McCain lose.

He takes the high road, and we sling shit at our opponent. The shit-slinging will never stop, ever, regardless of the candidates.

We have a candidate who is smart enough to distance himself from the shit slinging. He has a base who loves to sling shit.

We're no better than the right when it comes to shit slinging. We just have a much better candidate than they do.

:patriot:

[RoadRage]

50. I don't work for Obama.. in fact.. I PAY HIM, He doesn't Pay Me! :)

I don't think that the "Obama is a muslim" rumor was from anyone on McCain (or any Repug's staff).. but it still did the job. And, frankly - this isn't a rumor.. it actually happened.

I have the right to dig in on info about the elected officials who will be running MY government. It's the American way!

[n2doc]

51. OK! I want my severance pay!

Like now! :evilgrin:

[Willo]

53. Thanks for posting that Horseface

This shouldn't be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor and or her potential perfromance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories.



Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

In spite of what the other side is doing or has a history of doing. I thing we are doing well this time because we stay on topic and attack the right issues.

As Obama said "This shouldn't be part of politics."

This is a family smear and wrong.

[Frank Booth]

56. Class act, like usual.

[LooseWilly]

57. We're not staff... we're a poll.

And if right wing idiots can believe that Obama's a Muslim when answering polls, we can believe that Palin is BareFoot&Pregnant2.0, the upgrade that allows women to be shod and employed while they incubate babies... well so be it.

Besides, its such a nice change, examining right wing families under a microscope and judging their every action, rather than the reverse...

[azmouse]

58. kick