Obama says back off the kids, that's good enough for me

[DainBramaged]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/01/1321281.aspx
In his media avail, Obama just responded to reporters' questions about the Bristol Palin story. Noting that his mother had him when she was 18 years old, Obama said families are "off limits" in campaigns. He was very impassioned.

"I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," Obama said. "And 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 family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn’t be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off limits."

Regarding to the accusation from the McCain camp that rumors of Bristol Palin were being spread by liberal bloggers, some with connections to the Obama campaign, the Illinois senator replied: "I am offended by that statement.Tthere is no evidence at all that any of this involved us. I hope I am as clear as I can be. So in case I am not, let me repeat: We don’t go after people’s families; we don’t get them involved in the politics. It is not appropriate and it is not relevant. Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought it was somebody in the campaign that was involved in something like that they would be fired."

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. If only his advice was taken...

[liberal renegade]

2. He's right

Momma, on the other hand, is fair game.

[krawhitham]

9. In a vacuum

If the shoe was on the other foot the Repubs would never stop

and guess what they win more than we do because of that fact

[depakid]

16. That's exactly right

All too many Democrats would rather people thought that they were "nice" and "above all that" than do what it takes to win.

Professor Lakoff:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-palin-choice-and-the_b_123012.html

and Professor Westen:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/brand-first-equivocate-la_b_122855.html

Have shown us how to handle this. Will the campaign, its surrogates and supporters listen?

[Eyes_wide_ open]

26. That's exactly wrong

it's not about Democrats and Republicans, it's not about being "above all that" or being "nice".

It's about right and wrong. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it. When we're willing to be scum to beat scum there's nothing left worth winning. Obama is right.

[depakid]

30. It's about winning or losing

You're prepared to lose and don't care who you hurt with your self-infulgence.

Democrats who think like that have cost us ENOUGH already.

[Eyes_wide_ open]

31. When you become what you hate

you haven't won anything at all.

[depakid]

32. Spare us the platitudes

[pampango]

37. Others here support a permutation of Bush's "to beat a terrorist, you have to

become a terrorist." They go with "to beat a repub, you have to become a repub."

I hope that once we win, they can go back to being "Democrats" and won't feel the need to go on being "repubs" because it is so "effective".

[DainBramaged]

27. True, but Obama is the man, he said let up, so I did

[DainBramaged]

33. You are right, but he is our Presidential nominee

and I think the Obama campaign has something else to fry Palin on.

[spoony]

3. I agree

We either are on board with what Obama stands for, change with integrity, or we play dirty with people on the other side who are more used to it and probably do it better. We can't expect to win a mud wrestling contest with a pig, so why get our clothes dirty. As usual, Obama takes a principled stand that will hopefully effect good in this campaign and those to come.

[bdamomma]

4. let us take Obama's advice.

let this one blow up in McCain's camp.

[totodeinhere]

5. I hope that everyone at DU will takes Obama's advice.

What is wrong with all of the posters at DU who keep going after Palin's family? Is it because they are too intellectually lazy to enunciate opposition to Palin based upon her stands on the issues?

[Mist]

7. I don't see it as going after the family, I see it as going after SP. nt

[AZBlue]

6. K&R

[Maraya1969]

8. He's so classy. I on the other hand like to get dirt in my fingernails when I fight

so I'll keep reading and spreading any kind of trailer trash about Ms. Palin you can throw at me.

So have at it...........!

[DCBob]

10. Me too.

Obama is right. We don't need to go there.

[terrya]

11. I do also. Recommended.

Let the National Enquirer deal with this stuff. I imagine they're on it right now.

But Obama/Biden...and us...should stay as far away from this as possible.

[Psyop Samurai]

12. Obama also said he was not aware that Bush had committed any impeachable crimes...

He is running a political campaign inside the BIG LIE.

That is his job.

[paparush]

13. Sorry O', but this isn't paddy cakes. Its a war. Exploit the enemy's weakness and fucking WIN!

We are dangerously close to having yet another raving lunatic with his finger on the button. How many times are we going to dodge that bullet? McCain picked her.

If Chelsea had been pregnant out of wedlock, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Coulter, Tom Delay, would have sliced her to fucking ribbons and fed the scraps to the dogs on the Capitol steps.

[Richardo]

14. So your moral guides are Limbaugh, Gingrich, Coulter and DeLay?

I'm sorry.

[paparush]

20. This time, we have to win. Period.

McCain made his choice and he must be made to suffer for it.
The Republicans must be beaten.
The Republicans must be exposed for the hateful hypocrites that they are.

[terrya]

17. This is imploding on its own.

Obama is taking the high road. He looks good, we look good.

Hell, I doubt she'll last the week anyway.

[DCBob]

19. Correct. Obama and his supporters do not need to do a thing.

This story has taken on a life of its own. The tabloids will also hit it hard next week I am sure. We can just ride it on the high road.

[Captain Hilts]

29. It's not their weakness. Her interest in maintaining high oil prices is. nt

[tanyev]

15. I agree with him, but can you imagine how loud the religious right would be SCREAMING

if one of the Obama girls were 17 and pregnant?

[sampsonblk]

18. He's right, and its the rigfht thing to do-nt

[seabeyond]

21. i havent touched the kids but i sure as hell gonna go after a woman puts her unborn baby in danger

and promotes herself as pro life and family values. i wont stop on that. i want to know why that woman got on that airplane

[Retrograde]

22. Yes, let's focus on Todd Palin instead

the media have been all over Michelle Obams and Cindy McCain: when do we get to know more about Mr. Palin? What does he do for a living? Does he help raise the children while his wife's in Juneau? Has he ever been a militant Black Muslim?

Surely he and Sarah have discussed this important step: let's get him on TV and hear him talk!

I'll bring the popcorn.

[siligut]

23. I saw that, he was great!

If he says don’t go there, I agree. We don’t have to go there. Sarah Palin has a wasps nest of problems, her teenage daughter’s pregnancy may represent the hypocrisy of the RW and all that is wrong with the idea of no sex and no sex education, but it is no where near what is wrong with McInsane’s selection for VP.

[DainBramaged]

40. He is my President unless the election is stolen

[Nikki Stone1]

24. K & R

:kick:

[Nikki Stone1]

25. K & R

:kick:

[Captain Hilts]

28. Her vested interest in maintaining higher oil prices is a MUCH BETTER topic. nt

[endarkenment]

34. I have no problem with Bristol Palin.

Her mom is a very stupid woman, a hypocrite, and a fundamentalist lunatic who wants to impose her failed family values on the rest of us. McCain's dangerous choice of a running mate is evidence that he is mentally unfit to serve.

Thank you for your concern on this important matter.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. ... but not McCain Votes on Abstinence, Family Planning, Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Birth Control.

[POAS]

36. So you are self censoring!

Good for you.

[DainBramaged]

38. t doesn't mean I'm not going to stop kicking the crap out of Virginia Plain.

[PeaceNikki]

39. You and I disagreed on this very topic the other day

In fact, you put me on ignore because I took the stance that you now do.

In any case, we're in agreement now and that's cool. :toast:

[The Stranger]

41. Not me.

[LisaL]

42. If Obama told you to jump off the bridge, would you do it?

[DainBramaged]

43. That is simply a stupid question

[Tresalisa]

44. I was at a friend's kid's b-day party yesterday,

a big BBQ. Guess what topic came up? The repukes having a female for VP. Guess what else came up? The "you won't believe the sleaze coming from the left on the internet forums," followed by hashing and rehashing and explaining to folks who hadn't heard anything about it.

Some of you may say this is OK to bring up, to plant the idea in people's heads that Gov. Palin is a hypocrite, or that we've got to play dirty just like the repukes do. Maybe we do, what do I know?

I'm just going to say that I was very, very embarrassed yesterday.