Oh Dear Lord. Those rascally Republicans have gone and upset Barack Obama again. The Tennessee GOP had the NERVE to run an ad he finds unacceptable. Obama let the Republicans have it in an interview today on Good Morning America. Via Gateway Pundit who supplied the emphasis:
Barack whined on Good Morning America that the GOP was distorting his wife's gloomy message.
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ABC News reported on Barack getting tough with the enemy GOP:
The Republicans seem to have come to the same conclusion and a GOP Internet campaign in Tennessee has an ad featuring Michelle Obama's comments during the long Democratic campaign that "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
Michelle Obama was asked about the ad on "GMA," but her husband said, "Let me just interject on this."
"The GOP, should I be the nominee, I think can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record," Obama said. "I've been in public life for 20 years. I expect them to pore through everything that I've said, every utterance, every statement. And to paint it in the most undesirable light possible. That's what they do."
"But I do want to say this to the GOP. 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," he said.
Obama praised his wife's patriotism and said that for Republicans "to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her I think is just low class ... and especially for people who purport to be promoters of family values, who claim that they are protectors of the values and ideals and the decency of the American people to start attacking my wife in a political campaign I think is detestable."
If Obama wants Republicans to shut up, he needs to tell his wife to shut up too. If she is going to campaign for him, her words are fair game, as they should be. I don't see the Obama campaign "laying off" Bill Clinton. Here's a deal, courtesy of baldilocks:
Pundits, professional and otherwise, will lay off of Michelle Obama. In her turn, Mrs. Obama will, for the most part, heed the advice which NBA star LeBron James offered to his mother when she inserted herself into one of his professional campaigns.
Deal?
Obama could have a hidden motive in lashing out at Republicans right now. I hate to admit it, but this was my first thought also:
But the real reason for Obama’s extraordinary freakout is that he fears the release of the videotape, reported here, of Michelle Obama in the pulpit of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church railing against “whitey.” And we don’t mean Whitey Ford. Four Republican sources have told me that the tape exists. I’ve also been informed that Karl Rove and his allies have a copy of it and are using it to raise funds for independent expenditure groups. The tape, I’m told, will be disclosed as the GOP October Surprise. It’s a ticking time bomb.
Whether the tape exists or not, there is a ticking time bomb out there and his name's Barack Obama. One more word from Republicans and his head might explode.
Toughen up, buttercup, and stop whining about criticism of speeches at political events. If you can’t handle that much, you have no business running for re-election to your current job, let alone for the presidency.
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