If she stops giving speeches…
Bookworm on May 19 2008 at 9:15 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
…we’ll lay off of her. Only in Obama land can you put your wife front and center when it is convenient for you, and then, with a straight face, tell people that they cannot talk about her:
Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee’s Republican Party: “Lay off my wife.”Obama and his wife, Michelle, were asked in an interview aired Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” about an online video last week by Tennessee’s GOP taking her to task for a comment some considered unpatriotic.
Obama said it was unacceptable for anyone to attack his family.
Of course, what this tells me is that Obama knows that his wife is a liability — and I’m perfectly willing to take advantage of that fact.
You know, speaking of me, I’m wondering how the “vast right wing conspiracy” trope is going to play out in this election. When Hillary and Bill used it so effectively back in the 1990s, you had the MSM, and then you had a few other anti-Clinton media outlets that the MSM could easily target by going after their financing.
What do you do when you have thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of bloggers like me, people who have no Scaife supporting them, who have no political contacts, who have no personal bones to pick, but who nevertheless raise their voices loudly against the most recent Statist candidate?
By the way, I like what Rick Moran said today at American Thinker about Obama’s latest squeal of outrage:
I’ve written a couple of pieces on my own site about Obama’s whining. It is really getting to be annoying. The candidate takes any criticism levelled against him as unfair or dirty politics.
Charles Johnson also had a nice swipe at Obama’s “you’re being mean to me” attitude, coupled with another one of Obama’s elitist references:
Barack Obama is becoming known as the snapping poodle of the 2008 election, snarling and lashing out and whining about poor treatment as he runs for the most powerful position in the world
[snip]
Obama also called the Tennessee Republican Party “low class.”
“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.”
He called the strategy “low class.”
Obama’s increasingly inept way with words gives more credence to the theory currently making the rounds (h/t Suek) that he is a carefully manufactured product of the Statist party, with his grooming going back decades.
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Obama is not running for chief speechmaker or chief policy wonk; he is running for chief executive, and a primary executive function is selecting people. Since Obama has never held a major executive position of any kind (sadly, neither have his competitors) we have no track record available concerning his performance in hiring. Thus, we can judge his abilities on this score only by those with whom he chooses to surround himself.
Why can’t you just let him eat his waffle?
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Maybe this is a pre-emptive strike against being asked about his wife’s $200K raise and her employer’s $1 million earmark?
Among the (apparently thousands of) things he doesn’t seem to understand is that his wife is solely responsible for making herself an issue, with her evidently unstoppable mouth.
But it is amusing: how long by now is the list now of things about him, his associates, etc. we aren’t allowed to talk about?
Beginning with his flapping ears, his middle name, and running right through now, apparently, his wife’s mouth. Quite a world, the one in which he lives.
Michelle is not exactly Bess Truman or Mamie Eisenhower, little wifey in the kitchen baking toll house cookies. Nobody put Mamie or Bess to task for minimal participation in the political arena. Laura Bush primarily confined her public speaking to uncontroversial areas in which she had some professional expertise: libraries and reading. Michelle Obama has degrees from Ivy League schools. She holds a $300k job. She loves to hear herself giving speeches talking about a “mean” America she finds it difficult to be proud of- unless America makes her first lady. Michelle’s speeches are excellent advertisements for McCain.
If Barack had any political sense, he would inform his wife that for the next 5 1/2 months, her primary duty is to bake 20 dozen toll house cookies daily. If Michelle and Barack can’t stand the political heat from her big mouth, perhaps Michelle should stay in the kitchen. As a McCain supporter, I wish that Michelle would give five speeches daily.
Ran across this today…
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/05/rumor-republicans-have-michelle-obama.html
(This may post a second time – it doesn’t seem to have gone through)
re Michelle: Imagine her teaming up with Michael Moore on a goodwill tour. MM: Americans are the dumbest people in the world. MO: Americans are mean.
re Barack: We know he doesn’t like the upper class exploiters. We know his church doesn’t like the middle class. Is he now saying that the lower class doesn’t know how to treat women? Who does he like?