Obama Wants Wife Off Limits
Sen. Barack Obama’s thin skin shows itself again. On Good Morning America he lashed at the Tennessee Republican Party for having the “audacity” to use a snippet from a Michelle Obama speech in a web video. Here’s the video that got Barack uppity:
Here’s his response:
I don’t remember Obama ever coming to the defense of Jeri Thompson when the MSM smeared her by declaring her a “trophy wife.” Yet when his own wife is properly quoted and Tennesseans reply to her he gets upset.
Ed Morrissey nails it:
If Obama doesn’t want his wife to receive criticism, then he shouldn’t use her as a surrogate on the campaign trail. Whatever she says on the stump at campaign events is fair game for criticism, just as it has been with Bill Clinton. Obama’s camp has unloaded on the former President for statements he made about Hillary’s loss in South Carolina and several other incidents in which they believe Bill played the race card to explain Obama’s success. Bill’s not running for anything this year, but he has made himself a public figure in this primary race, and his statements are also legitimate targets for attack.
What is acceptable criticism of Obama? We can’t talk about his lack of experience because he has superior judgment. Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American hatred is no-go because that’s race baiting. Domestic terrorist William Ayers is off limits because he’s a distraction. Obama’s liberal record is untouchable because we should move beyond a politics of division.
Talk about arrogance. Obama wants to control campaign debate like he controls his once-in-a-blue-moon press conferences. This is a guy who thought eight questions about his relationship with Chicago fixer Tony Rezko were enough. Now, with the Democratic nomination almost in his hands he wants to dictate the terms of the general election. Such a top-down approach is quite a contrast from the bottom-up grassroots campaign he’s organized.
The Tennessee GOP responded to the outcry from their Democratic counterparts:
What is truly deplorable is that Democrats and Obama supporters are hoping to shield Obama and his campaign and its surrogates from almost any criticism, disagreement or dissent by tagging such things as a “distraction,” as “partisanship, and as “racism and “bigotry.”
“Rather than labeling every criticism of Barack Obama as ‘racist,’ and rather than whining about tough talk from their opponents, the Tennessee Democrat Party might want to ask Mrs. Obama to tone down her language,” said Robin Smith, Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. “They also might want to encourage their party elites to stop accusing fellow Democrats of racism because they didn’t vote for Obama, as became common after Obama’s crushing defeat in the West Virginia primary.”
“Frankly, their over-the-top hysteria about a little video suggests that the Tennessee Democrat Party is panicked by the fact that their likely presidential nominee is so unpopular in Tennessee and so unable to connect with average Tennessee Democrats that he carried just nine of 95 counties,” Smith said.
More coverage:
- Hugh Hewitt
- Don Surber
- Jules “Spousal Immunity” Crittenden
- Rick Moran
- Liberty Pundit
“Obama Warns GOP ‘Lay Off My Wife‘”
UPDATE: Sen. Bob Corker wimped out and called called the video “negative personal campaigning.” Tennessee’s other Republican Senator Lamar Alexander isn’t much better:
There are probably better ways to communicate our pride in America, and we need to focus on those.
These two won’t be rallying conservative Republicans anytime soon.
Then there’s a Kossack who felt the Tennessee GOP’s video amounted to a lynching. Yeesh.
So now he’s “uppity”. Nice.