"Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits," Obama said, "and people's children are especially off limits. "This shouldn't be part of our politics," he continued, "It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president. "And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," he said. "You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off limits." Asked about the insinuation from the McCain campaign that the liberal bloggers trafficking in rumors about Palin write for websites that mention Obama, the senator said, "I'm offended by that." The Democratic presidential nominee said, "There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us. I hope I am as clear as can be - so in case I'm not, let me repeat: We don't go after people's families, we don't get them involved in the politics. It's not appropriate and it's not relevant." Concluded Obama before getting on his campaign bus headed to Milwaukee , Wisc., "Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought that it was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they'd be fired."
Incredible. That woman is such an unbelievable inspiration. And as a woman who voted for Hillary in the primaries, I can tell you that voting for John McCain out of spite would be doing a disservice to Hillary, the Democratic Party, and all Americans. Think about everything that Hillary fought for during her campaign. Nothing has changed. And the only candidate that will be able to even closely follow the path that she followed is Barack Obama. So let's leave all of the primaries bullshit behind us. John McCain's priorities are still set on what's going on in other countries. He, like Bush, has forgotten all about what's going on here in America. We need to focus our priorities on repairing the damage that has been done to the American people, and the Democratic Party is the party that has its sights set on that goal. We need to put a Democrat back in the White House. Desperately.
"…to fight for an America that is defined by deep, meaningful equality from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization…"
"This shouldn't be part of our politics," he continued, "It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.
"And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," he said. "You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off limits."
Asked about the insinuation from the McCain campaign that the liberal bloggers trafficking in rumors about Palin write for websites that mention Obama, the senator said, "I'm offended by that."
The Democratic presidential nominee said, "There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us. I hope I am as clear as can be - so in case I'm not, let me repeat: We don't go after people's families, we don't get them involved in the politics. It's not appropriate and it's not relevant."
Concluded Obama before getting on his campaign bus headed to Milwaukee , Wisc., "Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought that it was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they'd be fired."
And as a woman who voted for Hillary in the primaries, I can tell you that voting for John McCain out of spite would be doing a disservice to Hillary, the Democratic Party, and all Americans. Think about everything that Hillary fought for during her campaign. Nothing has changed. And the only candidate that will be able to even closely follow the path that she followed is Barack Obama.
So let's leave all of the primaries bullshit behind us. John McCain's priorities are still set on what's going on in other countries. He, like Bush, has forgotten all about what's going on here in America. We need to focus our priorities on repairing the damage that has been done to the American people, and the Democratic Party is the party that has its sights set on that goal. We need to put a Democrat back in the White House. Desperately.
"…to fight for an America that is defined by deep, meaningful equality from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization…"
Awesome.