Here's what Obama thinks of "Babygate"

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-to-media.html

At a brief press availability in Monroe, Mich., ABC News asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., if he had any response to Gov. Sarah Palin's statement that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant.

"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."
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This is the "Change" we've been waiting for!

I agree with Obama here. Come on guys, let's do what he wants.

Seriously, since when?

Who has class and a conscious, families are off limits. That's the way he wants his campaign and good for him.

:eyes:

And I have to tell you, I don't think it does Obama any good to be associated with this slime. To win this election, we have to show that this is NOT politics as usual. The slamming of a 17-year old IS politics as usual. It's Rovian.

Obama is better than that, and so are we.

But you'd have to be blind to not see the plague of concerned newbies around here this weekend who are posting only on this issue.

There are lots of newbies. Part of me :tinfoilhat: thinks the stories about Palin's 5th kid and her daughter being his mother were concocted by the RW to make us look stupid and heartless. The real story was just a teenage girl getting pregnant and now we have mud on our faces. Instead of Palin coming out and saying her daughter was pregnant (which would have put the focus on her) the internets were full of smears all weekend that made us (and Barack) look bad. I worry that we were set up.

There have been WAY too many trolls, Moochy, and I guess it makes me paranoid, too, but in a different way.

I've been here almost a year, and am a STAUNCH Obama supporter. I think it's time to back the fuck off too. Obama will just have to keep defending himself if not. I am respecting his wishes, and not jumping into the mud.

That's what he meant. No family stuff.

Now will you all shut the fuck up about that 17 year old girl who didn't ask for any of this?

And if she's 5 months pregnant now, there's no way, no how that she's the mother of the baby born in April, so give it a damn rest already!

Let's focus on Palin's appalling record and her husband's presence at all her meetings.

Rec.

"this is really a signal that he wants us to keep digging!!!!!11" or ....and on and on ad nauseum.

From what I've seen today, probably not long.

but that doesn't mean that people aren't going to discuss it. It's a totally different thing. It's called freedom of speech.

Barack has two daughters. He must know how terrible it is for children to get targeted.

Too many people from digging for dirt on the baby's father, his family & Bristol's friends, now will it?

Quaint.

nt

fascinating choice of pronouns, eh?

Barack Obama is a classy guy. Let's reflect his behavior in our own.

I'm talking to you apparently, I'm not one of the people that MY candidate has asked
to leave peoples families alone.

I hope this post on the internets does not sink Obama's chances!

You're joking, right?

:scared:





:) yes i'm joking. have a good one :hi:

:hi:

Say whatever you want to about Palin the adult, but kids, no!

not a smear.

And talking incessantly about a teenage pregnancy when there are MORE important issues IS a waste of time.

Especially in relation to how abstinence-only education fails to reduce it. In fact, abstinence-only education increases the likelihood of teenage pregnancy. We have a very famous example example of this in the spotlight, right now.

Those smears just make us and Barack look bad.

Maybe Palin's daughter's pregnancy can start a really honest talk about teenage pregnancy, but it won't happen because posters here smeared her before we knew anything.

No one here cares anything about the Palin family.
We care about our own families.
And that means no Republicans for POTUS or VPOTUS in 2008.
Period. Full stop.

But not true about Barack Obama. He is a classy guy, unlike you.

Thanks!

Now I understand why Frenchiecat gets so mad at you folks. Help Barack, for god's sake! Don't bring him down!

badly on McCain, his judgment, his machine, etc.

He should not be trusted to run the government if he cannot make a more wise (or at least not insane) VP selection.
If this brings up Palin's dirty laundry, it is unfortunate, but I will not lose sleep because 4,200 or so dead soldiers, 30,000 or so wounded and hundreds of thousands dead Iraqis and the lives of my children are on the line.

It is a no-brainer. I am ready for tar and pitchforks, so a little mud-slinging is not an issue for me.

Maybe you aren't properly evaluating the above.

I have no problem with that.

Now, I DO have a problem with caving to pressure of the religious right, and I think the Palin choice was dictated by Dobson and the RR. THAT is fair game. Not this young girl.

if he cannot do a reasonable job vetting his VP choice!?!?!?

And how does a teenage pregancy have anything to do with national security?

That's why Barack has taken the stand he has. Today, he is my hero.

GOBAMA!!

And you continue to do so even after Barack told you to stop! His mother was around the same age when she gave birth to him as a single mother and he mentioned that too.

buffy/

Off fucking limits! Attack her on her politics! Leave her family out of it.

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Beam me up......

candidate, of course our candidate, has asked YOU to stop going after Palins family.

A lot of post about hypocrisy of the right and Palin's lack of integrity.

the Down Syndrome baby. And she wasn't.

decided to drag her pregnant unmarried teenage daughter into the national spotlight.

I agree with you that her mother was completely irresponsible dragging a pregnant teen into a VP race. I feel really badly for the girl and FURIOUS at her mother. But I stand with my candidate: the family is OFF LIMITS.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6871292

And it's a lie, too.

:-)

How sad it is when our candidate could be considered a "concern troll" on DU.

OP is called a freeper troll.

Be right back, need some Tylenol.

Whose side are you on???

So you shoot the messenger because you don't like the message?

Barack Obama is a classy guy. He is NOT politics as usual. You, unfortunately, are.

LOL!

I think I'll just let your (YOUR) replies speak for themselves.
But I will say this, how can we get OUR candidate elected if we
can't even talk to each other and won't listen to him.

radio ignores this and tries to blame him for "Babygate" somehow.

:toast:

PS: Don't listen to everything in the air. Just brush it off your shoulders. ;-)

brush it off your shoulders. I like it. ;)

And you're welcome!

:)

nt

I love him. And of course his campaign can have nothing to do with the personal life.

But I think we, as spectators to this whole thing, are free to talk about whatever we want. Just not in Obama's name.

and you're running your mouth on a known Democratic forum dedicated to his election, you are his representative. Stop being disingenuous.

excellent statement from Obama

this has nothing to do with the issues.