Funny that they'd even want to make the threat considering the Shady History of one Cindy McCain.

Good for him. The Tennessee GOP is total scum, and Michelle is 100% not an issue in this election, she has nothing to do with the issues facing this country, or the abilities of the person running for president.

The Republicans are playing with the unknown here. This backfire on them huge. Obama is not a candidate to joke around with. This is the second response I heard from the Obama campaign warning the GOP. Messing with his Barack's wife is like messing with his emotions. The GOP best watch out.

This is all good signs that Obama is not afraid to confront the GOP's tatics.

Remember back in 2004 John Kerry was weak when it came to defending Teresa Heinz against the GOP.

"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry..."

Yeah, it has more to do with him being able to say 'don't fuck with my wife' than anything they actually say about her. People like when family members defend each other. Its something you should do and the fact that it plays well politically will never be lost on a politician. With the possible exception of Dukakis, who really blew it when asked how he'd react if his wife had been raped.

Barackarate!

They have tapes on her......bad tapes on her....this is just getting started and he knows it.

Good for Obama.

When the Republican party slandered McCain's daughter calling her a love child John McCain didn't stand up for her then. Even now he panders to the very same ones who called her that. So much for family values.

Just more of the McSame:

http://www.changeyoudeserve.wordpress.com

"At another stop, in Atlantic, Michelle said she travels with her husband in part 'to model what it means to have family values,' adding 'if you can't run your own house, you can't run the White House.'"
See http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/518408,CST-NWS-hunter21.article

Yeah, Michelle's a whole lot of classy.

If you dish it out, you'd better be prepared to take it.

Heh, heh. JHTB faithfully parrots Rush's talking points about "freedom of speech" when a Dem punches back.

Polly wanna cracker, dittohead?

Troll critic, what do you think of JTHB?
Obanana? What stunning ingenuity!
A performance for the ages!

This is great stuff! I was of the mind that Bush was secretly in the tank for Obama when he made those politically unsound attacks in Israel, now I think the Tennessee GOP is as well.

There is a lot of hand wringing about how Obama could bridge the gender divide, now the GOP has given it to him on a silver platter. You can never go wrong when defending your wife against baseless attacks. This is a twofer: marginalizes the GOP and paints Obama as a stalwart husband.

Thank you GOP from the great state of Tennessee! Keep up the good work!

Why does Michelle have to wait till 2024? (Oh, you mean 8 years of Obama's veep.)

She had a perfect right to say what she said. Anybody with a brain has had moments when they were ashamed of some American policy, especially in foreign policy, because for so many years they've treated it as if it doesn't matter. NOW we have problems in that area we may not be able to solve in the best of cases, and clap-louder patriotism is not appropriate. At what point does Bushco-type stupidity equal treason, anyway?

Side note - you guys may touch my sleeve for luck because MOI gets to go meet the future first lady at a volunteers rally tonight! Now, I gotta shave and buy a necktie!

The Republican Party has had 40 years of complete freedom to attack (without any retribution whatsoever) anyone running on the Democratic tickets for President, Vice President, their relatives, friends and associates. It is no surprise at all to see that they are telegraphing attacks on Michelle Obama. Their desire to attack Obama's wife has been quite clear for some time. They are scum, of course, but the question is what to do about it or more precisely what will Obama and his campaign do about it?

Again, this will be a test of his mettle. Obama has never had a strong contest with the GOP in his career. He is not used to the slime machine, nor is he used to having his family slimed. This may or may not be a good thing. The key is whether or not he rips them a new one if they attempt to smear his wife. If he fails to come back ferociously as a lion, the bully boys of the GOP will know that they have the green light for an endless series of lies, baseless attacks, racist bullshit, etc...

I pray Obama does not heed the advice of the DC insiders and other "professionals" who so deftly lost the last two Presidential elections because they didn't realize they had to fight back until it was too late. My fingers are crossed.

I think it's very good to see Obama defending his wife like this, both in terms of his willingness to be tough against the GOP and just viscerally because it's good to see a man stand up for his family. Not that I think Michelle needs the protection necessarily. She's very strong. But people should be fiercely protective of their families. One of the things I've always admired about the Clintons was their fierce protectiveness of Chelsea.

What specific thing is he responding to? I wasn't paying much attention to news and blogs over the weekend, and I think I've missed it.

I don't like the choice of words or bluntness. She's is a fair game, especially because Michelle herself is a strong and vehement critic of an array of things.

Ofcourse, unfair, cheap GOP attacks need to be offensively denounced, but she cannot fully get a free pass.

Interestingly though, you come away with a different and a more agreeable feeling when you watch the video rather than just read the text.

It's great to see a man who will stand up for the honor of his family members.

McCain wouldn't even defend his poor daughter from BushCo, and even hugged the man who slurred her.

I was living in AZ, when Cindy McCain, while working for a Charity benefitting the poor, stole quantities of Vicodin for her own (misuse). Needless to say if I had done this, or if you had done this, we would both still be in Jail, because it's a Felony to have done so. As I recall, there was more outrage in AZ about the fact that the incident received no arrest or conviction than the shock of the theft itself--by a woman of her standing and wealth, not to mention the egregious harm of depriving the poor of needed medication.

Comes now, Cindy McCain before a bevy of talk shows being "open", ad nauseum with viewers about her "drug problem" and how nobly she has dealt with it. I get this feeling from what I heard today on the news that she and McBush are harboring some illusion that they can attack Michelle Obama with impunity. This race for President is the worst and lowest of any in recent history, and Cindy and McBush are the lowest of the lot. Barack can and will deal with them.