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Obama: "I'm Offended" By McCain Camp's Insinuation About Pregnancy Rumors
Obama smacks back at the anonymous McCain aide's suggestion of ties between Obama and the rumors that Trig Palin is actually the son of Sarah Palin's daughter:
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."...
"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."
Of course, the McCain campaign never even had to make this absurd allegation on the record, because Reuters so generously let an anonymous McCain aide do it.
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Wow, that was quick.
September 1, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, They must have some sort of pre-made statement for every possible situation.
Video: McCain Acts Presidential…Finally
September 1, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Had these rumors not being started, would it have been revealed that Gov was an expectant grandmother?
I think not. The McCain camp would have sat on it until after the election.
September 1, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why didn't you mention that Obama also said his mother was 18 when he was born?
September 1, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
right, that part made his statements feel personal and moving.
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/01/obama-says-palin-pregnancy-off-limits/
September 1, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
What does that have to do with anything? Did Obama's mother preach abstinence only? Did she support the right of rapists to choose the mother of their children by violent force? Was she a hypocrite? This story is not about teen pregnancy--it's about hypocrisy. Still waiting for Rush Limbaugh et.al. to call Bristol Palin a slut, and Sarah Palin the worst mother in America, like they did to Jamie Lynn Spears and her mother Lynn. Still waiting...
September 1, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
What does that have to do with anything? Did Obama's mother preach abstinence only? Did she support the right of rapists to choose the mother of their children by violent force? Was she a hypocrite? This story is not about teen pregnancy--it's about hypocrisy. Still waiting for Rush Limbaugh et.al. to call Bristol Palin a slut, and Sarah Palin the worst mother in America, like they did to Jamie Lynn Spears and her mother Lynn. Still waiting...
September 1, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Tapper, for asking that question (this has got to be the first time I've ever said anything vaguely positive about Tapper) and thanks, Obama, for answering so forcefully.
McCain campaign? Suck on this.
September 1, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Way to get out of the way, O.
The difference between the two campaigns is even more clear - Obama puts his staff on notice that if they go near this story he'll fire them.
McCain lets his staffers go to reuters and try to core points off it.
September 1, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Would be nice if Josh Marshall would ban crazy commenters that don't do the same. But I don't hold my breath
September 1, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lalo - with all due respect, tough shit.
McCain supporters (and to an extent, even his own staff) have been playing this game for months now.
Only when they get it turned back on them do they begin to decry the tactics.
I'll put it as plainly as I can - Fuck them. If they can't take a little blogger activism without starting to cry like little bitches, it ain't my (or Josh's) problem.
They made the bed. They set the rules. Thay can deal with it.
September 1, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
In other words, Obama HAS to make this statement even if he doesn't mean it - and his supporters are not bound by that. Right?
I don't care either way, so suit yourself.
But Dijamo, downthread, obviously has a fucked up sense of "fair".
September 1, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, I'm not going to play semantics games with you.
Obama has laid down the law - if anyone on his campaign tries to make an issue of this, they're gone.
McCain sent one of his boys out to start the meme that Obama is somehow responsible for the rumors.
Whose campaign is acting more appropriately here? That's what counts, Lalo - not what supporters are saying on blogs. You know that, but you'd rather try to turn this into some 'gotcha' question. Fail.
September 1, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought you liked to squeak about free speech, mon amor.
What's up with that?
This is a comments board - it's about o, what was it - o yeah, comments.
It is not anything but that.
and you know that - you're just an agitator.
September 1, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go ahead mon amour, I will always love you, even you single-handedly defeat Obama in this election.
:-)
September 1, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dammit. Score points.
You get what I'm saying, though.
September 1, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg, let's be fair here. The McCain aide said that the smears were being spread by liberal bloggers on websites with Obama's name in them. The official campaign website of Barack Obama have community blogs that are continuing to spread these rumors.
Granted Obama did not censor the blogging section of his website for FISA or when people were saying the Clintons were part of the KKK, but McCain's aide's statement was basically accurate. They did not say the Obama campaign was officially spreading these rumors.
September 1, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great point. (??) Regardless of Obama's statement, this Jerry Springer Show will roll on without our help.
September 1, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're changing the issue: It's never a good practice to let a campaign aide play defense by anonymously saying something negative about the other campaign. If you feel that strongly about it, then put your name on the statement. Otherwise shut the hell up.
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September 1, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
the mccain aide also said that these liberal blogs were dragging obama down -- alleging a direct tie
September 1, 2008 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course they would love for the blogs to shut up.
OF course they would
September 1, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not for the blogs to shut up, but focus on policy versus the politics of personal destruction and slander. There's an important distinction there. There's plenty substantive stuff to attack Palin on and the liberal blogosphere went all misogynist and Rovian. It was pretty damn pathetic.
September 1, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
September 1, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Abstinence only education - relevant. Desperate Housewife baby-swapping allegations? Pathetic slander. Can you see the difference here?
September 1, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean focus on policies like the republican blogs? We all know that the right wing blogs have never trafficked in the "Obama is a Muslim" rumor or that "Michelle Obama was raging about Whitey" smear or that "Obama is not really a US citizen" smear or that "Rezco helped Obama buy his home" smear.
No, the Republicans blogs always focus on policy, don't they?
Obama's campaign should steer clear of this but it's our job to vet Palin because the media won't do it.
September 1, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you McCainiacs want to protect the privacy of the candidate's kids from the perils of personal destruction, perhaps you should refrain from waving a Down Syndrome child around like a stage prop and avoid flapping the blue star with repeated references to your kid shipping off to Iraq. Maybe you should refrain from issuing press releases about your unwed teenage daughter's pregnancy and dropping the name of the hapless unwed dad.
I am as disgusted as Barack is about this nastiness, but the McCainiacs have themselves to blame.
September 2, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm a progressive liberal who has been disgusted by the misogynistic attacks on Palin and most of all by the Waterbreak Gate "analysis." Does it drag down Obama into the mud? In the minds of many, it will. The liberal blogosphere has embarrassed both themselves and their candidate by this whole mess.
September 1, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
djamo - your arguments do not sway me.
She started the whole thing. She wants to be right there to take over as Commander in Chief, she will just have to live in this searchlight.
That's the way it goes anymore.
She stands for everything that is anti-woman. My fight with her is mine - not Obama's - mine.
September 1, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good for Obama, class act all the way.
I'm definitely do not subscribe to the philosophy of attacking Palin's daughter, or embracing any sort of misogyny at the Governors expense. That being said, excuse me if I refuse to hyperventilate every time someone on my side uses said tactics. I guess that happens when you are subjected to the utter bullshit from "respected" journalists, for the better part of a year no less, that Obama "has to prove that he loves America" - the Validity of his Birth Certificate - flimsy associations with a man who did something fucked up when he was 8 - nonexistent associations with Louis Farrakhan. Even though I feel that we should attack Palin on the issues, she doesn't get a fucking pity party from me.
September 1, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahhhh, right, you're a progressive liberal, sure, sure.
September 1, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Governor Palin and Senator McCain keep mentioning her "Hockey Mom-ness". There isn't anything inappropriate about that, but I don't see it as "misogynistic" if commenters and bloggers focus on the "Mom" side of the issues, any more than if the blogosphere started to focus on a male candidate who kept talking about how he was just a soccer dad, and who knew what soccer dads just like him were going through.
Observers can't have questions about a candidate as a parent because she's a woman?
September 1, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry, I don't get how scratching our heads and wondering aloud WTF? is misogynistic.
September 1, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
The waterbreak story was told by Palin herself and admiringly narrated by journalists for public consumption. This story was a touted component of the image that both the campaign and the msm were building of her. When someone braggingly puts their intimate laundry to dry out in public, they cannot start whining afterwards about the analysis to which it may be subject.
September 1, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
What "misogynistic attacks" are you referring to?
September 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
September 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
September 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
In addition, I feel that McCain's lack of vetting in this case shows a recklessness that should be discussed. This is a man that will be nominating judges and other executive officials that will directly impact all of our lives for years to come. Do you not believe that how he makes his decisions are relevant?
September 1, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
In addition, I feel that McCain's lack of vetting in this case shows a recklessness that should be discussed. This is a man that will be nominating judges and other executive officials that will directly impact all of our lives for years to come. Do you not believe that how he makes his decisions are relevant? These rumors about Palin's recent pregnancy were floating around Alaska LONG before anyone here cared. Did the campaign know about it? If so, why not?
September 1, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
In addition, I feel that McCain's lack of vetting in this case shows a recklessness that should be discussed. This is a man that will be nominating judges and other executive officials that will directly impact all of our lives for years to come. Do you not believe that how he makes his decisions are relevant? These rumors about Palin's recent pregnancy were floating around Alaska LONG before anyone here cared. Did the campaign know about it? If so, why not?
September 1, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
These were meant for Dijamo above.
Dammit I hate these servers. I wish I could blame it on excessive alcohol intake...
September 1, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry that you don't feel that abstinence only education and teenage pregnancy are not "substantive issues".
In addition, I feel that McCain's lack of vetting in this case shows a recklessness that should be discussed. This is a man that will be nominating judges and other executive officials that will directly impact all of our lives for years to come. Do you not believe that how he makes his decisions are relevant? These rumors about Palin's recent pregnancy were floating around Alaska LONG before anyone here cared. Did the campaign know about it? If so, why not?
September 1, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, what "misogynistic attacks"? You really can't cry MISOGYNY every time the woman is criticized. And I don't see why the examination of the strange circumstances surrounding her labor an delivery should be seen as woman-hating. She's the one who brought that whole narrative into the public eye and it's really weird. Likely she's telling the truth, but honestly, the whole thing is odd, why not ask questions? And, the whole idea that "liberal blogs" have been spreading this is odd. I'm a dedicated reader of all the high traffic liberal blogs except Kos and i never even heard this meme until yesterday. You might try giving your fellow "progressive liberals" the benefit of the doubt before slandering them and the Democratic party for behavior that hasn't been anywhere near inappropriate.
September 1, 2008 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, what "misogynistic attacks"? You really can't cry MISOGYNY every time the woman is criticized. And I don't see why the examination of the strange circumstances surrounding her labor an delivery should be seen as woman-hating. She's the one who brought that whole narrative into the public eye and it's really weird. Likely she's telling the truth, but honestly, the whole thing is odd, why not ask questions? And, the whole idea that "liberal blogs" have been spreading this is odd. I'm a dedicated reader of all the high traffic liberal blogs except Kos and i never even heard this meme until yesterday. You might try giving your fellow "progressive liberals" the benefit of the doubt before slandering them and the Democratic party for behavior that hasn't been anywhere near inappropriate.
September 1, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
To all who asked the question - what misogyny:
I don't know about you, but the Beauty Queen, VPILF, Trophy Wife, McCain just wants to screw her, photoshopped provocative photos of her seemed a tad misogynistic to me. I refuse to call out specific comments precisely because they have been so rampant. I'm assuming anyone who seriously questions that Palin has been attacked in a sexist manner since the announcement must have just emerged from a labor day weekend bunker. If you want to catch up, check out the Reader's posts in TPM Cafe or the Comments on the Palin posts in Election Central.
Maybe the progressive community feels this is an appropriate was to treat female politicians. I do not. I will criticize Palin on valid topics like her stance against gay marriage, energy policy, abstinence only education, lack of foreign policy experience etc etc etc. The misogyny and sexism however is beneath contempt.
September 1, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh come on. He carefully chose his words so that some who didn't understand the distinction would think that Obama was involved in it.
September 1, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Would you please provide a link? I can't seem to find them.
September 1, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnnail/gG5fgr
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/georgettesimpson/gG5DW4
There are others as well, but more than 2 links gets my post lost in the ether. The risk of alowing users to blog unmoderated on your campaign page is that they may engage in asshattery that is embarrassing to the campaign. Case in point. The McCain aide is absolutely accurate. If McCain's official campaign webpage was posting user blogs about Obama as Muslim, Greg would be calling them out on it too.
September 1, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
O sure - advocate to have the regulators come to dinner.
The internet is one of the last unfenced free speech zones in this country.
some progressive you are, djamo.
September 1, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena, with all due respect you're the one condoning the rampant sexist remarks - some progressive YOU are. Free speech is fine, but with it comes responsibility. The slander and smears from random asshats reflect negatively on Obama. I am not saying said asshats don't have the right to spread lies about Palin or asking for censorship. I am saying those liberal bloggers spreading lies and misogyny are unintentionally hurting their candidate.
And mind you I am a Hillary supporter who is backing Obama and despises everything Palin stands for. How about those swing voter, moderate Hillary fans who might identify with Palin and are socially conservative? These attacks are unbelievably stupid and short-sighted.
September 1, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seems this disclaimer was appended to the bottom of each post:
Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign
September 1, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the links.
September 1, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the links.
September 1, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the links.
September 1, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama should have hit back at the liberal bloggers reference, saying "a lot of them were raised not knowing anything different then Karl Rove politics", but that it certainly isn't how he is running his campaign.
September 1, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
It will be interesting to see whether the McCain camp, while respecting the privacy of the young couple, will try to keep the Obama-connection meme alive, and to what extent the MSM will help him. The similiarity (in MSM's mind) to the Rove whishper campaign about McCain's adopted child is kind of right there. Not hugely concerned about it right now, but it doesn't help.
September 1, 2008 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
This baby drama is just so tacky that I think McCain's campaign will be advised by cooler GOP advisors to STFU. Even if they try to drag Obama into it, the situation just points out McCain's lack of judgement-either he didn't know about the pregnancy, which means they were negligent, or they did and thought they could brazen it out until November.
Perhaps McCain's lack of familiarity with the Google led him to believe that maybe the pregnant daughter could go to "boarding school abroad" and no one would catch on?
September 1, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agree. That's one of the reason it will be interesting. The rightwing is trying to frame this as Obama and company smearing her because she's choosing to keep the child and not see the child as "a punishment."
September 1, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/telnaes/telnaes_main.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
September 1, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can the MSM equate what happened with Palin to McCain in 2000 when so much about this woman remains unknown? A reporter would'nt need the journalistic instincts of a Bob Woodward circa 1972 to see that there's still a lot of new, readily available and, I'd bet my life, highly revealing and entertaining stuff out there about Palin waiting to be brought to light.
There's too much about Palin that we don't know for Obama to get dragged into this, whatever bloggers may or may not do. Obama wisely and forcefully proscribed the topic of Palin's family. He and his campaign should emerge in a stronger position once the new revelations about who Palin is slow down and the new terrain of the contest becomes settled.
Ultimately, as many have said already, this is about McCain's judgment. After W's remarks about Putin's heart, "mission accomplished," and "heckuva job, Brownie" we need a leader who thinks things through rather than relying on emotion and intuituion like the mavericky McCain.
September 1, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately the way they connect it is: "Coming up next after a commerical break, we look at whether Obama is the new Rove?" Doesn't mean that there is validty to it. The fact that Obama has to make a statement in response to a reporters question brings up the possibility that the media will pursue this line of inquiry.
September 1, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can Obama be held accountable for what he does not know? His statement was forceful and accepts no contradictions.
Moreover, how can the story be about Obama when revelation after revalation about Palin keeps flying out of Alaska?
Ordinarily I'd agree that the MSM will do anything to draw suspicion to Obama campaign strategy. In this most exceptional off all cases, a guilt-by-association with the liberal blogosphere will not work. There's simply too much new information out there that's in no way tied to anything Obama could do or say and people know nothing about this woman.
The judgment argument grows stronger for Obama, and he won't have to do much to take advantage of it.
September 1, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree, but it could be a distraction with some gaffe-potentiality, when he could be more focused on the issues. As long as he gives the statements like he did today he'll be alright.
September 1, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can Obama be held accountable for what he does not know? His statement was forceful and accepts no contradictions.
Moreover, how can the story be about Obama when revelation after revalation about Palin keeps flying out of Alaska?
Ordinarily I'd agree that the MSM will do anything to draw suspicion to Obama campaign strategy. In this most exceptional off all cases, a guilt-by-association with the liberal blogosphere will not work. There's simply too much new information out there that's in no way tied to anything Obama could do or say and people know nothing about this woman.
The judgment argument grows stronger for Obama, and he won't have to do much to take advantage of it.
September 1, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very well. It doesn't really matter though, since the 'scurrilous rumors' did in fact have a pretty solid nugget of truth to them, a la Edwards.
September 1, 2008 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm having a Brian Williams moment: Tim Russert would love this.
September 1, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gov Palin seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.
September 1, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once again Obama shows class while McCain shows he's just an ass waiting to get spanked on Nov. 4
September 1, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's got to be more skeletons in Sara Palin's enormous walk-in closet. McCain's desperate campaign can try to make this about Obama for now. But this story is so tantilizing, the press--especially the tabloid press--is going to be digging into her past right up until election day.
September 1, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's got to be more skeletons in Sara Palin's enormous walk-in closet. McCain's desperate campaign can try to make this about Obama for now. But this story is so tantilizing, the press--especially the tabloid press--is going to be digging into her past right up until election day.
September 1, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Republican Ayatollahs forced Palin on McCain, and now they are deploying their servants to try and cover for them having shot The Republican Donkey in The Ass.
Well excuse me. If McCain can foist a terrible joke named Palin on us, then I can make a terrible Donkey/Ass pun.
September 1, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right on the money
September 1, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
From the Department of Better Late Than Never:
McCain campaign dispatches team of 8 to Wasilla to vet VP nominee.
I'm sure it's only a coincidence that this occurs the day they announce the teen daughter's pregnancy, because as we all know, Palin told McCain about this before the VP announcement.
September 1, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't usually better to...ah, never mind...
September 1, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't Halcro the guy who lost to Palin in the race for governor? I'm lost.
September 1, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this true?
So all those statements about how the McCain campaign had vetted Palin might not turn out to be entirely based in the reality community?
Who's minding the store at the McCain campaign, anyway?
September 1, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know how reliable the primary source is, but I'd have to go with yes, yes it is true. Because yesterday there were reports of Dems going to the Wasilla paper to search the archives (the older archives are not computerized), and the people at the paper saying they were the first people who had come to look.
September 1, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since the end of the Democratic convention, everything by McCain has flopped or likely will soon flop. Yep he has controlled the news cycle, problem he cannot control all of it.
September 1, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I think it's totally out of control, vis-a-vis McLame.
September 1, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
TPM Servers are in Australia. It is late at night down under, so the Kangaroos that power the generator with their powerful hind legs are taking a nap.
We thank you for your patience and understanding.
September 1, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
September 1, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has taken the whole campaign "down the rabbit hole" with the Palin VP pick.
So many loose threads for the media to pull at to see what falls out. My sense is that the state of Alaska was a pretty clubby little place where tamping down political brushfires was not too big a challenge. Taking the act to the national stage is a problematic undertaking as the McCain campaign is discovering now.
September 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a woman with a track record of manipulating power and information to get what she wants. So why wouldn't we question her when many of the circumstances surrounding Trig's birth are incongruous.
Further, she is a sitting governor who sat on her pregnancy until the 11th hour. And people wonder why we presume she didn't tell the McCain campaign about Bristol's current condition in a timely manner.
September 1, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has taken the whole campaign "down the rabbit hole" with the Palin VP pick.
So many loose threads for the media to pull at to see what falls out. My sense is that the state of Alaska was a pretty clubby little place where tamping down political brushfires was not too big a challenge. Taking the act to the national stage is a problematic undertaking as the McCain campaign is discovering now.
September 1, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has taken the whole campaign "down the rabbit hole" with the Palin VP pick.
So many loose threads for the media to pull at to see what falls out. My sense is that the state of Alaska was a pretty clubby little place where tamping down political brushfires was not too big a challenge. Taking the act to the national stage is a problematic undertaking as the McCain campaign is discovering now.
September 1, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
When will Barack release his official birth certificate or reveal what hospital he was born in?
When will Barack reveal his SAT scores and his undergrad transcripts from Occidental and Columbia?
What is he hiding?
September 1, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
sincere question here - what would his official birth certificate, or revealing what hospital he was born in, prove or change?
September 1, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
It would prove that Sarah Palin is not his mother.
September 1, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Then someone should simply request a copy from the appropriate agency. I believe birth certificates in Alaska are matters of public record.
September 1, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, right buddy, whatever helps you sleep at night...
September 1, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
What are you hiding behind that dumb avatar?
Equally valid question.
September 1, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain wrapped up the nomination before Sarah Palin was showing with Trig. The only thing that could explain the situation with Bristol is if she herself didn't tell her parents until yesterday, and that may well be the story they concoct.
In any event, the vetting was an inch wide and an inch deep.
September 1, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
They named their kid after a NASCAR race, is anyone really surprised?
(Oh Noes! Liberal blog comments slandering our righteous Veepeeez! McCain-aides, demand a response from Obama!!!)
September 1, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good for Obama, class act all the way.
I'm definitely do not subscribe to the philosophy of attacking Palin's daughter, or embracing any sort of misogyny at the Governors expense. That being said, excuse me if I refuse to hyperventilate every time someone on my side uses said tactics. I guess that happens when you are subjected to the utter bullshit from "respected" journalists, for the better part of a year no less, that Obama "has to prove that he loves America" - the Validity of his Birth Certificate - flimsy associations with a man who did something fucked up when he was 8 - nonexistent associations with Louis Farrakhan. Even though I feel that we should attack Palin on the issues, she doesn't get a fucking pity party from me.
September 1, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
They named their kid after a NASCAR race, is anyone really surprised?
(Oh Noes! Liberal blog comments slandering our righteous Veepeeez! McCain-aides, demand a response from Obama!!!)
September 1, 2008 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I like you!!!!!
September 1, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her younger sister, Willow, (Willow Springs International Speedway, Rosamond, CA) is 14, so we should have some more young christian pregnancy drama midway through the potential first term.
September 1, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
When will be get a Edward R Morrow type to go after all this endless krap and hold it up to the redicule it so richly diserves ?
September 1, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are liberals' behavior judged by conservative values, but conservatives are to be judged by liberal values?
September 1, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are liberals behavior judged by conservative values, but conservatives are to be judged by liberal values?
September 1, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right. Conservatives don't do real well when they're judged by either values standard.
September 1, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
sincere question here - what would his official birth certificate, or revealing what hospital he was born in, prove or change?
September 1, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Commenting system here is well and truly f***ed.
September 1, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
His reaction is perfect, but he ought to add that now is the time for us all to recognize that whether or not Palin's daughter is pregnant has absolutely nothing to do with Palin's ability to serve. Nothing. It has no more to do with it than what Obama's preacher has/had to say about anything in Obama's case, etc...
What's important is for Obama to stay on message: we can't afford four more years of the Republicans!
September 1, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rev. Who?
September 1, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
an anonymous McCain aide my ass...it was the reporter making shit up. If he can't indentify the aide then he shouldn't have mentioned it and I wish Obama would have said how do we know it's not you who are making this claim trying to create a story where there is none...but whoever made it isn't willing to stand up for his accusation...demonstrating the pettiness of such talk.
btw...Dutch Intel groups are fleeing Iran claiming the US is about to attack with nukes. Is America now a functioning dictatorship that we in this so called democracy are powerless to stop Bush/Cheney from attacking another country and plunging us yet into another war. Is there no way to stop another mass murder of innocent people?? Is there no one who can stop Bush??
September 1, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink