Obama “Infuriated” About Criticism Of His Wife, Says To Debate Him Not His Wife
From an interview Senator Messiah granted to Glamour magazine.
GLAMOUR: An AP poll shows that while the positive ratings on Michelle are higher than those of Cindy McCain, her negative ratings are higher as well. I’m curious about how as a husband that makes you feel. Does it mystify you? And what do you want to say to those Americans who don’t know the woman that you know?
SENATOR OBAMA: It’s infuriating, but it’s not surprising, because let’s face it: What happened was that the conservative press—Fox News and the National Review and columnists of every ilk—went fairly deliberately at her in a pretty systematic way...and treated her as the candidate in a way that you just rarely see the Democrats try to do against Republicans. And I’ve said this before: I would never have my campaign engage in a concerted effort to make Cindy McCain an issue, and I would not expect the Democratic National Committee or people who were allied with me to do it. Because essentially, spouses are civilians. They didn’t sign up for this. They’re supporting their spouse. So it took a toll. If you start being subjected to rants by Sean Hannity and the like, day in day out, that’ll drive up your negatives.
Everybody who knows Michelle knows how extraordinary she is. She’s ironically the most quintessentially American woman I know. She grew up in a “Leave it to Beaver” family. She is the best mother I know. And our kids are a testimony to that, because she’s really had to raise them, oftentimes without me being there. She’s the most honest person I know, she’s smart, she’s funny, so yeah, it infuriates me. And I think that it is an example of the erosion of civility in our political culture that she’s been subjected to these attacks, and my attitude is that the people who have attacked her in the ways that they have...if they’ve got a difference with me on policy, they should debate me. Not her.
Seems to me that if Obama doesn’t want his wife “debated” he shouldn’t put her in the public spotlight as an official representative of his campaign. Michelle Obama has been going on television shows and giving speeches at events for months now, and in that capacity she is very much representing her husband’s campaign. She’s not getting this attention so that she can give her opinions about the baseball standings or the latest video game releases. She’s making these appearances to talk about her husband’s campaign.
If Obama doesn’t want the public or the media or even his political opponents to respond to things his wife says about his campaign I suggest he move to a country where free speech isn’t a guaranteed individual right.
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