Obama Campaign Accuses Palin of Putting Her Career Above Her Family
by Matt Margolis on September 7th, 2008 at 12:48am
There is no doubt that the Obama campaign fears the impact Palin has on the election, and they’re doing anything they can to shame her off the ticket.
The latest attempt comes from Obama campaign member, Howard Gutman, lobbyist and defender of domestic terrorists. who attacked Sarah Palin on the Laura Ingraham Show.
An original member of Barack Obama’s finance committee said Friday that Sarah Palin is putting her career above her family by accepting the nomination as John McCain’s running mate.
Howard Gutman made the argument on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” telling the radio host that the Alaska governor should focus her energy on her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter.
“If my daughter had just come home at 17 years old and said, ‘Mom, Dad, I’m pregnant, we have a family problem,’ I wouldn’t say, ‘You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to take this private family problem … I’m going to go on the international stage and broadcast it to the world’,” he said.
Gutman later added: “If you take a daughter who’s got this emotional strife and subject her to the most intense scrutiny of the world at this time in her life, I think you’ve put your career above your family.”
Obama has previously said that “people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits,” and of course, Obama promised to fire anyone in his campaign who spread rumors about Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy.
Okay Obama, keep your word. Fire Howard Gutman.
Meanwhile, the hypocrisy of Gutman’s comments are shameful. Has anyone ever criticized Obama for seeking the presidency while he has a working wife and two young daughters?
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Just wanted to pass this along from Gerard Baker:
The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.
“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
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September 7th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Um,
The pregnancy is not a rumor. It is a fact.
September 7th, 2008 at 1:50 am
The pregnancy is not a rumor. It is a fact.
Yet, you still don’t get it.
Gutman say Gov. Palin “Shouldn’t” subject her family to criticizm, yet his intent was purposefully to do just that.
Where’s the shame?
The other broader hypocrisy is that the Democratic party seems to all of a sudden “care” about family values, when they don’t advocate family values themselves.
Gov. Palin is trying to teach her children right … her daughter made a mistake, but is making the right choice in the end, by showing that she loves and cares for her baby. The Democratic party has repeatedly said that she has committed an “offense” against their agenda by doing so.
The third hypocrisy is in the fact that Obama has said he would fire people who would criticize Palin’s family, and so, why is the Daily Kos still running? Shouldn’t they be off the internet?
Shouldn’t they all be fired?
All in all, I’d rank the George Soros run Democratic party #1 for hypocrisy and lies.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:06 am
what,
Don’t quibble - you know full well that the ultimate genesis of the story was the absurd leftwing lie that Governor Palin’s son was actually her daughter’s child…
September 7th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Jeremiah
The Daily Kos is not controlled by Obama.
I find it very interesting that Palin’s daughter is pregnant despite Palin’s stance on abstinence. The only way I can see this happening is that Palin could not manage being a parent and a corrupt governor at once. Seems being the governor took too much time away from Palin’s family thus her daughter did things which Palin did not know and would had known had Palin not become governor.
Maybe Palin should drop out until she can prove she can manage being a mom and a governor at the same time.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:34 am
The Daily Kos is not controlled by Obama.
Magnum Serpentine,
To the contrary, he controls them, as they work daily to spread as much falsehoods and vicious attacks against McCain and Palin to get Obama elected. Plus, he spoke at their convention, and said some awfully nasty things about middle Americans.
The only way I can see this happening is that Palin could not manage being a parent
Gov. Palin manages just fine, her daughter was listening to the liberal education system, and her boyfriend, instead of her mother. This should tell her, “Hey, mom’s right!” On the broader spectrum, it should be a learning lesson for all American teenage and young adults.
At any rate, she’s doing one thing right that a great many don’t … she’s proving that she loves her baby, and will give life.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:45 am
That article is one of many I have read by london reporters and all have been very much in favor of McCain. It is nice to see that our strongest ally wants their strongest ally to be as strong as possible.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Mark,
I am not quibbling. This Gutman fellow isn’t making the claim Palin’s child is the daughter’s child. Thus, he is not spreading rumors. Why should he be fired if he is not spreading rumors?
He is answering the question asked by whatsherface.
Also, if you are the citizen journalist you claim to be, you should quibble over the facts. Good work Mr. “Age of Lies.”
September 7th, 2008 at 6:43 am
So the leftist Democrats, who are champions of Women’s Equality, expect Sarah Palin to stay home and take care of the kids.
Wow, this is so 1950s!
They are scared of this woman.
One question, how do we know that Palin’s daughter and her boyfriend did not practice the liberal Democrats “teen safe sex” theories and it failed as it can do?
It is not 100% effective. The whole purpose of the Leftists’ theory is that it tries to protect the teens who are “going to do it anyway” and they will find a way as the leftists say time and again.
The liberals are scared. The sharks are in the water and they smell blood. Their desperation continues.
I should invest in Prozac, Effexor and the like.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:46 am
While I don’t agree with these two presumptive leaders of the conservative moment views on this subject, I will let them speak for themselves and the conservative movement on this issue and whether or not Palin and her husband are acting properly.
“Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves,” O’Reilly declared.
Limbaugh: I would certainly hope so, but it’s long past time for this to happen. The parents here are the culprits! (Referring to Spear’s teen sister’s pregnancy)
September 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Blondestar,
Comparing apples and oranges again?
Britney/Jamie Spears and Palin’s daughter are two different breeds of young women. The Spears are immersed in the leftist culture of Hollywood - you know do it if it feels good, free love, etc. etc. etc. Jamie Spears is outside of their parental influence, mostly by choice and parents lack of will to interfere.
Palin’s daughter could be a result of the influence of the leftist culture - “give them condoms they are going to have sex anyway, regardless of what their parents will say or influence”. All the more reason to remove any source of negative influence.
But still, the comparison is faulty. Both sets of parents are to blame but which set of parents was the best influence and which set was “going with the flow”.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Comparing apples and oranges again?10. Danish Artist | September 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Once again a child of conservatism the movement of and for hypocrites explains yet another flip flop away.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Blondestar,
Uh I said, “But still, the comparison is faulty. Both sets of parents are to blame but which set of parents was the best influence and which set was “going with the flow”.
Explained a flip flop away? What does “Both sets of parents are to blame” mean?
Not only is your comparison faulty, but your logic is nonexistent. Obviously you are not a parent, who can only do what is best and hope that it sticks in their child’s mind. But, leftists who have the collective mindset and can’t think for themselves will never understand that.
This subject is above your pay grade, blondestar.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Palin’s daughter could be a result of the influence of the leftist culture 10. Danish Artist | September 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am
In Alaska?
September 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Blondestar: “In Alaska?”
Uh, do they have TV? DVDs? Movie theaters? Radio? Music? Books? Magazines? Peers? or are they cut-off from the rest of the world living in their igloos clinging to their guns and bibles?
What a pathetic loser!
Stop with the leftist canned answers. You are just embarrassing yourself.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am
so why doesnt obama tell the truth about his sodomite behavior and drug use?
if the truth is all that matters, then palin has obama by the shorts…because all we hear from obama is the blame game…he refuses to take responsibility for his actions…and makes accusations against palin, whose entire family endorses what she is doing…
then again, when we deal with careers and family, we can not but see through the charade of decency that obama attempts to portray…while he and his spouse attended a black supremacist “church” for 20 years…and dragged thier children into the racist hatred that was practiced there…obama has no business fiddling in other peoples family values while his are so screwed up….
September 7th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I find it very interesting that Palin’s daughter is pregnant despite Palin’s stance on abstinence. - Mags
Mags,
This statement is proof positive liberals should not be anywhere near power. They are so completely detached from reality. Mags, do you have any children? Have they ever disobeyed you? Or do they do everything exactly they way you taught them?
Do you think Ahmendijad will do everything Obama asks him too? You do don’t you?
Don’t vote for the liberal losers. They have no idea how the world works.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am
The Obama camp continues to keep the emphasis on Palin. This tactic will bite them in the butt. Why? Because the public will recognize that Palin has more experience than The One.
At least Palin doesn’t have friends like these …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTN3mShDZVI
September 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Well Kim, they can’t successfully besmirch McCain’s honor. (Oh they tried with their NYT ‘rumors’) So they go after what they thought was a ’soft ‘target.
Turns out the lady isn’t such an easy mark, and their repeated attempts at the most outrageous of accusations have backfired big time.
US magazine, Oprah, The Atlantic Monthly and the NYT couldn’t bring either McCain and Palin down, and the backlash against them is just starting.
In this world there are hunters and gatherers. Palin and McCain are the hunters, and Obama and Biden are the gatherers.
Palin hunts Moose…Obama gathers Arugula.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
RATS
Why do you obsess over a 17year olds pregnancy and IGNORE THIS?………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88V3F6_iUus