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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