Sorry, Barry, but if you want people to "lay off" your wife, perhaps she shouldn't be such a vocal and central part of your campaign?

I am eating an ear of corn right now. I think I might throw it into the street half eaten.

Hole up, bruh, bitch is from SouthSide Chicago; she can hole her own!

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Agreed. His wife spoke more at the rally I went to (more than a year ago) than he did. Unfortunately for him, she was a much better speaker...and unfortunately for me, I voted for Hillary.

And now the sheep's clothing drops away. Revealing...why -- it's Wile E. Coyote!!

@TheHonJudgeSmails: So how is anyone supposed to campaign against him? Any time anyone brings up his record or things he's said or done in the past, he claims they're smearing him and engaging in politics of destruction and distraction...his wife was the only person left to attack , and now she's off limits too?

Does Cindy McCain bake cookies? Because the White House has a big kitchen.

Yes, I'd much prefer a husband not defend his wife but instead say, "Go ahead and smear her. She can't even produce a son!"

If we really want to find out what happens when Obama stops being polite and starts being real, we're going to have to get him to go on the Real World...preferably next season in Brooklyn.

@FitnessMadeSimple: Well, the politics of destruction and distraction has been electing Republicans for years. And it will do so again if Obama is the nominee.

Sorry, "your honor," but being front and center in the campaign does NOT justify the chickenshit attacks from the Republican fringe.

Bullshit (excuse the redundancy).

I can tell from this video that Obama and Michelle had really good sex on the limo ride over to this interview. And that Michelle was the top.

Bill Clinton defends wife = loony nutjob.

Barack Obama defends wife = Awwwww, what a chivalric, to-be-fawned-over sonuvagun!

Hilarious. I wish John Kerry had said something like that. I wouldn't fool with Obama, he'll hurt somebody.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: The GOP have very little to go on this election cycle, so they're pathetically grasping at straws, the latest of which is a sad attempt of playing "gotcha" over some comments where she admittedly misspoke and later corrected herself. It just shows that they have zero in terms of appealing to people on substantive issues. Would you ever see the Democratic party do an ad going after Cindy McCain for any skeletons in her closet? No. This just shows how low the GOP will stoop to get the votes of a few impressionable knuckleheads.

@cockfightbarmitzvah:

but.it.works!

@Sailor: I'm sorry, but are you saying that only we wacky Republicans do the smearing?

Hilary Clinton, let me introduce you to it.

@In Other News...: "Bill Clinton defends wife"?

Uh, remind me not to hire Bill as counsel if I'm ever in court. He singlehandedly did more to bury her campaign than Wolfson and Penn combined.

Anyone notice a pattern here? Let's attack what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright said in a bunch of sermons years ago. Let's attack a stray comment Obama's wife made in a speech several months ago (a misunderstood comment she later clarified, although nobody ever bothers to mention that).

Let's attack anything anybody said except ... Barack Obama himself.

And why not attack what the actual candidate - Obama - has said?

Maybe because there's nothing easy to attack there. Maybe because his message is so sensible and appealing to voters, his opponents have no choice but to cast around in desperation and find things OTHER people have said to criticize — and then try to make the painfully stretched argument that this should dictate your decision on whether to vote for the guy who didn't say any of these things.

@BowlingAlleyLawyer: No, just that you're more obvious and stupid about it.

And btw, if I were a Republican right now, I'd have a lot more on my mind than smearing Michelle Obama.

If I kept the house at 72 I'd sweat through my pillowcase

@cockfightbarmitzvah: I resemble that remark.

Google Ron Paul

@Mike_Jahn: I prefer the politics of dancing, at least I can feel good.

@Flashman: Gogol Bordello.

I'm sorry, I thought we were free-associating.

@Knucklehead Babylon: My apologies. I'd hereby like to replace "impressionable knuckleheads" with "mouth-breathing know-nothings".

@MisterHippity:
Oh man MisterHippity, I agree with you over one thousand times

I heard that Barack Obama's dentist said something stupid at a party recently. Maybe they should start making ads about that too.

@MisterHippity: Obama has been called out on policy issues plenty of times. Every time someone criticizes him on issues though, he calls it smearing, negative campaigning, politics of destruction and distraction, etc. He deflects everything. If you look at the GOP ads, there is actually not a single one that criticizes Obama on a personal level, nor a single one that mentions Wright, or Michelle Obama.

Are there people who are Republicans who have said things that are out of line? Sure. But there are Democrats who have gone below the belt too, with attacks on Cindy McCain's former prescription drug problem, etc. Let's not pretend the Democrats are innocent here. I think it's fair to say that, relatively speaking, Obama and McCain have both run positive campaigns to this point and stayed pretty clear of negative personal attacks.

@MisterHippity: Maybe because his message is so sensible and appealing to voters...

Meaning...simplistic. I'm glad somebody said it. For all of the novice voters and those who don't bother to educate themselves on voting records or a candidate's stance on issues that matter to them, sure, Obama appears perfect.

Just like that dude everybody wanted to have a beer with back in 2000 and 2004. Yikes.

@MisterHippity: You don't seriously believe that no one attacks the substance of what Obama says...I mean, the whole "Obama said that he would have talks with Iran" keeps being brought up again and again. Not to mention the whole "elitist" small town America comment...

To Obama's credit... he did try to soften the blow of his "lay off my wife" with that creepy smile.... you know, so he doesn't scare off all those white voters

@PaisleyPajamas: Ahhhh, exactly. All the Obama supporters you see at these rallies will only say two things when it comes to why they are voting for him "Change" and "Hope." Can't get more simplistic than that...

@IHateNewYork: @IHateNewYork: Throw your ear of corn half-eaten out of your SUV.

More and more Obama comes across as the thinking person's George W. Bush with the disturbing god-complex and overbearing and humorless posturing.

Democratis nominee. And Democrats will either support him or not. The rest? Republicans and undecided. That's what a two-party system gives you.

As for Hillary somehow being magically immune from rightwing attacks? Pure bullshit. The knives for that started to sharpened a while ago, and there's plenty for the Swift Boaters to dine on. Hell, they wouldn't have even needed to go back to anything before her husband's end-of-term pardons, which is ugly enough, even if you're a hard-core Dem.

@MisterHippity: He's feast for people who believe in guilt by association.

@Mike_Jahn: Plus, I would note that Michelle O doesn't have the captivating eyes of an Alaskan husky as does Cindy McCain.

@FitnessMadeSimple: "If you look at the GOP ads, there is actually not a single one that criticizes Obama on a personal level, nor a single one that mentions Wright, or Michelle Obama."

Not a single GOP ad attacked John Kerry for being a fake war hero over the swift boat thing, either.

How convenient.

@PaisleyPajamas: Amen. Hope, change, blah blah blah. Of course it's appealing...it doesn't require any thought. How can anyone not find hope and change appealing?

I wonder how many people really have any idea where Obama stands on any of the issues, since he so rarely addresses any of them.

72 degrees? Fuck that. 68 man, 68

@MisterHippity: I don't believe there have been any 527 ads attacking Obama either to this point. I'm sure 527s on both sides will launch some negative ads between now and the election, but I don't think it's happened yet.

@In Other News...: It's really irritating.

@LastCallSally: @PaisleyPajamas:

This illustrates my point exactly.

Rather than attack Barack Obama for being Barack Obama, why not attack him for being George W. Bush?

And if that doesn't work, maybe you could argue that he's just like ... Richard Nixon maybe?

No wait, I've got it — Eugene McCarthy! Because ... he's a charismatic speaker, and McCarthy was a charismatic speaker too. Yeah, that's the ticket! He's like McCarthy all over again.

@Sailor: Mind you, I don't have a problem with the "loony nutjob" characterization, since that plus Mark Penn's brilliant strategery all but lost Hillary the nomination.

@FitnessMadeSimple: It wasn't a 527 ad, but there was the fun Tennessee GOP ad that ran, or the ones that went in Mississippi.

For those of you aren't fond of Barry, are you a McCain or HRC supporter? If it's the latter, can you please tell me what the appeal of that man is, an old geezer who may very well lose his brain functioning mid-term like good ol' Ronnie, and who will likely have his finger always hovering over the big red button? Plus I can't stand looking at his face, and his voice annoys the fuck out of me. Those last two things are very very important issues!

That soft "pop" sound Obama makes when he cracks a smile is addictive!

I'm pretty sure he said he wants people to "lay his wife."

@boobaloob: Er, that would be the former, though I'm sure some would say the same applies to Hillary.