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you fiercerly attacked bill clinton before, why not allow other people to attack yours?

I love to hear Michelle speak. She's doing a wonderful job in spite of the haters. People are just jealous because she has a higher approval rating than Barbie- let-me-ask-my-husband-if-I-can-speak McCain.

So eat your hearts out:
RJ, Scott, Terry H, Fella from Chicago, Dave the Moron, Ree, Joan, Don and the rest of you morons.

Maybe it's time the "liberal media" which hasn't said a negative thing about Cindy finally bring up her drug addictions and other issue's...Then maybe we'll get McCain to blow up like he did when Bush brought it up in the primaries back in 2000.

Let's see, my pick for first lady....a plastic looking, millionaire drug abuser who distributes beer she inherited from her daddy, or an intelligent, outspoken, strong woman who's come from the ground up and who works to improve healthcare access to those in Chicago....who do I want women to have for a rolemodel...I'll take Michelle Obama any day.

"Scott" said...
"She's the one who said she wasn't proud of her country until now.
Besides…Obama's problem if he wins the WH would be where to put the likes of Rev Jackson, Wright, Sharpton, Farrakan in his cabinet?"

WOW Scott, YOU are a racist to even make a comment like that! Obama denounced Wright, is on the outs with Jackson and NEVER had Sharpton or Farrakan involved in his campaign. YOU are showing your true racist colors. Most of the white people who blog against Obama do it because thay are BIGOTS. Get past the hatred you morons, this is 2008! By the way, I am a white, middle aged man.

I could care less about conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity. For someone who dropped out of college he sure makes it seem he knows everything.

It is really a shame that the media (fox etc) keeping showing over and over Michelle's statement. I havn't always been proud of America either, does that make me unpatriotic? American doesn't have a good history especially where african americans are concerned. Give the Obamas credit for working hard and trying to be good citizens. Obama has inspired so many people. Leave Michelle alone!!!!!

Whine and cry some more Obama. People didn't tell that wife of yours to open her mouth and inser her foot by "finally being proud of America for the first time in her adult life", People didn't tell her to go to a black liberation church that hates America for twnety years and they didn't tell her to say if Clinton won she would have to think on voting for her or not. She deserves what she gets and I hope her husband loses. What kind of first lady would this be for America. A person who feels this way and clearly hates white people. I guess a "fist-bump" fest at the white house with reverend Wright and Farrakunn.

Fox NOISE and other such entities have every right to preach their hate and fear- but THIS TIME we are fighting back and the mongers will see that the American people are sick of their tactics!

If Obama wants his wife left alone, perhaps he shouldn't parade her, or and his children for that matter, across tabloid shows such as Access Hollywood. Whatever serves his purpose at a particular moment seems to be his MO. He can not make a definitive decision on anything without going back on it...we've seen examples of such behavior in ABUNDANCE!

A bunch of adults calling people they've never even met names. Ladies, I'm sorry your husband doesn't have the education or charisma to run for president, but I'm sure if he did you'd be right behind him. Grow up, get a life, and go back to watching your soaps.

I SEE THE HATERS ARE STILL HATING...

YOU NEGATIVE BLOGGERS WHINE MORE THAN OBAMA....YOU WHINE ABOUT EVERYTHING CONCERNING HIM....

THE WAY I SEE IT..IT'S HARD BEING A BLACK MAN IN AMERICA....ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AN INTELLIGENT BLACK MAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.....

I NEVER HEARD SUCH BIAS REMARKS IN ANY OTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION....WOULD YOU HATERS PLEASE ANSWER WHY?

OBAMA 08...

Why is this man trying to blame Conservatives for his wife's actions? She is the one who said America is mean and she is not proud of it! Go to Europe where you both love it!!

And I blame the media and the Obama thugs are trashing and disrespecting the Clintons.

Get use to it you little whiny crybaby wimp.

PUMA PAC
McCain '08 for Clinton '12

All these right wing cowards can not fight a fair battle and let the best man win. They have to scratch and claw and bite and sling mud and hope that they'll do enough damage along the way.

I agree that candidates wives are not running for office, but when they stump for their husbands and say or do outrageous things, as Mrs. Obama has, then they become fair game.

I think she can take of herself better than he can. Worry about the state of the nation not your wife's sensitivities.

LMAO, he is the typical liberal.

Free speech! Say what you want! Do anything! Gay marriage! Abortions cool! etc.... etc......

Then when someon talks bad about his wife, just like they have for decades to other candidates wives..... lets throw freedom of speech out the window! Lol

and John McCain said he wasn't really proud of this country until after he became a POW. I hear very little about this. hmmm, wonder why?

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen ... oh, wait, Michelle Obama is out of the kitchen, she is campaigning! Listen to her speech at UCLA, she dared to claim that a government leading by Barack Obama will heal the souls of American citizens. Even churches don't claim they can heal your soul. Well, maybe the one they attended in the past twenty years. You want people to leave her alone? Bush tried to scare you with terrorism, now Obama wanna scare you with your broken soul, that's a whole new level of crap.

The insults go both ways...

Stop Whining....She is going to be in the spotlight and people are going to offend....that's just TOUGH!!!!

If you're going to let little words bother you, then maybe you aren't cut out for the job..

Mrs. Obama is an intelligent and devoted wife and mother and should be treated with respect. Senator Obama is correct. The press should be evenhanded in their treatment of the candidates' wives.

You cant say anything to Obama's face, he only has controlled venues with prepared speeches. Get a thicker skin, you dont think that Laura Bush has had daggers thrown at her over her time. If Michelle is going to come out and be controversial there will be more criticism.

There is a left wing media as well, people seem to forget that!

I get the point some of you make that Michelle created her own problems. That isn't the point, and to push that is idiotic. His point is that Cindy McCain has a lot of questionable actions in the past, but Cindy McCain isn't his opponent, and he firmly believes candidates' wives should be out of the arena. It's amazing how many of you lash out at the Obamas when your own candidate agrees on these kinds of issues.

To Sherry Graves,

I'm proud of my country, I don't bear any responsibility for what transiped in the past before I was even born. If you can find a better country to live in I suggest you go there.

And you madam, are an idiot.

Sorry Obama but Michelle's big mouth is all the attraction the news media and those who don't trust you need to stir the pot.

Don't attack Michelle Obama when John McCain tells rape jokes and then pretends he never did. He is a bastard. He is so out of touch with the modern world. With that temper he would start world war 3. Mitt Romney is similiar to McCain. Probaly tells dirty jokes. Snakes usually hang out together.

Any man or woman on this site that has anything negative to say about any woman is totally WRONG, most of you nuts state that you don't even know the OBAMA'S but yet you have so much to say.
Griff, Brian, Marjorie, Carol ...
none of you have husbands nor wives that is why YOU talk so stupid because if you had a family you would not write the way you do
YOU WOULD PROTECT YOUR FAMILY, ESPECIALLY YOUR SPOUSE AND/OR CHILDREN...I BET NOT ONE OF YOU HAVE DEGREES EITHER !!
BARACK THE VOTE !!

FNC during the primaries was all over Hillary when they thought she..like herself...was going to be the nominee. Now that HRC is OUT:) they have to focus their trash talk on Obama and family. Pretty sick but thats the Republican way when they have no positive solution to the problems they created!

No, Obama, the press is not to blame for attacks on Michelle. Michelle is to blame for attacks on Michelle. When she started making public speeches that automatically made her fodder. And while we're at it, tell her to start dressing the way First Ladies should dress, so she can kind of be in the habit by the time she becomes First Lady, if it happens.

Wasn't it Harry Truman that said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen?" He was probably the last great Democrat. If Mrs. Obama is going to campaign for her husband, she is fair game. Are people supposed to be 'nice' just because she's a female? That's pretty sexist.

July 17th, 2008 12:36 pm ET
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In regards to the really proud statement, try listening to the rest of that speech when she is talking about the political process and people being involved. How is it that McCain can say that he didn't love America until he was away from it and he doesn't get criticized her Michelle. A bit of double standard. And what else has Michelle done to deserve this treatment??? What else?

I SEE THE HATERS ARE STILL HATING....

YOU NEGATIVE BLOGERS ARE WHINNING MORE THAN OBAMA IS....YOU WHINE ABOUT HOW HE STOLE THE PRIMARY FROM HRC, YOU WHINE HE'S AN EMPTY SUIT, YOU WHINE AND YOU WHINE.....GIVE IT A REST.....TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND BREATHE.....

WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN HE'S YOUR PRESIDENT....STILL BE WHINNING!!!!!!!!!!!

OBAMA 08.....HE'S THE MAN!!!!!!!!!

Does this guy every stop complaining, he has got to be the biggest cry baby to ever run for president. If he does become President, will he still cry if he doesn't get his way?

I am calling on the media to shin a light on cindy mccain, who by the way is a elitist.

I've seen better smiles on a horse .....If she would keep her big mouth shut she wouldn't be criticized.

Okay, are some of you a bunch of school kids? Is your fearless, know all, solve all the world's problems messiah a school kid? "say it to his face.." Really guys, that's playground talk. And nothing you should push either. I'm not a big guy, but I sure wouldn't hesitate to say something to Obama's face. He's not exactly the portrait of a "He Man" is he.

So Michelle can act in an overt way to support her husband, raising money and giving speeches, but we cannot criticize her. Give it up, Barack! You cannot use your wife as both a shield and a sword.

Remember...this whining is coming from the man who gave Hillary Clinton the "finger" twice in the same day. Both instances are on
youtube.com

"Just playing the blame game. Who does he blame for being in a hate America church for 20 years"
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Meanwhile....the hypocrite Clinton supporters blame he media, the DNC, Howard Dean, sexism, Caucus states, the rules they agreed to abide by, the Obama campaign,men, african americans, and now...another woman. You just cant make stuff up like this...lol
And they are still whining about it!

These people are just as bad as the conservative pundits bashing Michelle. Heck, Hillary and Bill did a little slandering of Obama themselves.
Its okay though, her job is now supportting Obama, just as it should be.

Obama/ 08'

The only one Obama can blame for attacks on his wife is himself. He chose to run for president, and he let her take the stage with him. That's how it works BO whether you like it or not. If you don't get out, it gets much worse if you actually win.

I love Mrs. Obama, she will be a great First Lady

Republican first ladies are fluff–they swing from reading books to kids to dishing up brainless stolen recipes.

At least Michelle is talking about issues that America wants to hear. She'll make a wonderful first lady and I can't wait to vote for her husband.

Okay haters, start your temper tantrums.

I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR OBAMA BUT HE IS A REAL WHINER....
HE COMPLAINS ABOUT EVERYTHING...

Karl Rove is a disgusting human being and he learned from his mentor Lee Atwater. Rove, Bush's "Golden Boy", is the person responsible for the attacks on Mrs. Obama and just about every other dirty deed from the G.O.P.

I don't recall much complaint when the Obamaniacs went after Bill Clinton.

Remy... yah you are probably right..kind of like your liberal friends using every opportunity to defame the current president?

Can we please stop this crying! You can't blame FOX news for everything, grow up everyone! Automatically blaming one entity for everything shows a childs mentality, whihc, reading the comments on this board is not surprising at all.

Barack and Michelle are both whiners. The right wing media didn't force Michelle to make her comments about finally being proud of her country. I also remember her complaining to workers in Ohio how much money they spent on dance lessons and camp. I'm sorry Michelle, I haven't lost my soul. If you are going to be campaigning, then I say she is fair game.

Would someone please state - specifically - what Fox has said against Michelle O - other than showing the same newsclips and repeating her comments - just like other news organizations . . .

I can't agree with calling Fox News "press". There are no journalists among them.

I love it...people of the so-called party of free speech want to shut down Fox News...once in power...when do they start burning books...oh well

ita a no brainer that we conservatives are racists

The man pimps out his kids for a tv interview because he thinks that will endear him to the American public with the supposed cuteness and then says he regrets doing it. The wife is fair game. She started it with not being proud of her country until her husband was running for office. This guy spends more time backpedaling for misspeaking than the rest of the time he's whining and telling us what we can and cannot speak about.

And all you dems can keep quiet-seems to me that you all went after Laura Bush and the Bush twins whenever you could.

Just goes to show you how the Freedom of Speech is taken for granted. What else is new about FOX...I say lets re-air their dirty personal lives again...Pills, drugs etc. See how they feel when they "Fox Reporters" are being the hateful ones.

Alice, shhhhhh....don't say anything, just listen.

Florida is directly responsible for giving this country THE WORST PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY. And you want to talk?

Florida, the scene of a national crime in 2000, the land of hanging chads, and hanging judges.

Go educate yourself on how to vote, start voting in October, and maybe the country won't be held hostage by your state in November.

The country is fed up with you and your state, you really shouldn't talk.

Obama put her out on the stump, pays boo-koo buck to refine her and has the balls to whine about how people percieve what she says? He is, without a doubt, an idiot to expect no one to comment about that. He floats his kids in front of the cameras and expect it not to be broadcast? Give Me a Break...

Wives are fair game if they campaign, but daughters who do the same are not. Give me a break.

Who says America treats everyone the same? No...everyone should be proud of America and how fair it is to every person of every race.

Unless you're John McCain...you should never say anything that could possibly be viewed as unamerican. Cindy McCain.......I've always loved my country. Ok doesn't that open her up to scrutiny? But because she is lilly white....we won't mention the myriad of problems Ms. McCain has.

Yes....Americans treat everyone the same – regardless of color or ethinicity. Riiigggghhhttt

I agree with both Senator McCain and Senator Obama. If the media can't come up with information of substance and relevance about the candidates' policies and platform then don't start creating cheap shots. Sliming wives, husbands, and children is not "news" nor does it sway voters who are interested in the critical issues, direction of our government, and our nation's position in the world.

Wasn't John McCain the one who said that Janet Reno was Chelsea Clinton's father, because they looked alike. Look how the conservatives treated Hilary?

Still from the hill you and your whole family are idiots. Sounds like you are not to smart. Most of the people that live in this country are proud of it . Even the ones that was brought over here as slaves , I am black my forefathers didnot not ask to come here they were forced to come here and build this country. Did you know a black man designed the city of washington d.c. invented the time clock a black man help edison discover electricity, Dr. Drew discovered blood plasma and on and on. Dont tell me to go back to africa I am not going anywhere. p are you proud of what was ddone to the indians who were here before you came . Read a little bit. By going to the army does not make you any more patrotic than anyone else. Did bush go Cheby said he was to busy to serve.

July 17th, 2008 11:57 am ET

Perfect statement. No man should have a thick skin when it comes to attacks on their wife. I also dare Hannity, O'Reilly, Rush, or any of the talking heads on Fix News to say waht they've been saying about Michelle right to Obama's face. All these guys do is hide behind their little mics and talk trash all day to an audience that embraces their crap.
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What do you think goes on at CNN?

I don't like either one. Besides, Obama's camp picked on Bill........ so what's the difference. The Obamaniacs expect people to walk on eggs when it comes to their candidate. Suck it up is right!!!

She did it to herself with her crazy comments. The 'conservative' media were the only ones that actually weren't afraid to report her off the wall comments. The 'conservative media' were the ones who were actually fair in the primary season, unlike the 'liberal media' that were too in love with the Obamas to report anything negative about them. This one of the reasons why this Hillary supporter will vote for McCain.

If Michelle is campaigning on behalf of Obama, she's a warrior, not a civilian. I guess the adoration and obsession with Obama by the media does have its down side.

I am sure he does. But the media and public are not the ones Senator that has made your wife a black miltant and causes her to blurt out racist things against whites. Did the media and the public cause your wife to write her college thesis that is very divisive and race baiting?????? If america elects this clown they have no clue what they are getting themselves into.

And he didn't expect this? Come on, as someone else said, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!

It is ironic that it will not be the color of Barack Obama's skin that will ultimately prove to be his undoing, but rather its thinness.

Americans for McCain '08

The contention I've made before as to why McCain lacks support from key groups:(Latinos, African-Americans, etc) – When Republicans/Conservatives/GOP/Fox News make smears and divisive bigoted caricatures and statements of one group (Michelle Obama) you're making them to all groups. Continue this trend of bigotry and divisiveness will get you no where! Americans are smarter than this!

Who cares?

I just got a hospital bill the other day for a procedure my son had thank god I have health insurance, the bill was for 71 thousand no wonder michelle gets paid 330 thousand a year whats this crap about a nation health plan first get a handle on hospital exec's pay then we can have national health insurance.....

Roland,

Next year, don't run with the bulls. You end up running behind them and breathing in their BS, which then seems to come back out of your mouth.

Why doesn't he blame the person that is really responsible? His wife. If it looks like, talks like, etc. She is even more biased and racist than he is..and that is a lot!!

Both Obama and McCain need to get real. If you're going to send your wife out to raise money, the she's no longer a "civilian." You don't get to have it both ways.

Its time to get this right. Its only permissible to dis the McCains.Otherwise you are a distraction to the important work of furthering Obama's career

Still for Hill – That's the point. Both Barack and Michelle are patriots. It is the conservative media that has made it seem like they are not. They employ the concept that if you say it often enough and loudly enough, people will believe it is the truth. It seems to work with people like you.

Its time to get this right. Its only okay permissible to dis the McCains.Otherwise you are a distraction to the important work of furthering Obama's career

She's beautiful, smart and has real family values.

At least she's not a Homewrecker like Cindy.

Obama needs to stop whining! He best start to understand that the press is not always going to portray him or his wife in the best light and get used to it.

I haven't heard McCain complaining about the liberal press and their depiction of him and his wife. Yesterday CNN TV ran a story repeatedly calling Cindy McCain his "meal ticket" because she earns much more than he does.

Even though Barack out earns his wife based on his book sales, I bet he'd starting whining if the conservative press called him her "meal ticket".

Maybe Barak should look for another line of work or Michelle keep her hateful rhetoric mouth shut and the media will go away. Barak is like my dad 'do as I say not as I do'

I must say that the right is lucky that the media does not say anything about Cindy because it would all be over. So they focus on Michelle I wish they would focus on cindy

There is some truth to that comment. The media in my opinion has elevated the fact that Ms. Obama is a well spoken, everyday kind of mom who happens to have a strong educational background and a 6 figure salary. What's wrong with that. I thought that was the American way?

As an Obama supporter, I really think you are wrong on this. If they are out there campaigning they are fair game. As inappropriate as some comments may be sometimes, there are people who base some part of their vote on your wives and your personal lives. I am one of those people. Which is precisely why I could never vote for JM knowing how he disrespected his first wife. These are important issues in picking a potential president. Michelle appears to be a strong determined woman and I think she can handle it. Just don't become too sensitive. Criticism goes with the job. Which is why many of us would never go out there because we don't want our families thrust into the spot light and ridiculed. I'm asking you to please let this subject go. You will start to look weak if you don't.

Obama supporters remind me of an episode of SpongeBob – Where Plankton convinces them to wear buckets on their heads then he flips a switch and then they worship him and do whatever he says. Following someone blindly because he can give a good speech doesn't say much about your ability to think for yourselves. And all of you fawning all over his wife, do you know her or has some of that bucket power rubbed off for her as well. PATHETIC

He is a typical politician who constantly flip – flops – cannot take a firm stand on anything – yet you people see him as the second coming. Wow if he wins it will be fun to watch all the deflated faces when it finally sinks in what he is and what he can really accomplish versus what he has promised.

As for his wife, well if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

I think the issue is more a lack of respect of all parties. If you have something personal and nasty to say about someone else, whether the Obamas or the McCains, maybe you should suck it up. My disappointment is in the pathetic level of discourse of the people here blogging filth about generally good people, not in the news media that simply knows on which side their bread is buttered and reports on what the idiotic public wants to hear.

I must say that the right is lucky that the media does not say anything about Cindy because it would all be over. So they focus on Michelle I wish they would focus on Michelle...

Dear "STILL FOR HILL",

Maybe you should shut your trap. Who cares about your family, when they produce vipers like you?

Michelle is just as patriotic as anyone, even more so because in spite of racist pigs like you, she still loves this country. You want to attack Michelle, bring it on– I'm ready for you.

Obama, the Democratic Nominee 08

Well, you cannot have it both ways. Michelle is intelligent and opinionated. She has every right to express her own views, but the coverage comes with the territory. If you don't want to be the headlines, then keep your opinions to yourself. She wants to make headlines, just not be them. Ask Hillary how well that will work. If you don't want to be under a microscope, then politics is the wrong arena in which to be.

Hillary can take it on the chin...that's okay but not MIchelle...just another example of how it seems to be hands off Obama. I wish he had been treated EXACTLT as the other candidates were and where would he be today.

How is this about "whining" or having a "thick skin?" Any good husband will be bothered by unfair, harsh attacks on his wife, and will do something to try to stop them. I bet if he had said nothing, you Obama haters would just be on here saying that clearly, he must be a bad husband since he lets his wife get attacked and says nothing.

Honesty amd integrity seem to be a thing of the past in this country for a large percentage of the population. All you have to do is read some of the vile comments about Obama here to verify that fact.

Obama is a good man, and Michelle is a good woman. I can't wait for them to be in the White House as the first couple...

Hey CNN! Where is the report about Jesse's remarks on FOX? You will no longer be my web news of choice.

This is how the Republicans are! They cannot run a cmpaign about the issues. The only way they know how to campaign is be fear and smears. They are afraind of intelligent people who will not be ruled by them allowing them to pull the strings of a person who has been manipulated as is McBush!

TO BAD. THE CLINTONS GOT THEIR SLAMS FROM THE MEDIA. SHE WANTS TP PLAY THE GAME SHE PAYS THE PRICE. BOO HOO OBAMA.

Problem is he wants it both ways. Iif you send your wife out to stump for you, now she's not a "civilian", she's a campaign surrogate like any other – open to same criticism as any other. If the wives stay on the sidelines, then the media should leave them alone. If they jump into the fray, they're fair game.

I can't blame the man for defending his wife as well as John McCain. These political battles get nasty and the wives should not be brought into the spotlight unless they're are actually running for public office, or do something and say something publicly so out of bounds that it warrants coverage and criticism.

The wives should be off limits and people like Sean Hannity, Chris Matthews, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh and other neo-con morons need to back up or be bold enough so say it to the man's face and risk being KNOCKED DA HELL OUT!

I will pick Michelle over a woman whose moral values are so low that she thinks nothing of kicking boots with a married father of three any day of the week. (Cindy McCain)

I must be old fashioned, I take the Lady over the Tramp.

Obama continually blames everyone for anything that is not positive about him/his wife or family. He seems to forget that his wife has made some less than positive remarks, that he allowed his children to be interviewed, that he attended and listened to racist comments in his church, and that he is the one moving from the base of our partyl.He needs to grow up and to be responsible isn't that what he continually tells audiences that we need to be adults and be responsible and not place blame. He needs to grow up and stop his childish behavior blaming others and throwing supporters under the bus.

Please stop with the pitty party. If she is going to be on tv then she is no better than anyone else to to be judged and made fun of.

Consevatives will attack Obama till he become president and after. They will use any technique defame a fututure president of USA.

Michelle Obama would be a disgrace to this country if she were our
First Lady. The New Yorker pegged her right on the button.

As long as RACISM is alive we will never come together. Imagine if we could come together and put all this negativity to good use what a wonderful world this would be. Each and everyone of us are the same. The only difference is the color of our skin. Please remember that we are all gate keeper of this wonderful planet. Stop destroying it with all this hate. Hate accomplish nothing only destoryed. Think about your children and future childen.

Xavier did you actually read this all for yourself or just heard this from your PASTOR.

We must not talk about or even think about his ears,his wife,his friends,his religion,or his flip flopping, We must blindly follow him!!!

Olivia, Kathy, Abbey, Letha, Voter, Laura, Sharon, Catherine, Cathy, Marjorie, are you women JEALOUS because YES, Griff she is a black woman, but a intelligent, articulate, and beautiful black woman.

Hannity needs a new make-up artist......he looks like a coffin is missing its contents somewhere in America.......to all you Pumas ....Hillary decided to jump on the playing field....and she lost......if Obama referenced her as a man I don't think her supporters would have appreciated that and calling her a woman isn't good enough for you guys either.....you can't win with the PUMAS.......talk about cry-babies

They are fair game, in my opinion. They are on the trail and making speaches on behalf of their spouses. They are the real force behind the men we are expected to elect to the highest office in the land. Hillary was drug through the mud when Bill was running for president. So, get over it and get on with the issues..

He brought that upon himself when he let her campaign for him during the primaries. "Conservative press" is an oxymoron. What a wuss.

I forgot, she can campaign, Bash Bush, conservatives, and others, but the moment you say anything about her it is bad. You liberals are a bunch of babies.

Also, can CNN openly root for BHO any more? Why don't you just come out and admit it. I would give you more respect.

Obama is Jesus. No one can critisize him or his wife or any one working for him in his demacratic party. Please be patient and wait for November 4th for your chance.

Hillary supporter and now McCaine.

Where is PUMA Now? PUMA is a rang tagged Group of Hill Republican supporters who try to spin as if they are Democrats. I am in the Army and work with a bunch of Republican Female Clinton supporters, who are so "bitter" that Hillary got axed by OBAMA, they are now working to act like Democrats, but they never were. One came by to have be witness her Out of State voter registration/ballot used in the military and I was like, Oh you are Republican, the way you cated I thought you were a Democrat, so "PRO- Hillary'? She was like, oh, I did the online survey and I was surprised I am more Facist and I was like, yeah the Republicans are a facist bunch don't you think? Oh how I like the FAKE PUMA people and the bigots and racist in America.

OBAMA must not take anything for granted, those who support him will vote for him, those who would rather support McCain because of race knowing OBAMA is better should check there Christian values, they are the same who saw nothing wrong with slavery of Jim Crow or segregation. They are those who will forever be 'BITTER"! Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, New Mexico, Alabama, North and SOuth Carolina, Florida, Lousianna, and Texas will swing to the Democrats in 2008, because the black voters are never polled and are also always under represented in election turn out, hispanics also. This time they will all vote for OBAMA witht he youth VOTEbecause we are tired. OBAMA will get 4 years and if we make the wrong choice in him, it will b Hillary in 2012, but for now it is OBAMA and until he prove me wrong it will be him in 2012. McCain has so much negatives, I can't wait until September and October for that October surprise!

MILITARY FOR OBAMA

McCain crashed 5 plains worth over $250 million, he should have been black listed as a mediocre officer, he willfully crash him plane to try and make himself a hero. He wasn't and isn't the only POW alive, why aren't they running for office?

Michelle Obama is an intelligent, outspoken, highly educated, black woman in America. If she were any one of those adjectives followed by "woman", she would be criticized by conservatives and the media. That is not to say she doesn't deserve scrutiny for her own words and actions on behalf of her husband's campaign. Those who put themselves in the spotlight can't expect to escape the glare. But I highly doubt she would be the object of so much pure venom if she were a skinny little blond who stood meekly behind her husband, lowered her eyes and kept her mouth shut – like Cindy McCain.

You Puma's and republicans are nauseating.

Your first thought is to attack anything having to do with Michelle...simply because she's not your basic, run of the mill public figure.

Let's see Cindy McCain, pill popper, adulterous, millionaire. Heck I'd love everything about America in her position. Let's see John McCain, adulter, Keating 5, says – I never loved America......

...yet 1 black woman makes a statement for which she will never be forgiven. YOU GUYS SUCK! If you attacked my wife under such circumstances, I'd show you what for for

Barack and his wife are nothing but a bunch of whiners. I am getting tired of them. 4 years in the White House would be a mistake for this bozo!!!

Molly, take a chill pill, and tell Mommy to take you out for some ice cream, okay hon.

Obama 08

Lets just re-do the primaries and pick reasonably adequate candidates on both sides. These two- Obama and McCain- are making Bush look so much more in control and balance! Third term, anyone

How about the fact that she is out campaigning for you and continuously puts her foot in her mouth!!!! In addition, to putting your children out there.

Barack thinks that he is not allowed to be vetted. Welcome to the real world. You are trying to become the leader of the biggest country in the world.

He is not too bright.

Some people are so fearful of the Obama's being in the White House. That's because they have treated all ethnic groups like crap and they know their time is coming, real soon. Be fearful, be very fearful. Now you know what it's like to be fearful. Welcome to our world.

You get what you deserve...and there isn't anything we can do about it. You answer to a higher authority whether you believe in God and Jesus Christ or not. So you, stop your whining and suck it up. Your next president is a Black man. Don't like it? Leave America!

Are they helping the election efforts? Are they out speaking for their husbands? Are they campaigning? If any of thise are yes, then they are fair game. If you don't want to be in the spot light...STAY OUT OF IT!

Right. Barack and Michelle's delusion of elitism has nothing to do with her being attacked. Nor do any of her unpatriotic statements or implicit reverse racism. Nah.

Obama, if you don't want Michelle to become a focus of political attacks, don't make her a focus of your efforts to sell yourself politically. You send her out there to talk about issues.

What a whiner.

NFIL
NOT FALLING IN LINE

MICHELLE IS THE BRAND NEW VERSION OF ANGELA DAVIS.

HA HA, no one is to blame for the negative press on Michelle Obama, she brought it all on herself. You can take one look at this lady and see the anger, thats before you even hear all the things she has said or done or written. I might could stomach Obama but HELL TO THE NO on Michelle.

EVERYONE in this blog know "doggone" well that Michelle Obama is getting the "raw" end of the deal while Ms. Cindy gets a free ride!!!

Michelle would make an "excellent" first lady!!! Why do people feel that a "first lady" has FIT one "category". Maybe it's because Americans are so used to seeing White first ladies that they cannot picture any other lady of COLOR!!! Get used to the COLOR and everything else will fall in place!!!

And the "PATRIOT" thing??? I bet NO ONE in this blog can give a "true" definition of a PATRIOT and say that they lived it 100% of their lives. I KNOW I HAVEN'T and I am more – or just as much as all of the "other" Americans in this BLOG – so-called PATRIOTIC!!!

I don't have a problem with the attacks. I have a problem with the LIES. It's as if McCain's GOP camp cannot produce any of Senator Obama's true flaws or mistakes. They have to create them.

DEMOCRATS UNITE!!!

No the media hasn't been fair towards Michelle Obama. If you're going to attack her; than by all means start attacking Cindy McCain as well. This is how the Republicans play their little sewer games, only because most of them are scum. If the News media and Democrats were to start dragging Cindy McCain's character through the mud, the republicans would cry foul. Of course the Republicans and Fox news media are only doing this to keep the spot light off of themselves and their sins tucked away.

Tom in S.A., Kathy from ohio, …..

While they shouldn’t go there, the thing is that there is PLENTY low down and dirty stuff that FOX NEWS can get from McCain and his wife but don’t. The few times they do broadcast it, its because they will try to defend them.

See the problem?

I agree with Barack Obama. Many people simply don't know what to do with a capable, confident, intelligent, well-informed and out-spoken woman...and whoooooooooooo if she should also be AFRICAN AMERICAN! Now we are REALLY getting out of the kitchen and that is just plain threatening to the good ole boys out there (and also the good ole girls who are married to them). To these unfortuanete folks we must be lost if we are out of the kitchen, center stage and holding our own in an elevated conversation. Get over it dudes, we are here to stay (I am white by the way and still struggling). Women do not have to become men to make it what is now a capable PERSON'S world, so loosen your tie, take off your jacket and get comfortable in the kitchen guys...it's not all that bad if you're not a prisoner there.

MD in GA:

Mrs. Clinton is quite capable of defending herself. This is why she would have made a great president.

I agree, the wives should be out of the loop. Fox unfairly focusses on Michelle Obama. That is unfair, but then Fox News is unfair.

Obama 08

Who gave Michelle a bad name? Michelle did!

Get over it WhamBama. This comes with the territory of being in the limelight. If you can't handle this how can you lead a nation?

Democrats for McCain !!!!!

The wives of candidates have always been targeted during campaigns, why should things be any different this year? If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen..your skin is too thin!

IF THE WIVES COULDN'T STAND UP TO THE HEAT....... THEY SHOULD HAVE TOLD THEIR HUBBYS NOT TO RUN!

I hope OBAMA is not getting upset because people are saying things about his wife. This is to be expected. He shouldn't waste his time trying to ask people to leave his wife out of this. They are one, you can't have one without the other. THEY ARE UNITED. DON'T WASTE ALL THE CAMPAIGN DONTATIONS pleading to people not to talk about your wife. This is one thing he CANNOT control, and he knows that very well, (REV. J. WRIGHT) what other people think or say about you is beyound your control. PLEASE DON'T LET THAT DISTRACT YOU FROM THE IMPORTANT ISSUES. NEXT.........

If you consider your wives not fair game, than don't put them on the campaign trail. It's that easy. If they are speaking on the candidates behalf, then they have placed themselves right along the sides of other surrogates and should be treated accordingly.

Awwww, are certain elements of the media not worshiping the ground the Obamas walk on. Poor them.

I guess while fox is attacking Michelle the left is making Obama out to be a saint. look at the articles now on political ticker, and all three news anchors going overseas with him like it's a big concert tour.
he is such a cry baby...

In a CNN interview Cindy McCain stated she stayed in Nevada rather than moving to Washington because of her chidren which inferred Washington isn't a fit place to raise your children.

Had this been a statement made by Michelle Obama the news medias would have played this video clip for 3 or 4 weeks asking if Michelle Obama thinks she is too good for Washington or Washington is some how an inferior place to raise your family.

Where are all the independent Republicans and commentators on CNN with this story or is it just media bias. Come on Lou you must have something negative to say.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

How funny is that Obama and Michelle, did you get some of what Hillary Clinton been through, well get ready because you didn't see nothing yet from the media.

"Obama emphasized the plea in the interview released Wednesday, saying his wife and Cindy McCain are not fair game because “essentially, spouses are civilians. If you start being subjected to rants..day in day out, that’ll drive up your negatives.”

Your spouse is active in your campaign. If she doesn't want to be scrutinized, she should get out of the spot light and keep her mouth shut.

When the husband runs for the highest office in the country, the spouse must behave appropriately to avoid criticism. It's a fair game. Michelle is a lawyer, she should have surely known that people will watch her closely!

No couple has ever been treated with kid gloves like these hateful power grubbing Obamas.

Politicians get ripped- think HRC, BIll and even Chesea.

Think Bush and McCain.

The press has given Obama a free ride- reporting only positive things and pretending they don't see the negative.

Just because he and Michelle are black and play the race card.

Regardless of what poeple think of Ms. Obama. She is not fair game in this election. We have had for more controversial poeple as presidents then a potential 1st lady in the White house. Leave the wives out of it.

Are you in your 40's or 20's SUCK IT UP AND STOP WHINING!!!!!!
I dont want another whining loser in the white house!

When the husband runs for the highest office in the country, the spouse must behave appropriately to avoid criticism. It's a fair game. Michelle is a lawyer, she should have surely known that people will watch her closely!

Here we go again! When you step into the public, you ae going to get comment s negative or positive. So if it is to hot in the kitchen, then I suggest you stop appearing with the candiate. You can't have it both ways.

The Media put you where you are today, Obama. Show a little respect...

How do you unify by pointing fingers?

** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **

BOTH Presumptive Nominees have said this and they are BOTH right.

I'm not voting for a spouse....I'll vote for the CANDIDATE of my choice.

All you talking heads, whiners and complainers need to just stop.

this isthe result of his wife saying the wrong thing everytime and not wanting the press to say anything about her ignorance.
the right media as he says it, its not responsible for she says.
he should shut up and quit whining constantly.
It shows the kind of leader he is. Not the leader of our great nation.
He's just a wanna be that will not be come November.

He's right. The worst conservatives [are they really conservative, or jsut evil] have gone after Mrs. Obama with an incredibly ugly tone. Ironically, if she were not the wife of the Democratic candidate, she is the conservative dream spouse – attractive, intelligent, accomplished, wife, mother.

Yeah, leave her alone.

By the way, you know what's funny?? i think I see more attacks on Michelle than my boy! LOL!!! They better hope Michelle cheated before in her life or is rich, or doesn't care, etc. Because they can attack her, to tell you the truth. And a REAL MAN knows how to protect his lady........you know what I'm talking ladies, LOL!!

Mike,

Michelle's brother played basketball at Princeton, so I think he had a scholarship. The Obama's just finished paying off their student loans a few years ago when he became a Senator and his new fame made his books best-sellers.

Some people aren't the sons or daughters of admirals and have to work hard to put themselves through school.

Obama doesn't like criticism. He is really a whiner. And what do they mean about not critizicing their wives? They are going to be in the White House, representing us. They can not and should not be ignored.
Just crybabies. And this is nothing. They should be ready for the future...

I have many complaints/issues with the media, but this is not one. She has created her own problems–so they should not whine about the media.

This election year will go down in the history books.

The year the Obama's banned freedom of expression and free speech unless it was pro-Obama and anti- Clinton.

Obama can not be criticized- what a lovely 4 yrs it will be if he becomes president.

Bush- bashing... that is okay... read these blogs, read the press, watch TV.

Clinton bashing... fair game.

Obamas? NO WAY... they are perfect.

The Press REFUSE to talk about
CINDY MCCAIN'S ADDICTIONS TO PILLS
WHY?????????????????????????????

It is a shame how many people (see above comments) don`t seem to have any kind of sense for dignity. Is that the "great nation" they would like to be shown to the world?

The conservative media just LOVES to play dirty.
Obviously a reflection of their leadership...

Obama and McCain are defending and trying to protect their wives from spurious attacks – something ANY good husband would do –
but has anyone else noticed the rage in Cindy McCain's eyes? If anyone's scary, she is!

If it's true McCain called his wife a trollop and a c – - t, she shouldn't have to hear any more crap from folks outside her family. My unsolicited advice to McCain and the press: Leave the wives out of it.

He was asked a question and answered it; how is that whining? Do you accuse McCain of whining for saying the same thing?
How about some logical arguments instead of the same boring, juvenile talking points (usually in all caps)? How about listening with an open mind and giving the other side their due when they're right about something? Are you capable of calming down long enough to do that?
Okay, I'll go first: the CNN headline about McCain's "tepid welcome" at the NAACP convention was unfair, given the casual mention of the standing ovation he got at the end.
Your turn: something positive about Obama from the people here who have been raging about him and his wife. Can you? Or will your heads explode?

Trust me, Obama, this is nothing compared to the carnage you'll face leading up to the general election! You be quite pleased to take second place in that race and not have to face it all again in 4 years!!

Obama, what did you think was going to happen when your wife opens her mouth and says "for the first time in my life I am proud of my country". When you speak the truth like she did you have to accept the consequences. Grow up Obama, people are very proud of the U.S.A. and have been since this country was founded. If your wife, or you for that fact, are not proud of this country – then just go find another one to live in. Quit whining Obama, and attend a Senate session.

CNN I do question how you set up you headline for these blogs, however, they cause quite an interesting exchange of point of views.

People who believe these elaborate uses of words to misinform the public are the kind of people who usually don't take the time to research the details. This leak of digging for the truth keeps them misinformed and that how the want to be, misinformed.

Well well – as "smart" as he says he is.... Obama hasn't figured out yet that he and his family are under scrutiny daily. He chose this life and this position. If he wasn't so into showing off and rounding up the troops to "change Washington" then he wouldn't have to deal with the media or attacks at all. He's clueless about life as President yet so many of you want to elect this man? Think about it.... all he's doing is playing into sympathy and "poor poor me look how I'm being treated. " Hmmm, every president before him has been treated the same way by the media – so Obama, pull up your boxers and DEAL with it.

I have loved America every day of my life!!!

Oh, I get it you have to run for president to get talked about, does that include thier family ie kids too. I'm not proud of my country when it comes to these elections and by the way I'm retired miltary man. I think FOX news is the most racist news organization in the U.S. or in the world for that matter.

Geez they are fair game if they are campaigning for you they represent you so when they say something they should be expected to be called out on it. I havent seen them really attacking michelle why the renewed cry? You can your wife to be able to go on good morning america, access hollywood, oprah, the view, and be on the cover of people, but no one is allowed to say anything negative about her?

SOUNDS A LITTLE DESPERATE REPS. You could probably go after their dog.........except they do not have one. Maybe you could dig up some dirty on Obama's Grandmother in Africa...or....that WHITE WOMEN in Kansas who claims to also be his Grandmother. How about deceased parents ....wil that count. WE ARE TRIED OF THIS NONSENSE.....Hows about trying to win on merit and integrity??? I really doubt that the Republican Party has any of tha left after 8 years of deceit and cover-ups. I am ashamed for THE GRAND OLD PARTY. What would Regan say????

Give him a few hours and he will flip flop on this as well.

I don't blame him for wanting to protect his wife, but she has said some pretty outrageous things and it has been reported. Her character has been in question as well. No one knows who these people are or what they truly stand for – it changes daily.

I don't like Michelle and I am not a conservative. The only thing she has received good reviews for is her dress on the view. Now that is a nice credential for our first lady!

personally I think he has a point
I rarely hear anything negative about Cindy McCain and I am quite sure
she is NOT perfect!!!!!
At least michelle worked hard for the status she has in her life
Cindy McCain was born with a silver spoon in her mouth
point made!!!

How can anyone say anything to Obama's face when HE
lacks the GUTS to even go on any show that won't kiss his feet?

Rasumssen poll shows that people now see that Obama is an empty suit.

When they look at his Robin Hood economic plan, they see that lower taxes don't help much when all the employers shut down US operations.

When they look at his foreign policy, they see that refusing to flex muscle is viewed in international circles as a sign of weakness.

This isn't going to be a 2nd Carter term. This is going to be much, much, worse. Carter didn't hike taxes on wealth creation and kill off jobs. Carter didn't expand the welfare state (okay, he did but not by nearly as much as Obama will). Carter didn't roll over for our enemies and play submissive dog (okay, he did, but not by much). Carter was a giant compared to Obama.

Obama and his handlers have made it very clear that they want to end Pax Americana and end over 225 years of individual freedoms. Now if you want to live in a European style state, vote Obama.

Got Freedom?

This guy is crazy.

The press is infatuated with Him and ignores all his flaws.

Where is the coverage of all the hateful comments that Michelle has made against HRC?

Michelle would have to "think" about voting for the democratic candidate if HRC were the nominee.... etc etc.

Obama wants to turn us into a Sharia government where no criticism is allowed.

Obama thinks he is God.

You know what is laughable....

Obama is complaining that the conversative media is picking on his little ol' wife...BUT...look at the blogs on this website.. You all agree its horrible for the MSM to say or print anything bad about Michelle Obama and yet look at how many of you are talking down Cindy McCain.

Is that the "pot calling the kettle black" (no racism intended)?

If trash talking to your wife is gonna help you, then go ahead. All I'm saying is you better know what you're doing...

> Now if you would like to do something about the way I feel come on
> over to Buffalo
^^^^^^
Ha ha ha ... well, that explains plenty right there.

Obama and his wife are another product of our whining society. Can you imagine this in the office of the Presidency and her as the First Lady? It downright makes me sick! All you Obama voters out there better wise up as you know nothing about this man and who is backing him?

As a BLACK Proud Woman, I can understand why the media (CNN-FOX) is intimidated by a strong support system.....because they are not accustomed to how that feels...... OUR women work with OUR men. I take my night gown off too Michelle........ Because being the wife of the next president, she has a lot to accept and turn her cheek to......Me myself, would have flipped off at the mouth a long time ago....

A Strong President + Strong Woman= A new World.

The world will be a better place because of Obama NOT just the USA.....

THE BUCK STOPS HERE!!!!!

Guys with weak minds ALWAYS picked on the Smart girls. They can never be with one so they HATE them. I can't blame them . My wife is Brilliant AND she is Hot!!.... I am in H-E-A-V-E-N!

Must SUCK for them. They will NEVER know. HA HA

Funny how they respect a trust fund baby more than a self made woman who is BRILLIANT!

I respect both of you for your stand.

HILLARY WENT THROUGH 9-YEARS OF HELL AS A SPOUSE'S WIFE AND OVER A YEAR OF HELL FROM YOUR CAMPAIGN OBAMA. IT STILL GOES ON THROUGH HER SUPPORTERS. NO ONE IS EXEMPT FROM THIS CONTEMPT OF SOMEONE WHO IS UN-AMERICAN SUCH AS MICHELLE. SHE ASKED FOR IT AND NOW SHE IS GETTING IT. IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT THEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG BALLGAME. IF I WAS YOU I'D PICK UP MY BALL AND GO HOME ALL THE WAY BACK TO NIGERIA AND LIVE WITH MY FATHER. HE MAY BE SYMPATHETIC TO MICHELLE.

There are few things more off-putting than a man complaining
about his wife being mistreated. It lowers one's opinion of both him and the wife. Obama has been part of a masterly scheme to eliminate others from the competition – he has done it repreatedly and successfully. He somehow thinks that he should be above critical comment, and that his wife should enjoy the same right. He is not, nor is she. Start acting with a little humility, not to say maturity, or you will lose your precious votes.

> So they repeated what she said and that is an attack?

"Baby mama", she said "whitey" on tape, "terrorist fist jab", Hannity's
"angry black woman", the "unhappy millionaire", etc.

Are you ignorant or just plain stupid.

Funny how people talk about being respectful in this country. Obama shoud be mad about people putting his wife in this. I don't remember any of you talking about Nancy Reagan or GW Bush's wife. You and Me and the whole world know why you want to bring Michele Obama in this. Don't we?? and you wonder why your kids act the way they do. LOOK IN THE MIRROR ALL OF YOU>>>>

Funny that Obama bashes the press when his softie treatment from cheerleaders like Matthews, Cafferty and especially Olbermann is the primary reason he was nominated....

Obama says spouses are of limits and are of limits, I guess when he and his supporters were attacking, spouse and private citizen Bill Clinton that was different. Just another Obama flipflop. Give me a break. Its the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen.

For all of you who think it is okay to attack Michelle, just remember, what goes around comes back around. Don't complain when to liberal wing of the Dems turn the table on Cindy. That's just the way it is..... Politics

They are terrified that Obama will win. Terrified!! So of course they're going to do anything and everything they can to make sure this does not happen. And the sad thing is, people really believe this about them. Ignorant people!! There are lots of them out there. Who voted for Bush twice? The same stupid people!. So Michelle and Barack, stay strong! It's almost over! You will get there! And when you do, it's going to be like nothing these ignorant people have ever seen. They're going to be so shocked as to how good it can be! They're going fall in love with Michelle and Barack! Just wait and see!! BARACK THE VOTE ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!

P.S. Ask McCain about the VILE word reporters heard him call his wife. This got very little coverage. Why? Had that been Bill saying that to Hillary it would have created a fire-storm.

I just cant wait to see the faces of every angry white man when Michelle steps into the white house.....priceless.

Let's see, the "conservative press" makes up about 6% of the media that is out there. The other 94% of the media is liberal LEFT.

I am so tired of Obama's whining that people are picking on him and his wife. This couple is in the public eye by choice – he's running for president and she gives speeches to groups all over the country to garner support for him – it is the media's RESPONSIBILITY to report what they say and do. As the old saying goes ... if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. If anyone should be whining, it should be McCain who never gets positive press, at least he's a trooper and doesn't cry about the negative press.

Attacking a candidate's wife is nothing new... it goes way back to Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel. It's a part of politics, a part that should definitely be rejected.

Obama back in the Senate in '09
Vote McCain

Evidently, the press has too much time on its hands!

How come everytime I see a picture of Michelle she is wearing that purple dress? Can't the MSM get more recent pictures? They did the same with Hillary and her yellow pants suit. Unless of course these women wore the same exact outfit everyday for months.

In regards to the really proud statement, try listening to the rest of that speech when she is talking about the political process and people being involved. How is it that McCain can say that he didn't love America until he was away from it and he doesn't get criticized her Michelle. A bit of double standard. And what else has Michelle done to deserve this treatment??? What else?

Michelle O. makes her own problems.

And BTW, how much of that supposed "Obama campaign money" raised is really for the
GENERAL ELECTION
and only for the use of the ACTUAL
nominee?

Is someone playing games with numbers?

As President I hope Obama never appears on any of the networks that have been disrespectful to his wife or himself. Cut them off completely. No access to the Rose Garden , the White House press corp or any Official event.

Unify & Vote Big, that's a pretty BOLD statement to make right there. You must not have been alive that long to make a statement like that to see that there have been many more remarkable first ladies than Michelle Obama could ever be.

tanner, ca... it's pointless to convince these deluded people.

Michelle Obama could easily do to her husband what Bill Clinton did to Hillary in the primaries. Though I hope this isn't the case, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens in such a way.

I am glad obama said something about this, every time I see idiots and cawards like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Relley bushing everybody who is better and smarter than them and getting paid for it making me see Note (Almost anybody is smarter than hannity and o'relley). I thing fare minded people should boycot wactching FoxNews. Foxnews name shoud be changed to bushingnews or Bigotsnews or Suckersnews or Newsfordummies.

It is OK for Michelle to mouth off about the country and complain about how hard things are for her and the kids but the media should ignore her? I don't think that is the way it works. I guess when you have a hard time being proud of your country that is to be expected!

I dont watch Fox because of Bill O'Reilly is a racist and hate Obama and Michelle, The Fox is a racist station with haters like Bill and Hanity

Obama/Michelle 08

Michelle is a key to figuring out Obama...only a strong, secure man marries a strong, secure, successful woman.

Forget Faux News.

Obama 08'

Love Michelle!!! I'm a republican (for 60 years) and I'm voting for Obama!!! I understood exactly what she said and the media pounced on her. She and Barack are the kind of image we need in the White House. Great family-no divorce-no drugs and they love this country for what it has been able for them to accomplish. The republican party has nothing else. Should we go after Cindy?!!! There a lot to go after Cindy for and I honor Barack for not doing it!

Is this the same Fox News that Senator Obama refuses to engage by way of going on their program? I find it revealing that he won't go on Fox News but he'll agree to negotiate face-to-face with the leaders of terrorist nations.

Obama missed an opportunity to go after conservative and bring in more Hillary supporters. He could have initiated a link that conservative media like FOX NEWS attacks strong, independent and intelligent women like his wife and Hillary Clinton.

I would have loved to see Hannity & Colmes and O'Reilly try to address this media bias without infuriating more Hillary and Obama supporters.

Gee, if he thinks its rough now, see what happens if he gets elected. If you can't take the heat... If he's all bent out of shape about this, what'll happen if the country faces a REAL crisis?

All I had to see was "Obama blames..." He does a lot of blaming. Candidate's wives should be left alone, unless they venture into the arena of policy making and then I think they are fair game.

For those of you who like to call people "whiners"... how old are you? Do you do this when you have a disagreement with people you know?

Let me give you a little secret you were supposed to be told when you went through adolescence: name-calling is just a sign of immaturity, a play for attention, and a form of insecurity. So you really like to judge people, huh? Make yourself look "good"? Didn't work, sorry. You still have no substance, and I can DEFNITELY back that up, so that isn't an empty judgment. THAT'S the maturity portion: can you back it up? There is debate/discussion/argument, and then there is petty bickering/name calling.

I don't deign to judge either candidate, but I see Obama "defending" and not "laying down" to take criticism, and you see it as "whining". I didn't hear his voice go up a few octaves and get nasal. Funny, huh?

CNN, yet again, I would ask that you please post this. You're allowing too many posts through that appear to have no substance, and I feel like my point is valid. Thanks.

Mike – Texas:
"I didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company."
John McCain, March 13, 2008
No it's not fair to attack him on that, any more than it's fair to attack Michelle Obama on her statement. Bottom line, this process is increasing her pride in her country.
You're not listening to anything with an open mind; you're just grasping for talking points and using the same tired disengenuous ones over and over. It's gotten boring.

No free speech allowed when it comes to the Obamas.

It is just like the Muslim countries... no dissent nor disagreement is allowed.

Praise the great Obama... all else is heresy.

Michelle Obama has done nothing but tell the truth about the old US OF A. Hasn't been very much to be proud of!

Ok people come out of denial and confess...would you step up and say I'm proud of stealing this country from the Native Americans, or
I'm proud of overseeing slavery because the country I have stollen has alot of work to be done!!! Or I proud that the high-ups in the US goverment flooded our neighborhoods with drugs then blame it on the little guy.

Well....the little guy doesn't have ships, planes, trains, etc.....to have transported the big stuff...THE MAIN STUFF!

Be for real.....how many would come out from hidding behind the Flag and tell the truth about the history of this country and then say...
I – AM – PROUD – OF – MY – COUNTRY! Is their one????? huh???

Oh PLEASE! If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen!

Well, Obama, I doubt they will listen. Just keep taking the high road in spite of the negative manipulation and publicity. Michelle is strong enough to handle it. Don't let in take you off your square.

As an aside: Many of the posters who tell Obama to quit whining, sound like whiners themselves. But that's human nature: to yell loud and long about something we struggle with ourselves.

Peace to the whiners!

She's the one who said she wasn't proud of her country until now.
Besides...Obama's problem if he wins the WH would be where to put the likes of Rev Jackson, Wright, Sharpton, Farrakan in his cabinet?

Typical Obama blaming everyone else except the cause of the very problem. In this case, it's his wife's insensitive, extremist and not very intelligent comments made at many of the Obama campaign events. If he doesn't want his wife scrutinized including being criticized, then tell her to stay at home and cease from being an active part of his campaign.

Terry H.
Chicago-area

Like others have said, Michelle "The Mouth" Obama has no one to blame except herself for these attacks. Keep your mouth shut and raise your kids like you purport to do. A word of advice to you Senator; let your Secret Service take care of anyone who insults your wife. You're not exactlty a Rocky Balboa.

There is no such thing as a "conservative press". Only a moron would think that

Barack (or his handlers) should speak to his wife and suggest to her that she should really lose the "clenched fist" wave she uses in public. Then perhaps she would not appear as a militiant on magazine covers. Get a clue, Barack.

Funny how some of the Clinton supporters are telling him to stop whinning, when they are the ones continually whinning.."they were sexist" "she was bullied" "it's not fair". If he should get tough skin they you all should too and move on.

Ha Ha! Funny to hear the Obamites crying over poor old Michelle's dillema after they have savaged Cindy McCain. Typical hypocrite Liberals. Obama just loves to play the victim while he entices his little sheep to do his dirty work for him. The funniest part of this is that the most savage attack on the poor Obamas was from the most liberal magazine in New York. Too funny!!!!!

It's always the media's fault. Never the Obama's.

Okay, now all you for Obama going to blame CNN and Fox. Get a life and stop blaming everyone one else for the Obama's mistakes. It was okay to say things about Sen. Clinton but not about MO

Maybe it's because of some of her remarks about only now being proud and how blacks are treated.

It's just not white people that can be racist. MO comes across very racist.

Oh please!

No one attacks either Obama- it is simply NOT allowed.

Almost as if free speech applies for comments on everyone BUT the Obamas.

Hillary is the one that received biased and hateful negative press.

Yes, she did say those things but they totally twisted everything that she said and made it a horrible thing.

It becomes an attack when you twist what someone says. You do not know what it is like to be "black in America" and you will never know. You don't know how many doors may have been shut in her face and what she had to go through to get where she is today. Cindy had everything at her hand, while Michelle lived in poverty for her entire childhood. When you are raised in a very poor environment – which I have been and then become a success but you find that really your "skin color" causes trouble for you, you have no idea what that is like. I know this means nothing to you but I had to say it.

Tom in S.A. you have no idea. I don't expect for you to know. But I go to work everyday and have racist remarks said to me. In Michelle's disertation she stated she felt like she was on the outside looking in. I know exactly how she feels as a working African American who is faced with this everyday. But we are to suck it up and be quiet. Well, that is not the American way. We have the right to express concern in this country.

Remember she said "For the first time in her adult life, she is REALLY proud to be an American". I don't get what is wrong with saying that. Look at where she came from and what she and her husband has accomplished. She sees the light now. What is wrong with that?

Barack Obama hasn't been listening to his wife I guess. She's offensive. She doesn't need any help to make people dislike her.

You Obamaniacs make me laugh. You all spew so much hate against anyone who doesn't support your candidate, that your indignance over a bit of (IMHO, well deserved) criticism of both he and his wife has no credibility whatsoever.

Look in a mirror Obamaniacs. I'll wager you won't like what you see.

BHO put his wife and his kids in the campaign, no one else. To me that displays poor judgement and now, a denial of his own responsibility for it.

Politics as usual. The Obamaniacs are brainwashed.

he is always blaming somebody what is new.

I really think family should be left out. No one attacks Laura Bush at all. I think we got a double-standard here folks.

smarten up people! the media blows everything WAAAAY out of proportion. I suggest any negative press by the media on either of the candidates wives be taken with a grain of salt.

Most of the garbage on both candidates and their spouses are created by the media's desire for sensationalism and to "create" a story with snippets taken out of context. It's sad, but I've seen it first hand. Media has no remorse or ethics, they just want $ by getting attention.

When Michelle chose to stump for Obama, she became fair game. Look at what the Obama camp did to the entire Clinton family and Ferraro, painting the most unbiased people , ones who have fought for equality all their lives, as racist. Suck it up Obama and for God's sake, quit whinning over everything. Try making yourself available for town hall meetings and debates instead of press statements without appearances.

The rapid erosion of core American values is scary. Women are now openly referred to as b-hes; sixteen-year-old girls can now have babies out of wedlock and become galaxies of their own; cheating on one's mate is no longer cheating - it's now called an affair instead of adultery. Nearly every moral decadence has been elevated to acceptability.

The media has cleverly imposed a conviction on Americans that if you speak out against these ills then you're a bigot and out of touch. They have reduced wives of candidates to fair game without any measure of respect to these women. It is even worse for Michelle Obama - an educated working black woman who knows how to speak her mind instead of being a house maid.

This election will go down as one of the nastiest in American history only because that fourth estate of democracy is no longer an impartial arbiter.

This is going to be quite an interesting election. We have just begun ...

She's the one with the big mouth and thin skin...she could be osamas biggest detriment besides his evolving positions.

Who has he not blamed! He takes no responsibliity for anything or should I say he takes it only when it's to his favor....what a loser!

Then maybe she needs to keep her mouth shut, if you are a surrogate for your husband, you are not off limits. Obama needs to grow up, he is not God, and he does't walk on water. McClinton 08

The Obama's should just over look it and focus on the important issue of this nation.
Obama should treat this like he has with the other media stories revolving around him for months now!!

And he needs to build a thicker skin if he wants to lead this nation.........rude awakening~

With numbers like those, good thing the wives aren't running for president – or anything else!

how can we donate to the obama campaign from lagos and other major cities in africa. we need change in the white house, we need america to take back its spiralling goodwill. only obama can do that for now

Frankly, I think the media should stick to objective reporting of news and events. Unfortunately, too many news reporters sound more like gossips and scandal sheet columnists these days...

Does this guy ever stop crying? This guy needs to realize that MUCH meaner things have been said about Bush, Clinton, Hillary, Reagan, Edwards, Kerry, McCain, Laura Bush, so on and so forth. It comes with the job Barack, so get used to it or just go away. Stop your crying, you look like a cry baby most of the time. No one is going to respect you, I certainly don't. Oh, and things are going to get meaner and nastier on both sides as we get closer to November and we see McCain win the presidency! Then you can cry all you want! Toughen up, you're pathetic!

McCain 08!

Funny. I don't hear this kind of tripe being said about Cindy McCain. Maybe it's just the "chickens coming home to roost?" (words of Rev. Wright)

Michelle has been a near-militant black since her youth. Does Obama expect America to ignore the anit-white sentiments in BOTH of their pasts?

Obama needs to suck it up. If he didn’t expect the right to flail into him and his wife when he set his sights on becoming the first black president, he's not as smart as he thinks he is. He now got what he wanted and both him and that wife of his need to deal with the downside. This election cycle will be a disaster for America no matter who wins. The sad part is that our president should be one of the best and brightest. Neither Obama nor John McCain fit into that category.

The ignorant American voters will not see thru their nose and the handwriting on the wall,same old system that killed John F.Kennedy,Martin Luther King Jnr.

Same old jab that brought Geourge W,Bush to power twice,that took us to Iraq and make over sixty thousand Men and Women wounded and over four thousand seven hundred dead,

Same old system that lead to inflation,lead to foreclosure,banckrupcy,unemployment.

Politics of fear , hate and devide.

Think wisely,vote wisely,this is an opportunity to liberate our nation once again. No country recovers from sxteen year of same government ,same people ,same agender.

Government is run by costitution not by idealogy and selfishness.

Barack Obama is the anwser . America wake up ,be warned.

May God be with America..May God be with Barack Obama.

Roland from Spain.

Good luck with that. These media outlets, conservative or liberal, are like sharks swimming in bloody water.

If your wife is campaigning for you and giving public speeches then sorry they are fair game. So Stop blaming the media for harking on what your wife said. If you do not want them criticized, or anyone in your campaign for that matter, tell them to keep their mouths shut.

Glamour Magazine??? Gimme a break Obama!

Also, wives are fair game if they go out on the trail campaigning and attacking their spouse's opponents. Michelle made a choice to put herself out there and criticism is therefore legitimate.

Wait – Obama is giving interviews to Glamour magazine?

Depicting that graceful woman as a militant, shows how abysmal family values have dropped in America. Politics has become so dirty that even more naive Americans are drawn into supporting evil.

Those who don't understand, wait until some people do/say nasty things to/abt ur wives for no just cause. I guess some would not hesitate to commit murder.

Love your wife as yourself.

What a highly responsible president Obama WILL make in USA!

Hello, this is still is free country, remember?
And we have a right to tell our opinion.
Mss Obama is a part of Obama's campaign and whatever whe tells can be discusses and criticized.
My personal opinion is she does not fit the role of fhe first lady because she has too much hatred inside of her.
Too arrogant! Take her statement that America should her husband now because they will not participate in election other time!
She believes that her husband is a messiah and americans should worship him. How arrogant!
And when they now trying to reinvent her now does not help.
Look ih her eyes!

I agree that there has been nauseating and unfair criticism of Michelle Obama, but quite frankly, if you don't want your wife to be subject to public scrutiny, don't put her in the public spotlight.

You can't have it both ways. If you're going to use your photogenic family to create a positive image and to stump for you, then don't whine when they suffer the inevitable consequences of fame.

We all know the real reason why the Obama's get dogged in the press and it's because they are not lilly white and racism is the core of the Republican party which owns the media.

Look at Brent the Fox News Guys neck

Why is it that Michelle Obama who also spent a good part of her life helping others treated this way is because the contest is now been going on for 16 months 24/7 The talking heads will us what people are sayin according to their own media rules.

He's absolutely right! Frankly, I'm surprised the conservative media went with the Michelle attacks given the skeleton's in Cindy's closet.

I think most reasonable, informed people have to admit that FOX News is a Republican leaning network.

On June 11, 2008, it was FOX that referred to Michelle Obama as, and I quote, “Obama’s Babies Mama”.

Any informed person knows that is an unflattering, largely urban-originated reference that was meant to be a coded reminder that she’s really black.

It was also intended to disrespect her as a wife and mother for “baby mamas” typically are not the wife of the father of the child. This was intended to plant a seed in the minds of conservative, largely white, “family-values-oriented” voters that, “She’s not like you”. She is beneath you.

Most thinking independents white voters, most women (republican-to-democrat), most non-caucasian (asian-to-latino-to-black) voters are, and will continue to be, offended and turned off by this. They will also not allow FOX to apologize or apply … “if anyone was offended” excuse.

Finally, all Americans will link FOX to the GOP. While the two are not exactly one in the same, we are all intelligent enough to know that the GOP has given its tacit approval to FOX, otherwise, we’d not be seeing this over and over again.

Why was my comment not posted? It is a fair, true statement and not rude or slanderous like some of the others listed above.

McCain, the man who divorces his wife on her death bed to marry the rich beer queen and prescription drug junkie. These are the people who you want to compare against Obama and his wife? Obama's wife wins hand down.

Desperate scared bucks

Obama "Get over it"!!! – Too bad you do not like any negative comments – about anything and always blame someone else.
Both you and Ms. Michelle are FAKE – she had a "re-make" and you change you message daily to suit your political needs. You are a FRAUD and so is your wife – this is one big staged show.

Scared of a an out-spoken strong women? It's sad, really sad.

They said the same about Hillary too.

Kathy in Ohio,

McCain said that he never loved this Country until he was captured in Viet-Nam, So what should the American people feel about him.

Obama blames the "Conservative press" for attacks on his wife? There's a new one. If his wife could keep her big mouth shut, she wouldn't get any attacks. She asked for it, and if he's too stupid to inderstand that, then what's he doing running for President?

This is the same media that gave Hillary such a bad rap, plus CNN and MSNBC.

Wives are a big part of a candidate,and not only influence the candidate,but are in charge of handling White House special events...therefore they are fair game,because the images the First Lady gives thru the media have a lot of impact on the way the world views an administration,as well as the United States. Sounds like Obama is ,also,biting the hand that feeds him,when he criticizes the media. Obama owes much of where he is in this campaign ,to the media. The media has slanted everything Obama's way from the get-go.

It is a shame when candidate wives are attacked for political reason. Sean Hannity never set a toe at college, and he doesn't see other people's perspectives. Sean Hannity and several others at fox deserve the hottest place in hell!, for constantly accusing and bearing false witness against Michelle Obama whom they barely know!.

Rush/sean hennty are Black people haters they are still live in 1950
I believe they are KKK,they change the white hood to red tie and white shirt.
real consertive are real american allways talke about our problem.
hater always talke about personal,sent Obam is real american
he will serve american the best all America
god bless American
Rush/sean are High School Drop out,you can tellthe way the talke.

Hey, Obama, guess who's the blame for calling and making fun of Hillary as being Annie Oakley, I have it, i use that clip on my radio show to remind people how you put her down like a rock so get over yourself

A man's (and a woman's) job is to protect his (her) family. That's it. It's really the only job you have. Keep your wife (husband) and kids safe. Everything else is unimportant.
If any man out there would stand aside and watch his wife get attacked and questioned unfairly, I would question his committment to his family and his manhood.
He's doing what any husband (spouse) SHOULD do.
Let someone say something untrue or disrespectful to your wife or husband. What would you do? Standing silently by I doubt is option # 1.

You have to protect your family. He took an oath to this country before God, he also took an oath before God to his wife.
Anyone who loves their spouse HAS to understand that.

When Michelle Obama is up on the stump raging and tearing into Republicans, Bush, etc., she opens herself up to criticism. You can't expect to be a visible member of a political campaign, making derogatory and inflamatory remarks about the other party and not expect to be fair game and be handed some retribution. If she wants to be isolated from attacks – personal or not – then stay off the stump.

“I don’t have a thick skin when it comes to criticism of my wife,” Obama admitted. “The problem is that rarely do these folks have the guts to say it to your face.”-Obama
got to love this man...

in an interview when Cindy McCain was asked about the affair she was having with John McCain she answered "that's personal" and looked as if she desperately wanted to change the topic. though i believe she was right in doing so, i find that that topic does speak volumes on J. McCain's character, the reporters should be posing the question to Mr. McCain instead of his current wife. if John McCain could under mind the sacred vows of matrimony, why should we believe he will not under mind the vow of office? after all in his own words "failure breeds failure"

My – another subject that is off limits for the obama group. What exactly can we report and what terms are OK with you???
Obama – you are trying to be elected to President of the USA – we have a right to know all about you and so far I do NOT like what I have learned.

Michelle Obama has put her disdain for America in writing !
Is that who we want greeting visitors in the White House.

Obama says people are afraid to say negative things to his face.
If the average citizen could get within a few feet of him, they would.
Secret Service surrounds this clown for eight blocks around.

Why are we paying for this??? Who is he afraid of ??

Fox news- time has come for you to fold your tent. We don't care if it is 1st or 2nd amendment and freedom of speech – that kind of garbage. We, Americans had it with your trash.

Obama's wife has some real issues that would come into play seeing how she wants to be the First Lady. She seems to have some real prejudices and when you see that she and Obama attended that church with Rev. Wright for 20 YEARS, you have to wonder if she and Obama share his views of the US (Rev. Wright's)?

Obama has to understand that there are going to be attacks against him and her and this comes with the terrority. If he can't take these criticisms at this stage, how in the world would he ever stand to be President?

He's "not ready for prime-time," and he doesn't have enough experience to be President.

Try to keep your heads from exploding when Michelle is the first lady-
Your disdain for Mrs. Obama reveals more about yourselves than you realize; seek therapy before it's too late.

I'll refrain from running down all of Cindy McCain's negatives (and there are plenty)

Why does Obama always blame the press or use the race card
when there are negatives about him or his wife.

Michelle brought all the bad PR on heself, she needs to keep her Big
Mouth Shut.

And he needs to quit Whining.

its amazing how he can fuss about the bad press, but heck, everyone and including the night time hosts are scared to say something that is gonna upset him. if yall cant take it, get out of the kitchen!

McCain 2008. We dont need a newbie running this country right now.

Seriously, I think that everyone needs to let the wives of the candidates be. I don't care about either as far as politics go. I am voting for a PRESIDENT, NOT a first lady. The media is purposely trying to turn Americans away from the crucial issues surrounding this campaign with this constant coverage of which wife did and said what. And unfortunately too many people are getting suckered into it. Enough is enough. Come on people, lets focus on the issues that are important. Not what Mrs. McCain or Mrs. Obama are up to.

Most of the negative comments about Michelle stem from overt racism. This is an educated woman with a beautiful family.

Why are men so threatened by a strong first lady? ie: Hillary and Michelle?

Any woman would be proud to have thier husband stand up for them.

If you wonder why Republican men are so much agaist sex[heterosexual mostly] Take a second look at the group the GOP has on T V as the pinnacle of right wing woman. Starting with their star Ann Coulter through the whole pack on TV attractions.

How come CNN and all the other medias are not reporting what Cindy said "Its hard to travel around a car in NM and she only travels in her private jet".

So Michelle can campaign for him, give interviews, etc. but the press is not supposed to comment on her?

Then she should stay home and scrub the toilet if she doesn't want press coverage.

The agression from the right-wing media has been very apparent recently. It's not just here, it's on the islands and overseas as well. They are trying their best to paint a false image of the entire family.

OPEN YOUR 3RD EYE-

ONCE AGAIN, WAKE UP

Not caring for someone is a personal choice everyone makes and that is fine but attacking someone you don't care for is disrespectful. Her comments were taken out of context as happens to most anyone these days. Are people of this country so involved and busy that they must be spoon fed snippets of a conversation and not read the whole thing themselves.

I don't care for McCain but he is subject to the same sound bites. They are disingenuous and a disservice to the person speaking. Get informed people and do your research if you choose to disagree with someone and for God's sake we can disagree and do it respectfully.

My opinion is that Michelle is intelligent, beautiful and honest. Children are a true reflection of the parents and theirs are wonderful.

Quit your complaining – you're not God. Tell her to grow up too.

She didn't need any help from the conservatives. She did it all on her own with her unpatriotic statements.

Barack says that she's the most honest person he knows?

So that means she was telling the truth when she said that she was proud of her country "for the first time in my adult life.? Or that America is "downright mean"?

Maybe (just maybe) the American people can decide for themselves *gasp* if they like someone or not.

OB is just afraid that if the press gets to saying things she doesn't like, she will blow up and show her true colors. He is trying to keep her quiet because he knows her temper.

This is a first. Someone running for president and hoping to win by playing the victim card.

If you don't agree with Obama, you're labeled a racist.
If you don't agree with Michele Obama, you're part of a "right wing conspiracy".

This guy's a joke.

Conservative press? Are you kidding me? The liberal left leaning press is what got Obama this far. As far as Michelle goes, if she is campaining for her husband, she's fair game.

I'll say it to your face Barry. Your wife is scary! Personally I think the New Yorker cover got it right with her.

Now if you would like to do something about the way I feel come on over to Buffalo and lets debate it. Oh wait I forgot you don't do debates because you can't speak without a teleprompter. I, er ,ah, duh.

Nobama you're a whiney little coward so go back to Chicago where they are used to you're kind of politics.

CNN moderator, why do you show some stones and print the bad things people say about nobama and his militant wife?

Kathy in Ohio.
Mccain said the same thing as Michelle about the country. what do you think about that. the Media showed a little of it, but won't keep showing it like they did Michelle's statement. git your facts right.

Let's compare the wives, shall we?

Michelle Obama – Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Worked for the University of Chicago and U of C. Hospital. Worked for Mayor Daley of Chicago. Earned her stripes!

Cindy McCain – USC, bachelors and masters in education and a former USC cheerleader, and heiress to the Hensley Distributution fortune. Had herstripes handed to her.

The Right-Wing is justified in being scared of Michelle Obama. They loathe her because she's not a Stepford-wife like Cindy McCain!

I think all media outlets enjoy in tearing down people like Michelle. Part of it is being scared of strong women, but it's also partisan. No one trashed Laura Bush...

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I am so sick and tired of Obama defending Michelle from the big bad media.

Most of the times she put her own words into play. I know that Obama asked her before he ran if she could handle all the garbage that arises in a run for the presidentancy. If she didn't feel she could handle it....that was the time to say so.

As long as she continues to be a spokesperson, than she and her words are fair game.

Enough already!!! Stop "whining"

Ha Farrell in Houston! "She... loves her country"

What universe are you living in???

Olivia Obama should understand that some just dont like Michelle. Just like some don't like him. I don't care much for either. The worse of two? Hands down Michelle.......BE quick to judge YOURSELF BUT slow to judge OTHERS!!!

Bail out and blame others when the going gets rough. In other words, he is already working on his concession speech

REALLY? Oh BOOHBOHH lets cry for Michelle and Obama, POOR Michelle. Get over.

A man should defend, respect and honour his wife and mother of his children. Only decent humans do that.
McCain- tell your supporters to stop disrespecting a presidential candidate's wife.
Debate, if you dare on policies. Attacking a woman is not winning a war. When did you win a war anyway?

On average the media is no better than many othe group of thugs, hidding behind a cloak of goodness. They can create news from history, issuse that should be reported often are left, each year millions of children graduate high school and college , yet only a few are reported.

Ha Farrell in Houston! "She... loves her country"

What universe are you living in???

since when was the press conservative?

oh and Ms. Independent-woman-4-Obama:
...the money spent on the war in Iraq…….. $1.38 BILLION A DAY! AND $650 BILLION A YEAR!

If we're spending 1.38 Billion a day, where did the extra 150 Billion takced onto the 650 a year come from?

1.38 x 365 = 503

Senator Obama, if you are whining now, think of what it will be like if you should actually become President! Think about all the nasty things said by the media and Democrats about our President and wonder how his family and wife found the intestional fortitude to deal with it! Think about former President Carter and what was said about not only him, but his whole family! Think about former President Johnson and what the media and people said about him and his whole family. If you are too young to remember all the hype about our former Presidents and their families first hand, then you better read more instead of talking so much.

You better toughen up Senator because this is nothing compared to what is to come if you are elected President and you don't follow through with half of the wrongs you promised to right and if your wife keeps inserting her foot into her mouth! And who are you that you and your wife should be exempt from ugly comments?

If you don't want to be criticized...then you do nothing and say nothing...play like you are dead!

They sure did and he is right to highlight this fact. They went completely overboard with her. One jsut has to look at the New Yorker to see the "satire" on Michelle.

Michelle's speech in Los Angeles was what made me take a second look at Obama.

She gets herself in a pickle. Speaking of pickles google pickle and Michelle Obama and see another pickle she was in long ago.

Then think about those statements about how she had a hard time paying for her student loan from Harvard. Think you will have a hard time believing it after you see the pickle story and the $300,000 a year raise she got the day Obama became senator. Obama must have appreciated the hospital that employed Michelle as VP there because he soon after earmarked $1,000,000 to them.

Poor, poor people. Bet Michelle's brother who went to Princeton paid for his loans easily.

I know most people sure can put their kids through Harvard and Princeton.

With the exception of a couple of the commentators like: Olbermann, Matthews, Caffertey, Matin and a couple of others, which are very fair and balanced with their reports, most have been very unfair to the Obamas.

But the MSM, especially Fox news, has some kind of vandetta and has gotten really ridiculous with their unfair reportings. (I will never watch FNC again)

There are things she has said and has been fairly criticized for. But how many days did the conservative media rail against Michele for a video tape where she supposedly said "Whitey" only to have the videotape prove otherwise?
How many times has this same media ignored Cindy McCain's gaffes?

The crybaby's at it again. "WAHHHH!!!!! You're PICKING on me and my wife again!" "Can't you just do a fluff story about how many times I farted today and how wonderful and Presidential that makes me?"

Don't worry, Bam Bam – as obsessed as CNN is with you, we'll soon be treated to a story about how many times a day you fart and the fact that perfume comes out of your butt when you do it.....

PUMA PAC

Kathy in Ohio should stop listening to the Fox News propaganda network.

Anyway .. the "news" or I should correctly call them "Entertainment networks" b/c that is all that they are... find anything worthless garbage and then repeat repeat repeat until clueless folk like Kathy there believe it is news... Stop watching CNN, FOX and the rest... you want to know what is really happening READ! and get your news from outside this country.

Mean-while back at McWar’s Iranian death camp, McWar pushes his final solution for all Persians and Iranians.

The Mc Pol Pot Regime has a new plan for Iran

McWar now wants to commit genocide on all Iranians and Persians. His new plan includes nicotine gas chambers and giant potash plants for there burned up bodies. This man does not care about human life at all. Just his family fortune and his wealthy lobbyist friends

All the hateful right-wingers and bitter Clinton-istas have become so hapless and desperate. They have resorted to attacking a candidate's wife.

That's because they can't win by defending the idea of a third Bush term.

Ironically, they did the same thing to Hillary Clinton in 1992. Now she's a US Senator who made history with her near-miss Presidential campaign.

Hannity you are gutless!

He is RIGHT. It was the conservative "news" channel that had the headline "Obama's Baby's Mama". Imagine the uproar if that had been Cindy McCain.

Obama please tell them again to lay off your wife. They are all jalous of your wife because she is beautifull intelligent, articulated, educated and smart. Michele don't mind them, we all love you.

After engineering some pretty awful attacks on the whole Clinton family, Obama has nothing to complain about. Sounds like chickens coming home, to the sound of blaming and whining.

michelle is awesome, so is obama.......white house here the come

OBAMA '08

Can't be surprised...it's the Republican way. Hillary got it for 8 years. Last time around it was Teresa Kerry. It's desperation but in 2004 it worked to a degree.

This election may end up being very close, every vote will count and the Republicans will do whatever to get them.

Michelle has good days and bad days like everyone. I think you'd want Obama to defend his wife vigorously, though, just as if he were president you would want him to defend America if it came under fire – whatever the cause. Contrast this with Dukakis' lameness in the '88 election debate.

A taste of what Hillary endured from the media!!!
Panic time!
Rasmussen today: Obama 46; McCain 46
Tie!

If Obama and McCain for that matter don't want there wives involved then they should keep them out of the spotlight. If they are going on TV as a endorser of there husband then they should expect the media to comment on them just as any other endorser is put in the spotlight. Look what happened to Phil Gram and Geraldine Ferraro.

Obama's wife, Michelle is everything a First Lady should be and then some. I just wonder who these people are that can't see that...I doubt if there is anyone they do like. (Or are they just GOP stooges.)
OBAMA & MICHELLE are the President and First Lady that this country needs right now!

He needs to keep her out of sight.Ghastly.

Michelle rocks. You go girl.

Obama can blame who ever he likes.

He throws this grandmother under the bus, Rev. Wright under the bus, Bill Ayers under the bus, Father Pflager under the bus, Rezko under the bus. These are the types of people that he hangs around with.

And yes, his wife DID make the statement that she "for the 1st time she is is proud of this country" during the 1st speech of that day and it was not until the 2nd speech of the day did she add the word "really", and she stumbled all over it like shre "really" didn't want to say it.

If you don't believe me the LISTEN to BOTH speeches.

FOX news and other conservative media can't find anything else to talk about, so they just throw any kind of negativity out there. I'm just glad that the Obama's are standing up to this and not letting it intimidate them. That is what the right wing people are wanting to happen and they are not fearing or buying into any of it. My inspiring words for the Obama's when i actually start following the campaign (in February 08) were: Have faith, be strong and stay positive and that is just what they are doing....... and when he takes office in Jan 09, all the conservatives can say, DANG, all this for nothing. HA HA HA!!!!!!

Obama 08/2012!!!!
Michelle first lady 08?2012!!!!!!!!

Just proves that "Rust consumes iron and envy will consume itself."

Michelle is another power hungry woman, i.e. Hillary Clinton!

Michelle gives off the impression of a very bitter person. Someone this fortunate and who has reaped the rewards of being born an American to this incredible extent needs not be so bitter.

“I don’t have a thick skin when it comes to criticism of my wife,” Obama admitted.
Who does Obama? Unless you are John MC who called his wife the c word in public and has the nerve to ask why Chelsea Clinton was so ugly when she was 18.

Obama/ Clinton 2008

Boo hoo something else to cry about.
You are in the media...get over it!!

the attacks on obama and wife have been unfair and i don't really like his policies but i have to say both obama and mccain are good candidates for their party...both are basic good men – there is no reason for anyone to "HATE" these men....I have never seen Obama or Michelle be hateful or ugly to anyone in the media – neither the McCains – i agree that the media is making it ugly and it is a joint effort on conservative media to paint Michelle as the "ANGRY BLACK WOMAN" when we can't even pinpoint a place where she has actually portrayed that stereotype....i also want to say that I applaud John McCain for speaking at the NAACP convention and the Urban League – it take guts and it was a great speech – bottom line just choose the candidate with the policies you agree with stop all this I hate obama and I hate mccain crap...it is stupid

The attack dogs have made this country worse off. They resort to anything, including lies, to win elections.

Remember what Bush's rats did to McCain in 2000? Sickening sewer rats, all of them!

Obama – where is your backbone. Cindy McCain gets attacked all the time but John has to just suck it up as part of the campagne smears (yes, Dems are just as bad at the smears as the GOP).

Michelle is on-limits as she parades herself on TV campagning for you. She has too much to say so that, i'm afraid, makes her very open to attacks.

Best bet for him............. keep her OUT of the picture.

We've seen her real personality – we don't like her . Now the campaign has announced that they are trying to give her a make-over to make her less abrasive and annoying.

Anything she does now will seem phony – it just won't work. Even in the interview with her and the kids. Her hair and her clothes were completely different than what we've seen before. Obviously, she was told what to wear and what to say to appear more likeable.

At least Cindy has been consistently phony and plastic from the beginning. We can rely on the fact that she is genuinely fake

I blame Michelle Obama. I have witnessed with my own eyes her views including a particularly nasty peace of venom about Hillary Clinton which I will never forget.

I agree with Senator Obama.

You have GOT to be kidding me!

This is horrendous.

This 'man' is such a whiner and victim of anything that goes wrong in his campaign.

I am so glad America is smart enough not to vote for this miserable failure.

She's fair game, and if she cannot take it then don't let her out of the house!

Oh please! This is the big leagues, get used to it or get out of the arena and let the real men -and woment – battle it out ! And what was the comment about driving up the negatives – sounds like his motivations are not in regard to protecting his wife and family but to make sure the "negatives" of his campaign do not rise: quote – "that’ll drive up your negatives". Something is wrong here and the American people need to take the blinders off. This man is the ultimate politician, all style no real substance. I am truly afraid for the country come January if this man is elected.

Oh, he's whining again. Always whining, complaining, and saying the opposite of what he said the day before.

Could it be that Mrs. BHO brought on any criticism herself with her big mouth? She's happiest when her big mouth is flapping.

Don't pin this on the media.

OH Lord CNNN You are really giving the blood thirsty a platform today aren't you!!!!! Before it even starts, take all your non-patriotic bullcrap and shove it!!! She is a strong , intelligent, sophisticated, woman, and the future first lady of the US. What is ironic to me, and lost on the "Still for Hill" supporters, is the media has been going after Michelle in the same manner they went after Hillary in 1992. God forbid we should have a first lady who does not want to be simply a showpiece on the president's arm.

I am sure an adulterous, thieving, pill popper would make a better role model for the young women in this country...right? After all, Cindy has ALWAYS been REALLY proud of her country right.?

why dont you report that McCain only stated that wives should be off limits when some news agencys started reporting on cindy's drug use.

the conservative media slanders and lies until people lose interest in the political process.wont work this time ,because less and less people are watching fox or reading newspapers.we get our news through cyber-space now ,so we can mute the conservative smear attempts,at any time,and go to unbiased websites like cnn,msnbc,huff post ,politico etc.people keep saying 'it's the economy ,stupid".well,i think it's the "internets,stupid",in this year's election,which means we are no longer "stupid",we are well informed. obama 4 8 years!

Maybe Michelle should shut her trap if she doesn't want to be criticized!

I'm proud to be an American every day... So is my family. My Great Uncle served in Korea and my brother did 5 years in the Marines.

Go America! If you are not a patriot, don't run for President!

Barack's right! All you cowards who write in to criticize Barack & his wife will never have the balls to say it in the face of his supporters.
Hannity is a coward.
Barack is the real deal both in office & on the street.

If you are going to talk about wives and if they are fair game or not then we should learn more about McCain's wives. No not the millionaire heiress Cindy but the one that he divorced for her. I am interested!

I agree that wives should be left out of it. When the brouhaha came out about Michelle's misunderstood statement, Cindy was one of the first one to make a comment and she should have not said anything. I know CIndy doesn't want the people to start chiming in on her because I'm sure it could get real ugly.

DONT WORRY THESE CLOWN LIKE SEAN,LOU DOBBS AND THE CHUBBY GUY ON CABLE WILL GET THEIRS SOON WHEN HE BECOMES PRESIDENT. THESE RICH PUNKS HIDE BEHIND THE MEDIA AND THE LAW. JUST MOUTH AND NOTHING ELSE .

He's right. I'm still amazed that the conservative press attacked Michelle when there are plenty of skeletons to be unveiled in the Cindy closet.

Can we please just focus on the issues? And for those of you that say BO does not have a coherent plan in place, that all he does is make speeches, please take the time to visit his website and read his positions.

After you've done that, if you disagree, then you are entitled to your opinion. But before then, you sound like my kids when they're faced with an unknown food....

"But Mom, I hate that." And my response, "You've never had it before; how will you know if you like it if you don't try it?"

Grow up.

The conservative (read corporate) media do not have the guts to go after Cindy McCain. She controls too much of their money. If they actually took a look at her, they would see that she is a mess. Seriously, a doped up, plastic surgery, fake that epitomizes the illusions that the right like to project.

that is the biggest problem they don't even know who she is and yet they feel they have a right to judge and convict her at every chance and these are suposed to be christian guess they forgot "judge not yet ye be judged" hum you would think these conservative people would find these attacks as empty and dirty as the rest of us.

Wait ....1 ....2 ..3, the response's from the creatures of emotion, the PUMA's

No logic will enter!!!

Michelle Obama is like a breath of fresh air and will make a wonderful first lady. She is more representative of 'real' American than any other spouse that has been to the White House.

When you say the things that she has said the real media and the american people will come down you. She created her own problems.

Even though the public is thoroughly disgusted with the biased
reporting of the media, AP they ignore us and continue to
bash Obama and family and glorify mccain.
They lie, distort, ignore facts, sensationalize anything and
everything that will get them attention. Heaven forbid they
report on policies, truths and facts or at least make an attempt
to be fair.
They are owned by big corporations so what can we expect.
The republicans have always been their sugar daddies.
The AP now has Murdock on their board of directors so
what does that tell you??
They do not give us enough credit for intelligence and the
ability to see through their total disregard of integrity.
They cnnot railroad the American voters.

kathy in ohio,

...........but he just raised $52m in june, what do you wanna do about that?

issues, fox, issues. wives are not issues

Well you really can't expect anything more from them.

Another problem with concervative media, is the fact that they are so blindly ready to cut off their nose in spite of their face. Obama, is the stongest, smartest and the most well rounded candidate in the race and we should rally around and behind him so that he could follow through on what he envisage and deliver. Besides, Mclame can't even log on or send or recieve emails. What's up with that?

The conservative media attack on Michelle Obama is only proof that Senator Obama and his wife are doing something right.

The conservative media chased after President and Hillary Clinton for 8 years-yet never came up with anything very substantial. Sure, they caught a few minnows using a whale harpoon.

I would think that McCain and his conservative allies would want to avoid the discussion about the candidates' spouses given Cindy McCain's prescription drug abuse and the old stories of McCain's extramarrital affairs with his first wife. Last time I checked, Michelle has not been involved in any type of garbage like this.

Oh my here we go again blaming everyone else. He is just like his supporters. Who does he blame for being in a hate America church for 20 years.

FOX NEWS THEY ARE THE WORST NEWSCAST ON TV BECAUSE OF THEM AND THIER TRASHY NEWS REPORTERS NOT TO MENTION RUSH LIMBAUGH FOX NEWS SHOULD BE CANCELLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd like to know first of all what problems she has created for herself. Then I would like someone to explain how it is that a person is REQUIRED to be "proud" of their country. I have never been especially proud of this country. Read a little American history, people. There is little to be proud of.

Olivia,

Like Obama said, people are afraid to say what you said to their face or have to do it anonymously.

Why didn't you include your last name and city where you live? Are you afraid that maybe you would be subject to the same rediculous treatment?

The blame game continues.........I blame the media for creating a Teflon shield around Obama.

What has the conservative media done, besides draw a picture of her with a machine-gun and a flag burning. Oh, wait, that was someone else.

You must be joking! She is your wife. Period!!! If you, are not that much... Don't glorify her either.... She is just a Black Woman... No more and no Less....

Michelle is a woman of character. She's intelligent, educated, loves her country, and has the family values we expect in a First Lady.

She invited the attacks on herself. Her pessimistic view of the United States of America is not fitting a First Lady. This position shouid be held by someone who has been proud of her country her whole life, not just when her husband started doing well.The First Lady should be the type of person whose eyes well up with tears when the national anthem begins, not a person who has an incredibly negative view of the greatest country the world has ever known. I know that many who read the post I am writing right now will say that the remarks were taken out of context, etc. If she had not said similar things on numerous occasions while stumping for her husband, perhaps the people who disagree would have a valid point.

I suppose some folks will say that the Senator has no right to feel this way about his wife. Although I'm sure if it was your spouse you would feel the same way or at least YOU SHOULD.

Had President Clinton been more concerned about his spouse, maybe some of the things that happened wouldn't have. He should have protected her more and he didn't.

I guarantee George W. would bring the rath of the Gods down on anybody who says a harmful word about Laura and she (in her own way) has been a spokes person for this administration.

I say we leave Michelle alone or be prepared for someone to attack Cindy. Both are the wrong things to do.

kathy in ohio July 17th, 2008 11:57 am ET

Oh really? Then why is it that McCain pretty much said the same thing twice and hasn't incurred any damage?

So they repeated what she said and that is an attack? She did say those things so what's the big deal about reporting (not attacking) it.

That's a real man right there. Any woman would be lucky to have a husband who stood up for her like that. He loves his wife, plain and simple. Stop making it more than it is.

Now the conservative Fox media is focusing on milking the Jackson story for all its worth. He gave them some good material that they'll share with the public slowly, piece by piece to try and kill his career and hopefully hurt Barack Obama along the way.

Why not share with the public the entire off-air Jackson clips Fox? Instead of giving us a little bit at a time over the course of a few weeks? You and other media outlets like you represent the lowest form of neo-sensationalist, ultra-conservative, tabloid journalism.

More sniveling and whining by O' Whiny. It's always someone picking on him or his sidekick!

Better get used to it Barry if you plan to serve two terms as POTUS. I notice you weren't offended at all when Michelle, in all her honesty ,blasted the Clintons, questioned HRC's "tone" and wasn't sure if she was proud of the US. Suck it up and deal with it.

Michele is such an amazing women. By looking at their girls, she’s obviously a great mother, brilliant and graceful/beutiful. Anyone who uses that one gaffe where they tend to omit the word ‘really’ when she was talking about being 'really' proud of POLITICS for the first time, is looking for a reason to hate her. I’m very proud of her.

This is nothing new form the right they will attack whomever is in there way. Its sick. There hasn't been any real reporting from the conservatives since Obama the nominee. Its been a whole bunch of ranting and raving about church and Jessie Jackson. The fact is no one from the left is attacking Mrs. McCain spending habits or the fact she did drugs. No one even ask why the loving couple still files separate tax returns. I don't know but GIVE THE FACTS. STOP WITH THIS BULL

Nice headlines. The US is possibly changing direction in its relationship with IRAN by meeting with diplomats in Switzerland, but all we get here are headlines on Obama's bankroll, gym practices and wife.

Way to have your priorities set CNN.

He's 100% on target. Fox led the way in reporting the "news", and CNN and the other media outlets followed lock step in line. Pretty much the same way they did when we justified going to war in Iraq.

boy he loves to blame everyone else for what his wife, pastor, and friends say. she created her own promblems get over it obama

“I don’t have a thick skin when it comes to criticism of my wife,” Obama admitted. “The problem is that rarely do these folks have the guts to say it to your face.”

Perfect statement. No man should have a thick skin when it comes to attacks on their wife. I also dare Hannity, O'Reilly, Rush, or any of the talking heads on Fix News to say waht they've been saying about Michelle right to Obama's face. All these guys do is hide behind their little mics and talk trash all day to an audience that embraces their crap.

SUCK IT UP AND STOP WHINING!!!!!!

it you want to be president you have to have a thick skin – i dont want a whiner in the white house.

Obama should understand that some just dont like Michelle. Just like some don't like him. I don't care much for either. The worse of two? Hands down Michelle.

I love Michelle. She is a real woman, smart, articulate, beautiful. She has everything to make a splendid First Lady. Fox News, keep your Stepford wives, they suck !

Are we surprised? The conservatives are scared, scared that we have figured out how they have nearly bankrupted our nation with $10 TRILLION IN NATIONAL DEBT; scared that we are angered at the money spent on the war in Iraq........ $1.38 BILLION A DAY! AND $650 BILLION A YEAR!

So....... naturally they will do and say anything against Sen. Obama and his wife, Michelle. Of course, they are free to say what they want....... and WE ARE FEAR TO THROW THEM OUT OF OFFICE!

Well DUH! Although this time, they're half-right. Worked for a healthcare corp, that's a bad sign.