Whilst masticating on , Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
wrote to All:

JB> Turn the attack dogs loose.  It will be the undoing of the Dems 
JB> in November...

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JB> 
JB> September 01, 2008
JB> Categories: Sarah Palin

JB> Obama on Palin

JB> Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in 
JB> Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: "Back off these kinds of 
JB> stories."

JB> "I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families 
JB> are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially 
JB> off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no 
JB> relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her 
JB> potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly
JB> urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my 
JB> mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues 
JB> and teenage children, that shouldnt be a topic of our politics."

JB> On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal 
JB> blogs:

JB> "I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all 
JB> that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not 
JB> involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I 
JB> thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in 
JB> something like that, they would be fired."

Obama is as responsible for what liberal bloggers write as McCain is for
what conservative bloggers write.

As for Bristol Palin, Obama and Republicans are right - she should not be a
campaign issue, and should be left alone.  What she represents, however, is
a campaign issue - the failure of abstinence-only education (which I'm sure
Mrs. Palin stressed and stresses to all her children) to stop all teens,
including those of conservatives, from having sex, and thus the chance of
getting pregnant and/or getting an STD,  If Bristol Palin had chosen to
have sex, and insisted her partner use a condom, she most likely doesn't
get pregnant, and nobody knows anything about her save that she's Sarah
Palin's teenage daughter, one of five kids.  *adh*  

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