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- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -33/+490A statement worthy of Obama. But someone has to have his back.
- Brennn10, on 09/01/2008, -18/+408Obama has class.
- adarkmethod, on 09/01/2008, -115/+428I just wanna state for the record, I dont care what anyone says, you run for Congress, or any job in the White House, you get NO personal life, period. Thats all there is to it. We can cut out this family friendly ***** where we say your personal life is off limits. ITS NOT. These people make the decisions that make or break the lifes of MILLIONS of people. THEY GET NO PERSONAL LIFE. Its their choice to run, and no self respecting person should ever be ok with electing someone who gets to hide part of their life. Its called a sacrifice, and its a necessary one if you expect people to trust you, or have any confidence in your judgment. Sorry, get the ***** over it.
- Xihix, on 09/01/2008, -42/+311Pretty ironic that the Daily Kos posted this. But a good move on Obama's part. He better distance himself from these loons (and the many I've seen here on Digg as well...), or he's going to go lose some votes and face. I also hope the Daily Kos makes some sort of official apology for this and not try to spin it in a way that righters were to blame.
- colonels1020, on 09/01/2008, -25/+193As much of a McCain supporter as I am, I have to respect Obama for saying this. Family and personal issues should have nothing to do with a person's campaign.
- Jimbob200, on 09/01/2008, -19/+171"Sarah Palin has raised her daughter to be a slut."
Anyone else find this statement incredibly stupid, or is it just me? - Jauladeoro, on 09/01/2008, -42/+187Already the comments start with supporting Obama and then turning around and doing the complete opposite of what he has asked those who support his campaign to do. Why are you sabotaging him? If you really want him in the White House and believe he has the wisdom to lead why are you ignoring his advice??
I am 100% behind Obama/Biden but it makes me absolutely sick to see so-called Obama supporters foaming at the mouth and calling Bristol Palin "slut" --- How disgusting. Are you telling me that you were a virgin at 17 years old? Did you remain chaste until married? I highly doubt it.
From About.Sexuality.com:
"In most of the developed world, the majority of young women become sexually active during their teenage years, the proportion who have had intercourse reaches at least three-quarters by age 20. "
"Teenagers in the United States are more likely to have sexual intercourse before age 15 and have shorter and more sporadic sexual relationships than teenagers in Canada, France, Great Britain and Sweden. As a result, they are more likely to have more than one partner in a given year." - RedPhalanx, on 09/01/2008, -14/+156In this one instance, Digg doesn't give a ***** what Obama thinks. All these personal attacks against Palin aren't going to stop until November.
- iamnotrich, on 09/01/2008, -5/+138Obama says Palin's family off-limits
Sen. Barack Obama said firmly that families are off-limits in the campaign for president, reacting to news that GOP running mate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.
Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Monroe, Michigan, on Monday.
Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Monroe, Michigan, on Monday.
"Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said. "I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president."
Obama said reporters should "back off these kinds of stories" and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.
"How a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics, and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off-limits."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/palin.daugh ...
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finally some good advice
diggers make me sick - Babazoz, on 09/01/2008, -11/+128The story of Obama telling the bloggers to back off.....
...from the bloggers who spread the story in the first place. - AlphaInsidious, on 09/01/2008, -2/+98I'm admittedly not his biggest fan. But buckets full of kudos for not pandering to that lowest level of free political points.
- Jauladeoro, on 09/01/2008, -11/+100Whether you're right or not, is being right worth losing the White House over? Will 4 or 8 years of McCain be worth it to keep on with these Sarah Palin pregnancy stories? Seriously? ... God help us. I can't understand why you people don't CEASE AND DESIST. You're making us all look bad.
"We are better than that." - Barack Obama - monkeysama, on 09/01/2008, -23/+111In comparison, here's how McCain thinks you should treat the teenage daughters of your political opponents.
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html - yyymilitia, on 09/01/2008, -13/+97Good, Maybe now everyone will STFU
- baldboy7, on 09/01/2008, -9/+83finally someone bigger than the media is being bigger than the media
- SDL486, on 09/01/2008, -16/+85Obama is a genuinely good person...
- laseractive, on 09/01/2008, -22/+87I think the only reason the Palin daughter's pregnancies are a big deal is the evangelical angle. We get these evangelical hypocrites shoving their morals down our throats and time and time again they turn out to be gay themselves, having affairs or having children committing all the sins they accuse us of. I'm always glad to see all of their skeletons come crashing out of the closet.
Now Obama should distance himself, but you can bet if this story was about his daughter the Republicans would never shut up about it and talking heads like Rush and Hannity would tear his character apart on a daily basis. - dofe, on 09/01/2008, -18/+81As an Obama supporter, I was uncomfortable with the attacks on Palin's daugther because I always felt the Obama campaign above these mud-slinging republican tactics.
That said, Republicans have no moral standing to cry foul now. They attacked Michelle Obama's background, called her unpatriotic, dug out her college thesis -- the Republicans began the attacks on family members, and it's somewhat satisfying to see them get a taste of their own medicine. - isiz, on 09/01/2008, -8/+69To be fair that's her daughters own decision, you can't hold parents accountable for everything their children do.
- wtfbatman, on 09/01/2008, -6/+67You're right. The person running shouldn't get a personal life. However, those in that person's family SHOULD.
- pengiep, on 09/01/2008, -11/+70I agree, this story needs to be left alone by progressives. Let the Enquirer etc. run with it, but we should have nothing to do with it.
- Hillsfar, on 09/01/2008, -18/+70Nothing will cause women and the parents of teenaged mothers to circle their wagons in support of Palin like seeing attacks hitting hard upon her family. Most will not care about her political positions when following their instinct to protect and support her. This may very well have been part of Karl Rove's devious plan all along.
It's fine to attack her politics and lack of experience - Palin has A LOT of problems in those areas already - but NOT her children. - Typhoon2009, on 09/01/2008, -2/+55"Are you telling me that you were a virgin at 17 years old? "
...yes
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:'( - Thoraxes, on 09/01/2008, -4/+53It's only fair.
Obama has asked for them to keep Michelle out of the press, with all the negativity ads from the GOP, and it's really classy to see him helping Bristol, not as the enemy's daughter, but as a human being, to try to help her keep some of her private life to herself. - krazikamikaze, on 09/01/2008, -8/+51The liberals calling Bristol a slut are no better than the conservatives who call Obama a muslim. All they do is encourage people to see this as Left vs. Right or Red vs. Blue, where winning is more important than the issues and being a decent human being.
It's especially disappointing to see liberals, who are generally more socially conscious and tolerant, acting like vindictive animals. - Slipkey, on 09/01/2008, -1/+42I call *****. Minors should be off-limits. We all did things we weren't proud of before we turned 18. Most of us didn't have to witness those displayed in the national press and re-hashed ad-nauseam.
Sometimes kids should just get to be kids - even if their mistakes will have a profound impact on the rest of their lives. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -8/+50This is about the daughter you asshat. You don't think that Obama's little girls should have a private life either?
- arlok789, on 09/01/2008, -41/+82I disagree with pretty much everything that Barack says but I gotta give it to him on this one. Smart move. Trashing Sarah Palin makes you look like an *****. If the Dems want to have a chance, they gotta focus on J-Mac. Watching a man beat up on a woman elicits all kinds of unsavory feelings that will make independents go nuts for the Repubs.
Lets be honest though, Obama lost my vote when he said "Windfall Taxes." Economic Terrorism that is. - BXRWXR, on 09/01/2008, -6/+46As long as Obama keeps saying he wants no part of it, I'm OK.
The blogosphere picking it up and running it is not in anyone's control - on ALL sides. - Xihix, on 09/01/2008, -13/+54Daily Kos started the whole pathetic rumor.
- steinAK, on 09/01/2008, -10/+46Sarah Palin has been in the media spotlight in Alaska pretty heavy for the past 4 years and spotty for 6 years before that.
All these stories on Digg - they aren't "dug up" and used by the Obama campaign, they are pre-existing issues that honest Alaskans have been requesting investigations on. Real laws being (allegedly) broke by a real person who has a real job who has made some really bad decisions previous to said job and has continued while employed by the people of Alaska.
They exist because they are. They have been reported in our local papers and blogs for years. You all are just getting caught up. Consider it cramming for a test. Lot of information but only so much time before you vote.
Other points soon to be heard:
--- How many chief of staffs has she gone through in less than twenty months, and why?
--- When first elected Mayor of Wasilla she immediately found that she couldn't hold the bucket and immediately created a new position, Lt. Mayor, and dumped all of the responsibility on that sucker. Spent next 6 years having kids, losing weight and building a wicked WARdrobe. Who will she appoint to Lt. Vice President?
--- When elected Governor, decided that she doesn't like living in Juneau, the Capital of Alaska, and proceeds to move out of the Historic Governor's Mansion and back home to ***** Wasilla. Where she can be a stay-at-home-mom-governor. Proceeds to get pregnant on the state's dime. It's true - someone will digg it up.
--- She is the kind of woman that calls the State Troopers to falsely report crimes are being committed by someone that she doesn't like (24 times - every one unsubstantiated) in order to get them arrested or fired
--- Campaigns as tough on oil and dismisses concerns oil field employee husband Todd would have influence. Husband Todd now calls his own meetings with commissioners and department heads, doling out executive actions but yet, when emails that he was involved in need to be read by investigators, executive privilege is claimed
Plenty of goodness out there that hasn't even been tapped.
If you want to hear a good local opinion, read up at http://www.andrewhalcro.com/ - he is a former state legislator who lost against Sarah in a Governor primary. He's been tracking a lot of the turds that she has been dropping. - byrdgang, on 09/01/2008, -4/+36I am 21...a virgin.
- Crimsoneer, on 09/01/2008, -4/+35I see what you did there.
It was pretty crap. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -5/+35Dugg for J-Mac.
- NightVortez, on 09/01/2008, -3/+32Having sex when you're 17 means you're a slut? Since when? She's having a baby, she isn't doing porn movies or selling her body.
- kingofinternet, on 09/01/2008, -22/+49except when you make "family values" a part of your campaign.
- Gemfinder, on 09/02/2008, -1/+29He didn't say a thing about *Sarah Palin.* She's fair game.
It's her family he wants us to back off on. - j.carcinogen, on 09/01/2008, -7/+34Class act move.
- pcx99, on 09/01/2008, -5/+32They don't have his back, they're stabbing him in it. Obama's not dumb. In a close race for many people in the 04 election the deciding factor was how really, truly awful and repugnant the left had become about President Bush. Remember the Chimp jokes and the giddy chatter about affairs with his pet house negro Ms. Rice? There's a line you can cross where you stop helping your side and start hurting it.
This is the line.
The democrats are guaranteed a victory this november just by sticking to the issues why the hell would they jeopardize that by acting like chimpanzees in a zoo slinging their own dung at people they want to vote for them? - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -19/+47"We are better than that." - Barack Obama
Well, maybe Obama is...but the liberal wackos at DailyKos, Thinkprogress, and Diggland are NOT. - TheGooseyOne, on 09/01/2008, -6/+33You.......said.....McCain........supporter.......
have....+45............diggs
OH ***** ***** WHAT'S GOING ON? - itswhatson, on 09/01/2008, -3/+28And then they published this:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/234157 ...
So do they get credit for trying to stop it?
(Who is "they" anyway? You and I posted on DIGG -- does that mean we speak for DIGG?) - TheGooseyOne, on 09/01/2008, -6/+30Digg, sadly, does not.
Earlier today 9 out of the 10 top dugg stories were Sarah Palin smears. Many of them are being buried as we speak, thankfully. - NightVortez, on 09/01/2008, -18/+42Glad to see at least he has a little more dignity than his supporters.
- shawn1122, on 09/01/2008, -1/+24The fact that he points out that he was born to an 18 year old mother shows how much class this man has, if only his supporters could show the same kind of decency..
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -4/+27yes but many of his digg supporter's don't
i think i'll forward him the stories (with comments) of the last week on sarah paulin's alleged cover up of her alleged daughter's child trig
i think he would be disgusted by them
i know i was - MixMastaKooz, on 09/02/2008, -1/+23OK, Arlok, it's time for another lesson in history. Don't worry, I have an MA in History. I'll go easy on you.
Taxes on excess profits are nothing new. In fact, many presidents used excess profits taxes to keep inflation in control, redistribute income, and balance budgets. Such presidents included Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower (Source: Federal Taxation in America By W. Elliot Brownlee) You mean to tell me that these men are communists and committed "economic terrorism?" Keep in mind, these men did these during times of war where the extra revenue was needed for the war effort and to stymie inflation at home.
Let's see what that means today: Fighting war: Check. Inflation: Check. Massive Deficit Spending: Check. Hmmm....maybe, just maybe, using excess profit taxes and taxing the highest income bracket above 50% (Keep in mind, Eisenhower, a Republican, taxed the top 1% of incomes at a rate of 91%. I think you learned that during our last lesson.) may be healthy for our economy in the near future. I agree it's not a long term solution (neither did any of these presidents), but in order to shore up the dollar and reduce our deficits (while at the same time reducing income disparity between rich and middle class), we should consider doing this. - Dylson, on 09/01/2008, -2/+24No, you shouldn't say that.
- damendred, on 09/01/2008, -3/+24I hate McCain and the republicans and I hope they lose by a frikken landslide, but this is just stupid.
This sort of unsubstantiated conjecture is just ludicrious and makes you look ignorant.
This is what people on the Right look at, and use as evidence to say 'Look how stupid the left is".
Just like Jimmy Spaz above me. - toetagger, on 09/01/2008, -24/+44The right will try to cause a backlash on this. McCain should lose, why risk it with promoting this and causing a backlash?
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