Tennessee GOP Declares Open Season on Michelle Obama

[Pirate Smile]

Tennessee GOP Declares Open Season on Michelle Obama

State party produces tart press release and video “welcoming” candidate spouse to Nashville.
Release says video stands in “stark contrast” to Obama’s February comments when she said for “the first time in my adult life” she was proud of her country. Read it here.
Four-minute video includes soundbites of Obama’s remarks interspersed with local Tennesseans citing historical, personal reasons of why they are proud of America. Watch it here.

Party caused controversy in late February when they issued a press release using a photo of Barack Obama in traditional Somali dress, called him “Barack Hussein Obama” and alleged he consulted with anti-Semitic advisers.

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/15/tennessee-gop-declares-open-season-on-michelle-obama/

[leftofcool]

1. Gonna get worse

[Texas Hill Country]

8. lots worse

[yodermon]

34. We are powerless against right-wing smears, whatever shall we do?

get me my smelling salts.

[FrenchieCat]

36. So should we be trembling in our boots or something?

I never understood scary ass Democrats, always catering and worrying about the opposition instead of going on the offense.

Guess its better for Democrats that it be Michelle than Bill Clinton. Cause we know who is squeaky clean apart from character assassination type made up bullshit versus the real Financial web weaved type of unethical happenings that Bill is known for.

[CakeGrrl]

38. Somehow, I don't think this is going to suprise the O Team

the way people think (hope) it will...it's interesting how strongly people seem to hold the perception that Obama is wandering around totally clueless and perhaps here only by great good luck rather than on merit and political skill.

:eyes:

[slinkerwink]

2. no one attacks Obama's wife and gets away with it!

[DemVet]

3. Uh...there's not much you can really do about it.

As the first replier said: "Get used to it."

[grantcart]

12. Your kidding right - do you have any idea of the shit on Cindy McCain?

[goclark]

18. Let's not forget the Lobby Friend that got sweeped away

a few months ago.

[leftofcool]

20. Of course there is

her drug use, her stroke, her wealth or anything and what ever else. Those things don't paint her an unpatriotic, however, which is how the GOP wants to paint Obama.

[grantcart]

27. and the theft of drugs and the firiing of the worker who reported the theft and

the destruction of Keating 5 documents and the illicit affair destroying the woman who stood by McCain when he was a POW.

And then there are the tax records.

[Kaylee]

29. The GOP really doesn't want to go down this road...

not with the crap Cindy has in her past. They must be REALLY desperate. :shrug:

[hisownpetard]

25. Cindy McCain has a good idea of the sh*t they have on Cindy McCain. That's why

she's so adamantly against negative campaigning. She's got a basketful of peccadilloes
and a hope chest full of dillos that aren't to pecca!

[BlooInBloo]

35. Drug addict, manipulated law enforcement to hide it.

[hisownpetard]

40. Not to mention adultery (McCain was still married when she hooked up with him).

And you know how the Repubs are about their moral values!

[FrenchieCat]

37. You mean the drugs and the thievery?

Obviously those Democrats quaking in their boots have no friggin' clue.

[leftofcool]

5. Oh please. Anything she says is fair game for the GOP

just like anything McCain's wife says is fair game for Dems. It's called politics

[MattBaggins]

24. So do you think that obnoxious jerk

that asked Chelsea about her dad's sex life was just politics?

[ErinBerin84]

4. not surprising

These are probably the same people who passed out booklets to Churches parking lots about Cindy McCains's drug use and McCain's black baby. Scum act like Scum.

[Divine Discontent]

6. they're one of the 15 states that McCain will carry by 10-20 point differential

so let them bask in their racist hate as they watch McCain lose to Obama and his 300+ electoral votes.


NEW OBAMA ITEMS WEEKLY!
www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[BlooInBloo]

7. (shrug) The Obama campaign has learned from the Clinton campaign....

how to deal with republican attacks. The Obama campaign will do even better with them in the GE campaign.

[ej510]

10. I am donating to all of the 527's!

[Pirate Smile]

14. Which 527's? Which side?

[ShortnFiery]

13. Hell no! Obama didn't learn SQUAT from Clinton. He learned to defend from GOP attacks like

the Bile the Clintons SPEWS. No, she's no teacher - more like a mercenary. :(

[BlooInBloo]

16. :) I think we're vehemently agreeing.

[ShortnFiery]

9. How classy.

:eyes:

That's OK, we've got Michelle Obama's back. Their lies will NOT stand.

[leftofcool]

15. But she did say that so they aren't exactly lying........

cherry picking quotes, yes, but not lying.

[BeyondGeography]

11. Stupid on their part

More people are mobilized on our side by those tactics than on theirs.

[NashVegas]

17. She's In Town Today

Getting $1,000 and $2,500 a pop from a gathering at the home of a prominent fund-raising couple.

[NatBurner]

19. this will be a blow to obama

a punch from a really weak, really old man

this is pretty lame imo

[asjr]

21. No organization is dirtier than TN GOP.

[reflection]

22. As a native Memphian,

I do believe you are correct. I think we were LAs little brother for many years with respect to corruption, but our state is certainly striving to be #1. :(

[Exilednight]

23. "Tennessee GOP Declares Open Season on Michelle Obama" What are they gonna do? ..........

find pictures of her with Playboy playmates like they did Harold Ford Jr.

[Cha]

26. How pathetic...I bet Al Gore will have something

to say about that when it comes down to it.

[npincus]

28. I'd like to see her kids do an ad,crying: "Tell those Republicans to leave Mommy alone!!!"

[Vinca]

30. What a tacky bunch of people. Guess they don't know about

old Cindy's drug problem . . . or don't care. And I doubt they get the impact of her divesting Sudanese investments. Idiots.

[Arkansas Granny]

31. And are we surprised? This is the way they operate.

[Bensthename]

32. Pathetic bunch can not win on debating issues.. This is too low, even for the GOP..

What a disgrace way to try and get votes.

[DU GrovelBot]

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[politicasista]

39. Sick

:puke:

[kwenu]

41. No problem. It will backfire. Again.

[slinkerwink]

42. Here's Obama's response

“This is a shameful attempt to attack a woman who has repeatedly said she wouldn’t be here without the opportunities and blessings of this nation. The Republican Party’s pathetic attempts to use the same smear tactics to win elections have failed in Mississippi, failed in Louisiana, and will fail in November because the American people are looking for a positive vision of real change. And if the Tennessee Republican Party has a problem with Senator Obama, maybe next time they’ll have the courage to address him directly instead of attacking his family,” said Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan.