Like it or not, the man is a celebrity, and we’re going to be hearing a great deal from him and about it, completely aside from being the nominee for President.
With that in mind, of course the things he has to say are going to be notable, and sometimes picked to pieces, however we think he handed this one just right.
From Fox News comes the quote from Obama, after being informed about the possibility of Palin being a grandmother to be.
… on 17-year-old Bristol Palin’s pregnancy, made public today. ‘I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics,’ the Democrat said forcefully. ‘It has no relevance to Governor Palin’s performance as governor, or her potential performance as a VP. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories,’ he continued.
The Democratic blogs are a-buzzing this week with reports that attempt to smear Gov. Palin’s..commentary that her four-month-old son wasn’t really her son, that the pregnancy was pretend so that she could take over the son born to her daughter.
It was wise of Obama to lay this kind of commentary to rest and to leave the smear campaign to the hate mongers in his party, or either party, rather than to play up the issue… and lest we forget, Barack probably wants nothing to do with this kind of gossip, in consideration of the fact that his own mother was an unwed teenager.
We applaud Obama for not casting that stone.
