The latest complaint from the presumptive Democratic front-runner, Barack Obama, is about the Tennessee Republican Party creating an ad showing Michelle Obama’s infamous comment, “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country,” and contrasting it with Tennesseeans explaining how proud they are and have always been of America, and why.
The senator complained today that the ad is “low class” and warned the GOP to “lay off my wife.”
Considering how much garbage other politicians have put up with, particularly the current resident of the White House since even before he was the nominee, and how even the meekest presidential spouses have taken it on the chin historically, it’s hard to take Obama seriously.
At a time when Hillary Clinton is taking more needles from her own party than a voodoo doll and still forging ahead, Obama’s obvious sense that he is somehow entitled to special treatment is just embarrassing.
But Obama has always had a thin skin. Long before the campaign even got under way, he made headlines with his sulking because New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd hurt his feelings when she said he had big ears.
Last week, President Bush had made a remark about terrorist “appeasers” that made no mention of Obama, but the senator and his gnomish henchmen nonetheless hit the talk trail complaining about their treatment by the administration. (Memo to Obama: When someone doesn’t mention you, isn’t implying anything about you, but you nonetheless assume they are saying negative things specifically about you, there’s a word for that … GUILT! … And it speaks volumes.)
While these online polls are never scientifically reliable, an AOL poll at the time of this writing had found 63 percent of Net users believed the Tennessee GOP ad was fair.
Meanwhile, with every day she suffers the slings and arrows of her own party and stays in the race, Hillary is proving she would be a far better choice for the Democrats than the crybaby from Chicago.
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