Obama tells critics to leave his wife alone

He has GOT to be kidding?? His wife has said over and over and over again how she is unhappy being an American, how she is NOT proud to be an American except now, that her hubby is winning (God forbid he starts to lose and then watch out, her vindictiveness will come out swinging), and he wants people to leave her alone?  If she plans on being first lady and representing this country abroad for her husband like Hillary and Laura Bush have done, then she had better be yapping about how lucky she has been, how in NO other country in the world could she get the education she was lucky enough to get (and that millions of WHITES did NOT get), the jobs she was lucky enough to get etc.  Sorry Obama and Michelle, this IS an issue Americans are concerned about--we don't need a first lady to be going around the world telling them how "defeated and unhappy 10 year old black girls are in the USA"...scheeshhhh...

She sounds like a female version of Rev Wright IMO, maybe Obama was dumb enough to sleep thru those racist, America hating sermons, but it is obvious that Michelle was wide awake and clapping, dancing and agreeing in the pews!

If they want people to lay off  her, she had better disappear from the campaign trail, because they are just using HER OWN WORDS against her, no one forced her to say those stupid, hateful things!  

I will have to watch Glenn Beck today (Tues) as he will probably have blood shooting out of his eyes over this story--LOL

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Monday that Republican critics should stop picking on his wife Michelle.

"These folks should lay off my wife," Obama said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."

Obama was referring to a four-minute video posted on YouTube by the Tennessee Republican Party last week during a visit by Michelle Obama that portrayed a remark she made in February in an unflattering manner.

Michelle Obama's remark that "for first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country" stirred a controversy at the time. Critics said it sounded unpatriotic and suggested she had not been proud of her country before her husband's candidacy.

In the ABC interview, Obama, an Illinois senator and Democratic front-runner to contest the November election against Republican John McCain, called the video "low class" and said "most of the American people would think that as well."

The Republican video repeatedly showed Michelle Obama making the proud remark interspersed with comments by Tennesseans about their own patriotism.

"Whoever is in charge of the Tennessee GOP needs to think long and hard about the kind of campaign that they want to run," Obama said.

Michelle Obama joined her husband in the ABC interview and said she believed voters were more focused on the issues.

"We are trusting that the American voters are ready to talk about the issues and not talking about things that have nothing to do with making people's lives better," she said.