Applesauce is following Obama’s advice
September 1st, 2008 at 03:09pm Pat Cunningham
I don’t let politicans tell me how to run this blog, but I’m going to heed Barack Obama’s advice on a certain matter.
The following is from ABC News. I’m not providing a link to it because I don’t want to spread some of the things that are in the comments just below the piece by Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller quoted here:
At a brief press availability in Monroe, Mich., ABC News asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., if he had any response to Gov. Sarah Palin’s statement that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant.
“Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits,” Obama said, “and people’s children are especially off limits.
“This shouldn’t be part of our politics,” he continued, “It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.
“And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories,” he said. “You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, 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.”
Asked about the insinuation from the McCain campaign that the liberal bloggers trafficking in rumors about Palin write for websites that mention Obama, the senator said, “I’m offended by that.”
The Democratic presidential nominee said, “There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us. I hope I am as clear as can be – so in case I’m not, let me repeat: We don’t go after people’s families, we don’t get them involved in the politics. It’s not appropriate and it’s not relevant.”
Concluded Obama before getting on his campaign bus headed to Milwaukee, Wisc., “Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought that it was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they’d be fired.”
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1. LD | September 1st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
These supermarket tabloid stories only take away from what we should really be focusing on, the economy, the war, healthcare. In other words all the things McCain would rather not talk about.
2. Henry | September 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Are you saying what has been rumored the last few days is off-limits? The reason I ask is I think this says something about her character, if true. I agree that the story today is completely out of bounds. And I’ll save you a few keystrokes, I know that if I don’t like the weather, I can move. Just asking.
3. LD | September 1st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
So Pat, how about we stop with the Palin posts and talk about what’s really important. Like how Bush’s war with Iraq, the same one McCain would continue indefinitely if he was in charge, has lead to China receiving the first lucrative oil contract. Now I can’t say I’m surprised as loans from China have allowed us to fight this war. However, shouldn’t the blood of our soldiers be worth something?
Perhaps we get second dibs?
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwu1PN6Wmv3LYYbAMKfdfXJkmqZQ
4. Pat Cunningham | September 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Henry: Yes, the rumors of the past few days are off-limits here — at least for now. I’m just uncomfortable with that stuff. Palin’s daughter is not a political figure — she’s not even of legal age — and there’s no way to avoid including her in a discussion of the rumors to which you refer.
5. Veritas | September 1st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Pat, I don’t get it. If the candidate family stuff is off limits then just quote Palin’s statement and leave it at that. No elaboration, no comments by other people–not even Obama. Just by alluding to any other rumors you pique your readers’ curiosity and encourage them to go search for them. Stay on task and don’t even go there–and don’t let your readers do it, either. Shameful mud-slinging of the indirect kind.
6. Pat Cunningham | September 1st, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Don’t give me that crap, Veritas. I’ve gone out of my way to act responsibly in this matter. You apparently don’t understand the nature of these other rumors. They’re flying all over the place and I felt an obligation to pre-emptively guard against them appearing here in the comments section while I’m away. If my actions in this matter don’t please you, that’s just too damn bad. I have not engaged in “shameful mud-slinging of the indirect kind” or any other kind. If I wanted to spread these other rumors, I would just go ahead and do it. But I don’t want to. I don’t want to drag a kid through the mud, and I don’t want anyone else to either. I have a teenage daughter of my own, and I wouldn’t want her to be humiliated in such a manner. If you don’t understand what I’ve done and why I’ve done it, that’s your problem, not mine.
7. Veritas | September 1st, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Hey–your column, your rules. But sorry, that doesn’t mean you’re right in this case. I’ve heard some of the rumors and seen them given space in mainline media like USAToday. I’m glad you didn’t do the same, and I won’t assume malice on your part. But even acknowledging the rumors are there indirectly helps spread them. Just like on the playground: “Psst. Someone else said something bad about Johnny but I can’t repeat it.” This, unfortunately, is a convenient tactic used by both parties: “Hey. Some obscure blogger out there says ‘X’ about the candidate, but don’t blame us since all we’re doing is reporting it,” thereby adding one more link in the rumor chain. By the way, got kids of my own, including a daughter, which is why this stuff is irritating.
8. gowader | September 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
The rrstar has a nasty way of editing blogs to Obama’s favor. This site is not worth visiting anymore. And Pat is just another die hard liberal that cheats and lies to win.
I quess Obama must use these tactic’s to get what he wants. And character and honor are out the window.
9. Peter Gunn | September 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
gowader quotes:“
“cheats and lies to win”
“The rrstar has a nasty way of editing blogs to Obama’s favor”
WHAT ?
What universe are you living in ?
Have you visited their forum lately ?
Have you been to ANY local blogs lately ???
Talk about cheating and lying to win !!!!
At least Pat Cunningham and the Applesauce blog doesn’t pretend to
be republican upholding an unbiased non liberal Conservative viewpoint
While then going into leftist rants about Right Wing Nuts like many of
the deceiving Conservative blogs and bloggers do.
Unabashedly Liberal is how it’s described.
You knew what you were entering when you came here.
May not be “Fair and Balanced” Like your Fixed News Channel. (Roll Em)
But show me one local that is,
Especially from RIGHT-WING-NUT
Mutual Admiration Societies like Harrstarboard or Letsbeheard,….. YUK!
10. Craig Knauss | September 2nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
“This site is not worth visiting anymore.” Please don’t slam the door on the way out.
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