I think it's great the Obama has said "family off limits" but it makes you wonder what is he trying to hide?

Question

I think it's great the Obama has said "family off limits" but it makes you wonder what is he trying to hide?

Answer 1

Well I don't think there is much to hide regardling Obama's Family. Everything has come out MONTHS ago.

And it seems like he is really talking about CHildren more than anything else.

Answer 2

So, when he asks the media to leave Palin's family alone, it makes you think he's hiding something?

Hey, that doesn't sound crazy/paranoid at all. Nope. Not a bit.

Answer 3

Even the most high profile family (Kennedys, for instance) deserves a modicum of privacy.  There are issues that are simply none of the public's business.

There are things in Obama's life that we do not need to know.  Whether or not he is "hiding" anything, I don't really care.

It's what he cannot hide that worries me.

McCain/Palin '08

Answer 4

His request is reasonable.

We should not have the right to attack his kids, nor vice versa.

This does not extend to his wife though, as she is completely involved in the campaign.

Answer 5

He's been in a political battle for the last 18 months.  If there was something there, it would have been found by now.  

Answer 6

It makes YOU wonder.  People with healthier attitudes do not indulge in mean spirited speculations about others.  

Answer 7

His children are still kids don't be silly.  The fact is in most cases the children should be off limits - its a matter of class and if you can't see that then maybe you need a course or two proper edicate.  The children or families are not running for office.

But, Mrs. Palin is pro-life - anti abortion and an advocate of abstience only s*x education.  These positions are directly related to Roe v Wade and the infulence she could possibly have should McCain win the election.

Regarding Sara Palin's position on abstinence only education - if she can't teach this concept to her own child why would she impose it on the country?  I think now would be a good time to ask her "do you believe that abstinence only can be successful as the only and primary form of s*x education in our schools?".

Answer 8

No, it doesn't make me wonder.  He's just more decent than all the people who have been attacking his family, including his daughters, with false allegations over the last several months.  

Answer 9

He can't say anything right for you right-wingers. If had attacked her, you complain.  When he says he thinks that was inappropriate to do to her, you complain. McCain camp  was right, there are a lot of whinners in America.  

Answer 10

He isn't trying to hide anything.

It was the right thing to say/do, and it makes him look good for "sticking up for her."

Answer 11

No his people will raise enough questions without his knowledge. That same game that McCain has played a time or two. This is a ridiculous game that American politics has become. I would like to see Obama stay away from it.. and it might would even convince me to vote for him, but he won't. Or his people won't. And either way every one comes out of this looking like 3rd graders

Answer 12

He is trying to appear above pettiness while setting his attack mob on the opposition...

Answer 13

I don't think he is trying to hide something by making that statement. I think he is just stating the obvious that personal family business has nothing to do with the election  

Answer 14

would you like your family being attacked? as a father id definately take the bullets for my family too....

Answer 15

Not really, if you are a parent you would know that your children come before anything else.  It is impossible to hide anything when you are running for the Presidency.    

Answer 16

He isn't hiding anything. The fact is there isn't anything he could do except step down from running for office that would please many of the paranoid Republicans.

Answer 17

I don't think he's trying to hide anything, I think he's trying to keep this a civil and relevant campaign. The media continues to try to trivialize the election process and Obama doesn't want that to happen.

Answer 18

No it doesn't. Your party has thoroughly attacked his family and his extended family....he simply wants Palin's family to not have to be attacked falsely as he was.

Obama is a stand up man.

Answer 19

I don't think he is trying to hide anything.  He's just recognizing that he has two girls who might present his family with the same situation in a few years.

Sadly, there are too many kids having kids whether or not they were raised in good homes.  

Answer 20

It only makes someone like you wonder. It must be awful to be you. Obama has asked people to lay off Palin's family because going after Palin's family is not what the election should be about. It's called class.

Answer 21

If he was hiding anything, the repubs would have found it by now. Why do you think they had to resort to spreading internet rumors about him? He has a clean background.

Answer 22

It makes YOU wonder. I think he just wants to protect the innocence of his children.

Answer 23

Right...

Anytime a democrat does the right thing, the republicans accuse them of trying to hide someting.  

because the republicans know that they would not let family be off limits,  nothing is off limits to them if it helps them get elected.

Answer 24

I thought the same thing. Strange, it is the first sensible thing the man has said. Maybe he has some skeletons in his closet too.

Answer 25

Because he is a good man and knows it's wrong.  Even after Mc Cain has attacked Obama in ads on TV, Obama is still taking the high road...now that's a TRUE leader !

Answer 26

I think he was talking about him taking his family to that Rev Wright church.

But true he is probably hiding so much more.

Answer 27

He's trying to hide his freakin' personal life because it's none of our d**n business.

Wouldn't you?

Answer 28

His mother was 18 when she had him.  He announced this yesterday on the news.   It is part of the good and the bad of being a celebrity or a politician.  Your family unfortunately is not off limits.      

Answer 29

Maybe there is tape with Michelle voice that will be aired right before the election-  I know its not about Palin, Obama is brutal with the attacks.

Answer 30

Even though I am not voting for Obama.. I thought that was a very noble statement that he made. His mother had him at eighteen.. my mother had me at sixteen. Things happen. Maybe Obama realizes that he has two daughters himself and it's best to leave children out of it. It never even crossed my mind that he would be trying to "hide" anything.