Dear Obama....

These things win you points with me...

Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: "Back off these kinds of stories."

"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor and/or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics."

"I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired."


I love that he addressed this because it is noble and because he is right. Just because Sarah Palin's daughter got pregnant at a young age doesn't make her a bad person, nor does it make Sarah Palin a bad person or a bad vice presidential candidate.
I know 100% that I am not always a reflection of the way my mother raised me (unfortunately). People are saying "Some 'Family Values'" but yeah, I think this does show good "Family Values"-a daughter who makes a mistake that displeases her parents, but her parents stick by her and support her anyway.

Thank you Barack for addressing this and everyone should heed his words. It's hard enough to be a teenager, much less a teenager who is pregnant, MUCH LESS a teenager who is pregnant in the public eye. Give the girl some respect.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/144946/9115/461/582298