Guilt by association

September 1st, 2008 | Tags: , , ,

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2944356420080901

“A senior McCain campaign official said the McCain camp was appalled that these rumors had not only been spread around liberal blog sites and partisan Democrats, but also were the subject of heightened interest from mainstream news media.

“The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama’s name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their ‘campaign of change,’” a senior aide said.”

So a blogger somewhere says something shitty, and it has Obamas name on the same page – thus making it an extension of his beliefs and platform? Seriously, fuck these guys.

PS: John McCain

PPS: OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE WHAT JOHN MCCAIN SAID ON SOME BLOG!??!?!??!?!

PPPS: Holy shit, McCain must support the KKK, as his name is on their website!

PPPPS: From Politico:

At a press availability in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama said: “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 our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor 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.”

On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs:

“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.”