OBAMA IS HOPPING MAD....

Well she should have kept her mouth shut.

He should have wrapped her in cotton wool and left her at home!I mean isn't she fair game?This is AMERICA we can say what we want and last time I look it was still a free speaking country!

i agree with Terry.
its fair game is your husband wants to be prez

SHE is fair game and as such is open to be ostracized and criticized in the same manner any other public official is looked at. Especially the wife of a Senator running for President.

OMG, A husband stands up for his wife. The shame!

What else was he supposed to say?

Well, if Michelle Obama's background and statements are fair game, that makes Cindy McCain's background and statements fair game. This should be interesting since Cindy has a few skeletons in her closet. lol

Put yourself in the public eye; expect to pulls yours back blackened.

If he thinks he can actually be president and his wife not be ridiculed along with him, he really is clueless.

I think she is fair game, although I don't think that is right necessarily. Although she will be quite involved in many events if he is elected. I guess she should be somewhat scrutinized. I don't mind that he stood up for her. Nothing wrong with that to me.

She is fair game. Absolutely! So is Chelsea, ...The minute you step in on the stump, people will go after everything you say there, if not everything you ever said.

So is Cindy McCain. Release those tax returns Cindy! They are part of John's income. He is not living like a 400K guy. People need to see where the money is invested, whose mutual funds. Are those people involved in McCain's campaign.

Don't cry foul when the democrats bring up how McCain left his crippled wife and run away with Cindy (cheating on his wife). It's fair game too, wouldn't you say?

I don't think that there is anything wrong with him standing up for his wife but that wasn't the gist of this post.

She as a public figure IS fair game so "they'd" just as soon get used to it now shouldn't they??

Everyone in the public eye is fair game Jared. No one here said anything different. You're too much sometimes about Obama. Almost as if your life depended on it to defend him or almost as if you had a vested interest in all of this. Honestly, aren't there other topics that interest you or could it be that you have OBAMAMANIA running around in your little head??

It is his wife that should keep her big mouth shut! Oh, I am sorry have a made a racial remark? It seesm if you say anthing about the obnoxious Obamas, you must be a racist. Yet, they can call me a typical white person or sweetie and that is just okay, because they are the "The Obamas, our saviours"

Everyone's heard about Bill Clinton's blow job. Everyone's heard about Rudy Giuliani's divorces and affairs. But, strangely enough, the media has mostly ignored the fact that John McCain, while in his 40's, cheated on his wife (who had been crippled in a car accident) and left her for a 25 year-old. His new young wife then went on to become addicted to drugs and stole pills on a regular basis from a charity she had created called the American Voluntary Medical Team.

All the dirty details are in this article.

She is fair game too!!!!!!!!!

Yea whatever.

Next headline will be "Obama restricts freedom of speech and cancels election for coronation."

The point of the article? The article is a two-liner...Robert and co said it best. Wanna go to the wives. I think it's fair. Let's go!

Shawn,
Try writing an actual article and I'll comment and rate it.

If he wants to be President he better get use to it.

The American people have a right to know what investments an aspiring First Lady has - especially one worth over $100 million. There is already ample evidence that the entire McCain campaign is a walking conflict of interest. There is already ample evidence that Cindy McCain is not afraid to do business with corrupt criminals. There is also ample evidence that Cindy McCain is not of the highest moral character.

I can hardly for the elections to be over so all you experts can go back to writing dirty words on walls

Well said Doyle. Too much bickering.

Obama should expect everyone and anyone to voice an opinion of anyone in his family. This is what America is all about. Free speech.

However Mrs. McCain is not running off at her mouth.

Just more proof they don't have much on the man himself....All they can do is attack anyone he ever knew....both close and not-so-close relationships...

Just as the true character of people may be revealed on the highways, the true character of our politicians is revealed during election cycles, and it's worse than nasty. It's no wonder the rest of the world is slowly turning its back on us.

I particularly single out the disgusting attacks in which the benefiting candidates pretend to distance themselves from...

There is a world of difference between wishing to speak with the head of state of a foreign country (whether or not Bush has made them an enemy) and the GOP specifically designing a campaign ad that attacks a man's wife instead of the man's actual political views. The GOP CAN'T attack Obama on legitimate grounds, so they attack the man's wife for what is nothing more that a sound bite blown out of proportion by people who are so hateful they just have to find anything to say.

Oh, and excellent topic, Shawn with an interesting thread....Thanks

Sorry I clicked into here.

She is on display. You can say anything you want about her.

well wouldn't you be put your self in his shoes

If Michelle Obama refrains from campaigning for her husband, I'm sure she'll be left alone. However, when she gets up on stage and stumps for her favorite politician, she's fair game.

If she needs help with a good example of a political wife that stays out of contentious political battles, she could always call up Laura Bush for some pointers......LOL

I had to chuckle at Obama's fake anger and indignation last night as I watched the news. He sounded pretty thin-skinned. This guy can't take a punch, obviously.

Let's talk about the dirt in everyone's closets...I'm still voting for Obama - and I heartily agree with Jared P. Salud.

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Carol I am glad someone is saying what I have been saying about the Obama supporters here on gather.

I have an idea! Lets start a Obama Hacker Alert Group her at gather. So that we can poat alerts on those Obama supporters who are attacking people who oppose their views.

Just an observation...why is it that you attacking the Obama people are ok but them retaliating is not?

Person A says makes fun of Michelle and Barrack Obama then Person B comes in and makes fun of the person that wrote the thread and disputes the thread but Person B is attacking and Person A isnt?

Opposing views even when heated is called debate......making sure everyone agrees with your opinion is called talking to your mom.

Lori sweetie, there is a big difference between calling someone an idiot and making death threats. Even an Obama supporter should be able to understand that.

Ummm Shawn pumpkin this is the internet NOT real life and I dont see any death threats.

BTW pumpkin there is another man on here...an older guy named Dwight he also publishes titles like you...are you by any chance related to him?

Wow let's talk about Cindy McCain since wives are fair game, she is one scandalous woman but she makes up for it because she "patriotic" Yeah right she needs to be doing time in jail.

Oct. 18, 1999 | PHOENIX -- GOP presidential candidate John McCain's wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on "Dateline") and Diane Sawyer (on "Good Morning America") the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.

Or this Brian....remember all is fair game....no holds barred...wife and kids are not immune.

Plus this makes you wonder what she is hiding.


Mrs. McCain is getting away with stonewalling on her taxes. "This is a privacy issue," she said, and nobody has responded with the mockery directed at Mrs. Kerry. (Imagine the gale-force media uproar if the Clintons had refused to release their returns because they claimed to be protecting Chelsea.) Indeed, the deputy editorial page editor of The Journal, who oversaw those august columns when they howled for disclosure from Mrs. Kerry in 2004, dismissed any concern over Mrs. McCain's tax returns as "a fairly marginal issue

I found this particularly facinating.


You're U.S. Senator John McCain, and you've got a big problem.
Your wife, Cindy, was addicted to prescription painkillers. She stole pills from a medical-aid charity she heads and she used the names of unsuspecting employees to get prescriptions.


The public is about to find out about it.
Until now, you've managed to keep it all quiet. When Tom Gosinski, a man your wife fired, sued for wrongful termination and threatened to expose the whole sordid story, you didn't hesitate to call in the big guns.

John Dowd, the attorney who got you out of your Keating Five mess, worked on getting your wife a sweetheart deal with federal prosecutors. He also made Gosinski's lawsuit go away.

He didn't stop there.
To help maintain your reputation and discredit your wife's accuser, Dowd called Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley and complained that Gosinski was trying to extort money. Romley, your Republican ally, promptly launched an extortion investigation.

But now New Times makes a public records request for documents in the extortion case. It's only a matter of days before the story gets out.

Here's what the senator does.
He calls in another big gun, political strategist Jay Smith, who conceives a rather remarkable plan.

On August 19--just three days before the records are to be made public--Smith parades your wife before a select group of journalist friends. She tells a tale of pain and triumph, and, incredibly, all the reporters agree to sit on the story until August 22. When Cindy McCain says her confession is intended to quell rumors and to inspire other druggies to turn their lives around, the journalists lap it up. They write about her "bravery." The first round of stories is one-sided. There is no mention of Tom Gosinski or Romley's extortion investigation.

But after a week, there is no glossing over huge gaps in the image that has been spun for the public:

• Cindy McCain lied about drug treatment she claims to have undergone. Although she told reporters she went into a residential drug treatment program earlier this year, she told investigators she had treatment during 1991 and 1992. Whom did she lie to--investigators or reporters?

• If Cindy McCain did undergo treatment before 1994, as she told investigators, the senator's claim that he didn't learn of his wife's addiction until this January simply defies credibility.

What in heaven's name is an Obama Hacker?

Oh yeah let's go after the wives in 2008 or we can act like we got some sense, a little class and keep wives and kids off limits.

Cindy McCain has a lot of dirt on her and if the GOP are smart they will opt to keep wives and kids off limits, but I doubt that they will because they generally don't think past the nose on their face.

Cindy McCain is fair game

If he didn't defend his wife you would be calling him a wimp. There is no right answer from him to you. I don't care what his wife said or what McCain's wife said or did. I care about the men and what they think about the issues.

I never said there was anything wrong with him defending his wife. I think she's fair game, but I understand a guy sticking up for his wife. I still think he's a wimp.

I think there is only one person I would want to vote for that is or was running even if I have to write in his name. I don't know much about his wife - I know too much about the spouses of the three "front runners".

Who's that don't?

LOL,..can't blame the guy for trying, maybe we should just treat mrs o like the press treated,..oh, let's say Mrs Bush?...or Mrs Kerry,..or,...Mrs Reagan,..or Mrs Clinton.

Shawn, I am puzzled as to why he phrased it in this manner!!! "Keep your mouth off my wife!" Ewww, what was he thinking??

Janie, I wondered why no one else commented on that. If that is what Obama really said, his speech patterns are as bad as Bush's.

You cannot...I repeat...cannot attack Obama or his' wife. It is simply not allowed in this 'changed' world. You can attack anyone else but not the man that would be king or his damsel in distress. No! It simply unacceptable. So let it be written...so let it be done.

The whole world will realize why...when they watch him descend in a cloud at the Democratic Convention.