Boy, do I like the way Barack Obama handles things. Man. How can anybody argue with this?
CNN reported Monday that Obama gave a blistering response to a question about a Reuters news service report that quoted an unnamed senior McCain aide saying that Obama’s name appears in liberal blogs speculating about Trig’s parentage “in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their ‘campaign of change.’ ”
CNN reports that Obama responded quickly and robustly. Said the CNN report…

“I am offended by that statement,” the Illinois senator retorted, not letting the reporter finish his question. “There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us.
“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,” he added. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I ever thought that there was somebody in my campaign that was involved in something like that, they’d be fired.”
“Let me be as clear as possible,” Obama said. “I think people’s families are off-limits, 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 governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”

Obama said reporters should “back off these kinds of stories” and noted that he was born to an 18-year-old mother.
“How a family deals with issues and 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,” CNN quoted him as adding.
I love this. I just love the way Obama goes about stuff like this. And McCain, too, for that matter. Whenever he speaks for himself, he always appears circumspect and appropriate. His comments on the Palin daughter pregnancy have been equally respectful.
Sometimes, when either of these campaigns issue statements through their spokespersons, the tone is a bit different.
At least in this instance, Barack Obama and John McCain set the record straight, swiftly and with crystal clarity. Good for them, good for us, and good for American politics.
NOW….moving on to other matters…I caught this yesterday in the Comments Section of this blog….somebody was talking about…

“Pre-emtive Arrest” ( -just in case you WERE GONNA actually protest. -see the news headlines here in Minneapolis regarding the Republican Convention and F.B.I. State Police raiding homes as people sleep because they claim said citizens were planning to be ‘disruptive protesters’…????? WHAT???? NEXT People??

I must have missed this item. Did this actually happen? The FBI and the State Police raided homes while people slept? Is this true? Can anyone give me a news report or reference on this? I’m finding it hard to believe this, and I’m finding it impossible to believe that if it is true, the national television and print media are not blasting it all over the place.
Did this really happen, or is this the writer’s slight exaggeration? Can anybody give me a cite on this? A valid newspaper story (not somebody’s wild-eyed blog) or network television report?