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Family affairs 'off limits' in Prez campaign: Obama
Republican Vice Presidential nominee's teenaged daughter, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has said families, specially children, are "off-limits" in the campaign, citing his own case in which he was born to an 18-year-old mother.
Declining to comment on reports that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, Obama said: "Let me be as clear as possible."
"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 (Alaska) Governor 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," Obama, who hopes to be the first black-American U.S. President was quoted as saying by C.N.N.
Bristol Palin, a senior in high school, is about five months pregnant, U.S. media reports said.
The Palins and the John McCain campaign decided to reveal the information now because of rampant internet rumours that Sarah Palin's 4-month-old baby, who has Down syndrome, was actually Bristol's.
Obama became annoyed when asked about a report that quoted an unnamed senior McCain aide as saying that Obama's name appears in liberal blogs speculating about Trig's (Sarah Palin's son) parentage "in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their 'campaign of change.' "
"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," the 47-year-old father of two girls said. PTI
Declining to comment on reports that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, Obama said: "Let me be as clear as possible."
"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 (Alaska) Governor 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," Obama, who hopes to be the first black-American U.S. President was quoted as saying by C.N.N.
Bristol Palin, a senior in high school, is about five months pregnant, U.S. media reports said.
The Palins and the John McCain campaign decided to reveal the information now because of rampant internet rumours that Sarah Palin's 4-month-old baby, who has Down syndrome, was actually Bristol's.
Obama became annoyed when asked about a report that quoted an unnamed senior McCain aide as saying that Obama's name appears in liberal blogs speculating about Trig's (Sarah Palin's son) parentage "in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their 'campaign of change.' "
"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," the 47-year-old father of two girls said. PTI
