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On the Right on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:42:58 PM
Barack Obama puts the little lady off-limits, imposing a new double
standard on presidential politics. At least Hillary didn't say, "Lay
off my husband."
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Whatever else we've thought about Michelle Obama, we've never
doubted that this outspoken Princeton- and Harvard-trained lawyer was
capable of fighting her own battles. But now her husband says no. Pick
on her and you're going to have to deal with him. As he told "Good
Morning America" this week, "Lay off my wife."
How manly. How chivalrous. How hypocritical.
But now her husband has laid down a rule: Michelle can say whatever she
wants and not be called on it. He specifically went after a group of
Tennessee Republicans running TV ads that compared his wife's
appearance of late-blooming patriotism with the views of some other
Americans.