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This is What Off-Limits Looks Like

One of Obama's finance committee members, Howard Gutman, went off on Sarah Palin on the Laura Ingraham radio show:

"So you're saying she's not putting family first," Ingraham said.

"Absolutely not," Gutman said. "If you take a daughter who's got this emotional strife and subject her to the most intense scrutiny of the world at this time in her life, I think you've put your career above your family."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton, asked to respond to Gutman's remarks, said "Obviously these comments do not reflect our frequently stated views that families of the candidates should be off limits."

Gutman apologized, of course. Still, what was he thinking?

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on September 06, 2008 (boomark / email).