Obama: "Rarely do these folks have the guts to say it to your face."

By GottaLaff

Attacks on candidates' wives are out of bounds. (Somebody better tell Cindy Lou Hensley) This is not the first time Barack Obama has made that clear, and he states the obvious when he accuses the conservatives of ignoring his wishes:

Barack Obama blamed the 'conservative press' Wednesday for negative attacks on his wife Michelle.

“What happened was that the conservative press—Fox News and the National Review and columnists of every ilk—went fairly deliberately at her in a pretty systematic way,” Obama told Glamour Magazine.

Now lay off:

Obama emphasized the plea in the interview released Wednesday, saying his wife and Cindy McCain are not fair game because “essentially, spouses are civilians. If you start being subjected to rants..day in day out, that’ll drive up your negatives.” [...]

“She’s the most honest person I know, she’s smart, she’s funny,” The Illinois senator said explaining the attacks have come from people who have fundamental policy differences with him and encouraged them to point debate toward him, not his wife.

Pressed on whether he thought the McCain campaign is responsible for the attacks Obama explained it’s not necessarily the campaign ‘itself,’ but more the ‘apparatus’ of the conservative media as a whole including the columnists and blogs.

Michelle is his Achilles Heel:

“I don’t have a thick skin when it comes to criticism of my wife,” Obama admitted. “The problem is that rarely do these folks have the guts to say it to your face.”

If you have to have a soft spot, that's a sweet place to have one. That said, I'd love to see what Obama would do if one of these cowards actually did "have the guts to say it in his face". I'm guessing that the face wouldn't look the same afterwards.