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Corker and Alexander Decry Attack on Obama’s Wife

Posted by DAVID SCHRAUB, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
May 20th, 2008 | Comments

A short while back, I predicted that Michelle Obama would become the latest target for GOP attackers desperate to slow her husband’s momentum. The Tennessee GOP quickly verified that hypothesis by running an attack ad questioning her patriotism.

To their credit, both of Tennessee’s Republican Senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander, have come out against the ad. Corker explicitly calls for it to be taken down, Alexander is more tepid, merely saying that “There are probably better ways to communicate our pride in America, and we need to focus on those.”

Corker already has had run-ins with controversial GOP ads, particularly the infamous “call me” ad put out by the RNC in his 2006 senate race against Harold Ford (an ad which he also opposed). And this the second foray the Tennessee GOP has already made this cycle into sleazy campaign tactics: the first being a mailer entitled “anti-Semites for Obama” featuring him in “Muslim” (actually traditional Somali) garb. That ad was taken down only after repeated efforts by Senator Alexander.

Cross-posted to The Debate Link

  • IF you want to go on the campaign trail and spout, be prepared to have someone question you.
    She is NOT above the fray.
  • elen
    You know, I am not voting for the espouses. If Cindy McCain is a millionaire and chooses to invest her millions in whatever, or if Bill is a disbarred attorney, or if Michelle makes gaffes that more seasoned campaigners would not or if Chelsea chooses to say or do whatever in response to (what I consider) inappropriate questions...I don't care. I am carefully scrutinizing the candidates to try to determine their positions on various issues and how those agree with mine; their values; their reactions when they are up or down; their coolness under fire.
    If we had been judging a candidate by his espouse, Abraham Lincoln would have never been elected president.
  • OP, if you think this is a substantive campaign issue, well that says a lot about you, doesn't it?
  • DLS
    I had to laugh. Not at Lamar Alexander's lukewarm statement, because this is the guy who said in 1996 he was offering Americans "new ideas" without ever telling us what those new ideas were. What I laugh at is the ridiculous notion that his behavior in any way can be considered Not Contrite Or Guilty Enough. What a joke.
  • runasim
    For some people nothing is 'above the fray'.They like to wallow in slime.

    My hope is that more Democrats and Republicans will speak out against this mudfight form of politcal battling., no matter who is the target.
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