OBAMA, " LAY OFF MY WIFE, " - CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN BARACK !

Barack Obama is starting to see what it will be like in the Fall if trends continue and he becomes the nominee for the Democrat Party. He has been scrutinized, though not as tough as he will be as the nominee and now his wife is the target of adds and criticism because of statements that she has made while on the campaign trail.

Barack doesn't like it and stated as such calling for the GOP to, " lay off my wife." Well Senator Obama if you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen. This makes the second time that Obama has publicly complained about the way he is being scrutinized now that he holds the lead for the nomination.

The first was after the debate prior to the Pennsylvania Primary where the first 45 minutes of the debate centered on the issues that have risen over Jeremiah Wright and others that Obama is associated with. He felt then that these were not issues that the American people were concerned with. Yet polls have shown and continue to show that Wright and others in whom the Illinois Senator has associated himself with ARE a concern for the American people and as such they ARE and issue.

Now Obama does not like that fact that his wife has become an issue. If he does not want her to be an issue then take her off the campaign trail and never allow her to make any speeches in public and on behalf of the campaign or statements that involve the election or public policy.

Michelle Obama has attacked the President and administration policy in speeches, made controversial statements such as being proud of her country for the first time because her husband was running for President as well as acquiring her own PR and campaign staff to position her as a Presidential candidates spouse.

All of these make her an issue in a campaign especially one as heated and as important as the one that Obama and his wife find themselves in. She potentially could be the First Lady of The United States and as such she is a public figure and is open to scrutiny, criticism and statements from the opposition especially when she makes controversial statements and publicly attacks against a sitting President.

Cindy McCain the wife of GOP nominee John McCain is in like manner open for public criticism as well as attacks from the opposition and neither McCain nor his campaign have come forth complaining about attacks nor the criticism. Cindy McCain has been recently criticized for not releasing her tax returns for 2008, yet the McCain camp has not tried to stop the attacks because they realize that as a candidates wife and possible First Lady she is open to public scrutiny just as Michelle Obama is.

Yet Barack Obama whines about his wife and to this I say, " Barack you have made her fair game by running for President!" If he thinks the scrutiny that both he and his wife have received to this point in the campaign are harsh then he is not even close to being prepared for what will happen after he gains the nomination and the final push for November begins in earnest in September.

Presidential candidates wives have always been a target for scrutiny when their husband has run for the Nations Chief Executive. Even when Abraham Lincoln ran for President it was thought that his wife Mary could actually become a liability for his campaign because she was from a Southern family that actually owned slaves and had certain mental problems that later in life actually placed her in an institution.

Lincoln is but one example of the scrutiny that takes place with a candidates wife when running for the office of President and if Barack Obama expects the press, the GOP and anyone else to, "lay off, " his wife then the inexperienced Senator from Illinois is in for some rough days ahead as the campaign moves from the nomination process to the actual run for the White House this Fall. Michelle Obama is fair game and Barack Obama better get used to it!

Ken Taylor