Since Obama said Palin wants to be treated as the other guys, his people got it…And to make things more surreal, that occurred on Laura Ingram show

Jack Tapper reports that

On the Laura Ingraham Radio show, Friday, attorney Howard Gutman — an original member of the national finance committee for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — very directly criticized the parenting of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

And when Ingram – gasp – called sexism, Gutman pretended parenting is genderless. You see, as long as they replace “bad mother to bad parent” it’s not sexist

“Think of how many politicians have said it’s not the right time in my family’s life for me to run.”

Gutman cited approvingly Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., in 2004 and former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner in 2008, both of whom said they weren’t going to pursue the presidency because it wasn’t the right time for their families.

Right! because whenever some politician says “spending time with the family” it’s about parenting…

And when I say “the check is in the mail” it’s about the US Postal Services. Gotcha.

When they said it’s not against women, only against that woman, and oh, that other one too…

So, I have to believe  one of two things now: that attacking the “parenting” of a woman candidate is not sexist, or that member of the Obama campaign is a right winger (Biden said…)

It seemed yesterday that the campaign realized the blowback potential of sexist attacks. They were backpedaling. But I think that even since the  Alice Palmer days, it’s personal to Obama to attack women. He just can’t help it.

One must wonder what happened to “family off limits”

Barack Obama has forbidden his campaign from referencing Gov. Sarah Palin’s family and has said he’d fire any staffer who violates the rule. But plenty, it seems, its fair game.

Will Gutman be fired now?

Maybe a few too many lawyers on that campaign, underestimating the effect of parsing words

The farce of “literal theatre” is going to do wonders for Obama. And the karmic rewards: priceless