by James Oliphant
MONROE, MI.--Barack Obama Monday angrily fired back at the McCain campaign for suggesting his presidential operation had any connection to bloggers who have been chasing rumors about GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin.
An unnamed McCain staffer said in published reports earlier today that websites, some "even with Barack Obama's name on them" had been spreading rumors that Palin's daughter, Bristol, 17, is the true mother of Palin's infant son, Trig.
"I am offended by that statement," Obama told reporters here."There's no evidence at all that any of this involved us."
Obama said "our people are not involved in any way in this." He added that if he discovered any involvement by a member of his campaign "they'd be fired."
His words came on the day when the McCain campaign--ostensibly in an effort to quell the internet gossip--announced that Bristol is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father.
Obama used the moment to retiterate his belief that "people's families are off-limits and children are especially off-limits."This shouldn't be part of our politics, it has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president," he said. "And so, I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off-limits."
(Photo: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., walks before getting on the bus in Ann Arbor, Mich., Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. AP Photo/Alex Brandon.)
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