ST. PAUL — Barack Obama's campaign said Wednesday afternoon that John McCain's "hand-picked attack dog," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), is going too far in criticizing Obama's wife, Michelle, when Romney addresses the Republican convention Wednesday night.
Romney, according to excerpts from his prepared remarks, is set to say that "there has never been a day when I have not been proud to be an American," a clear reference to a statement Michelle Obama made earlier this year that she was proud of her country for the first time in a long time.
Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn blasted Romney for involving Obama's wife in his convention speech, spreading the blame to McCain.
“Barack Obama has said that families are ‘off-limits,’ and we thought that John McCain agreed," Dunn said in a statement. "But tonight, John McCain’s hand-picked attack dog, Mitt Romney, exposed the fake outrage that the Republicans have been peddling all week as the blatant hypocrisy that it is. The McCain team’s disgusting attack on Barack Obama's wife shows they would rather generate false outrage to distract from their own problems than talk about the issues facing the American people. Mitt Romney’s attack on a candidate’s wife is as pathetic as his failed presidential campaign."
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