Obama's daughters should be off-limits: Your Say

Letter to the editor:

In his piece "Wickham: GOP aide's sneak attack on Obama daughters," columnist DeWayne Wickham claimed that former GOP aide Elizabeth Lauten's tasteless comments about President Obama's daughters represented the views of all Republicans. Still, he did not name a single Republican who agreed with her. I certainly did not, although I was rounded up in Wickham's condemnation.

He quoted two paragraphs of Lauten's posting next to a photo of the two daughters. The original offense was the politically charged posting on some staffer's Facebook page. Wickham re-lived the event in the nation's largest circulation newspaper. Who really is exploiting those young women?

Byron Bullough; Noblesville, Ind.

Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

It's amazing to me how Elizabeth Lauten, an educated woman, can behave the way she did. Regardless of what she thinks of President Obama, his girls don't deserve that kind of personal attack. That was the behavior you'd expect from a mean girl in high school.

— Mary Espejo

Republicans are so easily annoyed with Obama, and they look for any reason to attack his character. The proof is in the criticism of Obama's daughters at the turkey pardoning where, frankly, they were dressed about as appropriately as today's teens dress. They look like two intelligent kids who are joining their parents for dinner.

— Antonio Navarro Diaz

Do you recall Democrats' comments about George W. Bush's daughters and underage drinking charges? Or their tittering on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's daughter? That was wrong as well.

— Alex Lopata