In Monroe, Michigan today at a campaign stop Barack Obama was asked about rumors that Sarah Palin’s daughter was really the mother of four month old Trig, and also what he thought of Sarah Palin revealing that the same daughter really is five months pregnant. Bravo to Obama for his response:

I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits. And people’s 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. 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 a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.

HT: Ben Smith