Lipstick Smear: Obama Assails ‘Latest Made-Up Controversy by the John McCain Campaign’

Yes, we do have serious issues to discuss. The notion that BO is just going to dismiss criticism of him while piling it on others is crazy. Obama is a liberal left-wing nut job who cries and whines and plays the race card. Boo hoo. He’s stinky like old fish.

More Proof that McCain offers nothing for the future of America but more Rovian fake attacks and diversions away from the ineptitude, corruption, cronyism, and incompetence which embodies the GOP.
Help keep America in the ditch…re-elect McBush/MCPalin/McCain.

Obama goes to a troubled public school and uses his time to bash his political opponents, feel sorry for himself, and cuddle up to the left-wing media. beware the anti-media voter. Maybe Obama feels safer in Norfolk that Chicago, as their public schools are the worst and most dangerous in the country> that is Obama reform. The worst schools in the country. Notice the MSM not taking flights to Chicago to check out Obama’s educational record?

People should do their homework on Palin. Apparently she thinks oil comes from decomposed dinosaurs!

Where in the article did you state the origin of the “lipstick on a pig reference” or the fact McCain used that old line with HILLARY. It is an old saying and this blows back poorly to the McCain campaign, This makes “silly season” look silly.
From the Urban Dictionary:
putting lipstick on a pig
A term used by many, generally in reference to someone who may be trying to make something or someone look appealing or attractive when it quite clearly will not work, or will only deceive the dumbest of people.

So Obama, why are you spending yesterday with your own swiftboat attacks and not talking about issues?
Step up and tell us why you supported sex education to kindergarteners and how that issue is important to you because I don’t want your sex issue taught to my children.

He’s now using his ‘pig’ comments to take the spotlight away from Palin. Why is he so jealous of women? First, it as Hillary now its Palin. Why doesn’t he pick on a man instead?

That won’t fly. His supporters took it to mean one thing even if he honestly meant another. Now he tries to spin it to make his own supporters appear to be ignorant and the republicans distracting.
That is a cheap cynical trick. So much for change. That is the same old wind in a brand new bag.

obama never used the term lipstick on a pig untill he campaigned against Hillary, its a pattern.

Jake …I really thought you were a pretty impartial journalist but to really try to slant this as is it is the mccain campaign’s mistake…it was Obama who made the stupid comment …it is “lipstick” their ultimate code word to try to destroy Ms. Palin…everybody in his campaign has been using it in diverse ways all yesterday and this guy comes out and he is offended come on give me a break and honorable man who didn’t intend to make that comment would have come out and say “I am sorry if that comment offended you but it was not my intention”..

Great leadership Obama, we need a leader and not a whinner, we need a vision and not darkness, these days are too precious for us to spend them on a pig, a lipstick or an old stinky fish. Republicans have exploited Palin’s son with Dawn Syndrom and her teenage pregant daughter for political gains. They will not stop there at all, they will continue with the distraction and diversion, because they have no real solution for the real american people. 8 years of failure inside and outside. God save America from McWBushPalin

This was posted: “Yes, we do have serious issues to discuss. The notion that BO is just going to dismiss criticism of him while piling it on others is crazy. Obama is a liberal left-wing nut job who cries and whines and plays the race card. Boo hoo. He’s stinky like old fish.”
I am sorry, but when did Barack Obama ever play the race card? I don’t know where everyone is getting this from! Provide proof that he is please?

You can vote for McSame and Fran Drescher(Palin), but nothing will change….

BO’s judgement is the issue here. About a week after Sarah Palin WOWed America, this imbecile Obama tries to upstage her with his little joke. It failed and failed miserably. It doesn’t matter if he was calling her a pig or not, using this comment after her joke was bad judgement. Not the man or woman I want in the white house. No way No how No Obama.

sally
palin doesnt own the word lipstick
and palin would be a step backwords in terms of womens rights… not that her becoming the vp wouldnt be a step up for women because it would
but as far as womens issues… palin is a backwards step

Debbie – I can’t tell you Obama’s position, but I think age appropriate sex education is important. If children are taught about their bodies then they know better when someone is being inappropriate with their body. By keeping children ignorant it puts them in danger.

GRAND SLAM !!!!
REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED
THE WORLD IS WATCHING
THE COUNTRY ENTITLED THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD IS BICKERING OVER
LIPSTICK
PATHETIC.

NoBama has the class of a 5 year old “he said, she said” episode. This election is about America. Elitist Obama dares to have a woman challenger, how dare she attempt to enter a mans world. Get with saving America people. Obama couldnt save a pigs eye.

Jake, Obama cannot spin his way out of this. He should have just said he was sorry for any misinterpretation and moved on. It was a cleverly crafted statement, not a direct attack, but the meaning was implied and he got caught.
And the McCain camp made an accusation about that implied meaning, they did not lie. And whether or not you want to believe something else is immaterial. You cannot change what Obama’s supporters took away from the statement. Saying McCain’s people are lying is exposing your own bias.
And Obama is definitely feeling the heat for him to react this erratically. He is losing women’s support, and this kind of flailing is not helping him. Nor is this incredibly biased coverage. You all are protesting way too much, you’re giving yourselves away here.
He messed up. And Joe Biden messed up the other day too with his ham-handed statement on implying that Palin is a bad mother for not supporting stem cell research. In my opinion that story is going to be worse on them.

Yes, call GOP posturing and pandering the idiocy that it really is!! Plus, if you watched the entire discussion, most of it unscripted, you’d learn more about Obama’s actual, detailed, plans and policies. Try that McCain, without your beauty queen to hide behind and be your attack dog!! Can we please now get away from the hysterical gossip and focus on the issues for Nov 4.?!

Good for you BO, lets get back to the issues. Does the VP Rep. Candidate have any other talking points, except for her convention speech? Wake up America, lets get it correct this time around

Come on Jake in a matter of 30 min you have three blogs about the same thing!

Have you ever noticed that while the GOP has trailed in the polls, they say, well polls do not matter. Yet, as soon as they make some gains in the polls, they yell and scream at the top of their lungs…look we are gaining. Polls do not matter. The ground game matters and Obama has been building a 50 state ground game since June. Way ahead of McCain. I have seen the ground game in action. McCain is afraid which is why all he can do is to lie, cheat and steal….The GOP way.

Palin’s not a pig. Pigs don’t repeatedly lie.

The idiocy of the GOP,
they all say that. take a deep breath. Polls are an indicator, nothing more, but still something.

This is an poor attempt by an old man to try to get the Presidency since he realizes he may not be able to in 4 years or imagine, 8. Enough of the dumb politics – i hope that the news media begin to call McCain and Palin on their continued distortion of the truth! Let’s hear about what you will do for the people who are in need in this country.

Quote from story: “Spare me the phony outrage, spare me the phony talk about change, we have real problems in this country right now,” Obama continued. “The American people are looking to us for answers. Not distractions, not diversions, not manipulations. They want real answers to the real problems we are facing. That’s the kind that I intend to have because that’s the kind of debate the American people deserve. ”
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If this election is about CHANGE, then why use pig & fish in your speech? Maybe you knew the media would pick it up and the McCain camp would spin it for a day or two while you reorganize and dig up more dirt? Saint Obama is losing it!

Fred, I’m embarrassed for you, and others like you. Interesting, CNN had a feature in which several representatives at headquarters of both parties, and voters registered in both parties, were interviewed in southern Ohio, PA, and W.VA. A prevailing theme was that many voters admitted to being unable to vote for a black man, no matter who the black candidate was or what he stood for. The interviewer and analyst noted that many of them supported this by claiming their belief in disproved rumors such as Obama being a Muslim, taking his oath on the Koran, not being a US citizen — and that they clung to these lies to justify reasons for voting against him, rather than admitting on air that they were against his race. Sad, pathetic, ignorant…. Go on, vote against your own economic and general self-interest again, and good luck in the next 4 years.

So Called Patriot,
and what did she lie about, my friend?

What is scary is that this republican party claims to be the authority for Christian policies.
WWJD ????

His answer nailed it. This is exactly what they are doing…changing the subject. They think that way they won’t have to answer the serious questions. Hilary didn’t shrink form putting herself out there and discussing the tough issues. So why is Sarah off the hook? Hmmmmm? If she is not up to it she has no business on that ticket.

He called a spade a spade (or am I being offensive to spades by saying that?) these are Swift Boat politics. McCain is now full-on using Rovian tactics and doing so is supposed to separate him from Bush? I honestly think if Bush were able to run again the base would vote for him. Well, what am I saying, it seems that Bush IS running again.

Poor dumb Obama. He is not ready for prime time.

It boggles the mind how easily some people are latching onto these false claims of sexism, or any of the many false claims, as if they’re worth the time of day.
No one called anyone a pig, even if someone is clueless enough to think that. People keep referring to Obama as an “empty suit” and yet he’s the only one willing to talk about actual politics and government issues instead of acting like a childish, schoolyard bully.
And yes, I am calling McCain a child, so you can save time in your town square debates talking about something that actually matters to the world instead of starting another campaign copied from a Mad Libs book.

Obama accused the Mccain campaign of saying they scare people into thinking he doesnt’ look like the guys on dollar bills. Truth or lie? Race card?
so you have some nerve trying to brush off this offensive lipstick comment, when Obama throws up the race card all the time!
And, what about the texas councilmen who were offended when someone used the term black hole?
If you can cry race card, then bring out the gender card, especially when Obama was so blatant about his sexism. what was he possibly thinking saying something like that? Imbecile!

AM I IN BIZARRO WORLD?
McCain said basically the same thing about Hillary healthcare plan…. no harm no foul.
Obama says it and were on the verge of WORLD WAR 3.
This is great though. Obama came out as the new fresh face and the Repbulicans railed him to no end.
No that Palin is the fresh new face, the are defending her to NO END guess what … ON THE SAME TYPE ISSUES LEVIED AGAINST OBAMA
Hypocrisy has no limits in the Republican party

Lets give BO the benefit of the doubt. He is just not too bright.
btw, let’s not give folks too hard a time for spelling errors, ok?

The old adage has been proved true once again. “If the shoe fits, wear it.” Sure are a lot of right wingers trying to fit in those shoes this morning. So many, they’re fighting to get into them. At least Senator Obama gave the neo-con spinmeister’s something to talk about today on their radio and tv talk shows since they can’t seem to talk about policies and issues that are relevant.

Please Link the Blatant Sexism everyone is talking about
i want a link to obama saying something sexist…
please tell me why him saying mccain trying to pass himself off as a change agent is like painting lipstick on a pig has anything to do with palin
anyone please go ahead…

Barack Hussein Obama says that he is the most qualified to be President of the USA! But by making this lipstick remark the great community organizer has proven that he has not learned what every school child in America learns before they start to school and that is “Look both ways before you cross the street” But then, he did not start to school in America.
In the past Barack Hussein Obama has jogged down the left side of the street where all the traffic flowed the same way. Now he is out there on a super highway and traffic zooms both ways and he can’t handle it.

decentAmerican
Obama accused the McCain campaign of saying they scare people into thinking he doesnt’ look like the guys on dollar bills because THEY ALREADY HAD.
The McCain campaign had previously put out a video morphing Washington into Obama on a dollar bill, as if to show how scary that would be.

Any “In the tank for McCain” Evangelicals out there?????
Tell me in this situation ….. WWJD???

Devilkev, just because people aren’t talking about the issues Messiah Obama decided were going to be the issues we should all talk about doesn’t mean you aren’t paranoid.

It’s good to see Mr. Tapper is being more aggressive in his support of Obama. For a time I thought he was trying to pose as a journalist. Go get ‘em Jake!

One more thought, if Gov. Sarah Palin IS, in fact, “a pig in lipstick” – she sure is the prettiest darn pig I ever saw!

This is just another game for the GOP..Trying to use dirty tricks to take the focus off of what’s really going on in this country…I want to know about healthcare, the price of gas and our economy nobody cares about some stupid lipstick comment..They will use anything they can to try an take the focus off of the real issues and the real issue is that the republicans has got us in this mess and the dems are trying to get us out…O’bama 08!

Debbie – I can’t tell you Obama’s position, but I think age appropriate sex education is important. If children are taught about their bodies then they know better when someone is being inappropriate with their body. By keeping children ignorant it puts them in danger.
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See that’s what is wrong with the issue on Sex Ed & Kids. I’m in no way supporting Obama (he’s a freaking lawyer and that’s the last thing our country needs is another lawyer running the place)… but back to the issue of Sex Ed & Kids, it’s important to teach children that certain parts of their bodies are OFF LIMITS TO ANYONE (including mommy & daddy) and don’t be afraid to tell your teacher, pastor, police if it’s going on.
What happens is media puts a broad statement like SEX ED for KIDS out and we assume their teaching them HOW TO.
Gee folks, it’s been fun but I have got to get back to earning a living and trying to pay taxes so millions on welfare will get next month’s check!

Every day that McSame/Rove are able to detract attention from themselves is a good day for them. Obama’s right in calling this what it is…phony outrage.
It takes real gall for McSame to play the “sexist” card. This is the man who called his own wife the “c” word and offered to enter her in a topless beauty contest in front of a bunch of bikers. He also used “lipstick on a pig” to describe Hillary Clinton’s health care plan and made a tasteless joke about Chelsea Clinton’s looks.
I’ll believe that he’s concerned about sexism when he supports equal pay for equal work and a woman’s right to choice. Until then, it’s straight b.s.

Very good post! There was also something about “silly season”, applied to Clinton, in which the context was all.

Omentum, Obama can’t take the gloves off without proving himself to be a fake. If you remember, he is supposed to be the change candidate. He is the one who backed himself into this corner. Not a very smart thing to do. Not presidential at all to say you will act one way then act the opposite. Poor Obama. Poor poor Obama. It’s getting pathetic and hard to watch.

Literally, the same people are running McCain’s campaign as those who ran and worked in the Bush campaign. The sad thing is they honestly believe that promising fake change will help keep them in power. Let’s keep hoping the MCSame camp keeps underestimating the American people.

Obama’s sex ed for young kids is around teaching them about sexual predators and what to do if they do get molested or if someone attempts to molest them. It is not to teach them about sex. It is a fine line, but an important thing to teach kids. We teach them about ‘stranger danger’, but there are dangers from people who are not strangers.

Ladies, if your thinking of voting for Obama, think hard. If he treats a woman this way now, how will he treat womens problems when hes (god forbid) elected. He has no problem calling you pigs. He will have no problem later not addressing womens issues. He destroyed Hillary, now hes attacking Palin. Just try and get more womens rights passed with this two faced person.

Thank you, Jake, for telling it like it is. Three cheers for Obama for standing up to this crap and pointing the media back to the real issues at stake. For the love of pete can we please talk about the real issues?

Bev – look at the clip and the text. She said she’s praying, let’s all pray for the men and women over in Iraq, and pray that there’s a plan for the war, and pray the plan for war is in God’s plan. I’m not a Palin apologist, but even I can go for the concept of praying for our military and praying that any plan that includes military action is indeed in God’s plan.

Enough!
Bush did this and we got 8 years of a country going down the tubes.
Now you all are going to buy in for a THIRD TIME.
Enough…there is truth and then there is this bologne.
and this bologne throws our kids’ futures down the tubes.
who is actually saying we are going to change course …and who is saying we are going to shake up washington …with no facts, details or plans…examples …answers…
Enough! we are done with the trashing our country has taken for 8 years…

“Obama accused the Mccain campaign of saying they scare people into thinking he doesnt’ look like the guys on dollar bills.”
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And yet during the DNC, they sold 3-dollar bills at a Republican fundraiser with Obama’s face on the front, wearing a Muslim headdress. I find that to not only be racisim, but bigotry towards religion, as well.

Most strangers are not dangerous. I for one don’t want the public schools teaching my child that people are dangerous. Teach them that people are like the weather and you never know when a tonado person is going to strike, but please don’t teach kids stranger danger. It’s part of the problem. The other part of the problem is the UNION OF BAD TEACHERS Obama panders to. It is a parent’s job to teach children about sex. ENOUGH!

LIPSTICK has been a catch phrase for Palin since her speech at the convention. Obama knew what he was doing. For Obama to say “stop the phony outrage” is an obnoxious and arrogant statement and shows how sexist he is.

She said they put that jet on e-bay and it sold for a profit. She lied, it never got sold on e-bay, it got sold later to a Republican campaign contributor.

Obama said “It was catnip for the media.” Now this is about the McCain response. How does Obama explain the fact that MANY people viewed HIS “catnip” as an insulting insinuation, BEFORE McCains response? Obama calls them like he plays them. This is too dirty. It went from total Pride of the Deocratic Line Up at the beginning of the Primaries, to shameful. Look how far we have come; Hillary received sexist attacks. Obama receives racist attacks on the blogs and radio. The Edwards affair. This is stuff just from the DEM side. What happened? Why is the entire thing in the gutter now? So because some people believe the Republicans play this way; Dems will get into the gutter? Why? Issues are and always have been on the DEM side. This whole race reflects what our society is all about. In the history books, it will represent OUR SOCIAL HISTORY. So far, not good.

On top of the badly used words pig and lipsticks, Obama in fact plagiarized his entire speech segment from a political carton. Obama said:
John McCain says he’s about change too. Exce- and and so I guess his whole angle is – watch out, George Bush – except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl-Rove-style politics, we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington.
Obama did it again!!!
ABC please report this.

I would think that coverage on the Newsweek article on troopergate and the judge involved in the custody case, saying that the attcks on wooten by the family. ( Palin) amounted to Child abuse. I gather that (Pailin) and family were playing tug of war with the children’s emotion painting their father as being bad etc.
Leadership we need.

Donna wade samantha amy kitty…etc etc
you are playing the same game as 2000 and 2004
again America has had enough of the same tactics as what brought us the last 8 years of destroying our kids’ futures.
McCain?Palin is not offering any change
any different plans from the ones that have bneen sending us down the hole for 8 years…
adn now we see they AND you all are using the same campaign and tactics as the decisions that brought us George W. Bush.
enough!
this is about our kids’ futures and you are screwing it for them…for a third time!

McCain said he would run an honorable campaign. He lied.

Who cares about the issues and improving America? I just want to be President because, darnit, it is MY TURN!
-John McCain 9/10/2008

WOW O’reily ate the stuttering Obama alive last night,he coudl not defend his association with known terrorist AYers or convicted felon Rezko, Obama even tried that lie about him not hearing the “rev’ spew his hatred about America adn White people.

McCain ally Mike Huckabee took Obama’s side on the issue, saying he didn’t think it was a swipe at Palin.
“It’s an old expression, and I’m going to have to cut Obama some slack on that one. I do not think he was referring to Sarah Palin; he didn’t reference her. If you take the two sound bites together, it may sound like it,” he said on Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes.”
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“But I’ve been a guy at the podium many times, and you say something that’s maybe a part of an old joke and then somebody ties it in. So, I’m going to have to cut him slack.”

This coming from a campaign run by David Axelrod whose entire career is based on winning elections by falsly accusing opponents of racism. Spare me Mr Obama and Mr Axelrod. You knew exactly what you were saying, and it’s not pretty.

America is tired of scummy smear crap…
we are done with the same politics that brought us George W. Bush and the game that he played and mccain palin are promising and showing they will play.
two elections on this kind of cr@p got us 8 years of destroying our nation.
we are done. and you all want to do it for a third time…
note from the future
“…expletive expletive expletive stop! expletive expletive enough is enough…
don’t be stupid for a third year in a row! you are killing us”

Country Club
I don’t know which Oriely you were watching …
i was watching the one where he was interrupting obama and didnt allow him to get a word in ……
oreilly is an abysmal joke.

John McCain’s daughter Meghan is not taking offense to Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” line like the rest of her father’s campaign, pointing out Wednesday morning that GOP presidential nominee has been known to use the phrase.
“I’ve heard my dad say that, the term ‘lipstick on a pig,’” McCain said during an appearance on Fox promoting her new children’s book about her father.

Palin rails about earmarks when she requested $750 million in earmarks over the past two years. Mavrick my ass.

amy
I know this is hard, but don’tcha think the cartoonist actually was repeating things that were said earlier…oy.

We’ll see an issues-oriented campaign out of McCain/Palin when pigs can fly!

Omentum, I am one of those Independents who lives in a state where I can’t vote in the primaries …. Obama’s worst nightmare. AND I VOTE EVERY TIME I CAN.

Bhrandon–Yeah I know what a saying is. But would Obama have said the lipstick “saying” if Palin hadn’t said it at the convention? NO! and like I said he knew in what context he was making the remark. I saw the video and the deliberate way Obama said it. The audience knew it too, the rest of the liberal bloggers are in denial. Obama is now pulling the victim card, you know the one next to the race card? How pathetic!

enough of this 8 years…and as we see no changes in policy or politics from the same team…
it got us 8 years of **** already and now they want to continue it for 4 more.
enough of this cr@p…
to be fooled and stupid for a third time in a row… 8 years now would become 12 because of this bologne…enough!

Amy,
Obama specifically referenced the cartoon before giving those lines about McCain and Bush in his speech.
See what happens when you trust the right wing and repeat their lies, you look silly.

Patriot – Plane bought for 2.7 on credit, sells for 2.1 2-3 yrs later. A car loses ~20% in value the minute you drive off the lot. How much does a plane lose after you fly it for a few years?

You people are true idiots that support Mccain and palin and believe lies about Obama, really you are stupid, it is very clear, end of story.

what is McCain and palin offering?
what are they offering?!
what are they offering?!
Nothing new.

LIES LIES LIES , YOU PEOPLE SUPPORTING MCCAIN AND PALIN LOVE TO BE LIED TO AND FORCED INTO FEAR. YES FEAR. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE, CAN’T YOU SEE… REALLY THIS IS SO OBVIOUS THAT THEY ARE TOYING WITH YOUR HEAD AND YOUR CHILDISH EMOTIONS

All of you GOP supporters are proving Obama right, you don’t address the issues, you just focus on crap that doesn’t matter.
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OK I’ll give you an issue to discuss:
If Obama wins and he gets the 3 AM phone call, will he
1. Put them on hold until he can locate Joe Biden or
2. Will he just let Joe Biden have the red telephone to start with?

The “Maverick” said he would make the “porkers” famous…
Palin is now famous. She is the VP nominee of the Republican Party
Way to go “Maverick”

Donna,
The Presidency of America is not a child’s play. It is not a joke.
It doesn’t know whether you are a Man or a Woman. All it knows is that a large and complex Country needs to be run and it has to be run well.
All the shout of sexism is not only divisive but ridiculous.
It is fair if Sarah Palin attacks Obama. It is fair if She twists facts to suit her political purposes.
But it is sexist if Obama debunks the falsehood, It is sexism if Obama hits back.
It appears People like you wants the Presidency to be handed to her on a platter of Gold. That would not only be counter-productive, it would be unnecessarily playing to the gallery.
President Medvedev of Russia would see the Presidency and not a Woman if Palin becomes POTUS considering Mccain mortality as a result of his age.
Al-quaeda and the Talibans will not soft-pedal on their attacks on the US Militarymen in Afghanistan because it is a Woman that is POTUS.
The President has no sex. The President is neither Male or Female.
He/She is the President of the United States and he/she has a Strong, massive and complex Country to run.
So you insult that Office and you insult all Women that have achieved by dint of hard work if you expect a free passage for Gov. Mccain because she is Female.

“You all laud his oratory until he says something like this and then “he didn’t mean it”
No-one’s saying that. He meant exactly what he said. Which is that describing McCain’s policies as ‘change’ is like putting lipstick on a pig.
He didn’t mention Palin.

McCain is offering America a bridge to no where.

How can people who call themselves Christian, support an admitted adulterer and liar?

“Patriot – Plane bought for 2.7 on credit, sells for 2.1 2-3 yrs later. A car loses ~20% in value the minute you drive off the lot. How much does a plane lose after you fly it for a few years?”
The broker who sold the plane and who I assume knows these things better than we do asked for $300K more.

HE’S the one who opened his big mouth…if these are serious times calling for serious debate, THEN WHY DID HE USE THE PHRASE, COMING ON THE HEELS OF GOV. PALIN’S HOCKEY MOM/PIT BULL/LIPSTICK JOKE last week, seen and heard by 39 million people and in print everywhere after the Republican convention.
HE is the idiot who lost a day of campaigning on SERIOUS issues when he said this….he knew exactly what he was saying as the crowd cheered and rose to their feet.
And more concerning is why is he campaigning against GOV. PALIN, OUR #2 ON THE TICKET….this appears to be very weak, and he is battling the wrong opponent. That should be Biden’s job, and from where I stand he seems fascinated by “lipstick” too, as he was quoted saying something similar.
Man…..get these guys to the Clinique counter, so they can get over their fascination with LIPSTICK. They are looking like pusses.
For the record McCain and Palin have not publicly said anything in addressing this and will hopefully leave it alone….let Obama/Biden sexism stand on it’s own.

Barry should have stopped at the pig analogy, instead he needed to throw in the old fish wrapped in newspaper analogy, which leads some people to believe that he meant that Palin was the pig and that McCain was the old fish.

Yeee haaaa
Honey how many houses we got?

Senator Obama is not your normal caring human being. He is a devil and will take with him to the White House criminals, terrorists, liars and crazies. He does not care about Americans but only his great need for power. I think he is sick in the head.

James Danley
Historical data shows that the economy and the stock market do better under a Democrat compared to Republicans.
Jimmy Carter created more jobs in one term than Bush did in two terms.
If ya don’t believe me, look it up.

Vote for McCain and Palin
They are Americans… They are “like” us.
They are patriots.
yeeeee haaaaaaaa.
Wow… internet works on my yahcht. How do they git dem computer cables out here in the water.
yyyyyyeeee haaaaaaa

Millions of Jobs Added
Truman 1949 -1952 5.2
Eisenhower 1953 – 1956 2.7
Eisenhower 1957 – 1960 0.8
Kennedy/Johnson 1961 – 1964 5.7
Johnson 1965 – 1968 9.8
Nixon 1969 – 1972 6.1
Nixon/Ford 1972 – 1976 5.2
Carter 1977 – 1980 10.4
Reagan 1981 – 1984 5.2
Reagan 1985 – 1988 10.8
Bush 1989 – 1992 2.5
Clinton 1993 – 1996 11.6
Clinton 1997 – 2000 11.5
Bush 2001 – 2004 (0.1)
Bush 2005 – 2008 5.1

“which leads some people to believe that he meant that Palin was the pig and that McCain was the old fish.”
Gee Mack that’s exactly what McCain’s spox said. Its uncanny.

America gets sadder and sadder, half of it

Patriot…when did Palin have time for an affair? Got a link? Last I saw her with 5 kids and a pretty handsome high school sweetheart husband. Doesn’t look like she’s had loads of time for an affair, but if she did… WHOA.. that’s a multi-tasker and then some!

If Obama loses this election, he’ll still retain my respect, which I feel is the one thing that McCain wants most–and will never have from me again.

“which leads some people to believe that he meant that Palin was the pig and that McCain was the old fish.”
Gee Mack that’s exactly what McCain’s spox said. Its uncanny. ”
It’s an obvious conclusion to come to, if you think about. I actually figured it out all by my little self. And no, I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.

In other news: Cindy McCain must fill a sense of competition from the pit bull wannabe with lipstick, Cindy is on the campaign trail today showing her cleavage.
Whoever took offence with the lipsticked pig, all I can say is if the shoe fits wear it, phonies.
If someone is making light of Palin and family, it is John McCain. He is using this family for his own Commander in Chief endeavor. That is the outrage. The use of a pregnant teenager, the use of a down syndrome child and others for his persistant maverick endeavors.
Thank you McCain for your service even though you and your maverick ways is the cause of your POW past. But no thank you, i don’t think that we need those maverick ways in the White House in command of this country.
Go Obama/Biden go!

Mary, those criminals and liars you are talking about suddenly appearing in the White House…do the words Rove, Cheney, Bush, CIA leak, and WMDs mean anything to you. Just because McCain and Palin are not mentioning Bush does not mean the crap he and his admistration has done does not exist.

Mack:
Thanks man……step forward; not back….
I was not sure where you were coming from…..You have to read Liz’s comments to understand where I was coming from…..
I’m sorry for the confusion…….
Obama 2008

Forget the lipstick controversy; it’s a diversion and a “tempest in a teapot.”
While Mr. Obama said, children, families, and faith are off-limits for criticism, he might want to reconsider his moratorium against faith. John McCain made faith an issue by selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. By picking her, he pandered to women AND evangelicals.
It was the far right-wing evangelicals that enabled Mr. Bush to win, especially his second term, because he dangled their two “absolute” issues: anti gay marriage and anti-abortion in front of them like a carrot. It’s an important connection that links McCain to Bush because it’s the far right-wing “moral absolutistists” who are the people that Karl Rove manipulated and who are primarily responsible for the extreme hatred and political polarization that exists today in America. That means that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin is in direct conflict with his message of bipartisanship and national healing from the destructive Bush years.
Sarah’s far right-wing views are relevant because she has indicated that they strongly impact her thinking and decision process by calling the destructive Iraq war, based on false pretenses; God’s will (or war). What right thinking person could possibly agree with that?
She has demonstrated that she will attempt to force her “absolute” ideas upon other American’s even if they disagree with her or in spite of the fact that she can’t live up to her own standards.
In the international arena, Mrs. Palin’s combination of inexperience and “absolute” values will lead to unnecessary, dangerous, and deadly brinkmanship with first, second, and third-world leaders and crackpots.
Barack Obama has to gauge the backlash from this strategy, but it can be done, if done carefully.
Knowing the evangelicals as I do, their almost certain rabid outrage to this strategy would probably reveal how radical and distasteful they really are.

Obama isn’t capable of talking without a wrtten script from someone, here in America. How do you think he can talk with respect to a foreign country head of state, with out screwing it up , insulting them, or getting America in more trouble? Obama is not able to think on his feet!

Would that be a ‘made-up’ controversy, or a ‘make-up’ controversy?
I eagerly await analogies involving concealer, blusher, lip(lie)ner and foundation.

If you don’t vote for McCain/Palin then you are racists, sexist, and anti-American! Be an American Patroit, vote for a sure Change! Not a Pig in a Poke Obama/Biden. Obama the Fraud, Biden the cry baby! Vote for the Mavricks – McCain/Palin.

Thanks to The View (ABC today) they shows clips of A Pig in Lipstick the McCain & Obama had used in years past and that it was McCain who used it first. As I said years ago in conjunction with First Lady Hillary’s Health Care.
The other problem is the media could have done the same thing the View did instead of making this comment the ”lead” story. The media is once again making the news. Shame on all of them.

I think Obama is just Jealous of Palin! She’s Smart, Intelligent, Experienced, Funny, Whitty, Can Think On Her Feet AND Shoot to Boot Too! Not to mention She Can Walk and Chew Gum At The Same Time, SHE IS Everything Obamma Wants To Be! Palin Can Do!!! Obama Can’t Do Nothin!!! But hey, Obama IS Present! LOLLOLLOL!!!!!!!!

Right on, Senator Obama. So many members of my family are out of work right now, just in the past few years, and it’s a constant stressor on the whole family. They are BARELY getting by. It is an OUTRAGE that McCain is letting Karl Rove take over his campaign just like Bush let him take over our country for the past 8 years. We have SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
Obama-Biden 08 — For Solutions instead of the Same Old BullSh-t

Look at the right wingers froth up!
What’s a matter?
Did your latest fake outrage crash and burn like your stolen flags?

Obama and Biden have LIPSTICK ENVY! Maybe he can borrow some from that pit bull he’s married to…WHY IS MICHELLE STILL IN HIDING? They realized she was a detriment to his campaign…mean ‘ol Michelle, seems like Obama is just like her.

. These are serious times and they call for a serious debate about where to take the nation…”
McCain called for serious debates, so did Clinton, Obama was too chicken to debate. Obama was talking about McCain’s property instead.

BruhMan,
You have a problem with bailouts? Ask Obama why he killed the amendment to prevent Exelon from taxpayer bailout.
I guess you don’t like bailout because they cost taxpayer dollars even though they are private companies. Which means Palin knows what she is talking about.

Just wondering,
It was used to decribe a health care plan. not too difficult. We all understand it is a phrase, context is everything.

geevill, so it’s all in the interpretation. I rest my case.

wait till her finances are investigated—whats that you say—oil money dont count

“Which means Palin knows what she is talking about.”
Then why did she talk about the need to make them smaller, smarter and more efficient is it was just about costing taxpayers in a bailout.
She thought they were government programs.
She is a moron.

Just wondering:
McCain wasn’t referring to Hillary, he was referring to her healthcare plan. It was obvious that Obama was playing on Palin’g pit-bull comment. It was how he said it. Watch his speech again, it was definitely a slam on Palin.

whats that you say —-CHINA IS GETTING THE OIL OUT OF IRAQ——GUESS MCDUMMY AND HIS FRIEND BUSHY GOT A BUNCH OF OUR PEOPLR KILLED FOR—(ABSOLUTELY NOTHING)
LET FREAKING CHINA DEAR WITH IRAQ.
SINCE OBAMA SAID OUR TROOPS WOULD BE COMING HOME WHEN HE IS PRES-IT IS FUNNY TO SEE THE REPUBS SCRAMBLING TO DO SAME. OBAMA IS LEADER AND THEY FOLLOW
GO OBAMA

“McCain wasn’t referring to Hillary, he was referring to her healthcare plan. ”
Yes.
“It was obvious that Obama was playing on Palin’g pit-bull comment.”
How was it obvious since the previous five minutes he spent comparing the McCaon policy to the Bush policy and did not mention Palin once?
So how was it obvious?
Because Drudge used her picture with quote or because Foxnews told you to be mad?

OBAMA IS THE LEADER WHEN IT COMES TO CHANGE —AND MCBUSH IS THE FOLLOWER—-WHAT A LOSER—TOLD YOU HE IS —D AVERAGE EDUCATION.

Sorry, but we all read the lipstick-pig remarks here and we all had the same reaction: Yikes. I cannot believe he said that.
Palin’s lipstick-pit-bull joke was watched by 40 million, and discussed on every TV network 24/7 for the week preceding Obama’s transparent double entendre. No way was this controversy “made up” by McCain.
Nor is Obama a first offender.
I cite his “sweetie problem”, his references to Hillary’s period, and his allusion to the Jay-Z song “99 Problems” during a primary speech this summer when he symbolically brushed Hillary off his shoulders (to a roaring crowd).
Poor guy. No sooner can he take the “99 problems” lyrics** to heart than another troublesome female comes out of the woodwork to steal his oxygen.
______
**”I got 99 problems but a B**** ain’t one.”

John McCain is a “hero” to U.S. taxpayers for his lifetime record of resisting earmarks, while Barack Obama and Joe Biden are “hostile” and “unfriendly,” a government spending watchdog group has concluded.
In its new report, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste gave the Republican presidential nominee a 100 percent rating for his votes in the Senate last year, and a lifetime score of 88 percent.
By comparison, the nonpartisan, nonprofit group, which is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, assigned Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, 10 percent last year and a lifetime score of 18 percent. Biden, Obama’s running mate, scored 0 percent last year and an overall score of 22 percent.

Want to know why the Obama camp doesn’t talk about the Bridge To Nowhere anymore?
Obama and Biden voted yes to the Bridge. And then voted No to funds that could have been diverted to Katrina relief.

depravedmaniac:
Actually, it sounds like you will be the one voting for the “village idiot”, cause I’ll be voting for MCCAIN/PALIN!!!!
Why is it that you Obama followers have to resort to name-calling all of the time? Is it because you’re scared?

If he can’t run with the big dogs, he should just stay on the porch.

This was trashy and it needs to be fixed. Although the DEMS may stand on issues most Americans are aligned on, the party is coming across as sexist. It went sexist on Hillary and now it is doing it on Palin. Bashing women is still acceptable; until women fight back; Whether done by a Republican or Democrat to a Republican or Democrat. You end up not isulting your opponent but anyone of that gender as well as people who just think it’s wrong. Why would Obama put something out that attacks a foe and friend? It’s like blowing up a whole village in order to get the enemy.

ted: nice insult to the hard working men and women who built this country and make it great. I work. I work hard. I went to college (paid for it myself) and I’m in a good job with good benefits. And I will STILL lose my home or lose my insurance under the McCain plan to tax my benefits. Who cares about a measly 3% tax cut when my benefits get taxed. Obama gives me a 5% tax cut and leaves my benefits alone. That means – I keep my home (that I love and am so proud of) and I keep my insurance so I can protect my kids and keep them safe.

Hey Ohiogirl,
At least Obama talks about the issues…hello! He can barely stay on track with all of the manipulative distractions! What is McCain or Palin for that matter talking? They are still running the same old speeches from last week! If you open your ears and listen he has said that taxes will be fairly distributed among those make$250k and above as well as closing the loopholes for the big companies that your boys get payout from! Pay attention!

Obama is complaining about being Swiftboated, but I seem to remember the Obama camp screaming “racist” about every little comment made by the Clintons and their surrogates, no matter how inocuous those comments were. Turnabout is fair play. Doesn’t McCain get to complain when Obama plays dirty?

Hey Bucky,
What closet are you living in? Oh Obama’s base is going to turn out in droves so keep up all of the negativity. That will drive people out all of the more. This is history in the making and oh you better believe we are going to make it buddy! Go back up under the bed where you belong!

Let’s see… Obama calls Pallin a pig with lipstick and McCain a old fish and somehow that is the Republicans fault. You people are the lunatics. The audience got the reference immediately and Obama followed it up with comments about Pallin being new (even though she has been an elected official longer than he has). Obama should take responsibility for what he said and apologize but I doubt he has the class to do that. If you think it was fine what he said do you think it would be ok if McCain said you can take the turban off and put on a suit but it doesn’t make him Presidential?

Mary, I hope you are merely an Obama supporter pushing the talking points of the day– health care is not the subject of Tapper’s article here but you have posted on that topic under here a great deal. If you are truly the person you represent yourself to be, I feel for you and hope that your situation improves. I can tell you, however, that from what I understand of the health insurance proposals of both candidates, you need not fear “losing my insurance or my home” under McCain. For openers, his plan includes a tax credit to offset insurance costs, so your health insurance costs will NOT go up as you state. Also, he is committed to ideas like portability, which are very important for low-income workers.
The tone of your posts sounds like the tired old “republicans will take your social security” that has been used for decades to try to scare old people at election time. It gets pulled out every four years and the oldsters are not without SS yet. Now we’re scaring younger voters as well, with this terrible “republicans will take away your health insurance”? Don’t do that. Both men have plans that include safeguards to protect low-income workers, or so they claim. I take them at their word and do not think either plan would result in people like you winding up uninsured and financially ruined.
I do have my own opinions about the health care issue, and I am far more concerned about the details of Obama’s plans than of McCain’s. Government-run, government-mandated health care does not inspire me– think Medicare and Medicaid. I think it would be an expensive, unworkable, bureaucratic nightmare. I prefer McCain’s market-based plan.
Oh, and in the interest of full disclosure, I am a small business owner, so I pay for my own health care. I am far from rich, but Obama seems to think I’m wealthy. I plan to vote for McCain.
And for those of you who keep insisting that all McCain fans are uneducated fools, I have a doctorate.

A substantial shift in the vote preference among independents has given John McCain a slim lead over Barack Obama after the Republican convention. Independents now break for McCain by 15 percentage points (46 percent to 31 percent) in a FOX News poll released Wednesday.
Last month, Obama had a one-point edge among independents (August 19-20, 2008).
Overall, McCain leads Obama by 45 percent to 42.
And yes, I do like Fox News. Afterall, most of the media are clearly biased for Obama.

Ryan C, do you know what the Alaska state law allows regarding travel expenses for its government officals? It may well be the case that the governor and the state legislators receive the per diems whether they return to their homes or not. So before you and the others condemn or even accuse Gov. Palin of doing something illegal or unethical, you may want to verify what the Alaska law allows.

WHO AM I ?
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less
than two years in the governor’s office.
Sorry! Not Gov. Palin. I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900–and I won in 1900.

It’s sauce-goose-gander time, folks.
If ANY criticism of Obama — from his celebrity status to his experience as a community organizer — can be characterized as racist, then ANY reference to Palin — no matter how oblique — can be viewed as sexist.
Either grow a thicker skin or stop playing the game

Gee Obama is doing so well, more slamming of Sarah will give John more than a 25 point lead!!!

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck said “completely false” attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.
They call the ad “Fact Check.” It says “the attacks on Gov. Palin have been called ‘completely false’ … ‘misleading.’ ” On screen is a still photo of a grim-faced Obama. Our words are accurately quoted, but they had nothing to do with Obama.
Our article, posted two days earlier, debunked a number of false or misleading claims that have circulated in chain e-mails and Internet postings regarding Palin. There is no evidence that the Obama campaign is behind any of the wild accusations that we critiqued. There is no more basis for attributing these viral attacks to the Obama campaign than there is for blaming the McCain campaign for chain e-mail attacks falsely claiming that Obama is a Muslim, or a “racist,” or that he is proposing to tax water. The anti-Palin messages, have every appearance of being home-grown.

ohiogirl: it’s hard for me to understand your position. You agree that there are few people in that $250,000+ category. But those people have a LOT of money – most of the money in America. So, do the math. Obama taxes those people, who have the money to give & he closes corporate loopholes and goes after giant corporations that send jobs overseas. He gives people like me, struggling well under that number with kids and a mortgage, a tax cut of 5%. That’s how he pays for things. McCain pays for it by taxing my medical benefits like income – something I CAN’T afford to pay and keep my home. He does that because he also wants to give tax cuts to the super rich and keep the corporate tax loopholes in place. I know you are paying attention but I don’t know how much investigating you are doing. I don’t think you are a troll and I think name calling is not helpful to either side. It just clouds the issues. But tell me based on an issue like these taxes – why do you think McCain putting more of a burden on people like me will help. I’m not rich & I don’t blame the government either. I just work hard to provide the best for my family. I just need government not to saddle me with more burden (like taxing my benefits). I need them to leave that alone – and McCain doesn’t. Because (just like Obama) he has to pay for things somehow and he is unwilling to go after the wealthy and the giant multi-national corporations to do it.

We will see in November now won’t we. The country will vote and we will have a change in name at the office.Which is more important to you? The candidates gender, race or the policies that they will bring.

“So again – where is this goodtime Charlie going to get all that money he’s using in an attempt to buy votes?”
Bringing our troops home from a war costing us $10B a week and returning the tax rates to the Clinton years is a great start.

Kate,
I’m not Ohiogirl, but I can respond to your query as I am a McCain supporter as well who appreciates his tax policy and prefers it to that of Obama. First of all, I have to defend those making 250,000+ because I am one. I am a small business owner, whose income is in that range because I’m a partnership, not a corporation, and thus the income of my company flows through to my personal income tax. You say that “those people have a LOT of money – most of the money in America. So, do the math.” Well, they also already pay MOST of the taxes in America– the top 5% of income earners pay 60% of the taxes, and 40% of American workers pay no income taxes at all or get an earned income credit. I fall in that top 5%, which is a huge surprise to me given my personal circumstances which are far from what people think of when they think “wealthy.” I paid over 25% of my income in taxes last year. I did so gladly but would appreciate relief like anyone else. If Obama goes ahead and saddles all the increased tax burden on my income group, he will, it seems to me, damage small business and slow economic growth even further. My company currently has one outside employee and would like to add another in the near future. We have held off waiting to see what happens after the election. With higher taxes, we would not be able to expand.
You went on to write,”Obama taxes those people, who have the money to give & he closes corporate loopholes and goes after giant corporations that send jobs overseas. He gives people like me, struggling well under that number with kids and a mortgage, a tax cut of 5%.”
Closing corporate loopholes? Now there’s an idea no one’s tried before. Yes, that’s sarcasm. I don’t hold out much hope for that being a significant income source. And the tax rates of corporations is already among the world’s highest. I see nothing in his plan that would result in increased federal income from corporations overall.
Finally, you say,” That’s how he pays for things. McCain pays for it by taxing my medical benefits like income – something I CAN’T afford to pay and keep my home. He does that because he also wants to give tax cuts to the super rich and keep the corporate tax loopholes in place.” Yikes, where to begin. First of all, Obama himself makes clear that his tax plans will not offset all the increased government spending he proposes, even with his own generous estimates of the cost of his health care plan. He does not even pretend to try to bring the deficit back in line.
Secondly, McCain has tax credits that will offset the “taxing my health benefits as income” problem. I notice that several of you folks with plain names are focusing on the same talking points– you and Mary seem to both push the claim that taxing benefits will drive you homeless. I have my doubts. McCain’s tax plan is intended to stimulate economic growth– we will have to agree to disagree about which plan is the more effective way forward, since my understanding of the issue, which I have followed very closely, is that the McCain plan is superior for the nation as a whole. And I do not interpret the moves that this long-time reformer and original MAVERICK, John McCain, plans as keeping corporate loopholes in place. I’d like to have some examples, please. It smells like that line about “tax breaks for oil companies”– McCain wants to cut corporate tax rates, gigantic oil companies would get the cut just like every other corporation, because of their size and the amount of taxes they pay, the dollar amount of their tax savings would be large, but that is not the same thing as singling out those companies for particular favors, as the Democrats are implying with their language.

Jeez man. The conservatives sure are in a tizzy. Tapper can report all he wants on some random Dem saying something silly- obviously the McCain camp has become unhinged.

The lipstick on a pig comment is an old saying. My grandmother used to say it all the time. AND JOHN MCCAIN SAID THE VERY SAME THING during the primaries when he as talking about some Hillary Clinton policy!

Thanks for the help Moderate, I really enjoy what you have posted.

Moderate: I appreciate your response because it isn’t name calling. I’m not a campaign worker or any kind of paid blogger. (And I can only do this on my lunch hour and breaks). But I would respond to some of your points as follows:
1. You have doubts that taxing my benefits will drive me homeless. You don’t know my situtation but it is definitely real. I live paycheck-to-paycheck and just barely cover my mortgage, medical co-pays & deductibles etc, groceries, gas, stuff for my children’s school – and prices going up every day. Any increase will make me go under & that medical benefit is a HUGE lifeline. But you say: “McCain has tax credits that will offset the “taxing my health benefits as income” problem.” His tax credit is a mere $5000 per FAMILY for the year. I get that if I opt out of the insurance plan. That won’t even cover 3 months of insurance premiums. How will I make do the rest of the year or should I just tell my kids to get sick or injured on a timetable?
2. I am delighted you make more than $250,000 per year & understand wanting to keep your money. You only have 1 outside employee – do you pay for medical benefits. If you do, under McCain you will lose that as a tax write-off because now that is considered income to that employee & the employee will pay it. Have you asked your employee how they feel about it?
3. Your number is slightly misleading in saying the rich pay 60% of the taxes. They don’t pay a 60% rate, they pay 60% of all American taxes but they control a LOT more than 60% of the money. Under Obama the increase would go from 36 to 39 percent (just like during the Clinton era when people weren’t exactly going broke) – but you didn’t even pay the current rate because you obviously have a lot of credits/offsets that brought it all the way down to 25%. That’s less than what I pay because I’m just a working stiff.
3. Even McCain can’t do anything about the deficit Bush ran up. And certainly without an end to the war, that deficit will rise faster with McCain than Obama. That war is a money pit. At least Obama wants to spend the money in America and not overseas.
4. Example of McCain’s refusal to considering taxing big corps – his refusal to consider a windfall profit tax on the oil industry. An industry making record profits by the way.
5. I have to question your logic that the increase in income tax will be so detrimental to your business that you wont’ be able to hire someone else. The income tax is for pure profit, not for money put back into a business. And if people like me aren’t taxed on our medical benefits and have more money to spend (under the Obama plan), then we will put more money into businesses like yours. That’s a free market. The other is the same old “trickle down” economic theory that has utterly failed over the past 8 years.
So, in the end, neither candidate will be able to pay for everything based on current taxes or with the proposed tax cuts. But Obama wants to spend the money in America. McCain wants to spend it on the war overseas. And Obama sees the economy helped through the “bottom up” approach by giving people like me, the hard working class, more money to spend on local businesses like yours. You still think the trickle down approach is best, even though it has failed over the past 8 years. Perhaps it’s just whether you see the situation from below $250,000 or from above it. The view just looks different from down here.
Well, I think that puts the policies in perspective without the name-calling or rancor. And now the people will decide. Hopefully, they will decide on these issues and not the petty drama.

Marylou, I kind of resent the accusation that I’m looking for a handout from Obama. I’m just looking to avoid having the government ask for even more of me. Yes, the wealthy pay taxes, but they also have the ability to utilize a lot of tax shelters and exemptions (i.e. an unlimited Health Savings Account to put money into tax free to cover medical expenses their insurance doesn’t cover) that I don’t have the extra money to pay for. As Jimmy Stewart once said, “Just remember this, Mr. Potter: that this rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?” And as I might say, is it too much to not tax their medical benefits that they rely on to keep their families safe and healthy. As was noted in an earlier post, Clinton did the same tax increase and job creation sky-rocketed. And I, for one, don’t want to saddle my grandchildren with a war debt that my vote helped increase.

Oh, but I guess it’s OK for clueless and ignorant Republicans that JOHN MCCAIN SAID THE SAME “lipstick” comment during the primaries when he attacked Hillary Clinton! Come on people! This is so ridiculous… When will America stop being so stupid and gullible and start demanding that the GOP and McCain and Palin deal with reality and not constant lies?

Wade,
I was actually alive in the 70′s.
This is more like Germany in the 30′s.

more faux-outrage…
Of course if I was in Johnny and Sarah’s place and actually had to debate the war, the economy, joblessness, soaring gas prices, a shameless replay of the 9/11 attacks for political ploy, then I guess that being mortally offended by a well known phrase that’s older than McCain seems like a good choice, however crazy and stupid it might seem to the rest of the world when he takes it completely out of context….

Seriously, when even O’Reilly steps up and says that McCain and Palen are taking things out of context and saying it’s ridiculous.. WHEN BILL O REILLY CALLS OUT A REPUBLICAN you know it is getting bad for the GOP.

I would really like to know why the republicans are so much better protecting the country when 9/11 happened on their watch? Why the democrats have to explain the Iraq war when the republicans started it in the first place?

Those comparing Obama’s tax plan to Bill Clinton’s need to have some perspective -
Bill Clinton had the benefit of being President as the huge dot.com was rising. Bush had the misfortune of coming into office as that bubble was bursting.
There is no dot.com bubble now to ride with increased taxes. And Obama’s tax increases are much more than Clinton’s were.
I’m self-employed and I repeat: I have no incentive to grow my business under Obama. I’m one of those people who actually has to work hard for every dollar I make; if taxes are just going to take it anyway, I’ll kick back and take it easy.

By calling Govenor Palin,” lipstick on a pig” obama demonstrates exactly what kind of primitive animal he is, when he is threatened and cornered.
Now that McCain is ahead in the race,
obama is showing his true colours, and has let his stoney exterior SLIP, to reveal a low and common uneducated persona, like the primitive APEMAN.
NO GENTLEMAN would ever call a parent with a Down Syndrome Child a lipstick on a pig, just because they are now stealing his thunder.
John McCain is a gentleman, even if he does hate obama’s guts, would never resort to such base and crude language.

Enough is Enough.
Enough of Repblican show. It’s tiring to watch them. I feel like they have no difference with Paris and Brittney.
Brittney Palin and John Spears.

Mccain use the phrase: “Lip stick on a pig” to refer to Mrs. Clinton. No one said any thing. GOP want now to make sexism part of the game and win over the women supporters this is very childish and abvious! But I hope American people are not fools as John Mccain think. Withouth such manipulation and lies America wouldn’t elect a grade “C” student like President Bush. That is why the world can hear AMERICA any more. I hope you learned from your past mistakes: electinf fanatic warmongors who beleive god is ourside and againist anyone else!

Palin had no idea what the Bush Doctrine was – the central and most controversial foreign policy innovation of the past eight years: the doctrine of preemption against states with WMDs. Moreover, in her speech the same day, she described the war in Iraq. She said her eldest son, who has just enlisted, would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans”.