Obama Says McCain Is Offering Fake Change: ‘You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It’s Still a Pig’

WOW..go get them!!!Keep that elbow sharp. They don’t think you got it in you!

I love it! :-)

Poor Obama.

So he’s sunk so low as to call McCain a dead fish and Palin a pig. What a baby. He’s just sore over the fact that McCain beat him at the political game by waiting to make his V.P. pick. Poor little Barack. I’ll be so glad when all of this is over and he goes back to being a JUNIOR senator.
MCCAIN/PALIN ’08!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

So Joe…only a liberal woman on the ticket would be a step forward for women?
should have told that to Obama…
Biden just lost a few more women today.
Keep them coming Joe.

Yikes!
Big mistake.
Besides, Palin’s snatching up of the hope-change mantle is Obama’s fault.
He dropped the hope-change mantle when–dispite an overwhelming delegate lead in the primary, he decided to abandon his original message to crawl into the mud with HRC. Then, analogous to a turnover in the NFL, Palin snatched that mantle up.
The next Thursday and Friday—when the wall to wall exclusive ABC Palin coverage begins will show that Plain is authentic.
I can only hope that Obama calling Palin a “Pig” was on video tape.
That remark will cost him another 5 points in the polls.
It also indicates his desperation, and dovetails with past sexist remarks. (Google Obama’s sweetie problem.)

The “lipstick on a pig” analogy is old as dirt and doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Sarah Palin. Stop trying to create drama where there is none. If you reporters need drama, I suggest the Lifetime Channel.

Well scares me is that here’s this woman we know very little about, and the McCain camp doesn’t want us to know about and all of a sudden she’s the best thing since sliced bread. If we get this election wrong we are headed even faster down the slippery slope the Republicans have put us on.
I think Palin is a smart woman and McCain is a hero but I don’t trust that they have a clue about running this country. I’m afraid the country will be run by the same Karl Rove crooks that are running it now.

Most people would rather see someone that looks like their daughter in the whitehouse no matter how unqualify or incompetent they are…Now its not experience that rules the day but executive capability…so what you are telling is..because I can run a mom and pop grocery (Mayor/governor alaska) store that I can run Macy’s department store..LOL

McCain has been in the Washington for 25 years and voted with Bush 90% of the time, and he want’s to continue Bush’s failed policy. Saying you’re gonna change Washington is committing political fraud.

Obama’s sharp, insightful criticism of his opponents will surely win over the undecided vote!
Where are flowing oratorical flourishes, the high minded ideals, the ‘change we can believe in’ shtick?
Oh, the teleprompter is missing!

the pig remark will not earn Obama any wal-mart moms. he is so low and pity.

the funniest thing I’ve seen today.ZeroBama should run for comedy central competetion instead of presidency.
0bama-Never!

So since Obama is a liar, he will always be a liar.
Since Obama leads his followers in hate, he will always do that.
Since Obama is deceitful to the people he will always be decitful.
A man who throws his grandmother under a train will always throw someone under the train. Like Obama
A man who sells out the small town people to the wealth he will always sell them out. Like Obama
If a man lies to the people and goes behind thier back and tells another country he is lying to the people, he always do that. like obama
If a man hides his background and friends, will alway hide something. Like Obama
Yep Mr obama will always do the same as he always done.

SEAH, according to you followers of christ betrayed him, therefore followers of christ WILL ALWAYS BETRAY HIM!!!!!

Keep it up Obama!!! Palin…the chatty Cathy doll, pull her string and she says the same thing over and over again McCain harping this whole time we need experience for this job. It’s a big bad world out there.Only he had the experience to handle foreign affairs and protect our country.Now he expects us to believe Palin will be ready on day one.Nice try McCain Not now Not ever.

Lipstick on a pig sounds more like a description of Obama/Biden pork barrel earmarks.
Obama and Old Joe Biden have a longer partnership than first thought.
To the point, Obama pursued over $3,000,000.00 in earmarks for Biden’s son, at the same time that Biden claims he didn’t get personally lobbied by Hunter Biden for his clients.
Obama apparently provided the necessary cover for Old Joe Biden.
The Obama/Biden investment in Hunter Biden’s salary has paid large dividends.
With so many friends among his father’s colleagues, Hunter didn’t need to meet with Dad to score pork for his clients.
It’s one example of how Obama and Biden offer hypocritical sanctimony on their relations with lobbyists while ensuring that family and friends get their share from the public hog trough.
Consider the Obama/Biden behavior towards earmarks for a Catholic school.
Democrats insist that school vouchers for urban parents would violate the Constitution because the parents might choose to send their children to parochial schools.
However, since Hunter Biden signed St. Xavier University, a four-year, 5,600-student institution run by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy in Orland Park, IL as a client, he has managed to secure them over $300,000 in federal grants.
Hunter specifically landed St. Xavier U after telling them he could get them government pork.
This is the kind of activity Obama rails about on the campaign trail.
However, Obama actually enables it through these kind of quid pro quo arrangements that give the appearance that Biden has no conflict of interest.
In contrast, John McCain doesn’t do earmarks at all — not for himself, not for his friends, and not for his political allies.
Anybody But Obama…

This guy has lost his mind.
what the hell is he doing???

lol!

Game over DNC. GAME OVER!!!!!!

Sounds like one of those Greek columns must have fallen over and klunked him on the head………

Obama will NOT win because he is a black man. Damn shame it’s 2008 and people still judge you by the color of your skin.

Speaking of pigs, did you hear 0bama pushed legislation to teach sex education to kindergartners? What kind thinks sex education needs to be taught to 5 year olds?”
Like a trained seal, concerned bellows forth the latest Republican lie. Actually not the latest, its a retread from Alan Keyes
When Obama’s campaign was asked by ABC News to explain what kind of sex education Obama considers “age appropriate” for kindergarteners, the Obama campaign pointed to an Oct. 6, 2004 story from the Daily Herald in which Obama had “moved to clarify” in his Senate campaign that he “does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten. . . The legislation in question was a state Senate measure last year that aimed to update Illinois’ sex education standards with ‘medically accurate’ information . . . ‘Nobody’s suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it,’ Obama said. ‘If they ask a teacher ‘where do babies come from,’ that providing information that the fact is that it’s not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that’s going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards.’”
In addition to local schools informing kindergarteners that babies do not come from the stork, the state legislation Obama supported in Illinois, which contained an “opt out” provision for parents, also envisioned teaching kindergarteners about “inappropriate touching,” according to Obama’s presidential campaign.

The AMAZING thing to me is that the media ACTUALLY reported what Obama said! Usually they are so busy kissing his ring and polishing his shoes that they don’t actually report on what comes out of Marxist Man’s mouth.

That lipstick pitbull line by Palin was not an Adlib Jake.
Before her speech, I used the google and several stories mentioned her using that same line in the past.
It’s a derivative of an old sexist joke about the difference between a female dog and a woman.
Palin ad-libbed nothing during her speech. The lipstick on a pig thing is quite old too. Facts do matter.

The phrase is in fact an old saying meaning:
As a metaphor, the phrase “like putting lipstick on a pig” indicates a lost cause or a futile gesture. The idea is that a pig will never be glamorous, no matter how well-coifed. Some things are simply beyond salvaging.
That said, I think using it may have crossed a line. But then Palin did call herself a dog.

McCain is using Palin. She’s a firewall, you can’t say ANYTHING against her or they will turn it around, regardless of what it is, into something sexist. She is a step backward for America and women.
What Barack said is an old expression, but he should be careful in this stupid environment.

Ha Ha….here we go. We’re being sexist. He was talking about McCain’s “change” mantra. Get a gripe. It’s not always about Palin.

And, how is it that Obama and Old Joe Biden keep harping about changing the way things are done in Washington…
Let’s see…Old Joe Biden has been a part of Washington for about 35 years. Joe was sitting in the Senate when John McCain was a POW in Hanoi.
And, the liberal, left-wing Democrats have been in control of both houses of Congress for the last two years…
So, are Obama and OBiden going to change the Democrats?
Or, should their change start at home?
Desperate and pathetic…
Anybody But Obama…

Obama should know he has to be careful. The closet racists are looking for any reason to come down on him. But they should realize he is more White than black since his mother was white and he was raised by her and her parents.
Palin is a fake. She acts like a wind-up doll the republicans are primping to say the right things and smile while she tell lies and throw daggers.
If she is so bright and ready to be VP why does she have to be sheltered from telling the american people how she and Mccaine intends to govern the Country with policies of change.
The American people cannot be so fickle as the latest polls maybe indicating.

When Palin referecen lipstick last week, that was exactly was I was thinking: “you can put lipstick on the GOP, it’s still the GOP”

Obama should say, The Only change McCain will bring to the White House is when someone has to change his depends. Obama Comon You have to hit harder. Maybe he should bring up Sarah Palins alledged affair. Or any other of the numerous scandals.

The newsmen at ABC shouldn’t be surprised by the disconnect between supporting issues or supporting candidates for their character. People, not issues, sit in the Oval Office. If the character of the man or woman cannot be trusted, the issues they run on have no chance of seeing daylight.
Does any Obama fan truly believe he would embody the new “traditionally Conservative” issues he’s trying on daily? Liberal clothing isn’t in vogue, yet it’s the only duds that fit him.

He’ll come out tomorrow and give another big speech and say this was just another Freudian slip from hearing so much about the lipstick remark in Palin’s speech.

Obama has been nothing but respectful towards both McCain and Palin. When she announced that her teenage daughter was pregnant and the press questioned Obama, his reply was nothing but respectful towards her. And then in return, she was mean and viscious towards Obama in her speech. (Not Christian traits.) Obama is the true Christian from what I can see. And regarding Obama’s choice for VP, I was disappointed a bit at first because I was and still am a Hillary supporter; but after listening to all sides, Biden is a very good choice. As a Hillary supporter, I respect her advice and knowledge and will vote as she recommends.
Palin is a duplicate of Rosanne Barr. Close your eyes when listening to her and you will hear Rosanne. Her voice and her sarcasm. The sarcasm gets old fast and is not really humorous. And definitely NOT Christian.
If you vote based on issues and who will make a better leader, you will vote for Obama. If you vote based on popularity of the VP and don’t care that your life has been hell for the past few years, then you will vote for McCain.

He is losing voters. I know 4 four people today that changed their votes to McCain and two that have decided not to vote at all.
The DNC should never have nominated him. PERIOD. Obama has his own arrogance to blame for this. He should have just played it cool and Hillary I bet, would have given him the VP spot. He would have got more experience and mentoring and possibly could have become
the all important first black president that he wants to be. The DNC could have been in for 16 years. Although if I were Hillary I would have been leery of Lady McBeth Michelle.
Granted the DNC is also responsible for this fiasco. Someone should have say that this was getting way out of hand during the primaries.
I don’t find Obama to be a smart guy at all. there is a difference between book smarts and having common sense. As a professional I cherish my relationships with my mentors and would never do what Obama did to Alice Palmer or Hillary Clinton. It is just arrogant and a false sense of entitlement.
Michelle Obama has said “It’s now or Never”…Face it Michelle it may be never.

PRESIDENT OBAMA JUST SPOKE THE TRUTH. WHY DOES IT HURT SO BAD?
PEOPLE CAN’T TAKE THE TRUTH ANYMORE EHH?

Palin is truely the Queen of Pork, that’s why she’s so popular in Alaska, who wouldn’t be!
She taxes the drilling of oil and doles out the surplusses to her voters to the tune of thousands of dollars a yeaar; and she dupes the rest of the country in paying for her Bridges to Nowhere (yes, there are more Bridges to Nowhere she’s aksing the rest of the country to pay for)

At least he was respectful to her until she started comparing her mayorial and gubernatorial experience to his “community organizing” experience, and the polls starting running in the opposite direction…………….

I absolutely LOVE the comment. As a firm McCain supporter, it’s fun to watch Obama fall apart like this. Regardless of his intentions, his choice of words has undoubtedly alienated him from even more of the female base… can’t wait until the next polling data comes out and shows an even greater double-digit lead for McCain/Palin. The Republicans don’t even need to campaign anymore. Just give Obama a microphone and he’ll win the election for us!

PRESIDENT OBAMA JUST SPOKE THE TRUTH. WHY DOES IT HURT SO BAD?
PEOPLE CAN’T TAKE THE TRUTH ANYMORE EHH?

The McCain Lies and Smear team is out in force today.
I just heard Obama talking about Bush Adm policies which were bad and he used a common expression to describe them: a pig with lipstick is still a pig. He immediately compared the same to fish that stink too, but that was not considered an insult to Palin.
What? Anytime lipstick is mentioned it is an insult to Palin and a sexist attack.
No doubt he will be attacked tomorrow because he said he favors stem-cell research as did Biden. Already, Biden was accused of insulting sexist attack on Palin.
Nothing these two men or any Democrat can say is anything but an insult to Palin.
We have lost our First Amendment Rights because of Palin.
Everything in life is NOT about Palin. Most of us never heard of Palin eleven days ago.
Now the whole world revolves around deference to Palin.
Naff off Lies and Smear team.
Lipstick. Lipstick. Lipstick. Lipstick.

mccain started his campain with the theme that he was the guy wit experience—and he was right—did not achieve anything—-8 years experience as mcbush——now he wants to steal obama platform of change—-next he will try to steal obamas clothes–or maybe come out in greasepaint—–the guy is a othe add showing him hugging bush is priceless.

Republicans don’t like it when people use some Straight Talk.
Booohooooohoooooo.

Of course he is referring to Sarah Palin! He was trying to play on her pit bull comment. But, when she said the pit bull thing she was telling a joke and referring to herself. So, you people trying to defend him by saying that this phrase is as old as Moses, you really are looking desparate now. Obama made a big mistake today. Calling Palin a pig and McCain a dead smelly fish, won’t get him anymore votes. He should have just stuck to the same old thing he has been spewing out for months.

Hey concerned just found out where you got that fake quote…a McCain email!
You do simply recycle McCain talking points…how pathetic!
The Romney campaign further asserted that the legislation Obama had backed in Illinois went so far as to call for sexually transmitted disease prevention to be taught in kindergarten. But that bill also called for any sexual education programs offered to handle all topics in an “age and developmentally appropriate” manner, and it also let parents choose to keep their children out of such classes.
That bottom part is the key.
But like a true Republican lie recycler, you leave it out.

Don’t forget who else voted for that Bridge to Nowhere, Mary –
OBAMA AND BIDEN — and Palin backed out of it BEFORE they did.
Stick that in your lipstick….or your fishstick…

Mary, you are lying. Most women I know love her and don’t give a darn about what liberal media say.

“Voting for BHO is buying a pig in a poke!”

“I was from the south and I have never heard of the expression if you put lipstick on a pig, its still a pig.”
I’m in the South and I have. Sometimes they say ‘rouge on a pig’.
On the other hand, I’m sort of suspicious of the men who use that phrase and keep them far away from my pigpen.

No comments about her scamming taxpayer monies for staying at ‘Hotel Palin’?

Huh. I think there is a serious problem of people confusing things said by random people and things said by the political campaigns themselves.
No one on the Obama campaign compared him to Jesus. This miner doesn’t work for Obama.
There have been similar instances of people calling out quotes and attributing it to the McCain camp. Just because the leader of a statewide group of college Republicans made racist remarks and was forced to resign, doesn’t mean McCain is a racist.
The Obama campaign has been downright civil during his campaign to the point where a lot of democrats are starting to ask him to be more aggressive and go negative to counter McCain. Obama has by and large limited his attacks to policy issues. There have been no character assassinations coming out of his camp.
There has been Plenty of character assassinations coming from both Obama and McCain supporters though. It seems to be in the age of ubiquitous Internet access and pseudo-anonymous forums, people feel they can spout both sexist and racist comments, make up bald faced lies and smear both sides with baseless allegations.
I would remind people to examine the source of what they read before taking something at face value. The reason the mainstream media doesn’t print half the crap you people are spouting is because it is unverified or unverifiable.
This election should be about the issues. After all, in the end, the policies the next administration has is what will affect us.

LOL, this is actually getting rather humorous.
I’ve watched and read and listened to Obama’s supporters call anyone who opposes, questions or refuses to support their candidate names. All these months, Hillary Clinton and John McCain supporters have had to put up with that type of behavior. Now we see the almighty is just the same as his “intelligent, educated” supporters – how classy to refer to another candidate as a pig (and, give me a break – it’s a way he talks?!). At least have the guts to stand up and say that’s what you meant if you are going to try to get laughs that way.
I’m just glad that in his desperation, Obama is letting more and more people see him for what he is: a small little man who can’t take criticism, can’t take any questions and certainly can’t take any competition.
LOL – and he thought Hillary Clinton was a problem for him. Too bad the DNC didn’t think this one through. You threw the election – good job.

“The expression is you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”

MARY ANNE – Black people know that Obama is half black. Is that supposed to be bad. Children from mixed race couples are common in the black community. Black people are not as racist as whites are. They are much more accepting of whites than the other way around. So stop it with the old divide and conquer tactic, it doesn’t work anymore.

Sara -
Women voting for a ticket that has a woman on it….JUST because of that…
Kind of like Blacks in America who are ONLY voting for Obama because he’s Black…
Kind of wild, huh?

Gee, what is he going to say if they get another bump in the polls?
Methinks the man is Chicago politician.
He does get greased by Tony Rezko, right?

So much for his campaign not being involved in sexist or personal attacks! How low will the Democrats go to win? Keep it up Obama! All you’re doing is guaranteeing a victory for McCain/Palin. Your childish attacks are not going unnoticed…and don’t even try to spin this as unintentional.

Let’s be realistic. The fact is that gas prices are crazy regardless of what color, nationality, gender or religion. We are Americans and as Americans we not only want change we need change.
In the last eight years jobs have been lost and food has increased. People these are the basic necessity.
To the person who said that black people make up 13% percent of the population. That statement could very well be true; however if thats the case then the majority are affected the most.
Keep it real simple people. This is 2008 color doesn’t matter when the most important color is green!
It’s sad that Iraq has a surplus of 79 billion dollars while America is so concerned about rather a white man or a black man will run the white house.
If Korea decides to attack, they’re not aiming to towards whites or black they will be aiming at the United States.
Unless you make at least 5 million dollars a year most people are in the same boat.
To the people who wants to make this a racial race my advise is to GET OVER YOURSELVES, cause quite frankly when it’s time to pay your mortgage and put food on the table you would careless on the color of our president!!!

Concerned: you really want to compare Bidens correct declarations with Palin’s scamming?
Man, you’re really desperate.

What a jerk!!! I suggest ALL WOMEN SEND OBAMA OUR LIPSTICK!!!!
Send him a message that we are voting for Palin. What a sexist PIG!!!
He is going to lose big among women!

For all the people crying Palin lied about the bridge. Please check out a recent CNN interview with her former aid — the bridge she supported was not the same one, there is a need for bridge to connect the airport and the city. But when Palin took that office, the cost for this bridge is way higher than when she looked it.
I hope ABC interview will ask her about this and let her give out her side of story. People here are so willingly fooled by the liberal liars — yes the same liars who spread out rumors of fake pregancy, AIP, and Palin-cut-funding for teen mom and special needs children. None of those is true.
There is a reprint of the book “Sarah”, for those who want to get a balanced reprot, check that book. This is not a book written by herself for gains.

This is the same passive/agressive bullcrap Obama did to Hillary. He knew what he was doing. He has very thin skin and always feels the need to go into the gutter and do one better should he get attacked. It’s that Chicago thug mentality ingrained into him. There are far too many instances of Obama behaving like this, for this to be a coincidence. This guy is a real sexist pig. Whenever he is denigrating someone, it always seems to be a woman he’s verbally beating on.

At least he was respectful to her until she started comparing her mayorial and gubernatorial experience to his “community organizing” experience, and the polls starting running in the opposite direction……….
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Uh, so how long was he respectful to her? There was about a week between her announcement as VP and her making that speech.

Obama did NOT call Palin a pig? Stop projecting your own thoughts and biases upon others. He made reference to a common cliche’. Palin compares herself to a pit bull dog with lipstick. So, watch out McCain, that breed (pit bull) has been known to turn on its master. McCain, watch your back. Your political pawn may pull the rug right from under your feet.

: salliemae
So to get this straight you’re saying we should feel safer in NYC, LA, Detrit,Chicago than we do in say, Lexington, Ky , Baton Rouge or Dallas?
I live sort of south and have been prosperous all my life , made it ok with Carter , Reagan the Bush years and the Clintons. There are plenty of blue state refugees living in red states and doing fine.

Now Obama is calling Palin a pig?!? So much for his campaign not being involved in sexist or personal attacks! How low will the Democrats go to win? Keep it up Obama! All you’re doing is guaranteeing a victory for McCain/Palin. Your childish attacks are not going unnoticed…and don’t even try to spin this as unintentional.
Posted by: Cory | Sep 9, 2008 7:16:26 PM
HE wasn’t calling Palin a pig he was calling the GOP that.Geez you people will put words in his mouth without any ounce of truth. McCain and Co. keep saying they are about change, where? What has McCain done that has not gone along with George Bush?

LIKE HILLARY SAID—-IF SHE CANNOT TAKE THE HEAT—GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN.

Mary Anne: “I am not being racist.”
Where have I heard that before…
Oh. I know. Racist talk always starts with “I’m not a racist, but …”
Looking through your posts, I noticed you had a very strange preference for the characters b l a c and k
Just an observation.

You know, Rick Davis does not seem real smart to me.
But, he’s playing the press like Colonel Tom Parker did when promoting Elvis.
With this flurry of allegations — and now insults — against Governor Palin, Charlie Gibson’s ratings are gonna blow through the roof.
Prediction:
Governor Palin calmly — and oozing with class — will respond rationally to the allegations.
Then the media will be falling all over each other, claiming the OTHER networks and newspapers were attacking her, but look how professionally she comported herself with Charlie Gibson.
I think the old media stereotype of being a drunk must have some substance to it.
How else do we explain their behavior?

OBAMA is NOT GREAT FOR WOMEN
Barack Obama has a history of being involved in bitter campaigns in which his female opponents are threatened with law suits and race baiting, sexist attacks on their characters.
1. In Chicago Obama ruined opponent Alice Palmer’s campaign for Illinois State Senator when he employed crony lawyers to claim signatures on her petition were falsified. Before this Alice Palmer was once Obama’s mentor and had actually aided him in his career. She did not support him during the DNC presidential primary. She supported Hillary Clinton and was later silenced by blacks in Chicago as being a traitor to the black community. I know I am a Chicagoan.
2. During the DNC primary Obama and his minions of Obamabots waged a nasty race baiting campaign against Hillary Clinton. They accused Hillary of “pimping out” her daughter Chelsea and called her a racist. Hillary lost the election. Obama did nothing to stop his followers from spreading rumors of Racism against HRC.
3. Now that Obama has passed over Hillary for the VP spot, He has the audacity to come after Sarah Palin’s experience and attacks her in his stump speeches even though she is not the Pres. Nominee but McCain is. His minions are calling Palin an unfit mother who was chosen by McCain for her attractive looks and youth.
Obama is NOT FOR WOMEN. HIS POLICIES MAY TELL YOU THAT BUT HIS ACTIONS SAY OTHERWISE.

MCCAINS SAYS HE WILL GO AGAINST REPUB PARTY——ALL THIS WHEN IT IS REPUB LOBBYIST THAT ARE GIVING HIM MONEY—WHAT A FAIRY TAIL.MCCAIN LIFE IS A LIE—BUT HE IS GOOD AT USING WOMEN

I just sent $500.00 to the RNC. Keep it up Obama.

“What color did Obama write his memoirs in?”

Republicans have really gone off the deep end with Psycho Palin.
My 78 yr old self described Rockefeller Republican parents were excited about the Palin pick, for about a minute and then they found out she is a right wing Armageddon craving extremist.
And now they even question McCain’s mental stability and Faux vetting process. McCain isn’t a very good executive…eh?
I been saying for a long time that McCain is not sane and therefore not qualified to be President. Any doubts now?

The Dems are the one that created political correctness and now it’s coming back to haunt them :)
I almost feel bad for Obama, almost…

Posted by: Russell4America | Sep 9, 2008 7:30:15 PM
There is intelligent life on this board. Thank you for that post.The Republican thugs will make up anything.

Using my exact phraseology. Obama doesn’t look desperate. On the contrary, he looks pretty calm and collected vs. McCain’s hail mary pick in Palin. Wait til the new car sheen wears off Palin. Wait til Biden schools her in the debates. Wait til Obama picks apart McCain’s terrible record of voting with Bush.
McCain = The Same.
Palin = Two bit political hack with no skillz.
Just wait, to everyone it will be real obvious real soon.
McCain’s “Bounce” will be a distant memory in two weeks. Mark my words.

“Wait til Biden schools her in the debates.”

Obama’s mysogyny (hatred or contempt of women) will lose him this election; just look at how he and his campaign treated Hillary. BUT alluding to Palin as a pig is contemptible.
Black people flock to Obama; it’s only natural that women flock to Palin.
And through it all, Palin is going to be a formidable opponent to Obama et al.

It’s a common expression… McCain used it back in the day:
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.

You mean the Pit Bull and her cult are whining? Surprise, surprise.

Even if Obama wasn’t referring to Palin, that was an incredibly foolish comment to make given the current atmosphere of sexism.
Bad form.

Obama’s sexism is just revealing, isn’t it. Well, good-bye Obama. You won’t get my vote. And I thought you were allabout “new politics”. Calling Palin a “pig” is really, really raising the level of political discourse, you hypocritical moron.

McCain has used the EXACT same phrase when discussing one Hillary Clinton’s policies.
If you think Obama was being sexist here (I sure don’t), then McCain is too.

Wait until they let Palin start doing interviews and people find out she’s not the genius they think she is. An old man and a semi pretty face aren’t going to get your bills paid or put gas in your car.

Marc Ambinder: McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” [McCain]said of [Clinton's] proposal.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” [McCain]said of [Clinton's] proposal.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” [McCain]said of [Clinton's] proposal.

Hillary was Right.
Obama is unelectable.

Oh, come on, Jake. Politicians have been using that expression for decades. It is well known what it means. If somoene wants to pretend it means something else, that’s their own problem.

Your done Obama, go back to Chicago and find a job with your hoodlum buddies

This is Obama’s “Howard Dean” moment! I thought Joe Biden was bad today but this takes the cake!!!

So much for the classy Mr. Obama. If someone called him such a name there’s be cries of raciscm from the left.

Wow!
The pig statement is the current Drudge headline. If it stays there overnight, we can expect this to development into a PIG-GATE.
Heckuva job, Obama!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN….
I present to you “OBAMA’S HOWARD DEAN MOMENT”
HEAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Lord. Now we can’t use any expressions with the word lipstick. Got that?
Watching Republicans scream sexism is funny enough. Watching it on hair trigger is hilarious. What happened to my party?
Grow up.

He was referring to the McCain campaign. It’s an old expression. You can take it to mean whatever you want, but in the end, your bunched up shorts won’t make it any less a non-issue. Are you saying McCain isn’t a pig? I think McCain/Bush are two pigs in a blanket. (And hey, if Palin can play the game, then I’m sorry for her – but the truth is, I think she’s tough enough to withstand this.)

Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig
09 Sep 2008 07:06 pm
The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today:
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra.
“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”
“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”
“We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”
Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?
The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don’t think he is stupid. And the only way one can conclude that Obama meant to refer to Gov. Sarah Palin as a pig is to have concluded that Obama is as dumb as a doornail.
Obama is fond of this particular phrase. To wit, in 2007:
‘I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment,’ Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday in a telephone interview. ‘George Bush has given a mission to General Petraeus, and he has done his best to try to figure out how to put lipstick on a pig.
And so is John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton….
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Wow. This is the last straw for me.
Count me in as one of the 20% of white women who have shifted way from Obama to McCain/Palin.
There is no way a man of Obama’s intelligence could say this without realizing the connotation with Sarah Palin.
I’ve had it.
Posted by: Sam39 | Sep 9, 2008 7:50:48 PM
Oh for God’s sake, you never were going to vote for him anyway, so quit acting so appalled at something he didn’t say about Palin.

Obama’s experience is showing! Is this what we are to expect from him if he wins?
PEOPLE, don’t drink the Obama-Aid! It tastes sweet going down but then it sours in your stomach!!!

So this is Barry’s version of change we can believe in?? Last week Barry complained of the “vitriol” in Palin’s speech. It’s the same “vitriol” that we’ve heard from the Democrats for the past 8 years. Democrats only legitimize President’s when they win. It’s all about power – nothing more.
Barry has no record of accomplishment – so let’s pretend we’re all stupid and insult the American people with ridiculous comments. Let’s tell Barry no to socialism, no to liberal judges and no to people who associate themselves with pastors that hate America.
Keep doing what you’re doing Barry – McCain/Palin ’08.

Wow, Obama is losing it.

It’s all about the show.
Let’s keep everything in perspective.
John Kerry received 59 million votes. Turnout will be greater by Democrats in 2008.
The Economy, The War, Women’s rights all slant to the party not in power.
Creating a media event with a pro-life newbie is not going to gain any votes that Bush didn’t already receive in 2004. It actually will have the opposite effect for fiscally responsible and socially moderate Republicans and Independents. There is no measurable percentage of supporters of Hillary that would vote for the other ticket.
Let the circus come to town. Let the media hit their numbers.
And we’ll all toast an Obama/Biden victory in November.

obama said he was not going to be bullied. apparently he simply wants to play the bully. most of the jabs by palin were simply retorts to obamas claims. the amount of nasty behavior towards palin knows no bounds.

AGAIN: McCain has said the same thing about Hillary’s policies!
IF YOU ARE USING THIS TO CLAIM BARACK IS SEXIST, THEN MCCAIN IS TOO!

If TWO kids wear you and Michelle out…
Better not try to deal with 300 million of us.

Hey J. Perhaps you need to look at your position. There is nothing about Obama or a democrat that puts money in your pocket. You might not have learned this yet but their philosophy is that you can’t be trusted with your money. That they can better serve you by giving it to them and running it through a huge bureacracy.. In their minds, you are not smart enough to make your own decisions. Judging from your comment, they might be right. I suspect you will figure it out in the next 20 years. Good luck!

Obama is a true liberal slob..just another loser.

I was going to vote for McCain but have switched to Obama. Thanks for all of the flowers and cards. My lobotomy went very well.

My God, Obama is a lowlife. That was a lowlife comment if I ever heard one. And there’s no use defending his comments as ambiguous because it’s clear he was referring to Mrs. Palin. All I can say is that if the polls are now tied and he keeps up his arrogance he will surely lose the election. Common sense voters of either party won’t stand for such comments. It may be OK to talk like that on some MTV reality program but voters expect more class from a presidential candidate — regardless of their party affiliation.

OBAMA IS THE MAN OF CHANGE. AND HE IS CHANGING INTO BIDEN.

Way to go Barack. I just sent McCain/Palin another check.

The saying Obama used is an historical saying. People use this analogy all the time. “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”. You have to be somewhat intelligent, however, to realize it is an analogy and has nothing to do with Sarah Palin whatsoever. The saying has been around far longer than either Sarah Palin OR John McCain have been alive. Period.

before too long Obama will say “oh I mispoke”

I repeat:
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,”
-John McCain, in reference to Hillary’s health care proposal.
Somebody tell me how these situations are different.

He just blew it big time.

well all this political hay is all fine and nice. however I as a taxpayer/voter want to know what these clowns are going to do to stop the hemmoraging of the economy, bring back jobs, provide for the counties infastructure, get waste, graft and expense under control. Fix our broken education system and win two wars with the same American pride and can-do that we once had. Is Obama trying to cost himself votes becasue I’m not voting for him now.

Hey J. Perhaps you need to look at your position. There is nothing about Obama or a democrat that puts money in your pocket. You might not have learned this yet but their philosophy is that you can’t be trusted with your money. That they can better serve you by giving it to them and running it through a huge bureacracy.. In their minds, you are not smart enough to make your own decisions. Judging from your comment, they might be right. I suspect you will figure it out in the next 20 years. Good luck!
Posted by: M | Sep 9, 2008 7:57:06 PM
The Republicans have done a bang up job the last 8 years. Biggest deficit in history, skyrocketing gas prices, mortgage foreclosures. Yeah I want to vote for more of that. You people who think you know everything are the ones that keep voting these idiots in office.
That sure shows the intelligence of the average voter when they vote GWB in office twice. No thanks! I’ll take my chances with Obama.

If someone had made remarks like this in a context where it could be inferred to apply to Hillary Clinton they would no longer be able to get a job anywhere on this planet. That this disgusting, sexist remark is being soft-pedaled by the press shows the incredible double standard that the national press is applying to this contest. If Palin were to make a remark as insensitive about Obama’s ethnicity it would be front-paged by the Macacas in the press until election day, just like they did to George Allen.

Obama is imploding. This is fun to watch

How about Palins’s lies that she sold her plane on Ebay for a profit? A) she did not sell the plane on Ebay B) She sold the plane for a loss. Stop lieing Republicans!!!!

Whatever happened to doing away with politics as usual? Did that go the same way as the promise for public financing?

Wow! What a complete idiot! No way to win votes this way…The great Obamassiah is on is way down…

Barry the community organizer is adept at shuck and jive street talk and is really cool most of the time. But when the heat is on:Will he be able to rise to a higher level in this political contest? Doubtful!

I’m voting for McCain, and I’m not offended in the slightest by the comment. Grow up people, it’s a figure of speech. Issues should win this election, not high-school rhetoric.

Read my lipstick Obama — No Votes for YOU!

Now it shows Sarah Palin is the greatest threat to the entire liberal hold on our country.
She is cleaning house and doing housewife budgeting!
The change is not what more federal government can do. The change is for us to take our country back, to be free to think and restore it!

Certainly a man of small stature.

I hope Obama attacks her more, not less.
Keep em coming Obama, I knew that sharp tounge was going to come out sooner or later.

“I’m happy Obama is going after them hard, just take another look at the attacks made during the RNC… One after another they attempted to tear Obama apart… If you can’t take it, then don’t dish it… ”
Nice talking points. Now what did they say chad?
Nevermind……..

Obama:
Those nails you keep hammering away at belong to your own coffin.
Your sexist attacks started with Hillary and these types of thug attacks may work in Chicago but Nationally you can expect another drop in the polls.
This Democrat voter is now firmly in the McCain/Palin column and so is my family.
YOU SIR ARE NOT PRESIDENTIAL!

8 years of failure by the republicans are more important people! Vote for change!

MCCain and Palin ALL THE WAY…Obama is just a big windbag full of amazing words with no map to get there….No thanks…Worlds Biggest HYPE

It’s obvious that Obama et al are running scared screaming from the backlash. I am laughing my butt off.
The democrats are stuck playing Barbies in camelot.They are trying to relive a misty memory that was never real by electing a new Kennedy. How pathetic is that?

The lame defense the Obama people are putting up for this is claiming that McCain making the same comment regarding Hillary Clinton’s health care plan was equivalent.
This doesn’t come close to passing the smell test.
Sarah Palin’s ad lib joke during her speech was probably the most memorable line of both conventions and it happened just a short time ago. It’s just not credible that Obama would be oblivious to that when he made this comment.
To Obama people: Come clean. This is unacceptable. Stop carrying his water.

This is sooo funny. Barry Obama keeps firing torpedoes into his own campaign. He has no class, fakes the funk on change, and thinks the same smear tactics that got him elected in Chicago will work on the national stage. What a knucklehead. I can’t wait until November to see all you sycophantic Obama supporters weep WHEN your messiah loses.

Excuse me, Senator …
your desperation is showing.

Point in case: Obama, yet again, continues to sling mud at the other camp as another great example of how he shows us he will “Change” Capitol Hill. Once again, going against his word to not play dirty politics by sway from answering any question directly – well, I guess that is considered “change.” Unfortunately, this is the exact reason I cannot vote for him. He will say one thing and do another…oh! another example his campaign “Change!” (And hasn’t he always voted in agreement with his party in the past? How will that be a “Change?”)

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
-Barack Obama

Wow. Real classy candidate.

Hey dodo. I watched the Republican Convention. Sarah Palin carved up Barry like I’ve never seen before in political history. She showed Barry who wears the pants in this election and exposed him for the fraud he is. I guess the truth hurts for all you bleeding liberals out there.
Barry – The REAL STINKING FISH in this election. McCain/Palin’08

Question from some liberal: “I repeat:
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,”
-John McCain, in reference to Hillary’s health care proposal.
Somebody tell me how these situations are different.”
Answer to some liberal …
Politicians and their campaigns keep close watch on the exact words that their opponents use. Since Sarah referred to lipstick on a pit bull, showing tenacity, then lipstick was in the thoughts of todays political readers. And obviously in the thoughts of McCain Palin opponents (Specifically Obama). So yes, in McCains case he was indeed refering to Hillary’s health plan and not Hillary, since at the time, there was no discussion of Hillary and lipstick of any kind.
So, then was Obama purposely trying to associate Palin with being a pig? Of course he was. His idiot days are numbered. He has called the female vice presidential candidate a PIG and he should not be given an ounce more of respect or support. This is not the first time that Obama has looked down on and talked down on females in general.
Speaking of pigs, Obama fits the description of a Male Cheauvenist pig to a T.
We seriously dont need an Obama nation at this point in America.

That’s it… I’m voting for Obama.
He is smart.

Obama on Hillary,
“Periodically, when she is feeling down the claws come out”
Women stand up!
McCain 2008
Hillary 2012

I don’t think Obama meant anything by the remark. Let’s face it, everyone unthinkingly uses tired old sayings every once in awhile.
I mean, c’mon people, let’s call a spade a spade.
…..Oops, my bad.
Posted by: McCain Rules | Sep 9, 2008 7:58:35 PM
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Obama knew exactly what he was doing. He planned it all out. He is a master of subtle phrases. Look how he attacked Bill Clinton for his innocent statements as racist. Obama is no fool.

Saw the video….such a convenient pause to let the audience catch the inference and the smirk….oh yeah he knew what he was doing. Bad, Bad choice oh Chosen One.

Every body calm down. It was just an old expression. Lets call a spade a spade it was harmless….or was it?

Wow, the left is falling apart. they want a woman but only if its one of the liberal leaning ones. so much for feminism and womens rights. If anyone out there thinks that obama/biden is more mainstream than mccain/palin you are really kidding yourselves

McCain was talking about a health care proposal, Obama was making reference directly about Sarah. Notice the way the people he was talking to chuckled as soon as he said it. They got it. He knew it. Obama is stupid, to say the least.

Unbelievable! Is this how Harvard graduates talk? Oh my my…..

Nobody has ever associated lipstick with Hillary.
Thus, McCain could use “lipstick on a pig” comments about Hillary’s health plans and nobody would associate the comment with Hillary herself
One of Sarah’s more memorable comments at the convention (and after) involved lipstick and hockey moms.
Thus, Obama’s inference is much more directly aimed at Serah herself.

Any white woman who can think for herself won’t find what he said about the GOP will not find this offensive. Show me where he was talking about Palin because I just don’t see it.

Hey skisginer, you say Obama was talking about Bush/McCain? Rrrright! So Bush/McCain wears lipstick? Your excuse was weak, how about another go at it.

Hey Obama, you SUCK!

As an Indy who votes for both parties, I originally was intrigued by Obama’s promises of “no more politics as usual”, “we will reach out to all Americans, Ds and Rs, black and white, young and old, rich and poor”.
Then he picks Biden, the farthest-left radical foot-in-mouth career politican in history to be his “attack dog”.
He not-too-subtly refers to Ms. Palin as a pig with lipstick. Just like Biden refered to Obama as “The first clean Black candidate for President.” Either they are insensitive trashy comments or these two aren’t capable of thinking before they speak. God forbid they start talking about foreign heads of state in those terms if they ever did get elected.
I am from Delaware and I know Biden, and he is what is wrong with politics in America today. two-faced, back-stabbing, arrogant, and vicious.
No more politics as usual! Independents are moving to McCain/Palin in a landslide. Far-left will always vote D and far-right will always vote R (even if they hate McCain for actually voting AGAINST his party more than anyone in recent history). Independents decided the last several elections and we will decide this one. But not for empty rhetoric.
Palin has accomplished real reform and McCain has reached across the aisle all his life. Americans who are not blinded by partisanship know who to vote for.

Poor Mrs. Palin… feeling a little defensive? As has been stated- this is a common expression people. If I said to my friend, “Listening to your explanation is like pulling teeth”, does that mean literally that I think he/she is pain-inflicting?? I guess figures of speech are officially off-limits in this election.
Oh wait, John McCain said the exact same thing about Hillary’s health care policy…
Get over it McCanine’s, your show dog pit bull will be scrutinized just as much as Barack, John, and Hillary have been all season long. This is hardball now; you will see the Dems bare their fangs a little bit- you can’t be afraid to back down from a fight (Sarah Palin quote)…. the G.O.P. threw the first stones in their convention which told me that apparently if I am not in their “base”, I am un-American and the reason for all of the country’s problems.
I am an Independent who sees myself becoming more Democratic every day of this election. Not sure if I’ll vote for any of the Republicans this time around. And enough with these soundbite uproars- It’s the ISSUES, stupid.

Does anyone realize how much the left-wing bias media would have hopped onto this if it were the other way around, where Sarah Palin or John McCain would have said that Obama was a pig, or referred to him in such a fashion. Anyone whom has a song when they come out that says “The more you know, the less you feel” or “The more you see, the less you feel” has got to be crazy. The socialist dog doesn’t know who he is messing with as the conservatives are bound together by our strong beliefs and we bitter Americans will always stand as one and defeat all evil and liberalism!

Does anyone realize how much the left-wing bias media would have hopped onto this if it were the other way around, where Sarah Palin or John McCain would have said that Obama was a pig, or referred to him in such a fashion. Anyone whom has a song when they come out that says “The more you know, the less you feel” or “The more you see, the less you feel” has got to be crazy. The socialist dog doesn’t know who he is messing with as the conservatives are bound together by our strong beliefs and we bitter Americans will always stand as one and defeat all evil and liberalism!

Let’s see, Sarah Palin once used the word “lipstick.” And then Obama used a tired old political expression that happened to have the word lipstick in it. Hmm, how can we pretend these are connected somehow. Hmmmm.

The GOP started this WAR and the WAR in IRAQ,,,Go Get EM’ Obama!!!
4500 Dead in IRAQ,American City Drowned while the GOP watched, Trillions of dollars in debt, Dis-Respected around the world…It’s time for change America.

And if Palin or McCain had said something even remotely connected to Obama’s race, they’d now be being roasted. But that’s OK, because he’s The Messiah.

This is probably a historic date as the end of Obama’s serious chances of winning this presidential election. Either he is insanely insensitive to how this sounds to women who have thier doubts about him, or he is so stupid that he thinks this is a clever dig on his opponents. If this is how he tries to win the Hillary voters, I can imagine how his negotiations with Iran might end up.

Wow. Are we testy. If anyone had said that the same way Obama did, and Hillary was the VP candidate….the sh.. would have it the fan. Go for it ..you realize, you have alrealdy lost to the republicans, and worse, the woman is question, is more man than Obama is! Go! Palin

Does anyone see a parallel here between Obama’s self-implosion and John Kerry’s utter downfall in 2004? Remember how John Kerry got all nasty with the Secret Service agents who were guarding him and before he knew what hit him he lost the election? I feel a similar sense of performance anxiety has set in with Obama. The media can only coddle him for so long before they will be forced to take off the kid gloves and dig deeper into his past. Pulitzer Prizes are not won by bashing a president who is on the way out after eight years. They are won by hard digging reporters gaining knowledge of previously unknown “flaws” about the up and coming political stars of tomorrow (read: Oabama). Well, let’s have at it you media elites. Surely you can dig up some dirt on Obama before the election?

They need to shut him up and give him back his teleprompter.
The fool can’t speak a complete sentence on his own.
And don’t give me any **** about it not being about Palin. You know it was. The 2nd line was about Bush. Neither of the lines were about McCain (like Obama said) and if you’re intellectually honest, you know it.
The more he talks and the media bashes Palin, the higher McCain/Palin’s poll numbers will go.
Keep it up Obama! Keep it up Media! LOL LOL LOL

You can put a suit on a Chicago, zero experience, zero accomplishments politician, it’s still an empty suit!

McCain fired rockets from his jet fighter at the enemy in Vietnam, and Barry fired staples into telephone polls as a community organizer.
Posted by: Monty Ehrich | Sep 9, 2008 8:17:22 PM
He also crashed 5 planes.

Thanks goodness Obama is stepping up to that nasty, critical McCain/Palin campaign. Sarah delivered a cynically nasty speach at the Republican Convention and no one blinks and eye, Obama fights back and people call him sexist! Sarah Palin is an antiquated joke, she is backwards and her political stance on abortion, the environment and gun control makes me sick. If Obama had a daughter that was pregnant evryone would blame his parenting as a failure – yet Palin’s daughter is pregnant and the same conservative jerks who usually denounce this all of a sudden praise the family’s moral fiber? It’s a joke. McCain and Palin are running a nasty campaign and I hust hope the majority isnt too stupid to see and realize that Palin is taking steps back for women. As a woman I would NEVER support her! Go Obama!!

I’m an independent and my support is for McCain & Palin now. I’m tired of the same old political attacks. This crossed a line.

Haven’t decided sides on this election yet. But I am siding with Obama on this particular one. Obama said whatever he felt was right – big deal! If Palin can stand in front of thousands at the RNC and lie outright about Obama’s tax plan, and has the liberty to take jabs at thousands of community organizers, I don’t see how a simple old expression is so much out of the line. I am an independent, but frankly, I am leaning towards the Dems since the Sarah Palin pick.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” – John McCain on Hillary Clinton’s health care plan.

The fact is, regardless of the context in which his statement may have been intended, at the very minimum he was as dumb as a box of rocks to say it.
His “pig” comment will play well to the Daily Kos/DU/Huffington/MoveOn crowd, but it’s not going to play well with a lot of women.
The meltdown continues…

Formula for a McCain/Palin landslide: Just let Obama be Obama.

That’s it you lost my vote Obama.

Many here tried to justify Obama’s expression claiming that it is just an old way of saying. This is true enough.
But Palin had used the “pitt bull with lipstick” expression.
Obama downgraded her to a pig.
I don’t know how intentionally.
But it WAS a bad mistake. A gut reaction.
An inexperienced reaction.
Bad news for Obama, as anyone can see.
And his VP candidate was no better, further bad news…

THE REAL OBAMA !!!!!!

Let me summarize:
Calling one’s self a pitbull with lipstick = endearing to the Religious Right, and Hockey Moms (although none of the actual Hockey Moms I know even LIKE her.)
Calling McCain’s economic plan a pig in lipstick = trashing Palin????
Sorry Cons, you made this bed for yourselves. You set the tone. You launched the attacks, now deal with it!

Wow! I think Obama is not ready for prime time yet. Maybe to young and inexperienced. Palin as a pig? I think the decision is getting clearer with ever negative speech Obama makes.

McCain speaking about Hillary October 11, 2007:
While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.

The sound you hear is one million up-till-now fence-sitting women getting down off the fence and racing over to McCain-Palin headquarters to volunteer.

Obama’s campaign slogan (and the title of his book) should be: The Audacity of Hypocrisy.

CALLING All OBAMS SUPPORTERS!!
Print out this blog and show anyone interested how racist the McCain/Palin supporters are. I am printing out my copy now to take to work.
McCain/Palin are DONE! Their supporters did them in.

I’m most concerned if he’s referring to a “Capitalist Pig,” which would really highlight his socialist views.
Or maybe the “my disgust of pigs faith” isn’t far off. Wow… there’s so much one could read into that one comment.

“Mrs. palin is in charge of the missle def system right up there by the good ole USSR and IS privy to some high level intelligence briefings”
LOL, this is an outright lie.
You guys are pathetic.
Here’s the General of the AKNG
But, in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, he said he and Palin play no role in national defense activities, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is not briefed on situations.

I voted for him in the primary … not any more. This was a total lack of class.

Please, Please, Barry…keep it up.. your political instincts are fantastic!

News flash for Trevor. Your remark calling Gov. Palin a pig is disgraceful. Enough said.

Obama stoops to new low

Barack Obama has stooped to a new low, and I don’t mean his plunging poll figures. Obama, talking about VP candidate Sarah Palin, said ‘You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It’s Still a Pig’. Adding insult to injury, … the crowd applauded. Obama …

The libs were hoping that Sarah Palin would be another Eagleton, looks like it may wind up being Obama.

What a horrible thing to say. I thought he was smarter than that.
An intelligent person knows that comment, while running against a woman, could be seen as sexist and rude.
He’s obviously taking the low road.

You make fun of community organizers (another vield racist attack like wellfare mom) and now Obama uses a well known phrase in relation to Mccain, racist bastards are out again crying foul. Where were they when their god limbaugh was calling Clinton’s daughter a dog?
It’s sickening to see conservative hypocrisy on every issue. They are allowed to cross all standards of decency but when somebody fights back.

OBAMA just said exactly what needed to be said. The truth. And its hurts. Sorry…

We are winning the war in Iraq, oil prices are coming down, we are about to blitz Afghanistan and kill a bunch of terrorists, the dollar is getting stronger…
of course Obama wants to say outrageous things to make news…we can’t have all that other stuff being front page news!!!!

Intentional, unintentional, McCain said it about Hillary’s health care plan — all irrelavent!
The PERCEPTION is Barack called his VP opponent a pig. Plain and simple. If he thinks he can win with 40% of the female vote then it was a great move. Otherwise it might be the #1 political blunder of the season.

By using that line, according to the pinheads at McCain’s campaign, Obama is calling Palin a pig. Yet, as this quote reflects, “The colorful cosmetic has become a political buzzword, thanks to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s joke in her acceptance speech that lipstick is the only thing that separates a hockey mom like her from a pit bull. ”
So, is Paln calling herself a dog? If I had to choose, and it’s a tough choice, I’d call her a poodle.

Awesome! I’m glad to see Obama standing up to his opponents, man or woman. Once your in the ring, your in the ring. Palin opened that one up herself with her “pitbull with lipstick” comment. Come on, do you really think she could get away with that?

The comment was spot on.
Obama isn’t calling Palin a pig. Although she referred to herself as a pitbull.
The Republicans have nothing but their tired Rove formula.
And if you roll out a woman who only repeats speeches written by Bush speech writer Matthew Scully and then use her as a campaign prop…..that would be the definition of ‘putting lipstick on a pig’.

I keep hearing media being biased too… Do you people know who owns the majority of Media? Rupert Murdoch? You think he’s a liberal progressive? No, he wants you all to go back to your troughs and drink his cool aid. If the media is biased, it’s biased against Obama. When have you ever seen a VP get more attention than the Presidential nominee? Only when the Nominee doesn’t have a chance.

Classy.

“Because it’s one of my favorite things about my dad, that he wasn’t running for president since high school, you know, he was not a good student, notoriously rebellious, drove fast cars, dated a stripper.”
-Meghan McCain on the Today Show
You think McBush is miffed that nobody cares about him anymore? Or do you think his plan was to convince the GOP that Palin was the actual candidate and forget about him.

You can put a tie on an empty suit…it’s still an empty suit!

The convention “bounce” is not subsiding and all major polls are trending to McCain-Palin. As well, the support of women is surging.
Bad news for “The One.”

Did Obama just call Palin a pig????
He is losing it.
Seems O-Spears can’t stand it when the spotlight is off him and on the next new phenom.

It wasnt a swipe at Palin, this is so contrived its not even funny. Lipstick on a pig is a popular expression. It has in fact been used in this election long before Palin’s speech about pitbulls and lipstick. It was meant to describe the GOP not Palin. Quit the faux outrage its just pathetic. No one cares except for internet trolls who visit Drudge.

It’s exactly what the people in this country who only respond to negativity and hate (ie. Repugs) needed to hear – Palin’s precious analogy turned on its head. A pig is much more suitable – an ignorant, radical, worthless pig at that…one that squeals in the corner and needs extensive tutoring before appearing in softball interviews. Hope they don’t ask her to find Iraq on a map.

I can’t believe people even care about this. I care about policies not this dribble.

You go Nobama!! McCain ’08 BABY!!!

Heck, I don’t blame oBama for saying what he thinks. I think all democrat woman have hairy legs, wear khakis, penny loafers and walk with a swagger. I’m not ashamed to say what I think, why should he be. All’s fair in politics. McCain/Palin 08…12…etc.

Yes, the audience understood it as they wanted to hear it. The problem is that he already has their vote. Do you think that comment appeals to the women who are moving away from him? Or how about the crossover voters? This was a stupid thing to say.

ROFL!!!
“No, she’s new!” Obama said. “She hasn’t been on the scene, you know, she’s got five kids and my hat goes off to anybody who’s looking after five. I’ve got two and they tire Michelle and me out!”
Really? I thought Michelle’s mother was watching the kids while they campaigned.

I was undecided until this. Frankly, Obama was over the top here and I think he pretty much has lost my vote.

Hey Obama! Checkmate! You just lost the election.

HELLO! Does ANYONE understand that this is a VERY OLD EXPRESSION. McCain has been quoted saying it, and Obama said it earlier this election when talking about our Iraq policy – LONG BEFORE PALIN WAS EVER MENTIONED! Stop faking the outrage the Drudge just fed to you. Try, for once, to DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK.

I’m glad Obama called Palin a pig. Maybe she is for change if you mean vouchers and the Bush tax policies. But she’s not for REAL change which means free healthcare and no more rigging elections and no more false flag 9/11 attacks and no more theofascist Republicans!!!

Nothing is funnier than people who think that Matt Drudge taking a commonly-used phrase and turning it into a sexist comment has handed the election to anyone.
Have you heard, Palin told the government “Thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere”?
Maybe she’ll tell us that 44 more times this week.
She might have said no to the bridge (after saying yes to it) but she still took the $370 million.
How can you neocon, racist d-bags actually be head-over-heels for someone you know practically nothing about?
Could it be because the actual presidential candidate on the ticket is loathed by the entire party?

“Who wants McCain, the cowardly confession signer, or Palin, the talking billboard, in our White House? How could you want them there? I know that I do not want a coward (McCain) in the White House.”
Posted by: Jacqueline Mac SC | Sep 9, 2008 8:36:11 PM
Is this what the angry left is going to resort to? John McCain may be called a lot of things, and not all postive, but calling him a coward is beyond the pale.

The comments by Obama are bad in taste… I guess in the next 60 days we will be seeing the inner core of each candidate…
But my vote for McCain / Palin.

Great turn of a phrase.
It’s intent was to recognize that nothing has changed in the republican platform.
All they did was put a woman on the ticket to read someone else’s speeches (bush’s speech writer!) and she won’t even take reporters questions.
This will prove very effective in pulling back the curtain to reveal the same old republicans at the controls.
Do you really think they’d let Gov. Palin run any part of the administration?

Let’s not forget the second part of the comment “You can wrap an old fish in newspaper but it still stinks” Veiled reference to McCain. Clearly these were very intentional.

before you go throwing mud… look this up
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.
looks like Obama wasn’t the only one that said it.
please find something meaningful to discuss

Another Thought in case you missed it
Crissie Mathews mentioned that tingle up his leg, it struck me he ought to get his hand out of his pocket

Sorry Drudge trolls, The country is going to elect a brilliant mind, not a clueless bimbo who lives in a igloo trailer!
“In the Illinois state legislature for eight years, Barack sponsored laws for increased childcare subsidies, ethics and healthcare reform, homicide interrogation videotaping, etc. In the US Congress, in addition to the above-mentioned, he teamed with Russ Feingold to pass the “Honest Leadership and Open Government Act” representing major campaign finance and lobbyist reform. He has sponsored numerous bills, many of which have become law, in areas such as veterans’ care, environment, foreign policy, hurricane relief, homeland security, ethics, education, health care, energy, consumer protection, etc. Barack serves on the Foreign Relations Committee, the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As a senator, he has traveled all over the world, including Eastern Europe, Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and multiple trips to Kuwait, Iraq,Israel, Jordan, Palestinian territories.Regarding management skills, Barack has been managing a 50-state campaign for almost exactly as long as Sarah Palin has been Governor of Alaska. No one denies that this campaign has been expertly managed. Before becoming Alaskan Governor 20 months ago, Palin was merely the mayor of a town whose population was at that time 5,500.

OMG they really are dead set in trying to paint the “Pit Bull” as a victim.

John McCain once had honor – but since 2000 by embracing George W. Bush figuratively and literally, the man who ran a campaign accusing John McCain of being a collaborator, a traitor, a criminal, John McCain forfeited all claim to honor. Yes, McCain has lost touch with what he was and has become the very antithesis of the war hero.
And now he wants us to believe this pig with lipstick should be vice president?

Obama: ‘Lipstick on a pig’(Barry crossed the line)

This one was over the line…read the comments at Politico 500 posts and counting….Captain Bullshit stepped in it this time.

I am as disappointed in Barack as I have been since this all started. Can he imagine how he would feel if someone tried to make these smears about Michelle? And, please do not claim that you did not intend for the insult to tarnish Palin. Lipstick and fish odor have been locker room insults directed toward women for years. I thought you were above it.

Most Republicans are cowards and now they are hiding once again beyond false claims of sexism.
McCain was a man of honor and he should come out and have an actual debate, not hide behind a “hockey mom”.

Well the sad fact of the matter is niether McCaibn or Obama have talked about how they might say our disappeating manufacturing base. Manufacturing is what produces the country’s wealth and more importantly it produces the country’s war toys. In the end it is how many war toys you can potentially produce that will keep us free. Remember the term arsenal of democracy.

Saying that the pig comment is sexist is a fake outrage. What I got when I heard it is a reference to Palin’s history of pork-barrelling politics, in which as a mayor of Wasilla, she hired a lobbyist to game congress for about 25 million dollars for a town of 5000 at the time. Her handwriting and initials are captured on a document that highlighted her success in bringing in pork money for Wasilla. As governor, Palin campaign for office in 2006 as a supporter for the Bridge to nowhere, and she is even captured on a photo proudly raising a Bridge to nowhere sweater. Also, Congress had nixed funding for the project in 2005, and when it was apparent that the Alaska congressional team couldn’t get more pork money from Congress, Palin finally stopped the Bridge to nowhere project. Finally, Palin led the public to believe she returned the pork money, with the phrase “thanks, but no thanks”, when in fact she kept all the money that was allocated, in excess of $200 million. As far as I am concerned, Governor Palin is the queen of pork-barrel politics, and this is what the pig reference is for. Corruption and misspending by government officials concerns citizens, and we must be able to use the language that people understand to refer to corrupt officials, whether they are male or female.

“The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails — aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter’s reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.”
Henry David Thoreau

On that bridge to nowhere -
1. She never said she was always against it.
2. At first blush someone offering to give you 200 Billion Dollars to create jobs and improve your infrastructure naturally sounds like a good deal.
3. Once she figured out just how dumb it was she DID veto it. She didn’t lie at all. She is 100% accurate in everything she has said about it.
4. Alaska does get more Government road construction money per capita than other states because it is HUGE and sparsely populated. The same is true of other geographically large states. When the people of Alaska elected her she promised to fight for them and has. I now want her to fight for all of us as V.P.
5. As for her not sending the check back for the 200 Billion the government sent her – what person would? Certainly no Democrat. Maybe McCain would have – he really is that honorable – but Palin’s using those funds for legitimate investments in her state’s infrastruction was a wise choice – one of the many reasons she has 82% approval ratings.

That right, Barry. You jes’ keep on sayin’ them things all you wants. Sounds like desperation is creeping into the dem rhetoric.

The more the Democrats go after Palin, the more they will drive Independents to the Republicans. They are taking the bait and taking the country back to the same old politics as usual… slash and burn.
Me and my lipsticked gal pals are voting for Palin/McCain.

Everyone knows Obama was referring to Palin. Six days ago 40 million people heard her joke about Hockey-Moms, Pitt Bulls and Lipstick. Now Obama uses the LIPSTICK-PIG comment and we are supposed to believe he was’n once again showing his SEXIST true colors that were on display against Hillary.
Either way the guy is a moron.

I cannot believe Obama said that to a fellow american. It was hateful, mean and hurtful to anyone he was addressing.

Keep up the great work, NoBama! The more you act yourself with your insensitive, sexist crude comments, the more people will turn to the ticket with class – McCain/Palin. You really are a pathetic excuse for a presidental nominee and a total disappointment to the Democatic party and the great United States of America. By the way, check out the latest polls. People are flocking to the McCain/Palin ticket – the next president and vice president of the United States!!!!!!!

I guess Obama wont be missing the 13 votes just from my family. And we all plan to spread the word that Obama is the last person this country needs. Turns out that its not that hard to find McCain/Palin supporters. The more Obama bashes the lower his numbers get. It’s interesting that the change Obama talks about doesn’t include accountability. What’s he afraid of?

Way to go nObama. Cliche’s. . . Is that all you have? What’s your plan.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

This sounds like something a community organizer would say!!

It’s an expression – it basically means that you can’t camouflage the truth. Lots of people use it, I’ve used it before. Why would anyone call a beautiful woman like Palin a pig, least of all Obama? It probably didn’t even occur to him that a common expression, one that McCain has apparently used before, would be taken as an insult of Governor Palin.
If anything, I think it’s sexist that Drudge put Governor Palin’s photo above what he must know, by now, is a common expression. This election is ridiculous. When do we get to talk about Hugo Chavez’s and Brazil’s deals with Russia? Or why the first oil contract by the Maliki government went to China? Are we really going to base this election on media spin like this, when we have real issues that need to be discussed? No wonder this country is going down the tubes.

As an Independent I thought about voting for Obama at one point in time. No more…he is clearly an idiot in times on desperation. Exactly what our country doesn’t need.
Also, how can you tell a looser democrat on sites like this….they have nothing better to do than type line after line that nobody with a real life/job has time to read. Libs are totally imploding.

Poor Barry, you can take the Organizer out Community but you can’t take the Community out of the Organizer.

The fact that half of you Obama “supporters” viewed this vitriolic attack as one directed at Palin is exactly what makes it reprehensible and vile. You can make all the apologies you want. When you have nothing to say, other than the STANDARD DNC PLATFORM, you lash out with personal attacks. I am glad they taught you all that at Haaaaavaaad. If someone had made a reference to you even remotely twistable as racist, MSNBC and the rest of you pathetic whiners would be at the top of the mountain screaming for bloody heads on platters. Civil discourse in this Country of ours is dead. You people want anarchy. I hope you are all happy when you destroy the fabric of this great Nation.

Wow Obama “the unifier” is doing a great job bringing us all together, huh?

That phrase has been used so often in this campaign already, it shows where the republican gutter mind is. Very clear. You just called your VP choice a pig, all by yourselves, losers.

And they wonder why white women are voting for Mccain/Palin. The democrats are grasping at straws and getting totally desperate.

Open Letter to Obama,
Ive been listening for a long time, and have heard few specifics of what you would actually do to change things….
What I have heard though, loud an clear, your character coming through in “pigs”….
You once spoke on high, and even looked the guy.
But now your words are but hollow squeals, and your strut like a strutting pig.
It’s becoming clear, your lipstick is wearing off dear….
Thank you for in the end, for being clear and showing us your spear.

This is extremely insensitive and below presidential politics. Obama is clearly calling Palin a pig. Not needed in our country. clean it up!

This is no mistake or an old joke. I’ve heard two other democratic surrogates when interviewed on TV use the very same line. Except that the hosts didn’t catch it. It was just yesterday on FOX. This is a direct and coordnated attack on Sara Palin, no question about it. Obama is very much losing it!

Wow, that’s crude Obama. Not only is she a brilliant orator and saavy politician, she’s hot! I like McCain better than Obama anyway, but he couldn’t have been talking about her, could he?

You people can’t be serious, can you? He’s obviously using that old expression to describe their polices. The PIG is the POLICIES, it has nothing to do with an individual. *frowns and shakes his head* Wow. Just…wow. I’m more afraid of the people voting in this country than I am of the people running it.

Obama – The man who writes about HOPE.
HOPE he loses.

All of you democrats are sure showing your intelligence tonight, Congratulations.

Turn out the lights Dems, the party’s over. McCain/Palin will win in November.

Whether he met it or not, he once again shows his inability to think on his feet. Have you ever made a similar unthinking comment around your wife or girlfriend? Look out! He just lost another 10 percent of American female voters. Keep picking on Sarah, your polls will keep dropping like a rock.

By the reaction of the audience THEY ALL KNEW WHO the Pig comment was referring to, Palin. NO amount of spin will convince anyone otherwise. This is not a misinterpretation.
Obama = quagmire.

Wow! Cheap shot! Well, between that and what Biden said about kids with disabilities, it can only serve the McCain/Palin ticket more votes. Keep talkin guys.

Judging from the comments on both sides, the flat liners are well, but still flat liners.

Republicans are in a frenzy. Oh MY!
Are internal polls showing people are already bored with their superstaaaar – Pit Bull Palin? That we already lived through the Britney Drama and are ready for Obama?

For all of you saying that “the lipstick/pig” line is an old saying—you are right but Barack is using it in a new context.
Gosh….libs are terrified of a smart, beautiful conservative woman. Nice to see the stripes are showing.

I find Obama’s comments completely deserved and appropriate. Especially following McCain’s outrageous commercial about education. Any worthy parent knows how important it is to teach kindergartners about strangers and pedophiles – especially in urban areas.
I have lost the great respect I had for John McCain today. He is out of touch, irresponsible, and downright creepy. I wouldn’t let my daughters touch him with a ten foot pole. Unless it had a boxing glove on the end of it. What a loser.
Keep up the good work Barack! You know what early childhood development education means.
John McCain graduated barely – at the bottom of his class. He hasn’t cracked a book since 1958!

If Sarah is such a pitbull, why can’t she present herself to the American people in a candid manner, especially considering we don’t even know her?
Hmm…is it because she is…CLUELESS?
As in….ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY CLUELESS? About anything other than her own family matters and values, and the drama in Wasilla?
Palin IS a lipstick on a pig candidate. She is a clueless joke.
McCain is a rotten fish. Nothing to add except more wars and more death.
McCain’s bringin back the DRAFT, BIG TIME.
He will instigate Russia into WWIII.
Don’t allow this to happen.
The last 8 years have not benefitted the American worker…and anyone who WORKS knows it. Productivity has increases on the order of several magnitudes, yet wages have been stagnant.

Wow… Beating up on women… Next thing Obama will be stealing candy from babies.. It is beautiful watching the cookie crumble.

My god, are Obama and Biden trying to set a world record for most stupid gaffes in one week? I understand them losing their composure with these new polls, but this is ridiculous.

Obama is a Male Chauvinist Pig.
Atleast McCain treats women with respect. After this comment I’m voting for the only women on the ticket!

Wow… Beating up on women… Next thing Obama will be stealing candy from babies.. It is beautiful watching the cookie crumble.

Old saying or not…..that is very out of taste…
I will be surprise if he doesn’t have to apolgize for such a remark….or lose more votes

If he did not think people would make the connect with the pitbull/hockey mom lipstick comment and his pig/lipstick comment then he is just too sloppy to play world leader. VERY scary! I have FAITH (excuse my clinginess as I believe that liberals did not create the universe)that the majority of the population will vote for the party that knows evil and danger when they see it.

Palin Call a whaaaambulance:
You are just upset because your messiah is dropping in the polls, lolol! Enjoy the ride downward!
Posted by: Mary Anne | Sep 9, 2008 9:22:57 PM
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I’d dial back on the Messiah references when you see the extremist Republican/Sarah cult members, who see her as their own special Savior;)
She’s insane, just like McCain – “soul mates” Indeed!

Atleast McCain treats women with respect.
Posted by: TTT | Sep 9, 2008 9:26:29 PM
Are you kidding me, you are right.

Cmon I am mcCain Palin supporter but it is obvious Obama is just being defensive. he is not refering to Palin. Let not act like victims here. When Mccain takes office, we are going to need the support of the left to get out of a difficult situation we are in. Lets not polarize the country even more.

I am not an Obama supporter nor a democrat. In fairness, Obama was referring to McCains programs, not Palin…

As a gun owning,religion clinging, angry, democrat from pennsylvania, my party has crossed the line. Please, Joe Biden? Ppl keep saying that Sarah Palin is hiding, were is two time loser Joe Biden been? I have’nt heard a peep out of him. DEMOCRATS FOR MCCAIN/PALIN UNITE!!!!!!

It is difficult to believe that someone of this caliber is running for president. He calls a woman who is far more accomplished than he is, a pig? I guess this is the “change” that has been promised.

Beautiful! Go ahead and use McCain and Cheney’s own words against them. After all the outrageous statements the Republican attack dogs have thrown at the Dems, turnabout is fair play. But we all know the Repubs can dish it but not take it. Always crying you hurt my feelings, you’re unpatriotic, you’re mean…boo hoo.

Does the Messiah Obama even get it? “Lipstick on a pig”!
After this 24 hour news cycle is over, look for a magnitude 10 earthquake to hit this country! The ground movement will not be under our feet, but over our heads as the women of this country unite to squash the Messiah and his poodle Biden.
Lipstick on a pig! I can hear the ground moving now…..outta here!

Obama is losing it. I was undecided a week ago but I’m slowly creeping towards McCain. I’m not a big McCain fan, but Obama is showing he’s not up to the job. He looks desperate, he should stick to issues.

I guess if you are getting hammered on the real issues and you have dreadful positions (raise taxes, encourage military defeat) all you have left are childish slams against your opponent.
What’s next “my dad, who has fathered eight kids with 7 different hos will beat up your daddy”?
Pathetic.

You want to trust someone to a nation when they get tired from just 2 kids???
What a wuss. I have never seen such a puppet before like Oblahma!

This should come as no suprise to the educated voter. Obama is a bigot and a sexist and wouldn’t have a chance if he were a white man having been in the church he attended for over 20 years. The hatred his pastor spewed from the pulpit by saying that white people created aides to kill blacks.
I ordered 10 bumper stickers from the McCain Campaign store today, I’ve never did that before. I also sent for my out of state ballot to make sure McCain and Palin get my vote.
Obama has shown his true colors and his hatred, bigotry and sexist attitude.

Mark the time. The Obama campaign expired on Sept. 9, at 4pm in a small, bitter town in Ohio.

This is amazing. Can you imagine McCain getting cut any slack for making a comment as racist as this is sexist?

I had a feeling the Obamamania would crumble eventually. Thank goodness it is happening BEFORE the election rather than after it.

Once again… context people. Have we become so naieve as a nation that we can no longer respond to context but rather to slanted, sound bites put forth by people who WANT to create a controversy. Drudge is perpetuating this and Jake Tapper’s story sets it all in motion. Are we that simplistic a nation that we can’t try to have intellgient political discourse? Pathetic.

I do not want Obama as our president. He’s doing the very same thing that he said he would not do. He referred to John McCain as being dishonest. Obama called McCain’s campaign stupid and then called them liars. Now, he makes this sexist remark towards Sarah Palin. It’s clear Obama was talking about her. His audience applauded that line. Him and Joe Biden and many of their followers have this terrible thing against women who get in his way. Vote McCain/Palin 2008!

I am a Northwest Indiana resident with limited public speaking skills. Two years ago I heard Obama speak and said, “He has charisma, he has the ability to talk to 1000′s like he was talking to one person.” Huff and puff just went down the tubes.

The candidate for change is just a whole lot of the same old dirty Chicago politician…Desperate people do, and say, desperate things. We are currently watching the implosion of a presidential campaign. Obama who?

Its funny to see some honest Democrats trying to explain what Obama really meant, to Drudge’s right wing pigs.
In history, only the GOP, Taliban and Pol pot have made a virtue of ignorance and denigrated education and educated people.
McCains daughter today proudly proclaimed that her dad was a dunce.
These are the guys that want to be in power, unbelievable!!!.

LOL – I LOVE IT.
The woman compared herself to a dog already – remember the “PitBull” comment by Palin? and now the McCain\Palin ticket is whining about what Obama said.
If Sarah can’t handle a little poke in the eye from Obama – how will she ever handle Putin and the other bad guys in the world?!?!?!

In the movie “Boiler Room” shady brokers used the expression “Put lipstick on the pig” when they dressed up lousy stocks to sell to a gullible public.
Seems like the perfect analogy to me– for the policies McCain is out there peddling.
McCain himself has used this expression, for Hilary’s health care policies. I guess McCain was calling Hilary a pig, and should also apologize.

McCain has used the lipstick phrase, too.
Last year while criticizing health proposals from the Democratic presidential candidates, he said Hillary Rodham Clinton’s resembled the failed plan she offered as first lady during the 1990s. “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” McCain of her proposal.

Obama does community service work and he is called an Elitist??!! I do not think there is anything, “elite” about the people he works with and for.
I feel if certain demographics of people have the Audacity to demand to be treated fairly and not act subservient, they will be labeled things such as an elitist.
The republicans are blatantly using fear and race in their campaign. They hope to scare folks into voting for their ticket. Since they can not answer for the past eight years and they have no clue as to what is needed, fear and race is their only option.

Its funny to see some honest Democrats trying to explain what Obama really meant, to Drudge’s right wing pigs.
In history, only the GOP, Taliban and Pol pot have made a virtue of ignorance and denigrated education and educated people.
McCains daughter today proudly proclaimed that her dad was a dunce.
These are the guys that want to be in power, unbelievable!!!.

Wow republicans instead of speaking of the real issues are still on their Palin Honeymoon which will last for about a week max anything Obama says now according to republicans is a shot at their darling when Mr Mccain himself himself used the exact same phrase to describe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year. “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” McCain said in October of 2007

Keep Working Millions ON WELFARE DEPEND ON YOU?

CHA-CHING…the RNC just cashed a big check

Several posters are saying McCain is such a gentleman with regard to his treatment of women. What about his joke 10 years ago about Chelsea, Hillary,and Janet Reno? Chelsea was just 18 at the time. McCain, in a major speech at a Republican gathering, asked “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?”
The rest of the joke is not important; Hillary and Reno can take it. But McCain apparently thought these insults were hilarious after-dinner entertanment.

Idioms, look them up. Oh wait, you don’t own a dictionary.. or any books.. back to shooting moose (what a HUNTER instinct! I can SHOOT an animal from FAR AWAY with a RIFLE! WOW! Wake me up when the.. that VP candidate can shoot a moose with a homemade bow and arrow.)

Obama will become just as bitter as
Gore when he loses the election.
Obama’s panic du jour will be?

Hey,BO….
Who you callin’ a PIG, Dude?

We use this expression in our business a lot, and it refers to a practice, not the person practicing it. He is saying that no matter how you dress the platforms of McCain and Palin, they are what they are. I cannot believe the outrage over this when Palin was on a radio show laughing because her former opposition was called a “cancer”, referring to the fact the woman had cancer.
What makes all this worse is how the rednecks on this post are coming out with cruel and personal attacks on Obama’s color. These are probably the same people who would tuck their tails between their legs if someone they knew found out what they were writing. It is sad how anonymity brings out all of the true hatred and unrest in this country.
I for one am glad Obama is stepping it up. He and Biden have been raked over the coals by this lying, (I didnt support the bridge to nowhere, when in fact she asked for money to be earmarked for this budget)nasty draconian woman. She is setting back the womens movement, not bringing it forward.
So indeed you can’t put lipstick on a pig. Sarah Palin’s record, beliefs and choices are astoundingly extreme.

Hmmm. His two kids tire him and Michelle out? Well, how is he going to be president then? Oh wait. I got it. He’s gunna talk like a president, Can’t you just hear him now. “Change, Change, Change. And let me tell you one more thing thing: Present.”

It has been what? Two weeks since Sarah made her now famous lipstick comparison.
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Its been six days (not two weeks)since Palin made her LIPSTICK comment. Nice try at spin, we are not stupid. The audience knew what Obama meant. And so does Drudge and the rest of the sane world.
Obama is DONE. He is in a quagmire and needs an exist strategy.

Mrs. Palin, echoing the theme of humility, made this moral declaration during her acceptance speech: “We are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions and a servant’s heart.”
In contrast are the mounting criticisms from the left that couldn’t be more condescending, divisive, cynical, downright arrogant and anything but humble.
This Independent is voting Republican!

ALRIGHT!
“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”
That just shattered Palins infantile speech to smithereens.

Obama DID NOT call Palin a pig. He used a common phrase. You all can’t be serious in thinking otherwise!

lutz…
In ANY issues of NATIONAL defense, Palin isn’t even briefed. The more you know…

Now, now boys and girls, can we all just get along? People who like lies, corruption and war will vote for McCain, and those of us who realize God created al races,and are smart enough to not want more years of corruption, greed, and no accountability in govenment, will vote for Obama. Racism is sooo ugly, but I am proud of the many Americans who are choosing…how shall we say, COUNTRY FIRST (over racism) and our nations future, voting for Obama, instead of John McCain… Every thinking American (not motivated by greed or racism), must have known this campaign was going to ge nasty. Repbulicans want to keep POWER, and Obama is a black man. So..this is an ugly but NECESSARY process for the growth of our nation. After the dust settles, the people will speak. WE THE PEOPLE… so for those who are counting on racism to save the day.. I think you are going to be sorely disappointed. You just wait and see. Yes we can… Because we must. Future generations are counting on us.

It’s unfortunate that many people have to classify themselves as either liberal or conservative and even more unfortunate that politics is all about “us versus them”. We’re not going to move forward until the mud slinging stops and the politicians shut up about how they’re better than the other person and actually talk about what their plans look like. When you actually talk to a person about what they think on issues without mentioning political party and with a listening ear, you find that we are all more on the same page than you might think.

Obama will CHANGE NOTHING he is a product of the CHICAGO DEMOCRAT MACHINE run by the Daleys for the past 50 years. The most corrupt politicians in the US are out of Chicago.Here is an excerpt from an NPR article about The younger Daley,”Daley did not seek to be chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, a position his father used to control politics and government from the courts to the state capitol to Congress. His father’s machine doled out lower level offices, jobs and political favors in exchange for loyalty. The younger Daley’s machine rewards loyalty, too, often with jobs and favors — his last patronage chief, Robert Sorich, is now in a federal prison after being convicted last year on corruption charges — but this Daley keeps a further distance from the inner workings of his machine.” Obama is a product of these types of political payoff just ask Tony Rezko another Obama contributor in the Federal Pen. He’s a phony and a hypocrit, just like all the rich Democrats, money is evil unless it’s theirs.

Obama is nothing more than a chauvinist pig! We saw the way he treated Hillary and now this! He is really starting to snap under pressure. I’m so glad that Americans are finally waking up to see his true colors!

Obama for change? That’s a hoot. The only thing we’ve learned from this and him flipping off Hillary Clinton is that the man has the unmanly trait of being passive aggressive.
This is a man who can’t even convince Hillary to campaign for him and we’re supposed to believe he can diplomatically convince the Iranians to give up their nuclear dreams?
Barak Obama is hilariously campaigning against the bottom of the GOP ticket because his service to the country cannot not measure up to McCain’s.

What happens if McCain uses the old phrase calling a spade a spade about Obama’s Socialized Programs.

RE:
“OBAMA just said exactly what needed to be said. The truth. And its hurts. Sorry…”
Yep, that’s right. It hurts OBAMA’s campaign.
The tide has turned. It’s amusing to watch all the “progressive” ones degenerate. The election is all but OVER largely due to Palin’s likability. So go on, keep up your feeble attacks; it’s only going to tee off the people that like her, not change their minds. Got to love the liberal playbook.

RE:
“OBAMA just said exactly what needed to be said. The truth. And its hurts. Sorry…”
Yep, that’s right. It hurts OBAMA’s campaign.
The tide has turned. It’s amusing to watch all the “progressive” ones degenerate. The election is all but OVER largely due to Palin’s likability. So go on, keep up your feeble attacks; it’s only going to tee off the people that like her, not change their minds. Got to love the liberal playbook.

Have any of you folks ever been to Ketchikan – site of the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere?” The cost of that bridge may have been excessive – thanks to the corrupt bunch that was running Alaska before Palin, but that bridge really is needed. Ketchikan, the town, is on one side of the inlet in an incredibly beautiful setting and the town’s jet airport (and emergency services connection to British Columbia, the lower 48, or north to Anchorage) is across the navigable inlet on a very sparsely-populated, long, thin island. Only 50 or so people live on that island with the airport (and the family of the previous governor of AK – the one Palin defeated – owns land adjacent to where the bridge would go, hence the term Bridge to Nowhere, but Ketchikan across the inlet is a pretty good-sized burg (for SE) Alaska. I suspect if you ask Palin (and most Alaskans) they will say that a bridge should eventually be built there to connect to the airport – this is a remote area by East Coast standards though not by those of AK and it is going to need continuing investment in infrastructure to grow, but as I understand it their position now is, “if we need it, we’ll pay for it.” A minor aside to all of you; your good friend Mr. Obama voted FOR the $$ for this project.

To those of you trying to do damage control by saying McCain spoke the same thing about HRC: Context is everything. HRC had not just used “lipstick” to describe herself, and clearly McCain’s jab was regarding HRC policies. In this case, Palin had just used (less than 1 week ago) the “lipstick” statement about herself to describe the difference between a pit-bull and a hocky-mom. For BO to use the reference now (…. like putting lipstick on a pig) means one of two things: Either A) BO is totally clueless (not a good trait in a future US President or B) BO meant exactly what he said and is quite rude and down-right crude. Take your pick Obamabots… As for me and my house, we choose McCain / Palin in 08!

I am not going to speculate whether Obama meant to attack Gov Palin with the “Lipstick” comment. But if he is as smart as everyone makes him out to be then he should have known that this comment would be seen as an attack. Maybe when he started the line he didn’t mean to go after Palin but then you can see as he said it he paused like he was thinking if he should continue and decided to finish the line anyway. Bad timing? Bad judgment? You make the call.

Obama will CHANGE NOTHING he is a product of the CHICAGO DEMOCRAT MACHINE run by the Daleys for the past 50 years. The most corrupt politicians in the US are out of Chicago.Here is an excerpt from an NPR article about The younger Daley,”Daley did not seek to be chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, a position his father used to control politics and government from the courts to the state capitol to Congress. His father’s machine doled out lower level offices, jobs and political favors in exchange for loyalty. The younger Daley’s machine rewards loyalty, too, often with jobs and favors — his last patronage chief, Robert Sorich, is now in a federal prison after being convicted last year on corruption charges — but this Daley keeps a further distance from the inner workings of his machine.” Obama is a product of these types of political payoff just ask Tony Rezko another Obama contributor in the Federal Pen. He’s a phony and a hypocrit, just like all the rich Democrats, money is evil unless it’s theirs.

Palin would have to resign her post as VP candidate if she had made a racist comment as his “lipstick” comment.

Hey, Jackie M: would you dismiss it as “just a common expression” if Sarah Palin or John McCain happened to slip into one of their speeches “let’s call a spade a spade”? (Of course, Hillary DID say that Barack Obama hadn’t yet “done the spadework” in the Senate to be qualified for the Presidency — think that was an accidental word choice, or just a “common expression”?)

jay, the welfare argument was fought in 1996 and won by your side. Republicans controlled both houses, Clinton needed to get re-elected, and welfare in this country as we used to know it almost completely disappeared. Congratulations. That does mean, however, that you don’t get to use welfare queens and food stamp crack addicts as talking points in 2008. Wake up and smell the 21st century.

This is nonsensical and cry baby mongering at best, why isn’t McCain complaining about fish?
“You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”

Will Obama cry when he loses this election? I think he will cry like a little baby!

This is the best and the brightest guy the dems have to offer?

I was reading these comments and was shocked by the number of fools out there still calling Obama a muslim. He is not, nor ever has been. So he slipped up and said, “my muslim faith”. All of the racists, and people who had no real ammo against Obama rubbed their ignorant hands together and thought, “Hee Hee, that thar man jest screwed up an’ Ima gonna repeat what he said til peoples decide not to vote fer him because of it.”
People actually forwarded that stupid email ages ago supporting his “muslim” faith. This was proven incorrect by many, many people and has a place on the snopes website now.

Obama also said that Hillary CLAWS come out when she PERIODICALLY *feels down.*
Ya, OBAMA, we HEAR YOUR SEXIST BULL****.
Brush your shoulders off, flip the bird again, 99 problems but a b**** aint one, and your fundraiser Luda, “irrelevant b****.”
That’s just my phone vibrating sweetie, don’t want you thinking I’m getting fresh.
Obama, are you a SEXIST or do you just hate WHITE WOMEN????????????????

Obama is self destructing!

McCain used the same phrase a while back…Jesus! Is everything said about PALIN going to be called sexist?

How sad. Wasn’t Obama the guy who was going to run a “clean” campaign against the “dirty tricks” clintons? The pig comment is pathetic. If you can’t see the connection to Palin, you shouldn’t be voting. Looks like Obama is grasping for breath and a lifeline as he is going under. How sad indeed.

Is this “perceived whining” coming out of the McCain campaign? Didn’t Palin criticize Hilary for the same thing?
Yes– except in Hilary’s case she wasn’t making something up. This charge against Obama is pure flim flam. Laughable.
And even if Obama did call Palin and/or McCain a pig– what’s the matter– can’t handle it?

You can put lipstick on a right wing conservative fundimentalist, but that doesn’t mean they’re a moral or clear thinking person.

How dare he pick on that lying, thieving, ignorant, book-banning zealot who’s been attacking him non stop.

Wake up people. The title of this article, and the “context” of this sentance says it all:
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.
“That’s not change. You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”

This man-child is out of his league. A voice in his head (not his ego) should have warned him not to say that, because it might offend women, which he seems to be losing in spades.
Obama couldn’t get elected to a PTA.

Obama wants us to believe that he can be the leader of the free world, yet he cannot run his political machine without tele-a-promters and personal attacks. Does it seem strange that the financial advisor for Obama quits, then calls Palin an unfit mother and her child something less than approiate one day after Obama states Children are off limits.
My mind is made up, I cannot let an idiot like this Jr. Senator into the White House.

OK, it has to be some kind of “fake’ or “lie” message. Obama could not have said anything involving “lipstick” and “a pig,” intimating a reference to a Republican woman candidate. If that was to be true, it would be one of the most sexist, ugly things a presidential candidate could say about a woman. And, of course, Mr. Obama would never, ever say any such thing, would he?

I’m voting for McCain/Palin and I think this is a non issue. I’ve used that pig phrase a million times in the past and I don’t think Obama was calling her a pig, and even if he was, so what? Let’s talk policy and voting records.

I’m for McCain/Palin but give Obama a pass here. I, for one, do not believe that it is in his nature to make such a comment. With 56 days before the election can we find something better to talk about than Palin’s daughter’s baby–oh, wait that was last week’s media creation–and whether or not Obama called Palin a pig. Our nation is going down the drain but it isn’t because of McCain or Bush or Palin or Obama or Biden it is because the media sensationalizes the ridiculous and skips the real story. They skip the issues because they think we don’t care, they don’t care or they think we are too stupid to care. The media has not allowed this campaign to be about issues. If you want to learn more about the issues, you’ll have to dig for them. The media has turned this into some damned high school popularity contest and no matter who wins we all lose. Lies, half-truths and spin that is all we hear anymore, and I don’t care if it is coming from Limbaugh, the Daily Kos, NPR, Fox News or MSNBC in the end we get the same thing an prostituted version of everything that happens around us.

Oh please!!!! Give me a break! Why is the media playing into McCain and the Repubs sexism card? Why when these right-wing misfits cry their crocodile tears calling sexism the media just eats it up – have some dignity media. First of all you emphasize the lipstick/pig part but what about the rest of Sen. Obama statement when he also referred to an old saying abut fish/newspaper… why aren’t you blowing that sentence up too? Why are you further mentioning McCain using a similar phrase when describing Hillary’s health care plan? This is really silly season in politics and they media is in full bloom for a story. Good grief tell us about issues!!!

America wants to fail.

If Obama and Biden can’t confront Palin square on…having to hide behind innuendos, how is going to take on some “female” president or priminster??? What a wimp! Just come out and attack her record. Oh wait…you need your mini army of 30 lawers to dig up dirt on her in Alaska. Just ask Hillary…I bet she already has a complete dosier on her. You should have access to all the public records on her performance everyone else does. I guess you don’t have anything else but cheap shots. What happened to the “clean” campaign? You just lost my vote.

Hillary would have been the best choice no doubt. These two dudes are miserable for the Democrats. Barack and Biden We want Hillary.

Somebody quick! Get that man a telepromter!

I am utterly shocked at the mentality of the people who defend Obama, and the only south he knows is the south-side of Chicago. He runs with the new class of pigs,they are called thugs. Now not all people in Chicago put up with these thugs. His friend the mayor they call Fat Albert, thought he was above the law. just signed a deal for less jail time. Chicago is bankrupt and want the good ole USA hook up like Obama got from tony rezko.

Obama 08′. I’m so sick of this Republican BS.

JesseDewey:
“My choice is quite easy when I consider a demonstrable war hero vs. a Chicago Politician.”
And certainly your choice IS yours, but it’s not that easy. If being a POW makes you a Hero, there’s a couple thousand others that should be president. Maybe one of them can even fly a plane, or actually ace their class and not be the bottom 5 out of 800+.
JesseDewey:
“A vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years of Bush” is historically provable hogwash.
Historically, McCain has been a thorn in Bush’s side. Some republicans have called him disloyal because he has “reached across the aisle” many times. He is no stranger to attempts at political reformation.
In 2000, that would have been true. McCain since has made a complete 180 degree turn in order to satisfy his PERSONAL AMBITION and his feeling that he is ENTITLED to the presidency. His voting record and flip flops show it… more on that later, to be fair…
JesseDewey:
“Obama has only a history of supporting the democratic machine and no acts of political reformation.”
Neither does McCain, he’s long abandoned the reform part and is now leaning on his 2000 credentials, which back then were good. Now, not so much.
I WILL say that Obama has flip flopped just as much. Both of them have and neither of them are all that admirable. It is unfortunate because they force you to judge them on something else but their track record.
All hate and partisanship aside, this is another sad election year. The mud, the real ugly mud, is now flung from both sides and here we go down the shitter, divided as always.
I bet both of the candidates love it. Lipstick on a pig, and we’re the real pigs.

Can we vote tomorrow, please :o)

Obama Biden = Carter 2nd term
Ok I’m back…. you guys I just had this awful dream it goes like this….American votes for this moron and old stiff and they run the country into the ground with terrible tax policy and patsy soft defense.
Question was my dream about Carter or Obama?

Q: Is Obama REALLY that stupid???
A: Yes

I can’t beliee he said that! I actually thought much better of him than that. The last time we heard a reference to lipstick it was from a memorable line from Palin’s speech. Obviously he’s using this expression diffferently but it’s also obvious what his implication is….not very subtle. I had more respect for him as a politician and speaker than that. I’m still undecided, but that really was inappropriate. I’m disappointed in him. It shows his lack of experience that he’s losing his composure now that the pressure is on. Something to think about.

“The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week”
No doubt everyone does, since that’s the last time lipstick was mentioned in this campaign and she became instantly famous for it. She also worked in commercial fishing, so that comment about fish stinking was choice, too. Good one, Sen. Obama.

To all of these democratic posters lashing out a Palin: I love the smell of desperation, smells like Republican victory!

This is a minor flub. Obama used a common expression that he shouldn’t have used in this context and people are acting like this is the worst thing in the world. He obviously wasn’t calling Palin a pig. It’s not as if McCain has never have said anything he regretted later.

I actually am going to give Mr. Obama a pass on this one. “Lipstick on a pig…” is a old-fashioned expression which in another context would have been appropriate and is not sexist in its own right. Since its OK for Jimmy Carter to call him a “boy” I suspect that no longer has a racist connotation either.
It is more disturbing to me that the “good” governor of NY feels it necessary to now define a “community organizer” as a racial slur when applied to Mr. Obama’s previously stated occupation. I actually didn’t know that this field of endeavor had any racial aspect.
Of course in a “PC” world you have to be a bit more sensitive in your statements. My own feeling is that Mr. Obama apparently isn’t or didn’t see the connection.
From now on “lipstick” “boy” + “community organizer” are potential slurs. I guess it just depends who says them.

Every democrat running for prez for the last 40 years has campaigned on more spending, more entitlements, more freebies for deadbeats and of course higher taxes. Obama has exactly the same platform and calls it change.
Meanwhile McCain has never accepted an earmark. That actually is a change.
O’s latest remarks show the wheels are truly coming off.

Thomas Cline: “I, for one, do not believe that it is in his nature to make such a comment.”
The problem is, he said it. So either his advisers are telling him to use subliminal cues in his language, or he’s got a terrible tin ear (and poor judgment). Because ultimately it doesn’t matter what he MEANT: a goodly number of American women voters are going to HEAR it as calling Sarah Palin a pig, and they’re going to get mad. Can Obama really be so stupid that he throws away a few percentage points of the electorate so casually?

Wow….
Talk about a way to insult alot of people on boths sides.. what the hell was he thinking OMG

Only closed-minded people would take a an expression that fits and turn it into hate.
A lot of people on here seem to have made up their minds the day they saw who Barack Obama was, why do you waste your time spreading your hate here? You wouldnt have a kind word if the man saved your mothers life. He is an educated man that wants to make a difference like John McCain. He has come far in his life and worked hard. But I dont expect small minds to give anyone who deserves some respect any. Its a sad commentary on our world today.

Obama is not been served well. Anyone sensing conspiracy within his own party that Clinton’s peoples were doing bad advices? Do you really think Clinton’s people will help Obama whole-heartedly?

I am an Obama supporter no longer.
I cannot support this obvious disrespect towards women. I have to admit, I was finding it difficult to stay with Obama when he snubbed Hilary (after all, she got as many votes as he did).
This latest is way over the top. Looking back at the primaries, now I see how he grossly disrespected and trashed Hilary. I was blind to it before.
Now, I have to agree with Obama’s critics–Obama is acting like a muslim terrorist. He despises women and conducts terrorists attacks against women.
Palin is not running for President, but is more qualified than Obama–why does he attack her? Because she is a woman and he is a muslim!
I would love to see Obama and Palin in a debate–she would clean up the floor with him!
I CANNOT VOTE FOR THE MUSLIM WOMAN HATER!

I wasn’t sure if Obama was in Rev. Wrights church again with that cheering audience.
Obama is such a “smooth” talker, he can say ANYTHING! He went 20 years to that “church” and had no idea they hated whites and hispanics.

We know that because Obama is half black he will be given another opportunity to apologize to Sarah but don’t acknowledge his apologies Sarah and just keep moving forward. He is a sad excuse for a politician who hates his country and the white side of his family that gave him the opportunity to become successful. You are the greatest thing to happen to the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan and I can’t wait to see you in NYC. Thank God for Sarah Palin!
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Let’s keep the adults in the white house.
Mac/PALIN ’08

You Repubs are makin’ stuff up. Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” was referring to McCain, not Palin. Obama is saying that McCain’s “change” is fake and insincere. Read the title of this blog, Jake Tapper got it right. Obama got it right too — McCain’s been with Bush 90% of the time and then — poof — at the convention McCain suddenly flip-flops and starts talking ‘change.’ Lipstick on a pig, indeed.

Hillary silent on Palin….. she knows the paRTY IS OVER… UNTIL 2012

The only “change” Obama will bring to Washington DC is a healthy dose of South Chicago Style of thug politics.
PS.. That is NOT the kind of “change” that our “good old boy” network in DC needs right now.

Sexist? Obama was talking about McCain. But let’s say he was talking about Palin, whats worse someone that calls an opponent a pig in reference to an expression, or someone that calls his own wife nasty words.

All this crap about Palin this and Palin that is a case and point that the Reds don’t have a clue about the real problems. They are in denial about where we and our kids are going with all this. You need to get over your wonder woman complex and think about whether or not you are going to have a job in the future.

You people need to face the facts.
I happen to think BarryO knew exactly what he was saying and said exactly what he meant to say.
Now, you may choose to believe otherwise, it’s your right. However, you cannot deny, whether he meant it toward Sarah Palin or not, it was an incredibly stupid thing to say and reflects extremely poorly on his character, intelligence, campaign, and temperament.
He is not presidential material.

It must be dispiriting for the democrats to see another election slipping away. Most Americans reject the extreme liberal values of Pelosi, Obama, Kerry, and Gore and the last two elections confirm it. After 8 years of Slick Willy patting himself on the back and liberal values shoved down our throats, Gore never had a chance. Kerry cooked his goose when he came back from Vietnam. Nobody in their right mind would make him commander in chief. How can you possibly win with spokespersons from MTV, NBC, and Hollywood. Even worse, how can you “not” win with the press in your back pocket. You have denegrated your country and besmeared President Bush but Americans picked him over democrats? Who is smarter, I ask? Americans are not obtuse. They prefer honesty, integrity, and moral character over slick, intelligent, and liberal. Sara Palin is a fresh face that will make a difference in our lives the same way she did for Alaskans. She seems sincere, hard working, and honest. Instead of debating the issues, democrats attacked her with messages that conflict with their own values. This appears to be a major strategic mistake. Once again, the democrats failed to frame the argument in a way Americans will accept. McCain hijacked the “CHANGE” message very cleverly by making the “REFORM” message clear and concise and by picking the right running mate that authenticated his message. Change and Biden don’t belong in the same sentence–he is part of the old guard. Can the Democrats win this election? Chances are less than 30% but not out of reach. They need very smart strategy from here on out; must keep the far left in line and quiet; or a blunder on the McCain side that Americans don’t comprehend as the press smearing conservatives again.

Sheeple…You will saddenly awake one morning and find your Country is gone.
It will have been “progressively” brought down by narcissistic , “forward thinking”, college educated, “entitled”, morons!
Obama has a plan that should scare the hell out of anyone who truly has read his positions. Expect what you own to become controlled by an even bigger Government…Remember…the overnment that giveth can taketh away!

manBear – I hope that God blesses your family.

Y’all sure do get carried away with yourselves over such petty issues. And in all the hub-bub, you miss the point. And it’s a shame. Mostly for the next generation.
The reason that Obama is is heralded as a leader is because he will fight to make something new happen that works FOR ALL including YOU.
Is it bad that your taxes would decrease? Is it bad that a manufactured war would end? is it bad that soldiers would come home? Roads and bridges would get repaired. Schools would get better teachers. Energy would come from here, not over there. And it won’t be oil!
I saw one other thing. Somebody called him a terrorist. If y’all fell for that, you should feel bad for yourselves. You were fooled. Its like saying Mr. McCain spent years in a cell and that he’s really the Manchurian Candidate. Get real, people.
Get real about what matters. Does anyone really think that the past 8 years have been good? Does anyone think that Mr. McCain will do anything differently than the current administration? Does anyone think that more power to corporations combined with less oversight is going to make more jobs? Does anyone think that their current job is safe? It isn’t.
Sorry gang but that’s the hand your president dealt you. And you know it because the word Republican was nowhere to be found at your convention.
Then you announced you were the New Republicans, the Republicans of the Future. Re-branding 101. We’re NEW and IMPROVED!
I was hoping for more. I thought y’all would at least make the decision difficult. Mr. McCain shows up and suddenly he’s about change. What kind? More oil? More war? More spying? More for the rich–something that, odds are, you’re not–or Corporate America? Gosh, that sounds good for everyone.
You can fight to elect an old guy fighting for an old energy resource and an old industry and fill up your gas tank for 4 bucks today. OR you can think about those who will follow you, your children. Your neighbor’s children. The kids in the school down the road.
By the way, the ones that are old enough aren’t thinking about us. The next generation cares about their future, not ours. We done screwed things up enough. Y’all might want to think about them. Be selfless. It’s in the Bible.
Before you pull the trigger on your candidate, decide if you your kids to have clean air or smog. Work or none. War or Peace, and on and on.
The bible taught me to do unto others as I would have them do unto me. On one side, I see a bunch of rich guys doing for themselves. On the other, I see somebody who did for others. Oh, and was ridiculed for it. I found that line from Palin an insult to the good people that work in my church.
A few years back, I considered McCain before Bush shivved him. He’s an alright guy and I’m an Independent. But he is the past. And Palin is a puppet. And she insulted people that fight for an inch of gain in their community. All to make a small town mayor feel and look like a big political player. I hope she is proud to have prostituted herself for her party.
Me? I’m going where young people go. They’re much smarter these days than we all were. I’m going with the people that feel like the future. I’m going with Mr. Obama.

We’re sick of you for Obama whining about being called “sexist” when your behavior is despicable. We are not your mothers.. Nobody cares what someone like that thinks and you don’t know who you’re up against, so get a clue. This is no way to run a campaign.
They probably think if they can pull this off, they’ll have a better chance in the job market by getting women with children out of the way. HOW ABOUT FAT CHANCE???

This guy is “book-smart”, but definately not a ‘thinker’.
He gives great speeches off of a teleprompter, but that’s it.
I mean… name ONE piece of legislation (or a legal brief while teaching college) that he WROTE that was a change from anything at all. There are none.
The only change we have here is an empty suit, with less experience than Palin, that was taken in by the Chicago/Daley/Marxist machine as one of their own. I mean… come on! He was a “constitutional law professor” and never wrote a single paper about anything? Phuh! And a friend of a terrorist? Basically a Tim McVeigh on the left? (He was friends and worked WITH him for over 10 years).
Other than some inspirational speeches off of teleprompters, who is this guy?
He defends hsi days as a ‘community organizer’, but never mentions what he did. Why? Cause he worked with ACORN, who has been cited with voter fraud and racketeering.
What has he done? Ever? I mean it! I AM ASKING?!?!?
Other than he’s not Bush!
Anybody….
Anybody….
Anybody….
Will the last one out, please turn off the lights?

Be man enough to show respect when it is earned.
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You have to keep earning respect. It doesn’t rest on something that happened to you 40 years ago that you trot out and cheapen so you can become President. Real heroes never talk about their experiences for opportunistic gain or to distract from their flaws.
Yet, McCain has no problem out his POW experience out again and again and again….there are plenty of Vietnam Vets and ex-POW who don’t get to hide behind their sacrifices everytime something gets difficult in their own lives. But John McCain didn’t really love his country until he was POW did he? Why not??

Obama wasn’t referring to Sarah Palin, and Bill Clinton didn’t inhale!

REAL MEN DON’T CALL WOMEN PIGS!
Funny thing is — The ONE will soon be squeelin like a pig when he looses all 50 states, (not 57 states, by the way)
McCain/Palin? –I’m In!!!

Oh by the way I’m an Independent, I hunt, so that means I have guns, and I’m the swing vote this year yea a Catholic.

Enough is enough. The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy – the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.

right-side celebration — 2 down(ko/cm)and 5 to go! will anyone from cnn/msnbc ask joe biden about his plajarism episodes? how about a special on devoted husband jon edwards?

PPM wrote,
You have to keep earning respect. It doesn’t rest on something that happened to you 40 years ago that you trot out and cheapen so you can become President.
I guess you just explained why John Kerry lost.
Hey…lets get rid of memorial day and martin luther king day. The sacrifice of fellow americans doesn’t need to be “trotted” out as an example of honorable behavior.

What a cheap shot! He called palin a pig and mccain and old dead fish. Who the heck does this guy think he is?

Reading comments applauding Obama for what everyone would agree is a classless reference to Palin only exposes some on this board. If you don’t understand that Obama crossed the line than you are a zealot blinded by your ideology. Is this the type of rhetoric you want coming from the candidate of change who pledged he would run a different kind of campaign. Just remember how this comment will play among the coveted independent voters who are currently pushing McCain ahead in the polls. Not very smart. But I’m having a great time watching the implosion.

McCain is a runt.
Moose-mom likewise.
We don’t want pocket-size
people running the show.

THIS REPORTER HAS A DIFFERENT TAKE ON OBAMA’S USE OF THE COMMOM PHRASE:
Feeling a Challenge, Obama Sharpens His Silver Tongue
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: September 9, 2008
NY Times
In the latest sign of the campaign’s heightened intensity, Mr. McCain’s surrogates responded within minutes and called on Mr. Obama to apologize to Gov. Sarah Palin for the lipstick remark. But to those in the audience, it was clear that Mr. Obama was employing an age-old phrase — lipstick on a pig — and referring to Mr. McCain’s policies. He had not yet mentioned Ms. Palin at that point of his speech.

People were laughing
and booing whenever BO
mentioned her name.
They know she’s a
dime a dozen third-rate
politician. They are not
impressed by the Republican
hoopla surrounding her.

All you whiney Republicans sound like bitter clingers. No wonder the messiah is afraid to debate McCain in weekly townhall meetings. Imagine the HOURS of you-tube footage where the chosen one has a foot in his mouth!

Barack Obama and Joe Biden both suffer from a severe form of foot-in-mouth disease. Calling a lady a pig is very low class and very stupid – Obama is not ready for prime time.

Sounds like Obama would be at home touring with Russell Brand the famed Mtv VMA host, they both do not seem to understand what is offensive to Americans. That was a joke he should have told in Germany or maybe the U.K. I guess Mr. Clean Campaign is a thing of the past. I hate seeing a grown man resort to calling an opposing V.P. candidate and her following of “hockey moms” PIGS!!! I am now disgusted – I thought he would be a little more cool under pressure, but as it turns out he goes off the deep end the 1st time he is behind in the polls… PIGS? PIGS? Way to embarrass the democrat party yet again, name calling is for children – maybe you are not ready for the Presidency. This marks the moment that you have become a has-been! Maybe Brand will allow you to lay low at his “flat” for a while???

Interesting to see that Obama is using the same tactics Republicans constantly use. I am totally fine with that.
They play dirty lies after lies after lies Obama had no other choice but to hit them hard.
Palins remind me of the french socialist leader in the last election in France, Segolene Royale. Incompetent, empty and relying mostly on her sex.
I can not imagin Palins arguing with Russia on any issue while McCains’ is in bed for surgery number 345343443. I am sure Poutine will be kind enough to offer tea and biscuit.
Well done Obama.

Isn’t the choice easy? You want a Prom Queen and a guy who blew up the USS Forrestal or two constitutional scholars in the White House?
http://slowdecline.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/57/
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Here are some facts from the sailors and crewman from that fateful day:
Surviving crewmen and those who investigated the Forrestal fire case reported that McCain deliberately ‘wet-started’ his A-4E Skyhawk to shake up the guy in the F-4 Phantom behind his A-4.
‘Wet-starts’, done either deliberately (the starter motor switch allowed kerosene to pool in the engine and give a wet start) or accidentally, shoot a large flame from the tail of the aircraft. In McCain’s case, the ‘wet-start’ ‘cooked off’ and launched the M34 Zuni rocket from the rear F-4 that punctured the Skyhawk’s fuel tank, knocked the M-65 1000 lb. bomb off it’s 500 lb. rated mount, and touched off the explosions and massive fire.
The F-4 pilot was reportedly killed in the conflagration, along with 167 of his fellow Forrestal shipmates (including those who died later from wounds suffered).
‘Wet starting’ was a common practice among young ‘hot-dog’ pilots. McCain was quickly (they were still counting the Forrestal dead) transferred to the USS Oriskany (the only Forrestal crewman to be immediately transferred).

I’m on the moderate right, and the racist jabs in this forum make me sick. I don’t think they represent the right at all.
Obama is a hard-core leftist who I think is getting his hat handed to him by a very smart, very savy, very EXPERIENCED McCain campaign.
He’s spent too much time climbing the political ladder to offer any substance. He’s power hungry and arrogant. He seems to think Americans are ignorant dolts that’ll buy anyting in flashy packaging.
I was on the fence until Palin came into the race. Obama, politics 101, focus on McCain. But he Can’t! Bidon is renowned for his gaffs and Obama all but admitted his inexperience by picking him.
The democrats picked the WRONG candidate. I can’t stand Hilary, but if the Dems thought this was a better choice; they’re NUTS! I was interested in him until I got to know him.
I’m so dissapointed in Obama as the first african-american candidate. He’s NOTHING like his marketing image. He stammers, he’s a re-packaged tax-and-spend lib, he’s a bit sexist, and he dodges questions and burns lifelong relationships for political expediency (spelling?).
I’ve decided he’s not much more than a motivational speaker.
I’ve decided Obama’s a total fake. Where’s J.C. Watts of Oklahoma? He’s my hero, and worthy of respect. Obama continues to loose mine; for him and the democratic party.

My prom queen can beat up your wussy lib rabble-rousing community organizer. Constitutional scholar? Is that what he was learning while sitting under Jeremiah Wright for twenty years?

Obama should have never referred this remark to Sarah Palin. Obama’s not giving us change at all. Can you image when he’s not on mike..

I’ve said it before, and first on these pages, and now we’re hearing about it.
“Nowhere Exposure” is tanking McCain’s numbers bigtime.
And McCain’s calling Clinton a Pig will not help him keep the women he so desperately wanted his running mate to drag over to his ticket.
Loving the view from here.

If this Bozo is so lame, he would use the word lipstick with any animal, so close on the heels of last weeks famous quote by Gov. Palin…..he is dumber than I thought.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN BEFORE HE PICKED PALIN

“..this kind of language is so offensive to women who have favorable view of Palin.”
Grow up. Its an old saying. Kind of like a rose by any other name… Only better. And more appropriate. The comment was not directed at Palin – and anyway she has already called herself a dog with lipstick. So pigs with lipstick are somehow more offensive than dogs with lipstick now? Whocoodanode?

Sharone posted:
“You can put lipstick on a pig” is a very old saying used down here in the South. So for all you idiots crying sexist, please hold on to your draws.
Last time I checked Obama didn’t grow up in the south, so I am sure that would not be in his normal slang. He just thinks he is too smart for people to catch the innuendo.

You can put an empty suit named Obama in front of a teleprompter by you sure cannot call him Presidential.
Maybe he can go take his fake Presidential Seal and his fake Greek temple and move them back to his Rezko mansion in Chicago and play President there.

Obama didn’t call her a pig, get over yourselves. Gotta go with StLouindy posted way above. Think about what is important and what this election is really about. It is not about name calling or some ‘fresh face’ from the north. This is about the economy, stupid. It’s about ending a war that is killing thousands of others peoples children. It is about ending off-shoring US jobs. It’s about preserving and strengthening the middle class in America, before the middle class is totally destroyed. It’s about improving health care, repairing infrastructure and improving public education. None of these positive outcomes are going to come from Grandpa Munster and the Valedictorian. McSame is in the pockets of lobbyists and corporations. He has 134 lobbyists working on his campaign. His tax cuts are intended for the top 1% of U.S., not the middle class. He has stated that he expects the war to last another 100 years. He is 72, and in poor health, and wants to leave our country in the hands of a right wing, bigotted, ignorant, beauty queen. If you think this is a good choice, you are either clinically insane, or so wealthy you can build your own roads, and have doctor in residence on your estate, down the hall from your kids private tutors. No? You don’t? Clinically insane then, ok….Good luck with that.

Bill at 11:10….Gov. Palin is not dodging Charile Gibson…..she is being interviewed by him 9/11 and 9/12 for ABC.

He can’t debate experience, cause he’ll lose. Can’t debate issues, cause he doesn’t know where he stands from one day to the next. CHANGES his mind every day. Just reversed himself on tax increases,there was FISA, drilling, the surge, and opting out of federal campaign funding, to name a few.
So just talk about pigs and lipstick,and smelly fish, sweetie. Ignorant insults are all you have left.

Palin is an EARMARK PORKER …
Palin made Alaska #1 per capita the highest state in the union at $1000 per AK resident with pork barrel earmark dollars that she brought back to Alaska.
meanwhile .. Palin …
claims to be an earmark reformer ? LOL!

For those of you who are offended by Obama’s comment or out of touch with reality.
“Putting lipstick on a pig” as defined by the Urban Dictionary:
“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.
Car salesmen are generally good at “putting lipstick on a pig” because they are always selling unroadworthy buckets of *** and try and hide their ***fulness by tarting them up.”
Gives new meaning to the name BABE.

Obama is his own worst enemy. When he opens his mouth garbage flies out and the liberal rats run to lick it up, while the majority of normal people in this country are repulsed by it. Keep this clown talking, because with every word he pushes McCain and Palin straight into the Whitehouse in ’08. We are approaching landslide status at the rate Obama is spewing stupidity.

Both McCain and Obama offer little in real change. Just words! The deficit will still be enormous under both. Tax cuts both are claiming. They can’t do it and they know it.

Steve.
Yes we are in deep deep doo doo.
So you have a range of options.
1. Vote for the guy that is going to have the most power and who you think is most likely to get things started back to sanity.
2. Vote for a 3rd party candidate which
is an honorable but currently ineffective thing to do.
3. Don’t vote and don’t complain when your grandkids have to learn Chinese in order to find a job.

moi61537,
The topic here regards the merit and veracity of policy statements.
Indignant pit-bull victimization is a couple of columns up.

At a minimum, Obama exhibited extremely poor judgment in using the pig word knowing. He is not as eloquent as the left likes to portray him. He keeps gaffing. I personally think he really was referring to Palin as it was only days ago she used the same word. How low can Obama go?

I don’t understand – either Obama was wrong in using the analogy to describe the Republicans AND so was John McCain when using it to describe Hillary Clinton’s health care plan, or neither were.
Can someone explain to me why it’s okay for McCain but not okay for Obama? Did Hillary Clinton complain about McCain said it? Of course not.
Funny – Palin called her a whiner, yet she’s in the national spotlight for one week and she’s already sqealing like… you know.

stgeorgeschapel.
The Ministry of Truth must be throwing another Kool Aid party.

Obambi is half this and half that and a half wit. Want lipstick with that loss in NOvember Barry?!? B~)) POW/WOW ’08

What are Republicans whining about today?
1-”Librul” media?
2-Fake sexism charges?
Let me know when they get to whining about the state of the UNION.

If he had picked Hillary he wouldn’t be in this mess, and the name calling is very rude.I say get um MCCain and Sarah

I WOULD LIKE DISCLOSURE AS TO PALIN WORTH—JUST MIGHT BE A LITTLE OIL BRIBE MONEY INVOLVED—-UNBELIEVABLE THAT THIS IS NOT INVESTIGATED.GET ON THE BALL GANG–LETS GET TO THE TRUTH—-HOW MUCH AND WHERE DID IT COME FROM.

Everyone is missing the point. Obama was saying that Palin is the lipstick and McCain is the pig – Palin is the newspaper and McCain is the fish. So infact he complimented Palin and insulted McCain. It is a very accurate analogy that clearly illustrates the trick republicans are trying to pull on the America people to get their pig elected. That pig being John McCain. But lipstick smears and wears off quickly. It needs to be re-applied, which is why McCain keeps Palin so close on the campaign trail. Without Palin to make McCain look good everyone will see him for what he really is.
Also not enough attention is being paid to the fact that Palin is an unknown quantity who is turning out to be quite deceptive, vindictive and extreme and alot of her attraction to voters come down to her looks, compared to Obama and McCain. So even if the analogy is applied to her it is very accurate and highlights how her looks are being used to manipulate voters. She looks good but she is a pig of a politician. The lip-stick on a pig analogy is also an accurate discription of McCains lies about being an agent of change and a maverick.
All three interpretations of the lipstick/pig analogy clearly describes how the America people are being deceived by the McCain Palin ticket. A vote for Palin and McCain truly is a vote for lipstick on a pig, whichever way you look at it. After two weeks of republican hype and hoopla Obama has very accurately described the republican ticket in a way that everyone can easily understand.

MCcain used the same line during the primaries.
get over it.
same people who were saying all that stuff about the kitchen and heat.
yes, GET OVER IT.
hit em hard, where it hurts.
Obama Biden 2008.

‘amw’ put it better than I could have done, (but not better than Greenwald did ;-)
Since Palin arrived on the scene the tone of the blog debate has descended into screaming. The reason is that Obama supporters realise that his attempt to campaign on the issues will now be entirely drowned out by meaningless debate about soundbites – what is the meaning of the word “experience”? What is the meaning of the word “maverick”? Who is “patriotic”? When is a lie actually a lie?
And now best of all, “at what point is a metaphor a sexist insult?”

i dont even know why i read this to be honest.
All news channels and networks are owned by FOUR, FOUR coroporations.
corporations with money and interest in a republican presidency. Controversy sells.
don’t believe anything you hear.
objective? PLEASE!

Obama isn’t so stupid as to not understand why the crowd rose and appaulded when he uttered the “lipstick on a pig” line. If really wasn’t that great, especially if you assume it not to be an insult. If he had been smart, he would have put an end to it right there, but instead he just went on.

The issue of change. It seems to me that change is good when change is needed. That being said I think that change was needed with Savings and Loan Scandal. You know Silverado Neil Bush, the Keating Five John McCain. Well guess what!The Wall Street Journal reveals that besides being the DIrector of Silver State Bank, Andrew McCain, “was a member of its three-person audit committee, which was responsible for overseeing the company’s financial condition.” So he knew better than anyone what kind of trouble the bank was in. Did he see the writing on the wall, or did he, in fact, help write it?
The same WSJ article fills us in…”If Mr. McCain had remained on Silver State’s board another four days, his position on the audit committee would have required him to sign off on the company’s second-quarter financial statements…Three weeks after Mr. McCain quit, Silver State had to revise those second-quarter numbers to reflect a loss of $72.3 million.” That to me is “lipstick on a pig”

FINALLY! tsk, tsk John McCain– Obama’s finally throwing some punches back. The republican Orwellean Newspeak doesn’t work so well when that happens, now does it? (Oh heck, ask your teenager to read it to you if you don’t know how). Palin cannot use the line in her speech (which, by the way, was written by Bush’s speech writers 2 days prior to the Palin announcement. They had to rewrite it to “feminize” it, according to Bush’s, sorry, McCain’s campaign manager) to differentiate herself AS a woman in this race, and then disallow it’s usage. Had Obama NOT thrown that punch–he’d have owed an apology to women who actually use their brains to THINK. I really do wish that all these conservative men would stop deciding what women should or shouldn’t be thinking. I’M A WOMEN WITH A BRAIN, AND I’M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT! Go Obama, go!

I thouth the pig comment was FUNNY, you people need to lighten up. like seriously…
CAN WE PLEASE FOCUS ON THE ISSUES…….
White Women, Calm Down. comparing Obama to OJ is reaching an all time low. really. If this isn’t Racism I don’t know what is.
Clearly, this whole racial undercurrent thats been brewing; thanx to Hillary appealing to the rednecks as a last ditch effor to save her candidacy and McCains new ‘country first’ slogan as a masked attack on Obama’s and democrats patrotism, is boiling over now.
It’s really sad and disconcerting that in 2008 we are still dealing with this level of ignorance. It baffles the mind at how we attack each other over the irrelevant things.
Is this the example we want to set for our children, I hope we all take a step back and remember what is most important.
DO YOU HAVE A JOB?
CAN YOU PAY YOUR BILLS?
DO YOU HAVE ADEQUATE HEALTH COVERAGE?
ARE YOU SAFE AT HOME, DO YOU FEEL SAFE IN THIS COUNTRY?
CAN YOU PAY FOR COLLEGE?
ARE YOUR CHILDREN SUFFICIANTLY EDUCATED?
CAN YOU AFFORD DAYCARE TO LOOK FOR WORK?
CAN YOU AFFORD GAS?
ARE YOU CARING FOR ELDERLY PARENTS AND CHILDREN AT THE SAME TIME?
IS YOUR 401K WORTH AS MUCH AS YOU PUT INTO IT?
HOW’S YOUR PENSION DOING?
IS YOUR HOUSE LOSING VALUE DAILY?
ARE YOU BETTER OFF?

Okay, the ‘lipstick pig’ remark can be explained away.
Please expalin the next comment after that one. “You can take an old fish wrap it in paper called ‘change’. It still stinks…”
Women (and men) know that sexist pigs have referred to a part of a woman’s anatomy as ‘fishy’. Obama means “Palin = old fish… still stinks… fishy… stinky…!!!
What next… a lap cat???
WOMEN ARE SICK OF SEXIST PIGS.
OBAMA… THE WOMEN JUST LEFT YOU!!!

I can’t see why anyone would ever vote for Obama. He speaks eloquent words that have no substance. What has he done to prove that he has caused “change” in his political career? I’m not aware of any major change that he caused in the Illinois senate. McCain is the only one that’s proven he can provide change. He has worked with both the democrats and republicans on many issues without regard to their party affiliation.
Obama keeps comparing McCain to Bush because that’s what works. McCain is as far from Bush as a Republican can be. McCain has consistently transcended party lines on many issues. That’s why he hasn’t been the most popular with the republican party. McCain is nothing like Bush, and even if he was, it would still be better than having Obama in the White House.
I also find it funny how he always compares himself to the middle class. No one gets as far as he has without being somewhat wealthy. He’s worth several million dollars. He went to a private high school, then to columbia, then to harvard. Doesn’t really sound like the average middle class person to me? Furthermore, he suggests these tax cuts for middle class. But the funny thing is, these tax cuts are only for people who make less than $42,000 a year. If you make more than that, you’re going to be taxed like crazy. Most factory workers make more than that.
I can’t stand how people keep talking about Palin’s lack of experience. Yea, she doesn’t have that much experience, but it’s still more experience than Obama and he’s running for president. She at least has legislative experience.

OBAMA MUST THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STUPID !!!
It’s one thing when Obama tries to cover up mistakes he’s
made in private, or when he feebly tries to cover up or misdirect
us, by saying that he never heard Wright’s anti-American sermons
over a 20 year period … but, when Obama tells us that the
Palin lipstick/pig remark wasn’t an insult directed towards
Governor Palin, then Obama is adding insult to injury towards
the American people. This creep is not Presidential material.

America to Jake Tapper: putting lipstick on a pig is an idiom that has been part of American English for longer than you have been alive.

*Pit Bull*

Once again, it is getting close to the time of ridding this great nation of the liberal scum that not long ago enjoyed sucking old King George.
Revolution – Revolution – Revolution

Does anyone remember when Barack put his middle finger across his cheek when he mentioned Hilary during the primaries and he denied that it was intentional.
I think this man has a problem with women.
Does he have any high ranking woman on his campaign staff. I think not.
By the way, I think his mentor Wright’s latest concubine could use some glossy lipstick.

The bottom line is that Mr. Nobama needs the white vote and he will only get if on the east and west coasts.He will not get the white vote in middle America. It also appears that Mr. Nobama is running against Mrs. Palin, poor campaign strategy so far. And as far as Joe biden is concerned, he was born with a golden shoe in his mouth…….And he is good at it.

I HATE BASEBALL CARDS!

It was a stupid set of comments by Obama. He will have to spend the next several days explaining himself instead of explaining why he is better than Bush. I believe that it was deliberate, which further illustrates his poor campaigning, a sin of commission. Can’t his political handlers get through to him that he has to rise above all the squabbling and let his surrogates chuck the slime… What a maroon…

Now I know how utterly stupid and ignorant many of us Americans are. This country really needs to do something about educating ourselves. We certainly need to make higher education more affordable and more accessible to our people as Obama proposes, because the tirade on this board is truly reflective of a group of ignoramuses, incapable of reading, or listening, in context.
Obama obviously wasn’t referring to Sarah Palin. His context was John McCain. Are Republicans so desperate for an Obama gaffe that they have now begun to see/hear a gaffe in everything he says? How desperate can they be?
You Republican supporters ignore all the lies and dishonesty now evident in Sarah Palin and John McCain. This is the community of Christians who are suppose to be truthful and honest, yet they ignore the huge and obvious lies and deceptions and strain to find fault in the use of a very old saying, which both John McCain and Hillary Clinton employed in their speeches this election cycle. To quote Jesus: they “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.”
This crop of Republicans [not all] are the most dishonest and hypocritical group of people I have ever come across. Why don’t you guys try a little honesty for a change. Yea, try it! Then you will see a change you can believe in.

More NObama Lies..
Obama said on ABC’s This Week Sunday (September 7, 2008) “I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school.”
However, upon further research revealed that Obama graduated in 1979 and “the registration requirement was suspended in April 1975. It was resumed again in 1980 by President Carter in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.” (Info from the official government selective service website below) Thus, Obama’s statement that he ‘had to sign up’ is not true.
Is there no end to this guy lying to us, the American People?

Obama keeps talking about Palin like he is running against her for President!! It’s so funny to hear him talk out of his ass. He sounds quite immature with these comments and the rest of the country is finally seeing who he is. He should be talking about issues not these juvenile comments!!! I cant stand listening to him speak without a speech and teleprompter!! He takes too long to answer questions, pauses way too much!! SPIT IT OUT!!!!!!!
Just let the debates get here!!!! McCain/Palin 08

Really? How do you even see that? I mean wow, the liptick/pig comment, yeah I can see how that could be taken the wrong way but you’re taking another old phrase and inventing some perverted meaning to it. I bet you’re the type of person that can read Nostradamus and be amazed at the accuracy of his predictions.
On the other hand however, I kind of wish the pig/lipstick comment would have been intentional. I mean what’s a pig but a wasteful disgusting creature and when you look at Palin’s earmark requests and other policies that she was involved in you reallly don’t see anything but disgusting waste.

While there was no direct mention of Palin, the audience roared and jumped to its feet in a similar fashion. If Barack Obama wasn’t thinking about the joke Sarah Palin told about lipstick and hockey moms at the Republican National Convention last week, the crowd certainly was…laughing and clapping before he even finished the attack.
Perhaps this explains the 20-point net swing in McCain’s favor in the so-called pant suit vote.

Here is the real story:
- Obama spent the last 19 months trying to be the comeback kid under Hillary’s thumb. He played every card (race, gender, etc…)and got a free pass for anything he said because he was “behind”. The media loves an underdog and ate up everything he said.
- So, he beat Hillary and came out of the DNC convention ahead.
- Then in comes Palin, the new comeback kid and the media is eating her up. Obama has been cast aside because he’s yesterday’s news. McCain could careless how much press Palin gets because at the end of the day, he’s smart enough to realize he still gets the big office.
- When Palin made her speech at the RNC convention, she owned the “lipstick” remark. Especially after we found out it was off the cuff. Anyone with political savy would understand that it was then off limits. Trying to use it against McCain/Palin is just a trap…and he fell right into it. If Hillary had used the words “pigs” or “lipstick” when discussing heathcare, McCain should get slapped. She didn’t and he rightly used the colloqialism without adverse effect. Where was the outrage when he used it back then. There was none. So, find a new tactic.
Bottom line: He does not know what to do or how to act with his lead. The media can’t help him because they only know how to support an underdog and tear down a leader. The liberal media has been rendered impotent. I mean: what are you going to to when you bash “the man” and you wake up the next morning and you are now “the man”.
The Republicans never expect Obama to actually apologize, but they sure got his button….and they are pushing it!
If he keeps thinking he’s still got a free pass, the Republicans will OWN him! He will be his own undoing. He has to be able to stand on his own two feet.
If you don’t know how to lead, get out of the way.

At least McCain and Palin are smart enough to not say Obama’s plans are like “The kettle calling the pot Black”.

She kept our money.

Obama worked for the nomination. LOL! Are you kidding me the media practically handed it to him. If he was vetted properly 19 months ago we would have Hillary Clinton as the Democrat nominee. She thrashed him badly towards the end but it was too little to late. She was too far behind by the time he was finally vetted a little bit. And as for Palin McCain picked her because of her reform credentials, EXECUTIVE experience, and her ability to get things done. It helped that she was a young woman who is “MIDDLE CLASS” who could effectively communicate. McCain and Palin have proven they are ready to lead and they will earn America’s trust. Unlike Obama who thinks he is already president and believes he is owed it. No you have to EARN it Obama hasn’t. Sorry not this year.

What i see and hear is white women flocking to a candidate who has given one sarcastic and divisive speech that we really don’t know anything about.she is good for our country because she is a white women? A governor? George Bush was a governor? Would you rehire him? Arnold Schwarzenegger is a governor and Jesse the Body Ventura was. Should either of those men run this or be close to running this country.More than likely Mrs. Palin is a hard right wing conservative that has evoked interest from the masses because of her gender.Period.If I was a republican I would be ashamed.It seems John McCain in a very clever and guile manuver has shown that he would rather win an election than properly serve his country.Sarah is the celebrity that John is always calling Barack.We do not know her and in two months I doubt that is enough time to scratch the surface.At this moment in time I am ashamed and appauled at the utter stupidity of some of these women voters.If this election is thrown away because of republican manipulation we have fallen for before…. Hopefully America will wake up! Hopefully America is ready for real change and not this same ole pig with new lipstick, rotten egg painted bright,old car new paint job.America thrived in its last democratic administration.We need a democrat, not a rich old man that has so many homes he can’t count and his beauty queen running mate with her ugly glasses, shrill voice,self righteous attitude and narrow minded ideals.
Obama 08

I am tired of reading the vile filth coming from the libs on this blog. What can I expect they follow their man Obama’s example. If he is elected you will all get what you deserve.

Why do you republicans just let this man, Obama dig his own hole. The more you let him go the deeper his hole will be. His ego is so big now, he thinks he is the saviour of the world. Sarah Pallin can eat his lunch. She is tough enough to best him. The more you continue to whine about what the liberals are doing, the happier it makes them.

Do you Hillary supporters really think voting for a party with a woman on the ticket is the same as voting for Hillary? Palin and Clinton have OPPOSITE opinions on the issues. As a woman, I’m ashamed that Hillary supporters are willing to back any candidate that is female. I thought the women’s movement was about ideas, not body parts.

“This” is a story?!

This is much ado about nothing. Palin’s condescending, mean-spirited, snarky acceptance speech showed that she can clearly dish it out, so shouldn’t she be able to take it? Quit whining – he wasn’t talking about you anyway.
Folks have also mentioned the reaction of the Obama crowd. Can’t that reaction be likened to the reaction of the Republican delegates during her speech? Didn’t they laugh and hoot at her demeaning zingers? Isn’t it the same thing?
The man – Talk about Obama not leading. McCain appears to have given up being the top of the ticket to Ms. Palin.
Jayhawk – seems to me that Palin is simply Obama in a skirt. The second coming. As another poster said, people heard one speech (which she has repeated ad nauseum) and they think she’s THE ONE. People are willing to put her a heartbeat away from the presidency when FEW PEOPLE KNEW HER less than two weeks ago. And we don’t have time to get to know her and what she believes. That scares me. And all of this adoration AFTER ONE SPEECH. Isn’t that what Obama detractors accuse his supporters of having done?
Normally the VP pick isn’t that important, but at McCain’s age it is of utmost importance.
TV, your comments were spot on. I mean, is it just me or are there just too many weird parallels between Palin and Obama? Everything his detractors say about Obama can also be thrown right back at her, down to the supposed radical associations – in her case, her husband’s membership in the AIP. She also *did* sit in church and listen to an anti-semitic speech. Why didn’t she get up and leave? What about her children being subjected to that?
In all, I think John McCain was incredibly irresponsible to put someone on the ticket that we have no chance to get to know before election day. She may have more chops than I realize, but I want to know this BEFORE I vote.
Itant questions because it’ll pr hope Charlie Gibson asks her imporobably be the only interview she does. The way the McCain campaign is keeping her on such a tight leash is disrespectful and demeaning to the American voter. We have a right to know who this woman is and what she believes before we vote.

The only people pretending to buy this garbage are the former Clinton supporters who are so racist that they are now going to vote republican. We are not fooled by your sudden change in political affiliation or this desperate fake outrage. The outrage and disgrace is that Republican women like former Republican governor of Massachusetts, Jane Swift, are letting themselves be used in this manner to try to sway even more women into joining the Republican party. The Republican honchos obviously believe that the women of this country are so stupid and vindictive that we will swallow any nonsense they put out. We are not ! Keep trying things like this though, it only shows you for who and what you really are.

Can’t you people who are seemingly offended by Obama’s ‘lipstick on a pig’ comment just do a little fact checking? Watch the video of him. He’s directly referring to McCain, he never even mentions Palin. Y’all are pathetic in your lack of due dilligence.
I would think more people should be offended by Palin disparaging Community Organizers than this false controversy. Do y’all mean to tell me that a mayor does more than your local Boys and Girls Clubs, or Women’s or Men’s Clubs, or your Clergy, or your PTA? They’re ALL Community Organizers!!
I personally took great offense to her remarks.

The McCain campaign is their own worst enemy. If they were just waiting for the Democratic campaign to take a swipe at Palin based on gender, I’m sure they could have waited for something better. The Republican campaign has repeatedly said that all Obama can do is speak well, and he won’t be able to deliver. Do they really think that the American people are stupid? By using the “Lipstick comment” as their attempt to turn people against Obama, their basic agument would be this: “Barack Obama is a well educated, calculating, and excellant speaker, but that’s all he is, he can’t deliver once in the White House” With that said, the Republican Campaign would like us to believe that the man whom they have dubbed has only one thing going for him, and that is his ability to speak well on all occasions, blatently called Palin a “pig” I have copied the transcript here, inserting Palin’s name.
“John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics — we’re really going to shake things up in Washington. That’s not change. That’s just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on Sarah Palin, but she’s still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after eight years. We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”
If you read it, with her name in it, it makes no sense. We are supposed to believe that Obama, the excellant speaker, was making a coherant argument, threw in a random sentence about Sarah Palin, and then went back to the original arument? The McCain camp really needs to focus on the issues and stop crying wolf.

I totally agree with Sharon. If she can dish it then she should be able to eat it. She was absolutely nasty in her acceptance speech–a new comer who wanted to claim her spot–she did and now it’s blowing up in her face. There’s much more where that came from Sarah so toughen up.

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.

hey …can anyone really answer this question please, and I’m talking to republicans using this cheap line to get into the white house once again…Why is it okay if McCain says it when addressing Hilary, and not okay when Obama uses it? Oh, by the way, he cleary las calling McCain the pig and Sarah the lipstick, and also, McCain the old fish, and sarah the 2008 paper, keep in account she did just come into the picture out of nowhere.
Women stop being so numb-minded, McCain did the same thing, the only difference is, the White House truly knows and believes Obama can be our President, so they’ll take any cheap shot they can take.
But back to my original question, what’s the difference between Obama using it and McCain using it?
Barack the Vote ’08!!

I’m new to much interest in politics. Just one question, a lot of people seem to think Sarah Palin isn’t qualified enough to be V.P. How is Obama more qualified to be President?

Am I the only person that noticed that the fish comment was directed to Palin because her nickname is Sarah Barracuda? Seems like Obama is rattled and is now resorting to petty name calling. He could have used many other phrases that didn’t have certain key words that refer to Palin.

About the pig comment, stop being so sensitive, i think he would have said it to ANYONE, i repeat, ANYONE who stands on the same grounds as McCain/Palin does…Obama was clearly refferring to how Republicans have ran the office the last 8 years and has done a horrible job so we do need change.
Let’s get back to politics and off of a stupid saying because we’re trying to see who’d better suit America.
You can’t call something bs if you’ve never even given it a chance, you’re just damning it to hell automatically. As sad as it is, I believe race does have alot to do with what is going on here, not too mention McCain used the qute to and noone’s climbing down his throat about it…
Alot of you republicans are, simply, going republican because you don’t want to see a black man in office/in charge. We’ve seen what Bush did, he’s pretty bad. McCain’s campain includes many of the same people that helped Bush get in office, which means they have similar ideas, which equals horrible.
So in that case, i believe we will be entitled to the same bs we had the previous 8years.
On the flipside, we have a man who promises change, has no affiliations with what Bush has done, and has a clear head on what should be done.
McCain’s sugar-coating the same garbage we heard for 8-years now and that’s not the type of “change” I’m interested in seeing.

What in the world are you people doing, Obama keeps saying he is for change, but have you ever heard what that change may be. Check his voting record, he voted “present” on the economic bill. He has no clue what he is doing and the person that stated the Republicans have ran our country, you are very wrong! The democrats want Obama in so that they can change this U.S. to a socialist country. Do you want to be told what to do and how to do it? That is the Democrats theory. Both CEO’s from Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae that got us into this economic trouble are on Obama’s election committee! What does that tell you about Obama! Wake Up.

Part of an article from the debate last night:
“The sky-high gasoline prices Americans paid all summer were effectively an energy tax, brought to us by policies limiting energy production supported chiefly by Democrats like Nancy Pelosi.
Barrack Obama, too, talked up the foreign-policy considerations of dependence on foreign oil. Yet he also made sure to empathize with families for whom $3.80 gas strains the budget. The irony that Senator Obama’s party shoulders much of the responsibility for those high prices.
McCain squandered an opportunity to clarify his differences from Obama on nuclear power. The facts are these: Both candidates claim to support nuclear power, but McCain actually seems to mean it. He supports opening the Yucca Mountain waste repository, a critical step in guaranteeing the expansion of nuclear energy. Meanwhile, Obama vows to shut down Yucca, though provides no alternatives. He’s trying to have it both ways. He can say he supports nuclear, as do increasing numbers of Americans. But he sends an unmistakable signal to the anti-nuclear environmental lobby that, without Yucca Mountain, nuclear power isn’t going to expand on his watch.”
Obama showed why at this late date he is the favorite to win come Election Day. Without any hesitation, Obama stated that we have to prioritize and that energy tops the list. (The fact that Obama said in the first debate that energy would be the first item on his agenda he’d abandon will no doubt be tossed down the memory hole by his cheerleaders in the mainstream media.)

Do Not Insult Us Sarah – you don’t know what you’re talking about. Republicans would love to see a black man in office, but not your man. I couldn’t have said this better.
“Senator Obama’s words often sound very reasonable and moderate, as well as lofty and inspiring. But everything that he has actually done over the years places him unmistakably with the extreme left elitists.
Sadly, many of those who are enchanted by his rhetoric are unlikely to check out the facts. But nothing is a more real or more important issue than whether what a candidate says is the direct opposite of what he has actually been doing for years.
The old phrase, “a man of high ideals but no principles,” is one that applies all too painfully to Barack Obama today. His words expressing lofty ideals may appeal to the gullible but his long history of having no principles makes him a danger of the first magnitude in the White House.”
another article:
“The public was treated to a different verse of the same song when Obama’s unbelievably corrupt friend Tony Rezko was convicted on 16 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, soliciting bribes, and money laundering. Rezko’s primary business since 1990 was the buying and selling of political influence. It’s how he came to be first in line for government grants to convert run-down buildings into low-income housing, which he then let deteriorate into slums.
Obama entered into his own land deal with Rezko in the summer of 2005. Rezko bought the property adjacent to the Obama’s dream home and sold him a strip of land on which to build a fence. Obama paid a fair price, but by this point the Chicago papers had run more than 100 stories about the federal investigation into Rezko’s influence-peddling. Obama called his decision to deal with Rezko a “bone-headed move,” but claimed he didn’t know about the corrupt behavior. If so, he was the last person in Chicago.
Now Obama wants us to believe that he didn’t know about Bill Ayers’s terrorist past when he was working with Ayers in the 1990s. As a leader of the radical Weather Underground, Ayers participated in multiple bombings that he says he does not regret. He spent 11 years as a fugitive from justice. Obama and Ayers first met in 1995. In an interview for a book published that year, Ayers described his political views: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist.”
And regarding Sarah Palin. She has not complained about anything despite the cruel and ignornant stuff that is said about her by the liberal media or idiots like you. She has been so professional and gracious about everything unlike your man who is the biggest cry baby in this election. He sure can dish it, but can’t seem to take it.
Why don’t you look at the facts about Obama before speaking anymore. Obviously you have no clue what he is proposing or saying or you wouldn’t be voting for him if you really knew.

Really no matter if someone doesn’t understand then its up to other users that they will help, so here it happens.