Posted on 09/11/2008 3:21:35 AM PDT by suspects
Let’s start with the obvious and inarguable: Of course Sen. Barack Obama’s comment about “lipstick on a pig” was a reference to Supergirl Sarah Palin.
You know it, I know it and the partisan crowd that literally rose to their feet and cheered when they heard it know it.
And it’s nothing new. Democrats shot the lipstick line at Gov. Palin on their official Web site last week with a posting entitled “McCain’s Selection of Palin is Lipstick on a Pig” - accompanied by what I’m sure was intended to be a flattering photo of the Alaska outdoorswoman.
And - coincidence or something more? - the same day Obama made his crack, a Democratic congressman introducing Joe Biden said of Sarah Palin, “There’s no way you can dress up her record, even with a lot of lipstick.”
If there was anyone in the audience still too dense to get it - say, an employee of CNN, perhaps - Obama immediately followed up with a reference to the McCain/Palin campaign wrapping “an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change.’ ”
A lipstick-wearing pig and an old fish? Gee, who could he possibly be talking about?
So please, my Obama-supporting friends, let’s stop the nonsense about how Obama’s lipstick talk was, as he put it yesterday, an “innocent comment,” or that the reaction is “phony outrage.”
You want phony outrage? Flashback to Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m.” ad. Remember it? The helpless children asleep in bed, the insistent ringing phone, etc., etc. And some Obama supporters immediately cried “racism” because, they claimed, the ad played on white fears of black home invaders.
Or, even more laughable, that the first three letters of the word “night” in the kid’s “Goodnight Moon” pajamas were highlighted for nefarious purposes.
Now that was phony...
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Thank you Michael, for this great piece! You ARE the man!
0be is of the old politics and needs to be called out on it.
It does us no good to be polite and give them the benefit of the doubt when they are being a$$holes.
Rather we should point out that they are being a$$holes, make sure the voters know it, and move on. We’re not picking up the victim role. Rather, we are just pointing out their bad behavior.
Totally agree with you. I’m disappointed with some of our conservative friends giving Obama a pass and the “benefit of the doubt.” The way he delivered that line, the way the audience was eating it up, the way he juiced it up with them, and the fact that he COINCIDENTALLY came up with this right after Palin mentions lipstick, makes this very obvious. Not even close.
I hope people don’t start getting soft on Obama, now that McCain is starting to do well. We need to keep hitting Obama on everything. This should not even be a close election. Only a crushing defeat of Obama will do, to give McCain/Palin the clout to really change things from day one.
But he was promptly on Letterman to tell everyone that his comnments had nothing to do with Palin....(sarcasm alert)
he missed the phony outrage over Toon’s “fairy tale “ comment, missed the discussion here of “stinking fish” = barracuda here the other night, and forgot about the angry adolescent delighting his North Carolina crowd by flipping the bird upon mentioning Hillary Clinton’s name the weekend before the PA primary as I recall it. We had it on Youtube here.
lol the knives are out!
that’s the kind of response I wanted to see from hannity and o’reilly.
First it was Hillary that was on her way to a coronation.
And she got upended by Obama.
THen it was Obama who was on his way to a coronation.’
And he got up ended by the McCain/Palin ticket.
I don’t know know what I’d do if I was a Democrat.
Maybe vote Republican.
flipping the bird and digging ala Jeremiah Wright.
Backing up from this littel incident, I can’t get over how rattled Obama is over Palin. He’s barely even dealing with McCain anymore!
She’s really gotten into his head. haha
yeah he’s getting psyched out
and you can stick a smooth talking, POS, crackhead, in a 3 piece suit but he’s still just a smooth talking, POS, crackhead, .
BINGO!
The answer? Barama couldnt help himself from saying it.
The big mistake is that Obama personally got involved. Surrogates should do the dirty work but, it is good for McCain that Obama panicked and jumped her.
He thinks he is on a street corner talkn' to the hood!
Being a Democrat is kinda like playing for the ACC football title. In the end it doesn’t mean much.
Yup. He is full of it
Great. The more the voters see of the Democrat ticket, the more they want to vote for McCain.
Good article! What a weasel - making attacks and then denying them. Is this the “new kind of politics” Obama promised?
Is there anyone with half a brain out there who is still supporting this guy? Don’t answer. I’m afraid I know already.
It’s absolutely revealing, over the past 48 hours, Obama’s peculiar and bizarre behavior. He’s becoming unglued and is coming down in flames and he knows it. The way that he’s reacting to all of this negative media towards him right now - as well as the entire country being appalled at his continuous remarks about the ‘lipstick’, ‘pig’ & ‘stinky fish’ — even when he says that it must stop — yet he goes on Letterman last night and keeps repeating it like a really bad stand-up comedian..... all of that it showing us all that the man has some deep-rooted psychological issues.
I want to know if he’s been under medication before. In my singlehood days, I dated guys like these (passive-aggressive; attention-seekers) and it’s just bad, bad, bad. He’s just not ‘Presidential’ at all.... just a guy with no real background, no real roots and a ‘holier-than-thou’ attitude.
Greta column, Michael!
Greta = Great
I wish she'd stop niggling the Obama supporters. errrr, oooops, I mean, I wish that she'd stop finding fault with (someone) in a petty way..... bwahahahahaaaaa....
Lipstick pig and Old fish for VP and POTUS!! ahhahahahaha.
If I can't say niggardly, he can't talk about lipstick. Fair's fair.
In fairness, when I heard his comment it instantly evoked Palin’s self-description as a pit bull with lipstick. The comment cudda been innocent, but it's like a White politician callin’ him niggardly. Not smart.
“Just a hockey mom with a bachelor’s degree, who has brought the great and powerful Obama to his knees.”
And by the power and strength of the Savior who sustains her!
Whoopi admitted to this recently on The View, where she said (Hussein) Obama is in the very difficult place of trying not to intimidate whites while informing them that they are being taken over, in so many words.
What's funny is that he's such a skinny little snot. Most American men (real men) could crush his sternum with one punch. It's funny when he lets his oratory skim along the surface of jive.
No, she's not
Nice that, when in trouble, Obama can always count on a visit with Letterman, to get his revision out there quickly.
(Amazing how often we hear per his defense - he could not be that 'stupid'. Can only way, with so many enablers, 'why not'?) By and large; Obama will skate again; and with a trail of 'swiftboating' accusations covering his tracks.
More than a few at Fox News ‘refuse’ to get it, as well. ..
I wonder if this was written by a speechwriter or his own words. Either way it really backfired on him with the American people. It was definitely a planned statement and everyone knows it no matter how the MSM creeps denys it.
Perhaps,tomorrow. . .not many in media discussing this aspect either(!). . .yet.
LLS
Bookmark to confront liberal.
LLS
Seems more a typical case of Obama caving to his own instincts for 'street talk/tactics'.
No, she's not
I had misspelled the word "Great", writing instead "Greta". This was not related to Greta Van Susteren.
You forgot back seat limo fag.
LLS
So, he’s making sneak attacks and lying about it. He not only fights like a girl, he acts like al Qaeda! Could he have learned both in class in Indonesia, or did he pick some of that up on his months long stay in Pakistan as a college student? A bad thought to have on Sept 11.
The lipstick line along with the fish line right after it, as her nickname is Barracuda and, no doubt, it was about Palin. Obama doesn’t deserve any respect whatsoever.
Excellent point!
The people who claim that Obama was just repeating an old familiar line ignore the CONTEXT in which he made the statement. And that was that Palin had just said the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull is the pitbull wears no LIPSTICK. Of course the media think we’re too stupid to grasp what was obviously meant.
Maybe the media will pick this up?
I will start a little rumor here. I heard that 0-bama challenged Gov. Palin to an arm wrestling match. Then I heard that Todd Palin stepped up and said he would handle any a$$ whooping that needed to be delivered. And then Levi said he wanted a piece of the action. Then Sarah said she could handle 0-bama herself. And so she did.
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