By the way... Your ears are huge!
Posted on 09/09/2008 3:36:33 PM PDT by kristinn
Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:
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."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
You’re right. Whatever you think of McCain as a candidate, he’s run a masterful campaign the last couple of months. They won’t get in the gutter with this snake. I expect a couple of high-minded remarks from McCain-Palin tomorrow with a thinly veiled rebuke that will leave Obama looking very childish and stupid. By the way, I guarantee Obama freelanced that comment. There is no way his campaign wanted to change the focus from all their wannabe character/fraud/etc. slanders on Palin. The idiot Messiah just guaranteed that all anyone is going to hear the next few days is whether or not he called her a ‘pig’. Plus, there’s an opening to bring back ‘the finger’ he flipped Hillary and whether he meant that or not. Stupid, stupid move. He loses either way.
watching them now
alll of a sudden clinton’s man says it’s alright but when it happened to clinton it wasn’t alright
I really wish the Dems would make their mind up what is and what is not
First Obama puts a finger up when talking about obama and now he calls Palin a pig
is this the change he talks about
putting down women and going after women like they are nothing
BTW I’m a man and a husband and love a strong woman
“STINKY FISH” is a more onerous dig at Palin and women in general.
IOW for those in rio linda: the “b****h” smells.
“Obama is fighting back against attacks on his character”
What attacks on his character? Certainly not by Colmes and the rest of the Democrat flunkies in the media. It’s open season on Palin, however.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to question Obama’s character. I think he’s a stealth Marxist who doesn’t want to give away his true beliefs and goals. I believe he’s devious.
“Don’t the men understand that?”
Well, yes, we do.
But, we are MEN, and MEN don’t discuss things like that in front of Women and Children.
So, you LADIES should lead the conversations on that matter.
Here’s the text-—
Obama Says McCain Is Offering Fake Change: ‘You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It’s Still a Pig’
September 09, 2008 6:10 PM
LEBANON, Va. — “That’s not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.
“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”
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, “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’” Obama continued, “it’s still gonna stink after eight years.
“We’ve had enough of the same old thing! It’s time to bring about real change to Washington. And that’s the choice you’ve got in this election.”
Obama added that “it is not going to be easy ... John McCain has a compelling biography, you know Sarah Palin is an interesting story.”
The crowd booed.
“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!”
— Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
“just words...just speeches”
You wish it was just words. We are going to crush that worthless pos chicago gutter trash in Nov!!!!
I agree! The days of Obama acting like he is unflappable are gone. The word on everyone’s minds in the Obama campaign is PANIC
It was a very "NUANCED"ugly personal attack.
Just like the 'fish'--very NUANCED.
“Let him think he’s on a roll, this will only get better!”
That would be a good strategy in a chess piece battlefield. But talk radio is going to be all over it. BO will try to throw up dust.
It’s torture to hear him talk. I’m starting to think his first language is Arabic....
great can’t wait
NOT
Well, for what it’s worth, I just emailed cnn about not reporting this...anyone else wanna freep them with me? Just to aggravate the crap out of them...
But it was done in such an NUANCED manner./s
feeling bitter still obviously because he was not chosen
It is an old saying. And nothing would be thought of it, had Gov. Palin not already owned the pit bull/lipstick joke. It was clearly a reference to her alone, and if you watch the video , the audience got it right away.
Let’s send some lipstick:
Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, IL 60680
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