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Obama - Really Does Put A Different Twist On "Lipstick"
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by Edmund Jenks | September 9, 2008 at 03:33 pm
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With the Obama*Biden campaign in full meltdown (some polls are showing a 20 percentage point swing in some key demographics since the beginning of the political convention season), Barack Obama is beginning to smell like Bob Dole.
Talk about a classless and unimaginative approach on an issue less political attack ... we have a totally ill-advised comment. He was calling the candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the Republican ticket, Alaska State Govenor Sarah Palin, a pig.
How classy, intelligent, progressive, and totally Soros Wing-Daily Cos Democrat Political Party like was the junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
With this statement as an exhibit as a standard of political discourse ... the Democrat Party can forget seeing the Executive Branch of government for at least the next four years!
This act by Barack Obama shows us all a different "twist" on sexism.
This from the Wall Street Journal -
What’s the difference between a more hopeful kind of politics and old-fashioned attacks? Lipstick.
Barack Obama says the John McCain-Sarah Palin policies don’t represent change, they’re “just calling the same thing something different.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Obama said during a town-hall style event here Tuesday night.
The comment played on Republican vice presidential candidate Palin’s joke during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom was lipstick.
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“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’ it’s still going to stink,” Obama said. “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.”
This isn’t the first time in a 24-hour period that lipstick has become an issue. As he was introducing Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, Missouri Rep. Russ Carnahan said Palin had “zero experience in national government, zero experience in foreign affairs. There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick.”
Republicans struck back, calling the attacks on Palin old-style Washington attacks that run counter to Obama’s promise of change. “Sarah Palin’s maverick record of reform doesn’t need any ‘dressing up,’ but the Obama campaign’s condescending commentary deserves some dressing down,” says RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson.
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at 15:35 on September 9th, 2008
Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I don't think he was actually calling her a pig, but he could have used a better analogy for sure...
at 15:44 on September 9th, 2008
I heard the audio ... Trent Lott got clobbered for less!
As soon as I heard it,, I said to myself - "That's gonna' leave a mark!"
... and the mark will not be left on PALIN!
at 15:46 on September 9th, 2008
After watching the video - you see that he doesn't even mention Sarah Palin in that part, so he's just referring to McCain's policies and how he's trying to disguise them - he's not even referring to Palin at all! I think that the highlighted article stretches the truth a little in my opinion...
at 15:54 on September 9th, 2008
Jumping the "Pig" may just become a new reference when an event, performance, show, and, yes ... a political campaign is OVER!
Barack Obama just "Jumped The Pig!"
at 18:57 on September 9th, 2008
Wow, man ...
I'll take your word for it that he actually said it ...
Very stupid ...
I'm kind of suprised by this -- he must really be feeling the heat ...
at 19:56 on September 9th, 2008
Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 22:23 on September 9th, 2008
Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:39 on September 9th, 2008
There's a significant problem with this story. The phrase "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” doesn't refer to Palin; it's a well-known homily that means "It doesn't matter if you dress up something ugly, it's still ugly." Would you have suggested Obama called Palin a pig if he'd said, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?
I'm no Obama supporter (Hell, I had NockForce create an animation of part of my interview with them of the tail of my rant which ended with "... and that'd be an Obama-nation," and not in a gentle way), but it serves no one's interest to try and make a smear out of nothing.
Again, not sexism, it's an illustrative homily. Not a simile. (It is a metaphor, but not for Palin.)
at 05:28 on September 11th, 2008
An article of interest.
at 15:28 on September 11th, 2008
The problem is there's something called 'implied'. and no matter how you dress it up or try to defend this man, everyone knew what he meant.
(BTW what's the link to that vid you made. the 'Welcome to Tblisi' was killer.)
at 15:49 on September 11th, 2008
Everyone knew he meant that no matter how you dress up Palin's history / beliefs / etc they don't "look any better." Mind you, given that roughly 50% of Americans disagree with the "better" assessment, it seems to me they made a stupid move in alienating people who might support Democratic platform ideas elsewhere in order to try and sound homey / connected, but that's been a huge Democratic problem for the last couple cycles. It's also not something they care about getting right.
So, calin Palin "a pig," no. Trying to sound connected to mainstream America and ending up sounding like a 45yo guy trying to speek L337? Yes.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-8u0FKEhOE is the nockFORCE video in question, incidently.)
at 18:09 on September 11th, 2008
Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:16 on September 12th, 2008
Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:46 on September 12th, 2008
Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff. Politicians have never been known to be civil.
at 06:24 on September 12th, 2008
Karen:
Great article and dead on! It is not nice to slam the voters - those of us who actually VOTE.
It's the final say.
Regards, Ed
at 08:45 on September 12th, 2008
Source: newsbusters.org
at 12:03 on September 12th, 2008
This is an enlightening article as well.