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Obama Courts the Women's Vote
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Barack Obama: "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the
crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
You stay classy, Mr. Infanticide.
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Obama: You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig
Flopping Aces —
I’m sure he’ll try to deny it — Obama refers to Gov. Palin as “a pig”
Stop The ACLU —
Hugh Hewitt reports: Obama’s “Lipstick On A Pig” Smear When Obama denies having targeted Palin, keep in mind that everyone instantly made the connection. Is Obama really that clueless? An angry outburst does less damage than his pleading he didn’t mean it that way. Hugh is exactly right. And no, it’s not because Sarah Palin “really is a pig.” It is because everyone is familiar with Palin’s joke during her convention speech and the many, many references we have all heard associating Gov. Palin and lipstick over the last week — and so is Obama. This after Joe Biden calls Sarah Palin and others who prefer pursuing life-saving and life-changing cures through ...
OBAMA CHANNELING JEREMIAH WRIGHT IN HIS ATTACK ON PALIN: CALLS HER A PIG!
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
WATCH THE VIDEO: HE DOESN'T SOUNDS VERY PRESIDENTIAL. HE SOUNDS LIKE REVEREND WRIGHT. AND THE CROWD SOUND LIKE THE CHURCHGOERS AT TRINITY CHURCH, TOO: HOWLING WITH LAUGHTER AS THE "SLY" OBAMA VIRTUALLY CALLS PALIN A PIG. MORE HERE. ROUND UP HERE. PALIN IS NO PIG. BUT OBAMA AND BIDEN ARE BOORS. (PUN INTENDED.) VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
Obama Panics, Hits Bottom of Barrel, Digs
Tammy Bruce —
Even I may have underestimated the degree of panic in the Obama campaign over Gov. Palin. Barry himself has now gone so low as to refer, albeit obliquely, to Gov. Palin as "a pig," and suggests raising five children is too big a job for someone who wants to be vice-president. The 'pig' reference is nothing less than a slur and his audience loved it.
Make no mistake, Barry has created the culture of sexism within the Democrat party, and this is just one more indication that it's his choice for his campaign to use the personal destruction of women as its standard.
Obama Says McCain Is Offering Fake Change: 'You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, ...
'Lipstick on a Pig' Open Thread
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama fumbled through what appears to have been a botched joke while campaigning in Lebanon, Virginia, Tuesday: Other than the awful delivery, what do you think about his statement? Some are accusing Obama of implying that Sarah Palin is a pig. Do you agree, or is that a stretch? The McCain campaign has already struck back.
“Lipstick on a Pig”! Hmm? Wonder Which Candidate Wears Lipstick?
Say Anything —
Listen to this man stutter as he tries to communicate very simple concepts:
Hat tip Hugh Hewitt
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
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“You can’t put lipstick on a pig” CRAZINESS!
The Moderate Voice —
There were time, when I was a wee lad, my father and I tried to make the messes we made in the garage (working on something) look better by scooting boxes around, throwing a sheet over an obscure hunk of metal, etc. And I remember clear as day, my mother saying to both of us many times:
You can’t put lipstick on a pig…
Come to think of it, my grandparents were fond of saying that old American phrase. Pigs are recognized as just plain ugly no matter what. And that phrase just says it all in many situations. But in today’s political environment, a traditional phrase used to describe all kinds of situations and ...
The Gaffes Keep On Coming
A Blog For All —
The Obama campaign can't get out of its own way quick enough. These are unforced errors that do nothing but galvanize the GOP base and get people thinking about the character and fitness of the respective tickets. People are starting to realize that Obama simply doesn't have anything to offer beyond empty words. Well, empty words except when he goes and makes still more unforced errors and personal attacks. Alluding to Gov. Palin as a pig? Are you kidding me? That's the kind of red meat that GOPers just love to sink their teeth into. These are unforced errors ...
Porcine thoughts
Power Line —
Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen report that Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan introduced Joe Biden at a campaign event today. Referring to Sarah Palin’s record, Carnahan commented: “There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick.” Plying the same theme with respect to McCain-Palin campaign rhetoric in Lebanon, Virginia, Barack Obama asserted: "You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig." Given the tittering, shouts and raucous applause from Obama's audience, even AP reporter Nedra Pickler found Obama's audience drawing the connection between Obama's comment and Sarah Palin's convention joke. Vandehei and Allen, by ...
Totally Sexist
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Jesse Taylor
I can’t believe Barack Obama said something this awful and sexist:
How dare he call John McCain a pig!
Oh, that wasn’t what you meant? It was aimed at Sarah Palin? After a list of criticisms that Obama’s been making against ...
Lipstick Liberals... Obama Camp Gangs Up On Alaska Mom
Gateway Pundit —
This was a very ugly day for the Obama Campaign... First... At a Joe Biden event today in Missouri, Congressman Russ Carnahan attacked Governor Sarah Palin. Referring to her record, Carnahan said, "There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick." Classy. Then later in the day Barack Obama stuck with the cosmetics theme, saying: "You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig." What a nasty thing to say about Sarah Palin!... At least that's who the audience ...
The gaffemaster does it again: Obama calls Sarah Palin a pig.
Wizbang —
He's trying to claim he didn't mean it that way, but please. The wording is way too obvious. Everyone understood exactly what he meant right away. Here's the video: Transcript: L-L-L-Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change too. Exce... an-an-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 gonna shake things up in Washington! That's not change. That's... that's just calling some... the same thing, something different. But you know, you can... you-you can put, uh, lipstick on a pig. It's still ...
Lipstick on a Pig: Obama Makes Another Sexist Gaffe (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
For someone who is famous for having a way with words, Barack Obama sure drops more than his share of sexist gaffes. It's hard to believe Obama would be foolish enough to intentionally make a reference to Sarah Palin as 'a pig wearing lipstick,' but he seems to make these gaffes ...
Obama "Lipstick On A Pig" Video
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Obama hit the McCain campaign hard today over their attempts to claim the mantle of change.
[WATCH]
OBAMA: Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. Except -- 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 gonna shake things up in Washington." That's not change. That's just calling some -- the same thing, something different. But you know, you can -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; ...
Obama "Lipstick On A Pig" Video
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Obama hit the McCain campaign hard today over their attempts to claim the mantle of change.
[WATCH]
OBAMA: Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. Except -- 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 gonna shake things up in Washington." That's not change. That's just calling some -- the same thing, something different. But you know, you can -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; ...
Obama calls Palin a pig - video
USS Neverdock —
USS Neverdock "America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb
Sarah Palin the Moose Hunter Makes B Hussein Obama Her Beyatch
All articles at Blogcritics —
Coming into the Republican convention last week, everyone was all worried about Hurricane Gustav ripping things up. But of course it has turned out to be Hurricane Sarah that's doing the damage. She's destroying Obama, who was entirely ripe for the skewering. The general line has been that Obama was too great and dignified for even our top professional comedians to find any good way to lampoon him. But Sarah Palin poked a big hole in this gasbag with her stellar acceptance speech, and Obama's been her beyatch ever since. You might partly consider this a sign of commander in chief McCain's expertise, his strategic skill in picking just the right weapon for his target. ...
Lipstick fallout
Basil's Blog —
There’s a dustup going on now … I’m sure you’ve heard it … regarding Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), the Democrats’ presidential nominee … making the “lipstick on a pig” comment. The fallout is that it’s considered by many as a direct attack on Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), the GOP vice-presidential running mate of presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
If you watch the video, you’ll notice a couple of things. First, he made the comments in reference to the message of the McCain-Palin ticket. And, second, Obama is not a good speaker without his notes and prompter; listen to him stutter. ...
Obama Plagiarizes Cartoonist
Say Anything —
Wow! Nearly word for word what Obama said! So, even Obama’s “off the cuff” brilliance is scripted! Also, unattributed and stolen from a hard working American cartoonist!
In case you don’t remember exactly what Obambi said (and who could blame you? This stuff gives Sominex a run for the money!), here’s the video:
Obama is a man of few words...all of them stolen! Heh.
Hat tip Stop the ACLU
Cross Posted at Proof Positive
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Hussein Calls Palin A Pig, McCain Fires Back - With Videos
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
“What Makes Obama Run?”
Come on, he knew how that choice of words would be taken and that’s why he chose them. Like a very angry little boy he likes to cut the ears off rabbits and grows up to be Jeffrey Dahmer. I mean, you do have to be pretty scared and angry to get that nasty.
Wall Street Journal:
Political Wisdom: Democrats Rough Up a Lady (Palin, That Is)
Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web:
by Gerald F. Seib and Sara Murray
The Democrats, a bit unnerved by ...
Lipstick On A Pig
Dean's World —
Much is being made all over the intertubes that Obama called Sarah Palin a pig and John McCain a stinky old fish. A fairly reasonable voice, Ben Smith, has a fairly neutral look.
What’s fascinating about me to watch this story (or is it a non-story?) evolve has been that typically, I’m seeing accusations in print that, so far, I can’t quite find video for. Here is how Ben Smith portrays it:
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 ...
Barack Obama Watch: Lipstick on a Pig Flap
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
While Flap was sequestered in the CBS Studios awaiting the Big Brother 10 Live show, this FLAP broke.
Here is the video:
Obama Smears McCain-Palin As Lipstick On A Pig
The key quote from Barack Obama:
“You can put ...
McCain's a Disingenuous Asshole
Shakesville —
Sarah Palin On: Sarah Palin Palin: Do you know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick. Barack Obama On: Sarah Palin Obama: But, you know, you can't—you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig. Katie Couric On: This Election Couric: One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life. Obama Ready to Lead? No. Ready to Smear? Yes.This is absolute, unmitigated bullshit. I believe my credentials on ...
John McCain Puts Lipstick on a Lie
The BRAD BLOG —
Continuing where Bush/Cheney left off in '04, it's clear that the John McCain campaign will say and do anything to "win". Their latest knowing lie, in an attempt to fool America (again): a new campaign video released today. The ad is a complete lie, and of course, they know it. But they don't care. It's politics first, country last for the McCain/Palin ticket.
The ad not only misrepresents Obama's comments about "lipstick on a pig", it also purposely misrepresents comments from Katie Couric on "sexism". Worse still, the shameless McCain/Palin campaign inaccurately displays the text of the ad on their website, furthering the misrepresentation of ...
"Subliminal Racism vs. Overt Sexism"
Little Miss Attila —
"Subliminal Racism vs. Overt Sexism" Ed Morrissey on Obama's latest breakdown. He's got video of that time Obama flipped Hillary the bird, and a "Sexist Memory Lane" of past woman slamming by the Mighty O. My favorite is "'I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when shes feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.' February" No, I don't think either Palin or McCain should respond directly, but it's fine for the rest of us to notice. The more he puts down women, small-town folk, older people, and gun owners, the faster his free-fall among those demographics. Actually, my favorite part of the "lipstick on a pig" clip is how ...
The Boar War
Stubborn Facts —
I know Tully has already posted on what Drudge dubbed the "Boar War," but I wanted to add my tuppenyworth since the story is still lingering.
The five issues that strike me are these.
(1) I give Obama a pass when he's trying to extemporize, but the line doesn't seem to be impromptu.
(2) Internal context matters. It's important to look at the lines before and after the "lipstick" line; here's the famous video, but it does Obama (and us) a disservice: it cuts off too soon. It clips the quote. After talking about how McCain claims to be for change but in fact isn't, Obama offers the lipstick on a pig line, and ...
Can Obama count on a big turnout of youth voters to give him the winning edge? I think not.
Althouse —
And I'll tell you exactly why. But first, look at this Slate article on the "youth vote." ("Youth vote" is a silly and inapt term, and Slate appropriately puts it in quotes. You have to be 18 to vote, and the demographic group in question may be young as adults go, but they aren't "youths.") On Election Day 2004, kids turned out in record numbers: About 4.6 million more people under the age of 29 voted in 2004 than in 2000. Yet 18- to 29-year-olds accounted for only 17 percent of voters—roughly the same as in 2000—because the geezer vote also grew. As a result, youth mobilization was declared a myth, perhaps unjustifiably. "We rocked the vote all ...
Gutter Politics Has Reached a New Low
Angry Bear —
McCain approves an ad claiming Obama wants comprehensive sex education for kindergarteners, i.e., teaching toddlers "about sex before they can learn to read." This is gutter politics. Now we come to the "pig outrage." I had a heated debate with a good friend of mine--intelligent, well informed-- who claimed absolutely that Obama had so slurred Palin. I asked for the link. "Google it," was the reply. Finally, I found it. I listened. Well, I can listen as well as the next guy. More importantly, I can parse sentences better than most. I know all about subjects, verbs, and objects. I know also how to understand comparisons. Well, I found ...
Miss Piggy Speaks Out About Pigs And Lipstick
The Democratic Daily —
I was pretty offended this week when I heard that Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, had the nerve to say “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!” It’s obvious, Obama never met my good friend (we go waaaay back), Miss Piggy. As soon as I heard about what he said, I contacted the Pigalicious Diva and asked for her comment on the matter:
“I certainly hope that Mr. Senator Obama was not referring to ‘MOI’! I am THE most fabulous pig who ever wore lipstick and I am no mere piggy, ...
‘It’s the Qualifications, Stupid!’
Pajamas Media —
McCain needs to get back on track and remind voters which candidate is more qualified. [image] Every political strategist in the country knows that Bill Clinton’s win over George H.W. Bush 16 years ago is usually attributed to the Clinton campaign’s disciplined focus on one central theme. “It’s the economy, Stupid!” read the message Democratic strategist James Carville posted in his office. That idea was nothing but a rehash of the old advertising industry KISS principal — Keep it simple, Stupid — but it worked. Republicans would be wise to remember that experience and that lesson. They need to more effectively drive home what should be the McCain-Palin team’s simple ...
Brutes For Barack
Wizbang —
The promise of Barack Obama -- both implicit and explicit -- was the message of Hope and Change, of New Politics, of Uniting our nation, of bringing us all together. But the mask is slipping, and behind that mask is the face of the thug, the bully, the intimidator. The Obama Brute Squad. Their message is simple: you WILL NOT threaten Obama and his plans in any way, shape, or form, or you will be silenced. By any means necessary. And the campaign stands ready to aid you in organizing your actions. You want examples? No problem. Yesterday, on the official Obama web site, the following call to action for Dallas: "Welcome" Palin Oct. 3 to Dallas (Women for Obama) Sarah ...
