Obama: Lipstick on a pig and made up controversy by the John McCain campaign is like “catnip” to the media. Video here. He says, he referred to McCain’s continuation of the failed policies of the Bush administration as being like putting lipstick on a pig, and they pretended to think he was talking about the Governor of Alaska. Which would be funny, except that we have real problems – people out of work, a couple of wars, high gas prices, etc. etc. etc, but the McCain campaign and the news media wants to talk about fake controversies. Enough.
Funny thing is, Barry is the one freaking out over it. He and Biden haven’t caught on yet (and probably won’t) that what they need now is a big ol’ cup of shut the F%&k up.
Why don’t you have a cup yourself?
“Barry” is quite calm about it. He hasn’t cut TWO web videos about it. I wonder if the McCain campaign is freebasing Premarin, trying to find some kind of what they perceive to be an authentic femine vibe where anyone who says anything is sexist, even if you have to obliterate the phrase that his “it” was referring to, which was Bush’s policies, and substitute their celebrity Sarah Palin instead. Is your whole side goddamn illiterate? The phrase that proceded the “lipstick” comments was referring to Bush’s policies.
In McCain’s campaign world, the only role of women is to be these faux victims. And if there’s nothing causing them offense, they’ll just make shit up.
When did McCain become such an ignorant ninny?
OK, I’ll offer a guess. Either Bush’s stupidity is so virulent that McCain caught a case of it during their hug, or he got the stupidity thrown in for free when he hired Rove’s B team to run his campaign.
Enjoying Chris Matthews underscore how ignorant these Republicans are pretending to be. And what a parade of low self-esteem women the Republicans have in Congress. No matter if the context is obvious to most sentient human beings–when these women hear the word “pig”, they presume it’s referring to a woman. Or maybe that’s *their* opinion of women? Yeah, well that would explain the no equal pay for equal work, restrict reproductive rights thing they have going on.
And about those wolves…
I’m starting to understand why Sarah Palin approves of chasing wolves with helicopters until they can’t run any more, then gunning them down. First, there was that laughable ad last election where wolves represented terrorists. Now, there’s an ad today where wolves represent the “30 lawyers the Democrats sent to Alaska” to hunt and smear poor widdle Sarah Palin.
Only problem: The Democrats sent zero, as in 0% of the number claimed in the ad, lawyers to Alaska.
Seriously, what is this clown posse’s problem? Why would they choose to have their first acid trip in the middle of a freaking presidential campaign?
Funny thing, though. The story was based on a report by John Fund. For the uninitiated, John Fund is a pro-life conservative. Really. The fact that he pressured his girlfriend’s *daughter* to abort *his* baby is really a completely unrelated issue.
T,
The GOP is dying, I mean dying for Obama or Biden to make a serious gaffe, only problem is, our guys aren’t complying. Our guys are sticking to issues and calling McBush and Palin on their obvious dishonesty.
This “lipstick” episode is one more way to get their base and conservative bloggers in an uproar. It seems to have worked on the blogs. Advance Indiana is in a tizzy (I think it’s probably because his lipstick is worse than Sarah Palin’s).
The GOP campaign apparatus also probably noted what several others are noticing; the McCain “bounce” is already fading. Ras and Gallup tracking numbers, unreliable as they are, are already trending back to Obama. Unless “Rove’s B Team” can keep the base in a state of constant agitation, the election is going to go very poorly for them.
Chris
PS…thanks for calling that for me the other day, I was dying.
Dim Tank, as always, speaks before thinking. Of course, if he didn’t, he’d never speak.
Which, in the end, would all be for the best.
Nightline TV program showed a clip of McCain using the same expression in reference to Hillary Clinton’s health care proposals. The online report notes that he was not accused of sexism. (Aired Wednesday night.)
How do you guys explain the reversal of fortune in the polls?? As McNasty pulls ahead, and more and more air comes out of the Obama balloon?
Must be the right wing media again…
heh heh heh
Tim,
McCain is getting a convention bounce….or actually Palin is.
Regardless, it will swing back the other way, and then you will be (hopefully) speechless.
By the way, did you see this on MSNBC?
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will spend much of the next few weeks campaigning with Sen. John McCain, a move that not only capitalizes on the Republican enthusiasm for the vice presidential nominee but also limits her exposure to the news media.”
Why are they afraid of her talking to the press?
The Republicans’ only hope of winning is to confuse and mislead the public by running around screaming about the irrelevant or erroneous. That’s all they can do, their record for the past eight years is not just poor, it’s quite alarming, and the current Republicans seem even more right wing if that’s possible.
Fortunately, the Democrats have the best candidate in a very long time.
Here’s a link to a viddy of Senator Obama on Letterman’s Show last night — as always, intelligent, on-point, and on-policy.
The reversal is easily explained.
Those Republicans who had not yet been sold on their flip-flopping corpse of a candidate for President, got one look at their VP candidate’s obnoxiousness, her policy stances like requiring rape victims to carry their attackers’ offspring to term, and her easily debunked “reformer” bona fides, and fell in love and “came home”.
The polls will return to basically even when a few of her recent converts start to care that she is basically the biggest fraud ever airdropped into the late stages of a presidential contest.
People buy into the mcCain cultural war against Obama because they are truly afraid and therefore vulnerable to crafty underhandedness.. I sound cavalier and ungrateful when I refer to my 89 yr old mother as a ‘racist bigot’ but so much of ‘bigotry’ is homegrown values and it’s not a conscious, reasoned-out way of thinking..
Much of my extended family back in Illinois have similar values. Savvy political strategists understand the psychology of it all and know what buttons to push.It’s basic marketing strategy on a wide political scale. Many absolutely do not see how any black man could possibly be president of the USA,and they keep repeating to me that it’s not because he’s black;it’s rather that he’s inexperienced ,and he doesn’t understand things like ‘terrorism’ and all he’d be interested in doing is pushing through social legislation for Blacks..( Besides Oreilly evidently said after his Obama interview yesterday that Obama was a socialist and would be bad for this country,so there’s constant media reinforcement)
When people in my family hear ‘socialism’ they think Communism and dictatorship and lack of freedom..It’s an automatic connection. That’s one of those buttons to push.
Im sure my family is not unique and Indiana and other states contain similar cultural attitudes,but this is what Obama is up against,especially in certain regions of the country.
If Obama can pull through and win, ,it would be a monumental American cultural awakening.
McCain has become quite the politician since he got his party’s nomination… he has proven time and again that his strategy for winning is based on personal attacks and distracting people from the main issues
This whole thing is ridiculous and the fact is that these Republicans believe that women will fall for this stuff. The sad part is that a large percentage of women will fall for this and will again be the owners of the biggest nonsense issue of the campaigns.
Did anybody see the Palin interview last night. Wow. When Charles Gibson asked her if she believed in the Bush Doctrine she literally had no clue what he was talking about.He had to explain that it pertained to the authorization of premptive strikes. The Repub operatives have been prepping her non-stop for this? Wow!
Perhaps the most controversial game changing policy of our lifetime and she whiffed!
Yeah, but Alaska is close to Russia — not really the business end of Russia, but Russia. So (somehow) that makes it o.k. that she looked like a high school student trying to bluff her way through a final exam.
Yeah Doug. I wonder if that final exam had a section on being a responsible parent.
I got the same reaction when I saw her speech at the convention(and of course her appearances since have been regurgitation). She looked like a junior high student giving a book report on right wing talking points.
And of course when we point out what should be obvious we are just helping their cause with our “personal attacks”. At least according to them.