Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” slur III
Here is Barack Obama’s incredulous, sarcastic response to the entire world – including his own audience of friendlies yesterday – who immediately connected his “lipstick on a pig” comment to Sarah Palin’s best line in her veep acceptance speech, “What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick.”
Again, by denying the undeniable, Obama only digs his hole deeper.
Sep.10, 2008 1:42 pm |
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Wow, talk about spin! It’s almost scary how he can spin things to fit his message.
Evil. Eeeeeeeeeeeevil.
I hope he loses and fades into obscurity. Primarily for the sake of innocent human lives, but also because he makes me physically ill.
I’m wondering if they used canned laughter in that bit. Look at the faces of the people sitting behind him. I can just hear them…
“We are NOT amused…”
Have you seen this site?
Free Bristol Palin
It features an interview with BP’s baby – in which the fetus says it wishes it could be aborted.
“And many false prophets will arise, and mislead many…Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION (Obama Nation of Desolation) which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea (America) flee to the mountains.” Matthew 24:11,15-16
And the Fat Lady Sings,”Lipstick on your collar,” followed by”The party’s over.It’s time to call it a day.”
“We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people . . . this is a time for serious people . . .”
Barack Obama, September 2008
“We have real problems in this country right now . . . these are serious times . . . and they call for a serious debate”
Andrew Shepherd (played by Michael Douglas), The American President, 1995
Who writes Obama’s speeches — does he ask Biden to plagiarize Aaron Sorkin?
I’m glad Obama did get finally get substantive there, with his McSame stump speech.
Now NoBama is blaming McCain for the predicament he put himself into by his loose lips. If he can’t stand the heat, he ought to keep his mouth shut.
Check out the new Alaskan state license plate:
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LOL, Obama FTW!
It might be easier for people (other than hyprocritcal fundies who insist on making excuses for every single one of his missteps and gaffes when condemning others for the same things) to take McCain seriously with his fake outrage, if he hadn’t used the EXACT SAME PHRASE himself while talking about Hillary Clinton last year.
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Just sayin…
You miss the point of the context of this election season. Obama’s faithful followers obviously thought this was a joke about Gov. Palin regardless of if he was too clueless to realize it or not.
Either he made the jab, and now is pretending to be mr. innocent, or he’s to out of it to realize how it would be interpreted. Neither are very good options.
Just saying,
It might be easier to ummm have a conversation if you refrained from calling people hypocritical fundies. Name calling sort of makes you look immature..which you seem to have in common with Obama as of late.
Chris Dickson, you forgot the line about “woe to pregnant and nursing mothers” which is kind of prophetic in a way, cause the mothers who want to be pregnant, but have boyfriends (usually the FATHER) who want them to abort, are the ones that are targeted.
Personally I think everybody’s making way too big a deal out of it. He didn’t ever outright say Palin was the pig with lipstick, and it’s entirely within the realm of possibility that he was referring to the McCain/Palin CAMPAIGN or PLATFORM as the “pig”.
The people complaining about this sound like the guy who screamed “racism!” when somebody called an office “a black hole”.
All I know is that none of this is helping
“the brand” of Obama.
GAME RECAP
McCain introduces Sarah.
Strike One on Obama
McCain introduces his view of change.
Strike Two on Obama
Note to Obama from campaign manager, “STRESS CHANGE”
Note #2 to Obama from campaign manager, Do not use Lipstick & Pig together in the same sentence.It may offend alot of people.
Note #3 Obama to campaign manager.
OOOPS !!!!! too late,,,,,
TO QUOTE FRED SANFORD TO SON LAMONT SANFORD.
“YOU BIG DUMMY”
Strike Three & you’re Out Obama is retired…
The luster has come-off the Obama icon.
MR COOL is feeling the heat…..
He who portrayed himself as above all of the “gutter politics” has gone beyond what he was first against.
And Obama says that McCain “DOESN’T GET IT”.
Each and every day grows more difficult for Obama and Smokin Joe to try and figure out what and who they are concerned about…
First, selects Joe Biden. Next, he attacks Sarah Now comes he may have $$$$ issues… Finally, Smokin Joe says that Hillary may have been a better choice for VP…… PRICELESS
And Obama is questioning McCain’s judgement…..
Sarah is not the ONLY woman smiling at the Obama’s …….brillance?????????
You know I might believe that the republicans were the party of change if they raised the bar for discourse even an inch. But their standards are so low that they have to drag everyone down with their name-calling politics. While you were worried about a non-issue (McCain has used the term for a long time, by even his own daughters admission), Obama was addressing the failure of the banking system and the housing issues facing this country. McCain could use a few pointers as a backer of the Keating 5 and the owner of over 5 houses.
Yo La @ 1:21,
Did Obama get the banking system and housing issues all figured out yet? What’s he going to do?
“You can put lipstick on a pig all day long, but it is still a pig.”
— Representative John Boehner (do you pronounce that “boner”?)
“They put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
— John McCain, 2007
Did Obama get the banking system and housing issues all figured out yet? What’s he going to do?
Janet, what’s anybody going to do? What do you think McCain would do?
Doug,
Since I’m not running for president, I don’t have to have a plan, but Yo La seems to think Obama has addressed it and has it all figured out. She thinks McCain doesn’t care because he has five houses (according to her, I don’t know that for a fact).
I’d like to know what Obama has proposed, that’s all.
Presidents have issues that they need to deal with whether the issue directly affects them or not. McCain is not immune if he becomes Pres. I don’t know what McCain’s proposals are.
If I were in charge, I wouldn’t have allowed banks and mortgage companies to lure the average citizen into thinking they could buy a house with little or no down payment and actually be able to pay it off. It was a dumb idea, IMO, and look where it got us. Ya know, you can’t get something for nothin’. If it looks too good to be true, it usually is!
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
media dude,
I think you must have meant Obama.
These justifications that Barack Obama didn’t know what he was doing in using this particular idiomatic expression are disingenuous. Obama himself used the term “pork” to describe earmarks received by Sarah Palin, I believe the day before the “slip” (I’ve downloaded the video clip). He deliberately said it. The comparison with McCain’s use of the expression, which was used to describe Hillary Clinton’s stealth universal health care proposal, is apples and oranges. Obama is just another hypocritical liberal whom claims to be a political reformer, while, of course, he personally requested hundreds of millions in earmarks (including a million-dollar project for his wife’s employer), voted FOR the Bridge to Nowhere funding and AGAINST using the Bridge to Nowhere funding for Katrina relief. (Oh, yeah, isn’t he using Katrina as a campaign issue?) Oh, by the way: of the $233M given by Congress (for the bridge or any other funding) was mostly spent by the Alaskan legislature for other projects before Palin was ever sworn in. Cost estimates for the bridge had climbed to $400M, and she only had funding for about $70M. So she killed it a month after McCain reminded people that the $233M could have been used for bridge maintenance after the Minnesota bridge collapse.
Obama has had a history of documented sexism, whether it was calling a reporter “sweetie” or scratching his nose with his middle finger while talking about Hillary Clinton. He thought he was covered in taking a shot at Gov. Palin. Well, Barack, the term ‘pig’, besides being used to describe politicians like yourself whom rate 10% or below by Citizens Against Government Waste, can also be used to describe a male chauvinist.
So here’s my double entendre Obama joke:
What do you call a pig wearing lipstick? Obama in drag.
I’d like to know what Obama has proposed, that’s all.
Presidents have issues that they need to deal with whether the issue directly affects them or not. McCain is not immune if he becomes Pres. I don’t know what McCain’s proposals are.
Janet, ain’t neither one got any way to “fix” things.
I guess there were some “predatory lending practices,” right up to outright lying to people, but still, you know – let the buyer beware, and many people went for adjustable-rate mortgages knowing full well their payments either could go up dramatically or were scheduled to go up dramatically. I say let ’em learn the hard way.
Doug,
Buyer beware doesn’t work here, here’s why:
We have regulatory bodies in this country that are supposed to be policing the banks’ and mortgage companies’ lending practices to protect the “little guy” who wants to borrow money to buy a house. They dropped the ball on this one. Probably all brilliant MBA’rs.
A borrower who studied business could be expected to understand the risks involved in the “variable rate” or “no money down” mortgages, but not everyone.
I feel sorry for anyone who was unwittingly told they could afford a house that was way out of their price range because now they are losing their homes.
What’s done is done, but it doesn’t make what was done to these people any less despicable.
Again, moral relativism rears its ugly head. Too many people think, “If it’s good for me, that’s good enough.”
Janet, it’s all part and parcel of people living beyond their means economically, and that’s been going on, increasingly, for decades. Really, a case can be made for it ever since the Depression of the 30’s – it’s been largely a continuum of “more and more debt” – not only for individuals but also for corporations and the gov’t.
I don’t think there are actually regulatory agencies that are supposed to “protect people from themselves” in this respect.
Hey – if laws were broken, then no defense for the lenders. But it’s not unreasonable to expect people to understand what a variable rate is.
It’s not “moral relativism,” it’s “TANSTAAFL.” By and large, it’s not that “things were done to these people,” it’s that lots of people weren’t honest with themselves.
This is not a new thing in the US – people in general haven’t been saving diddly for retirement, not participating in 401-K’s etc., if available, assuming that Social Security is really going to be there for them in enough of a meaningful way, and in general accepting debt to a massive level.
It’s not up the gov’t to tell the little guy he can’t have a loan, nor is it the gov’t’s place to tell the lender the loan can’t be made.
If the loan is riskier, then the interest rate should be higher, as compensation.
Increasing risk that the loan won’t be paid back means that the loan has less value (if it would be sold to another entity) just the same as gov’t bills, bonds, and notes.
Again, if the borrower cannot tell himself, “I’m quite substantially sure I can repay this loan,” then I say tough titons to him. Either he accepts the risk at that point, or he (wisely, IMO) passes on taking the loan.
It’s not up the gov’t to tell the little guy he can’t have a loan, nor is it the gov’t’s place to tell the lender the loan can’t be made.
Isn’t part of a regulatory agencies’ purpose to make sure banks don’t overextend themselves (making bad loans that the borrower will not likely be able to pay back)?
Maybe I’m confusing the old S&L laws with banking laws….
Janet, no – as far as I know banks are free to lend money to anyone, no matter how bad their credit. It’s up to the bank.
On “overextending” – there used to be a “reserve requirement” where the banks could only lend out a percentage, like 85%, of the money they had on deposit. I don’t know if that’s still in effect, but there is a “cash reserve ratio” for “big” (over $44 million in net transaction accounts) banks of 10%, while “medium” sized banks have 3% and the little guys don’t have to have any (sheesh…).