Obama: McCain can't put lipstick on a pig

[kevinmc]

Source: AP

LEBANON, Va. - What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick.

The colorful cosmetic has become a political buzzword, thanks to Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's joke in her acceptance speech that lipstick is the only thing that separates a hockey mom like her from a pit bull.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience Tuesday that GOP presidential nominee John McCain says he'll change Washington, but he's just like President Bush.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's joke. "It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years.".........

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What's the Difference between McCain/Palin and Bush/Cheney? Lipstick.

[liberalmuse]

1. LOL, I like the analogy.

It is very subversive. And Is it me, or does Obama look stressed lately?

[Curtland1015]

2. Republicans are already trying to spin this as "Obama calls Palin a pig"

I pray to God the main stream media isn't dumb enough to take the bait.

[jimshoes]

4. I've been hearing Palin called worse than that

but I won't elaborate.

[still_one]

3. lipstick on a pig is an expression used in boiler rooms where they try to push worthless stock on

people, by dressing it up

It has been around long before this campaign, and has NOTHING to do with physicial insults

It has everything to do with flim/flam that the other side is trying to sell

[Curtland1015]

5. Of course, WE know that...

But what will the general public think?

[greyghost]

6. It's obvious he was talking about McSame, they can simple deal w/ it.

[Doofer]

7. But what will the general public think?

They'll think it was a referance to Palin's looks...

[City Lights]

14. The "general public" has heard that expression hundreds of times and knows

exactly what it means. The only ones who don't get it are those playing dumb in a lame attempt to try and make something out of nothing.

[Quantess]

21. If anyone truly thinks it was a reference to the former beauty queen's looks,

then they are too hyper-sensitive to be in politics.
Do you really believe it was a crack at her looks? She looks fantastic, does she not?

[still_one]

8. We need to push back on this, and NOT in a mild way. The distortion is crap

He also used fish, and other examples in the same context

mccain needs to be called out for what his campaign is doing

What a sham

Yes, I realize, it is what the public thinks, and that is why we need to be right on top of this

those lying bastards

[Habibi]

13. Uh, we *are* the general public.

[Nostradammit]

16. Thank you.

Exactly.

[LanternWaste]

19. Same thing they thought when McCain used the expression

"But what will the general public think?"


Same thing they thought when McCain used the expression when refering to Hillary during the primaries...

[TlalocW]

9. Obama should not back down but repeat it

He should talk about it being a common saying that McCain has used when talking about Hillary Clinton's proposals, and connect it back to his current talking points about how this is all they've got, saying things like, "They don't have strategies or ideas to talk about so they're going to try and manufacture scandals instead. Let them do that; the adults will be back in charge of Washington soon enough."

TlalocW

[ksimons]

10. just in case - dropping the info here >>>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/9/194017/6489/219/...

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.

Funny thing is, it's a well-worn phrase, including the title of a book by Torie Clarke , former Pentagon Spokesperson and Chief Spokesperson for the Pentagon on Bush's Iraq war. Hmmmm, so if they want to go after the people who utter it, they are going to find themselves in deep doo doo. Guess that Pentagon Spokesperson is attacking her fellow woman? Puuhhhllease.

and the famous time the head of the Log Cabin Republicans said of the RNC in 2004... "You can't craft a vicious, mean-spirited platform, then try to put lipstick on the pig by putting Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger on in prime time." To which Giuliani cleverly responded on Meet the Press.... Which am I, the pig or the lipstick?

I recall it being a favorite phrase by Lindsey Graham if someone wants to pull a clip up from Meet the Press.

[JFKfanforever]

12. But Senator Obama really should have said "pit bull"...

Calling Sarah P a pig boomerangs back on him, both as a person
and as a politician.  His speechwriters should have told him
that The P in "Palin" stands for "pit" not
"pig".

Women will rise to Sarah's defence if she is called a pig.
That is distasteful.  No one, however, can criticize any
Democrat for calling her a pit bull because those were her own
word!

Just saying...  I think this may have been a major gaffe on
the part of Senator Obama.

[BlueInPhilly]

15. McLame used exactly the same words

to describe HRC's health policy! So bite me!

[Zuiderelle]

20. Oh bullshit. You're assuming that "women" are stupid. This was no gaffe from Obama

but your side will try to spin it that way.

:eyes:

[erpowers]

18. My First Thought

When I saw the news report about the comment this morning my first thought was that I had heard the phrase before. A few minutes later I remembered listening to the Air America Radio coverage of the 2004 RNC when the President of the Log Cabin Republicans made that comment.

[Fozzledick]

11. McCain is the one trying to sell us a pig in a poke!

[radfringe]

17. get your list of lobbyists/bushies on the mccain campaign here

it's posted in GD: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3962239

and on my blog: http://stone-waves.blogspot.com/