The "Lipstick on a pig" was a brilliant set up by the Obama campaign

[scheming daemons]

They KNEW it would cause the McCain campaign to scream "sexist!"

And that would then allow Obama to claim that the GOP is "playing the gender card".

See this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7006498




Remember how the McCain campaign used Obama's statements about "looking like others on the dollar bill" as an excuse to say "Obama is playing the race card?"


Well... the Obama campaign just set a trap and the McCain campaign walked into it.



At least, I HOPE it was on purpose (I like to think that the Obama campaign is THAT brilliant).

If, however, it was a lucky accident... that's ok too.

[muntrv]

1. Just don't apologize for it, Obama.

[high density]

7. no kidding

He has a history of retracting things like this if the media heat gets turned up too high.

[stillcool]

18. I don't know why McCain..

thought Obama was talking about Palin?

McCain's campaign called the comments "offensive and disgraceful" and said Obama owes Palin an apology. Obama's campaign said he wasn't referring to Palin and said the GOP camp was engaging in a "pathetic attempt to play the gender card." Obama's camp also noted that McCain once used the same phrase to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan.

[npincus]

2. oooooh I LOVE it.... keep 'em coming Obama.

[TXN in WA]

3. Hell yeah!

Whatever the case, that was great. And now the hypocrite cry-babies are looking like the whiners!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Absolutely...and McCain himself used that term to describe Clinton's health plan

You think the Obama campaign didn't know THAT?

:rofl:

Freepers getting played for fucking fools. It's great. The McCain camp is unhinged. Obama's people waited for the first really positive poist convention poll and went with the knife thrust. The McCainites, like good little imbeciles, reacted just as expected. :rofl:

[Cha]

6. Thanks for pointing all that out

to us..makes my day:D

[Cha]

5. O Team got to bring out

that mccain said that about Hillary, too..so it's not just "the gender card" but the Obvious, ever present, Hypocricy card.

<snip snip>

"Enough is enough," Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters

"The Mc Cain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy - the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year," she continued. "This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run."

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7006498

[stray cat]

8. That line may stick in a way it was probably not intended because of the GOP reaction

[KathieG]

9. I agree...I think the Obama camp has the McCain camps number

hopefully there are more little "traps" to come!

[DCBob]

10. Brilliant subtle attack. They can easily deny anything personally negative against Palin.

It is a common saying. This was a great way to turn the tides today. Keep up Barack!

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Not to mention McLoser said the same thing about HILLARY!!!!!

According to Daily Kos.

:bounce:

[chitty]

12. Anderson Cooper Just lead off with this tonight.

It was the very first thing he said.

They are trying to stir up the shit.

[Bobbie Jo]

17. I think AC has unresolved childhood issues.

[Joe the Revelator]

13. Also, it allows Obama to remind wayward Hillary supporters that McCain made the same comment...

directly at her. There is no question about that.

[dailykoff]

14. I am so loving this.

She's the other white meat!

[Cronus Protagonist]

19. I do like her lipstick, though...

[annabanana]

15. They look really really silly out there on that limb. .

stupid tools

[jefferson_dem]

16. Halperin on CNN just said it was totally stupid for press to spend even a minute on this non-story.

If you've lost Halperin, you've lost the beltway insider tool.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Halperin is trying to salvage a vestige of right wing dignity

He knows the McCain campaign and the entire GOP machine was successfully baited and played like violins by Obama on this one, and he's trying to escape with some dignity. He doesn't want the press to hold it too long because the right looks ridiculous, and fell for a brilliant trap.

[progressiveforever]

21. MAYBE, a brilliant set up

But if the response isn't quick and powerful enough, this backfires. I am dying to see this campaign kick some real ass. We can't be swiftboated and semi-respond.

[Imagevision]

22. It appears Obama camp is getting it back together... GOBAMA-GOBAMA!

[BlueIdaho]

23. It gets better...

Gramps "base" the MSM are sooooooo hot and bothered to get back in his good graces they gleefully report this absurd non-story making their bias just that much more pathetically obvious.

[samuraiguppy]

24. brilliant. we are out doing

Rove at his own Rovian methods. Cool. We are fighting back.