Obama called McCain/Palin policies a pig. With all the dumb and wrong things Obama says, we don't need to take the guy out of context. It can only backfire.
Seems to me Obama didn't call Sarah a pig.
Doesn't matter. His crowd thought that is what he meant, and he didn't correct them.
He did not directly call her a pig. If there had been no previous reference to anyone about "lipstick," there would be no controversy. The audience would not has shrieked when obama said "lipstick." But they did. Watch the video. Were is just an old saying, there would be no reaction until he finished his whole comment.
You and some others are missing the double meaning here. As several on here have said, Palin 'owned' the word lipstick from when she used it at the convention. If I said to you, "lipstick, politics" Palin would have popped into your head. That's EXACTLY what obama did. He was talking politics and said. "lipstick." His audience immediately thought of Palin and reacted with squeals since they knew obama was about to rip Palin. He said it on purpose to elicit exactly the response he wanted.
Since he didn't say it outright, he can deny it, but most of us and obama all know he is lying.
He's just that kind of guy. Have you seen the videos of him giving Hillary the finger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pdKwBkDowU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69JVgf0ioq8
If not, you will understand afterward. He and the audience knew exactly what he was doing, but he could just say he was scratching his face. He's a bum.
“Seems to me Obama didn’t call Sarah a pig.”
That is correct.
What he did is use a simple advertising trick (psychological trick) as bait on a hook to get the audience to make the connection, via the word ‘lipstick’.