Posted on 09/10/2008 4:13:35 AM PDT by watsonfellow
This is awesome! Talk about rapid response!
Ohh...I missed that. What did he say or do that time?
He has a serial track record of sexist remarks...we need a list of them or a spliced together video clip of 0bamas thoughts on women.
HOW CAN A MUSLIM TALK ABOUT PIGS ! lol
Thanks for the advice. I will consider it.
Finally, a GOP media guy with balls. The Bush admin has needed someone like this for a very long time.
I see your point, and it is a good one. The idea now, though, is to keep Obama reeling and off message. This one point may be minor but it is above the belt and directed at sealing the deal with those disaffected Hillary! voters.
That’s right, it was Michigan, an auto factory, wasn’t it? I wonder if he ever did get back to her?
This will get around my word of mouth anyway. They don't have to lower themselves to the Obama camp level.
(It was fast tho...you have to admit...they are fast)
The problem is, I don’t know what really happened in 2000. I know that McCain accused Bush of playing dirty. I have no idea about what happened. I did take McCain at his word. McCain needs to be careful. The party is only united because of Palin. McCain has pissed people off in the past by accusing his opponents and making a big deal out of something that maybe wasn’t a big deal.
Sorry, can’t disagree with you more. You should try to chose battles that you know you can win, and this is a “winner”.
If O’Bama meant to slur Palin, he is a sexist. If he didn’t mean to do it, he is either stupid or naive, or both. The dems have no defense on this gaffe. Game, set, match.
The secondary purpose of the ad is to provoke a response and keep them off message. I think they will take the bait rather than cut their losses.
There is no way you can conclude the "pig" in his comments was Palin based on what he said. The Pig was the "McCain/Bush policies".
The other side, suddenly, they're saying 'we're for change too'. Now think about it, these are the same folks that have been in charge for the last eight years.
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough," he said to instant applause.
Now it was incredibly STUPID of him to do, because it can so easily be taken out of context and used as its being used, so it does show the absolute lack of experience and not ready for prime time this schlub is.
That doesn't change however the obvious misrepresentation of the quote, and the out of context use of it, that the McCain camp and others are doing with it. Now if the rolls were revered I know the Dems would do the same thing, but that doesn't mean its right. We can do better.
As somebody said on another post: Pat Buchanan made the comment that it’s not what he said but what people heard. Clearly the folks at the campaign stop heard SARAH PALIN IS A PIG.
Obviously the crowd leapt up with great delight & applause over this comment. The Obama camp and their lackey press would have us believe that the crowd simply suddenly got all excited over an old saying applied to his opponents about why their "change" isn't "change?"
When you are a speaker, and you say something, even if we give the benefit of the doubt that something that was said wasn't intended in a certain manner, if you know the audience will interpret what you say as a slam, and you say it, then the intention becomes quite clear.
As Hugh Hewitt said last night, in the past two weeks, Palin "owns" "lipstick" as a brand. She has it "copyrighted." Even before Obama said this, people were showing up at her rallies with signs saying, "Read my lipstick."
Politics is a filthy, dirty business. People way down the food chain will do things thinking they are good for the candidate. That’s a problem when the top of the campaign doesn’t know about it, and the idiot doing it doesn’t understand the implications.
Someone, somewhere made some pretty low phone calls accusing McCain of having a black baby.
I am NOT suggesting that Bush knew about those, or encouraged them. I AM saying that McCain learned from that episode and is reacting quickly, and assertively. THAT is good.
Are you kidding me? The “lipstick” was not directed to Palin? Cannot believe I am reading that. You sound like Obama telling Fox News that he had never heard Wright’s comments.
Only people who know more details will understand it. Redue it so it has more info if we really really need to play it. I think the blogs can take care of this one personally.
Exactly!
That’s one way to look at it. It’s something to consider. You are correct, it does look like Obama is melting under adversity. It would be very risky to have him deal with Russia. It looks like Palin really has Obama all upset. Obama looks weak. It has been said that his wife is a strong women and he is a weak man. Obama does look very weak. He is weak, he doesn’t just look it. It maybe is ok then to see him unravel, better now then afterwards when he is dealing with Korea or Iran.
I’m with you, this is clearly a misrepresentation by the McCain campaign on the words of Fauxbama, and there are so many honest quotes that don’t need taken out of context to use against him. Ads like this just give credence to the charges of lying etc.
This was a incredibly STUPID choice of words by Fauxbama, because it does set up a new news cycle where he will be on the defensive for them, having to explain them etc etc etc.. And the best he can exit that cycle with is break even, keeping him on defense. However the attack as its being portrayed is unjustified and a complete out of context quote.
I am as anti Fauxbama as you can get, and I fully understand this is an easy shot for the McCain campaign to make, and has a clear strategic advantage to making it, but its a shot that is disingenuous. We have enough honest reasons to attack Fauxbama, we don’t need to do this.
Though, it does once again show Fauxbama is not ready for prime time.. hell he’s not ready for off broadway, honestly I doubt hes even ready for community theater, because making such a statement makes the cheap shot so damned easy. It does show poor judgement by Fauxbama for making it, but what he said was not remotely calling Palin “a pig”, and while I have supported McCain for a long time this cheap shot lets me down John... You can do better.
Sure. This is the political equivilent of two children in the back seat yelling “Mom, she’s touching me! Well, he touched me first! Did not! Did to!” It just makes the McCain campaign look whiny.
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