Posted on 09/10/2008 9:20:43 AM PDT by goldstategop
I agree with Mark K that Governor Palin, who kills elk for breakfast, shouldn't be seen to complain Obama-like about how beastly and mean her opponents are. Years ago in Britain there was a dialogue-free commercial in which a cute chick looked into the camera and put on her lipstick while the soundtrack played some smooth sax instrumental of "Put On A Happy Face". That's what Sarah should do: Put on a happy face.
That said...
If you read Obama's books, you know that his preferred voice is a detached, slightly unknowable cool. He is, in that sense, like an iconic movie star running for president. But, two months out from the big vote, doing a gazillion appearances and interviews a day, you can't get by on just the detached cool, and whatever's underneath starts to show.
We already know that Obama is pretty terrible when he's off the prompter.
We also know that an amazing number of the media-Democrat elite openly loathe Sarah Palin, and everything about her from her alleged Eighties hair to her hillbilly fecundity. Oh, sure, if you press them, they'll talk about per diems and the bridge to nowhere for a bit, but they'd much rather trash her personally - reviling her as both an uptight fundamentalist and a whip-wielding dominatrix in the same publication on the same day. Given what's been expressed publicly by Maureen Dowd, Gloria Steinem et al, is it likely that in private the upper echelons of the Obama campaign are immune to the gleeful contempt for Palin expressed by almost all other prominent "liberals"?
And that's the issue. The problem is not whether Obama's sexist but whether he's disciplined enough to keep the public from glimpsing the less attractive elements of liberal-elite condescension. Where now the iconic cool of the snows of Iowa?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ou sont les neiges d’antan?
We have met the PIG....and it is Obama.
Empty suits eventually collapse under the weight of gravity, there is nothing holding them up but momentum and energy, once that is gone...pffft...to the floor..
And Steyn is right, Lib elites do sneer at anyone they consider of lower class, their problem is they do such a poor job of concealing that contempt.
I agree
And the rest of us should pile on Obama, which is exactly what is happening.
The campaign should stay out of this fight.
It would be interesting to compare the number of WOMEN writers/blogger/etc who hate Palin to the number of MEN.
I think there’s at least an element of female envy at work here.
Don’t need to watch Lindsay Lohan to know there are “Bad Girls” in the world, and that they have claws.
What do you get when you teach an idiot how to read a Tele-Prompter?
A “useful idiot!”
STE=Q
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yup - here is what they wanted (from a liberal medium - AOL):
“GOP squealing at OB’s ‘lipstick on a pig’ comment”.
You want to mess in the gutter?
Can we assume Obama is going to use this kind of diplomacy with the people and government of our nation? With other nations?
He’s isn’t the prince charming he pretends to be. Never was.
>> ou sont les neiges d’antan?
Wow! You’re surprisingly articulate, especially for a ClearCase guy. :-)
...i’m pressing 2 for english now?
Hmmm...Most men I Know wouldn’t look that good in lipstick.
Did you do any photoshopping of his mouth?
LOL.
I meant to say: photoshopping of the shape of his mouth.
It’s still a bit early for me, I think. :)
Of course, it's been 30 years since I read the book, so I may have some details wrong.
Heh. Good one.
Bottom line: Muslim males do not respect women.
I knew Obama was Presidential material when I read this a few years ago:
Obama is very sensitive about his press. After his press conference (Oct 2006), he headed toward New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and chided her - in a kidding way - for a comment in the 12th of 14 paragraphs in an Oct. 21 column. She wrote that Obama’s “ears stick out.”
“I just want to put you on notice,” he said.
“I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.”
Actually, Kathryn Lopez on NR had the best response for Palin I can imagine.
At the next rally. Pull out some lipstick. Put it on. Then go to the mic and say “I said ‘pitbull’, not ‘pig’.”
It’s humorous. But most important, it’s strong and not whiney. Let’s leave whiney to BO and his buds in the media.
Does that translate to “Where are the snows of yesteryear”?
Does that translate to “Where are the snows of yesteryear”?
Tell me where, in which country
Is Flora, the beautiful Roman;
Archipiada , and Thais
Who was her first cousin;
Echo, speaking when one makes noise
Over river or on lake,
Who had a beauty too much more than human?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!
Where is the very wise Heloise,
For whom was castrated, and then (made) a monk,
Pierre Esbaillart in Saint-Denis ?
For his love he suffered this sentence.
Similarly, where is the Queen
Who ordered that Buridan
Be thrown in a sack into the Seine?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!
The queen “blanche” as lily
Who sang with a Siren’s voice;
Bertha of the Big Foot, Beatrix, Aelis;
Erembourge who ruled over the Maine,
And Joan the good (woman from) Lorraine
That the English burned in Rouen;
Where are they, oh sovereign Virgin?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!
Prince, do not ask me in the whole week
Where they are - neither in this whole year,
Lest I bring you back to this refrain:
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!
That would make a very good sign!
I wish someone would post a picture of Sarah, Michelle Obama, Barbara Streisand, and Cynthia McKinney and say now you pick the pig. Sorry, that was probably in bad taste.
So far as I know. See my post #16.
Sounds like a racist remark....
It’s from Francois Villon’s 15th century poem Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis (Where are the Ladies of Times Past?). The English translation is “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” It’s become a near-philosophical quotation that’s often used to evoke the spirit of all past times.
Did you do any photoshopping of his mouth?
Maybe it's Maybeline?
Great animation!!!
Yours is nice as well. I’m just enjoying this way too much. Love watching the D’s twist in the wind.
thx
That is absolutely correct. Obamie, as liberals always do, will talk about anything, and I mean anything, before he's going to talk issues. It doesn't even matter if it puts him in a bad light, major scandal notwithstanding. It's all "look over here! look over here! nothing to see over there!"
slick Willie was the master at that.
In Ayers' day graffiti on walls made mean references to law enforcement officers as pigs."
1960s Bobby Seale PIGS Poster on eBay
And a voice from beyond the grave screams:
Listen Skizziks! You ain't cool, you chilly!
An' chilly ain't never been cool!
Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
I think that under pressure, it becomes increasingly difficult for liberals to mask their contempt. The example that comes to my mind is John Kerry’s comment about the uneducated who get “stuck in Iraq.” Another one was Al Gore’s ridiculous sighing and striding over to President Bush during their debates. The difficulty that the liberals have in concealing their contempt is one of the reasons I am so anxious to watch the debates.
1960's feminists: Male chauvinist pigsYou Tube: BLACK PANTHERS film "OFF THE PIG" (1968)
Bernardine Dohrn: "Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
I just heard Rush play the McCain Camp response to BHO.
Boy was I wrong, that is a very effective response. DAMN! They’re good.
I'll try.
People with pig ears shouldn't bring up the subject of pig lipstick.
You had to hijack the thread to global warming didn't you?
Also “Sexist Pig” and “Male Chauvinist Pig”
We know who the pigs are....
Brilliant!
And what was the McCain campaign's response?
I wonder...Does anyone here think it would be rude to have Nobama to a PIG ROAST?
I wonder if he likes Pulled PORK?
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