Obama: Lipstick on a Pig (Did he just call Sarah Palin a pig and a stinky fish?)

Politico ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Ben Smith

[kristinn]

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."

"We've had enough of the same old thing."

The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."

[Pravious]

“Why would he want the pressure anyway? Good time he could be working on his memoirs.”

I disagree. I think Obama not only WANTS the Presidency, he feels he’s entitled to it, as a liberal AND as a black man, who obviously not only feels he’s “owed” something because of his race, but considers himself so intellectually superior to anyone else that anyone NOT voting for him is an obvious simpleton.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I think Obama, like an idiot, made the transposition in his mind, and thought he was being clever.

If anything, I find the statement Freudian. After all, there is a certain group that believes pigs, dogs (ie, a pitbull), and women are all equally 'unclean.' Just my two cents...

[sonic109]

Good one hahahahahahahahah

[Fudd Fan]

you will see Obama stroke his forehead and hide his eyes when he utters the famous words. His body language betrays that he knows he is doing something shameful.

Exactly!!

[tomkat]

If we keep going after this non story ...

You couldn't possibly be more wrong, imho !

[KevinDavis]

I voted for Mitt in Illinois, but I knew it was over by then.. Agreed Rudy for AG..

[topfile]

I don’t think he intended to reference this to Palin

Watch the Video! He knew....He knew exactly what he was saying.

[maica]

That’s a nice mind to be compared to. Tammy Bruce is a very clear thinker.

[goodolemr]

No one is going to believe Obama is the victim here. No one.

[keats5]

His handlers need a remote control to switch off his microphone.

[no dems]

I really did LOL. Thanks. The very “imagination” of that amused me.

[Brytani]

Meese Moot - ohhhh that’s perfect!!!

[AFPhys]

Right now, it really doesn’t matter WHAT he meant by this. He’s going to be caught in a firestorm of trying to explain what he meant. Many independents are not going to like this one little bit.

[eyedigress]

There is no way to not see the audience reaction to this. Agreed the campaign will move-on (pun-intended) but let this put the morning shows on defense. Then we drop it.

[TexasNative2000]

Agreed.

I asked the Mrs., who is a very successful professional woman, what she thought of the comment when she first heard it. I was surprised. Her exact words were "How stupid of a person do you have to be to think that is a smart thing to say? I can't get to the point of being offended by it because I can't get past how stupid it was."

[marajade]

I’ve never been one who conforms to convention.

[newzjunkey]

The street punk in him coming out, for all to see!

Politics of personal destruction Chicago Style.

[Tramonto]

Based on the first 20 or so comments on here it appears people don’t understand an expression when they see one.

Its a very common expression. I don't know if 0bama meant to call Governor Palin a pig or not but the crowd took it that way.

It seemed to me that he was referring to the Governor though. He probably thought it was a lot more subtle and nuanced than it turned out to be. The Dems have been using the 'lipstick' buzzword for days alluding to Palin's joke about hockey moms.

[I got the rope]

Ahhh...it says a lot about Obama and/or speech writer.