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Obama: McCain-Palin change mantra is 'lipstick on a pig'
AFP ^ | 9/9/2008

Posted on 09/09/2008 5:33:19 PM PDT by markomalley

LEBANON, Virginia (AFP) — Democrat Barack Obama late Tuesday launched his most scathing attack yet on his Republican White House rivals' reformist credentials, likening their approach to putting "lipstick on a pig."

"We've been talking about change when we were up in the polls and when we were down in the polls," Obama told a rally here as surveys suggested John McCain and Sarah Palin have overhauled his lead for the November 4 election.

"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," the Illinois senator said to a crowd of 2,400 people.

"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 exclaimed to a standing ovation.

In accepting the party's vice presidential nomination, Alaska Governor Palin joked at the Republican convention last week that the only difference between a hockey mom like herself and a pitbull was "lipstick."

True to the pitbull tag, Palin has been savaging Obama daily on the campaign trail as McCain presents their Republican ticket as true change that will shake up Washington, salvage the economy and protect the nation from foreign threats.

While Obama rallied voters in Lebanon, Virginia, the Republicans earlier were in Lebanon, Ohio, where Palin repeated her widely queried claim that she had said "thanks, but no thanks" to a notorious "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; lipstick; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; palin; pig; smear; va2008
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To: markomalley

I must admit, watching an adversary’s death by his own hand is pretty darn satisfying.


21 posted on 09/09/2008 5:47:21 PM PDT by AIM-54
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To: markomalley

Drudge has it posted beautifully on his site...it is a MUST SEE!!

www.drudgereport.com


22 posted on 09/09/2008 5:47:26 PM PDT by waus (Animal House, with a slight variance: Have another beer Barry.)
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To: markomalley
Apparently the zerObama campaign doesn't do focus groups like the Clintons used to do. I can't imagine that “lipstick on a pig” or references to “stinky fish” when it comes to having a female opponent would fly with a focus group. Axelrod is a complete and utter fool to let this happen, but then I'd be redundant.
23 posted on 09/09/2008 5:48:00 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: markomalley
Lipstick? Pig? Palin? The context of this statement offends me. It is just wrong. On so many levels.

I don't feel happy that the Dems are going down in this fashion...I actually feel a disgrace for our Country that this is what one of our two parties has sunk too.

24 posted on 09/09/2008 5:48:17 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (SarahNoid/SarahPhobia, the Irrational Fear of a Strong, Conservative Woman.)
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To: All

The MSM will ignore this blatantly misogynistic remark by Obama, all the while thinking up questions like “who is the President of Azerbaijan?” to ask of Palin, then run it 24/7 if she can’t answer.

The media has had 18 months to ask Obama tough questions. All they’ve thrown at him is their bras and their panties.

They’ve ignored every Obama gaffe, and are just waiting for their “Potatoe” moment to skewer Palin.

The MSM has gone completely overboard and will now do anything and everything to get Obama elected.


25 posted on 09/09/2008 5:48:32 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Sarah makes Arnold look like a girlie man)
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To: markomalley

that’ll get him the women’s vote...s/


26 posted on 09/09/2008 5:48:44 PM PDT by usshadley (Ever heard of The Church of the Immaculate 1st Trimester..me neither)
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To: sonic109

Let’s also remember the many lawyers and willing reporters have been flown to Alaska to find dirt on Palin....and Shepard Smith is a willing participant, with that ridiculous Pastor Story.....I think Sarah also removed those tags from her pillows....


27 posted on 09/09/2008 5:48:47 PM PDT by Blue Turtle (I)
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To: markomalley

What’s the difference between Obama winning in the polls, and Obama losing in the polls?

LIPSTICK


28 posted on 09/09/2008 5:48:59 PM PDT by i_dont_chat (The elephant is dancing for the lady from Alaska)
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To: upstatenyrepublican

When I first heard the “lipstick” one-liner about the hockey mom bull dog thing, I thought to my self, how long before the lefties call her a pig. I honestly didn’t expect Obamanation to be stupid enough to say it him self during a stump speech. This should backfire big time, I don’t even think the goons in the MSM can cover up for him now.


29 posted on 09/09/2008 5:49:06 PM PDT by chaos_5
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To: markomalley

Who is it that often insults their opponents by calling them pigs? Bhuddists? Mormons?


30 posted on 09/09/2008 5:49:47 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: markomalley

If Obama thinks Sarah Palin is a pig, what does that say about all those women who don’t look nearly as sharp as the Governor?

Looks like McCain/Palin just got a lock on the woman’s vote!


31 posted on 09/09/2008 5:50:03 PM PDT by AIM-54
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To: markomalley

Obama’s muslim rage against women unleashed once again.


32 posted on 09/09/2008 5:50:38 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: markomalley

Aren’t lipstick AND pigs no-no’s in the religion of peace?


33 posted on 09/09/2008 5:51:03 PM PDT by BigLittle ( .)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Headline NY POST

Bama calls Palin a PIG!!!!


34 posted on 09/09/2008 5:51:30 PM PDT by usshadley (Ever heard of The Church of the Immaculate 1st Trimester..me neither)
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To: jerod

This is rivaling McGovern-Eagleton and the subsequent rejections by several potential replacement VP candidates until Sargent Shriver accepted. Except at a much faster meltdown it appears.

I’ll never forget a button worn by a GOP student that had the names of VP candidates in increasingly smaller font with an “X” thru the name . . . until it got down to “Shriver” in barely readable type! LOL


35 posted on 09/09/2008 5:51:49 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Jeff Chandler

You are correct.

DUers are thrilled to death that he punched Palin below the belt. They are reading this as deliberate, which is why I think the National media is picking it up.

This reminds me of the ending of that movie the Dead Zone. Except instead of holing up a baby to be shot, the candidate calls a female VP candidate a pig in lipstick.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7003699&mesg_id=7003699


36 posted on 09/09/2008 5:51:53 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Obama thanks McCain for not questioning his Muslim faith)
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To: markomalley
They have got Nobama on the ropes...

Keep punching anyway until he is on the mat.
37 posted on 09/09/2008 5:52:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: markomalley
You can wrap up an old fish Liberalism in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight forty years.

There, fixed it...

38 posted on 09/09/2008 5:52:40 PM PDT by mikrofon (McCain-Palin '08)
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To: markomalley

Sorry, this is a repost...

But, DEFINITELY go to:

http://www.drudgereport.com

He has it posted beautifully!


39 posted on 09/09/2008 5:52:56 PM PDT by waus (Animal House, with a slight variance: Have another beer Barry.)
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To: markomalley

Rush Limbaugh...licking his chops.

Will rip little Barry to shreds.


40 posted on 09/09/2008 5:53:05 PM PDT by palomonte (the universe tends to unfold as it should)
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