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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

There’s 5 threads already about this, one of them has over 500 comments. FReepers need to exercise judgment sometimes instead of this “Me! Me! I wanna post an article!” attitude.


41 posted on 09/09/2008 5:53:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
more so than the Joe McCarthy era.

May I suggest that you study up a bit on Senator Joe McCathy? A good place to start would be Ann Coulter's book Treason -- followed up by checking into the Venona Project report.

42 posted on 09/09/2008 5:53:36 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (The FairTax -- the largest magnet for capital and jobs in history. John Snow)
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To: softwarecreator
Ms. Pickler's spin:

McCain camp angry over Obama's 'lipstick' comment (AP)
43 posted on 09/09/2008 5:53:50 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: sonic109

probably something to do with his mother...Spengler has a great piece on bama’s character...being deserted by 2 fathers and his mother.


44 posted on 09/09/2008 5:54:04 PM PDT by usshadley (Ever heard of The Church of the Immaculate 1st Trimester..me neither)
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To: markomalley

Barry married a woman who despises this country and is very angry....

Birds of a feather....


45 posted on 09/09/2008 5:56:19 PM PDT by waus (Animal House, with a slight variance: Have another beer Barry.)
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To: sonic109
If Obama looses the election ( which is now possible ) there will be riots in the streets

I work in Detroit, which is virtually guaranteed to have 'civil unrest' in case of the messiah's loss. The office (a government building) is about 99% liberal. I am taking the day after the election off. I he wins I don't want to be there and if he loses ... I really don't want to be there.

46 posted on 09/09/2008 5:58:11 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: markomalley

Obama’s ego can’t handle being down in the polls.
When he feels he’s slipping in the polls, he become passive-agressive and vindictive.
Case in point, when did the middle-finger scratch when Hillary was pulling ahead.
Now, McCain/Palin are pulling ahead and he (on the sly) calls her a pig and McCain an old fish ... like we’re too dumb to possibly catch his drift, but this elevates obama’s ego so he has to say these things because he just can’t tolerate ego deflation.
MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT OBAMA WOULD DO IF HE EVER GETS REAL POWER ... LIKE POTUS.


47 posted on 09/09/2008 6:00:41 PM PDT by nightmarewhileawake
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To: markomalley

I want to know at what point will the feminazi’s just get good and fed up and stop towing the party line with this jacka&&? I mean this is blatantly sexist IMO, and he is so used to everyone sucking up to him that he cannot grasp how many people he is ticking off!

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the feminazi’s are such hard liberals that they’ll accept this garbage to get him elected.


48 posted on 09/09/2008 6:01:43 PM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: markomalley
Great new protest idea...for the ladies...

Swallow your pride...go to NObama rallies...

...and put on lipstick wile he speaks...

And say "OINK" every time he, uh, um, hem/haws....

49 posted on 09/09/2008 6:02:16 PM PDT by NorCoGOP (NoBama Bin Biden)
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To: upstatenyrepublican

I think that code for sexism [/sarc]


50 posted on 09/09/2008 6:02:24 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: markomalley
Discussing it on Hannity now...
51 posted on 09/09/2008 6:03:03 PM PDT by LA Woman3 (Sarahcuda!)
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To: upstatenyrepublican

FReepers (especially women) need to to take a stiff drink and attend hiis pep rallies, whe he insults Sarah or John, stand up-cough, turn the back and walk out. This man is soooo rude.


52 posted on 09/09/2008 6:03:42 PM PDT by Gemsbok (Drill here, Drill now, & Pay Less!)
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To: Turret Gunner A20

McCarthy was right.


53 posted on 09/09/2008 6:03:49 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (Reagan conservatism is back ! .. Thank God for Sarah.)
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To: Miss Didi
Ms. Pickler's spin

Wow, the MSM really rushes to his defense, don't they? Funny how they are making him the victim. And to say he's been taking flack because of his religion is total BS ... he's the only one to bring it up, just like his race.

54 posted on 09/09/2008 6:04:39 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: markomalley
You can't do it these days...

But we ought to send the DNC or the Obama camp something, Lipstick.....

55 posted on 09/09/2008 6:05:01 PM PDT by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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To: markomalley
For being a "MESSIAH" the "pig" parable SUCKED!

I see multitudes of those whom "Believed" and "Hoped".....lose faith in this false prophet.

56 posted on 09/09/2008 6:05:53 PM PDT by Musketeer
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To: NorCoGOP

Love it! Too bad the leftist media will be sure to edit it out.


57 posted on 09/09/2008 6:05:58 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: jerod

He get’s so pathetic when he’s on the ropes. This man does not know how to fight. So much for the tall stature and Harvard Law education. What a loser.


58 posted on 09/09/2008 6:06:13 PM PDT by Gemsbok (Drill here, Drill now, & Pay Less!)
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To: upstatenyrepublican
I said he lost the election last week. This is the frosting on the cake!

"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

59 posted on 09/09/2008 6:07:48 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: markomalley

It’s his secret code to the hidden Muslims....the mention of the word “pig” will get em riled up...


60 posted on 09/09/2008 6:08:48 PM PDT by browniexyz
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