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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: autumnraine
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$$

Never. They are nazi's first, liberals second ... being or actually caring about women are far down the list, well, except maybe as potential dating material.

61 posted on 09/09/2008 6:09:08 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: Gemsbok
So much for the tall stature and Harvard Law education.

We're talking affirmative action here ... diminish it substantially.

62 posted on 09/09/2008 6:09:16 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: waus
come to think of it the stinking fish thing is misogynistic also...this man hates his mother...this man hates his mother
63 posted on 09/09/2008 6:09:34 PM PDT by usshadley (Ever heard of The Church of the Immaculate 1st Trimester..me neither)
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To: markomalley

I’m not interested in change to a socialist State. I don’t want Obama’s little leftists telling me what to do. That seems to be what he has in mind.


64 posted on 09/09/2008 6:10:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I'll tell you a little secret: We're smarter and more competent than the Left.)
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To: markomalley

I’m not interested in change to a socialist State. I don’t want Obama’s little leftists telling me what to do. That seems to be what he has in mind.


65 posted on 09/09/2008 6:10:49 PM PDT by popdonnelly (I'll tell you a little secret: We're smarter and more competent than the Left.)
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To: markomalley

66 posted on 09/09/2008 6:11:33 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: mabelkitty
The kooks on DU are insane. I can understand why the young kooks at his rally cheered when he said that. No one taught them to distinguish right from wrong and manners. This is going to knock the wheels of his campaign bandwagon. Americans are seeing a side of Obama they don't like at all. I don't want that lack of class in a President!

"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

67 posted on 09/09/2008 6:11:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: NorCoGOP

‘’Great new protest idea...for the ladies...Swallow your pride...go to NObama rallies......and put on lipstick wile he speaks...”

Stiff drink is essential for this FReep. If he insults either Sarah or John in this fashion again, get up ,turn the back and depart quickly.


68 posted on 09/09/2008 6:11:51 PM PDT by Gemsbok (Drill here, Drill now, & Pay Less!)
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To: BluH2o

I have been trying to laugh off Obama’s comments or chalk them up to him not really appreciating what he was saying. But it really isn’t possible. He’s an Ivy League grad who, supposedly has been sensitized by his own experience with this sort of treatment. And by the way, he is a candidate for President of the United States. This is beyond the pale.


69 posted on 09/09/2008 6:11:53 PM PDT by liberlog
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To: Jeff Chandler
He just lost the election.

Tells you how well he "runs" a campaign, especially one on the down trend.

70 posted on 09/09/2008 6:13:41 PM PDT by maggief (Difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ... lipstick!)
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To: softwarecreator
Well, the Huckster, who never ceases to make me scream, just DEFENDED Barry to Hannity saying that Barry's comment did not refer to Sarah. And Sean just let it go.
71 posted on 09/09/2008 6:13:44 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: All

I can’t remember who, but a Black woman who writes for a liberal newspaper stated that if Obama loses, then there should be race and class riots.

She was basically encouraging rioting.

It was a week or so ago and I didn’t bookmark it, but I believe it was in the Atlanta Constitutional Journal.

But don’t get excited over the “Lipstick on a pig” remark.

Obama will get a free pass from the media.

This doesn’t change a thing.

The media is waiting for Palin to have a “Potatoe” moment and will then run it 24/7

They will ignore the ever growing list of Obama gaffes, but will skewer Palin as soon as they get a chance.

Bank on it.


72 posted on 09/09/2008 6:15:37 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Sarah makes Arnold look like a girlie man)
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To: BluH2o

The youtube video says Lebanon VA. I thought it must be OH too when I saw it because I did not think anyone could be so stupid as to insult a lady in VA. I grew up in small town in VA, they are not going to like this one little bit.


73 posted on 09/09/2008 6:16:43 PM PDT by lovesdogs (Obama isn't half the man Sara Palin is -Rush Limbaugh)
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To: markomalley

Nice spin, Agence France Presse.

The context of the video is different.


74 posted on 09/09/2008 6:16:43 PM PDT by Petronski (Zero-bama. All this time we thought it was an "O" but, nope, it's just a "0".)
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To: markomalley
The real Messiah Jesus fed the multitude with "Fish".
75 posted on 09/09/2008 6:16:52 PM PDT by Musketeer
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To: Miss Didi

Hannity just brushed it off???? What is with him, on his radio show he seems tough but when he’s on Fox he must tone it down. I’ll hear what he says tomorrow but I’m surprised that he’s not rolling with it.


76 posted on 09/09/2008 6:18:52 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: Musketeer

Notice that there were only 2,400 in the crowd? And that was the MSM’s estimate. When McCain/Palin came to Liberty MO on Monday, there were people camped out all Sunday night in the rain to see her.


77 posted on 09/09/2008 6:20:00 PM PDT by Kanzan
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

riots?...BRING IT ON!


78 posted on 09/09/2008 6:20:36 PM PDT by usshadley (Ever heard of The Church of the Immaculate 1st Trimester..me neither)
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To: markomalley
Before I trigger an avalanche of troll responses, etc. let me hasten to say I am absolutely no fan of Obama, in any way shape or form. I am convinced he is a Muslim and his run for the office is an undercover operation.

I am one who has an offbeat sense of humor and my mouth has gotten me in trouble all my life, nearly 70 years. I really suspect this was a spur of the moment idea that occurred to him and he thought he could pull it off, coming off with some humor points.

I could easily be wrong, but the way he said it really sounded to me like an attempt at being funny gone awry. Lord knows I know that feeling! Nothing comes off as badly as a joke gone bad.

Let's see what happens, it could get pretty interesting. For the record, I still say he will not be the one on the ballot come election day, it will be Hillary. Don't know how she'll pull it off, but I have faith in her and Billy Bob to find a way.

79 posted on 09/09/2008 6:21:33 PM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: markomalley
He needs to do the math. The Republicans had been “in charge” of the congress and the senate for 6yrs, the demonrats for the last 2yrs. IF memory serves me right our economy started tanking AFTER the demonrats took control of the nations economy (CONGRESS has that resposiblilty, NOT the President)SO this mess is all the DEMONRATS.

Correct me if I am wrong. :)

80 posted on 09/09/2008 6:22:01 PM PDT by coincheck (Pray for my oldest son, he is in Iraq. Keeping us free.)
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