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.”
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