Posted on 09/15/2008 12:28:27 PM PDT by Chet 99
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe? "No," McCain said Monday. The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama "chooses his words very carefully."
The implication: Obama was slyly up to something when he said McCain's call for change in Washington is "lipstick on a pig," days after Palin made a lipstick joke at the Republican convention.
"He's very eloquent," McCain told The Associated Press and Florida newspapers in an interview, and "it was the wrong thing to say."
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Why don’t you run for President?
that's really what you've come away with after reading what McCain said? how? he said Obama was careful with his words... and that it was the wrong thing to say... he didn't say the comments did not refer to Palin...
Why are there so many conservatives who don’t think beyond their spleen?
The damage is done and now McCain is trying to look “presidential” and swag a few more votes from the middle this controversy hadn’t already thrown his way.
It’s perfect campaign strategy, it’s Rovian.
Not sure it will matter at all. Dow closes down over 500 points, talk of Wachovia and other being in financial trouble. The result of all this, I fear an Obama win.
Obama didn’t call her a pig: he implied it. That’s all McCain is saying. Obama was not let off the hook; his lip-schtick makes into the news another week closer to Election Day.
Yes, Obama is more eloquent and a bit more careful. . .
Time for Repubs to start blaming Dems and Dem Congress and Bill Clinton and Andrew Cuomo. . .let it fly; because the Repubs will hit with it ‘all’ full force from these Dems. They have already jump-started their blame rhetoric. . .
Devious is the word I would choose. A street dealer with a Harvard degree. The underdog Urkel with a made up deep voice...and God only knows how many other deceptions. Wake up out of your comfortable sheltered existence all and see the devil at your doorstep. Obama is no gentleman.
A smart way of “taking the high road” while keeping the remark in the media.
Kind of like the Clinton campaign’s “refusal” to go negative on Obama a while back - “We’re not here to talk about Barack Obama’s past cocaine use. We’re here to talk issues.”
The same courtesy is not extended to Republicans. A Republican just has to say certain words. Immediately the media and the left grab them up and put the words together in a different order so as to “prove” that the Republican said something racist/sexist/homophobe/islamofascistphobe.
And nary a word about Christianophobia. It's all over the news...."Palin went to a Pentecostal Church once in her life don'tcha know!! OMG! OMG! They speak in tongues!"
McCain should have said "Maybe he didn't mean that, but his audience immediately took it that way, so it was heard that way."
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McCain is just being McCain as you and I both know.
What’s funny is, the Obama camp complains but McCain’s antics like this put a lie to every accusation. If voters are noticing and learning, it undermines the Obama spin.
McCain drives us nuts when we are convinced we are making inroads to influence voters, and we may be. But many voters see this as making McCain “different” than partisan supporters.
I just think of the Marxist wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. My, what big ears you have(for sure!); and as well, 'what big teeth'. . .
I just think of the Marxist wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. My, what big ears you have(for sure!); and as well, 'what big teeth'. . .
Just in case; and just to be clear, however. ..he did not have to say exactly that. Obama made direct inference; and let the audience complete the thought. . .Right.
Just like Obama didn’t actually call Palin a “pig”, John McCain’s ad didn’t actually say Obama called Palin a “pig”?
“McCain is a lot faster on his feet than the o-dummy.”
I concur. That’s why McCain’s leaving Obama in the dust.
So I went back and watched the “disrespectful” ad. And in fact, it doesn’t mention Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment.
It has three quotes. First that they called Palin “Good-looking”, second that she said what she was told, and third that she was lying.
So what McCain ad are they talking about that isn’t true? I’m confused.
That's gay-speak for "female".
Say what you want Obama finally couldn't hold it in and referred to the homosexual bath house language he learned at the feet of Bill Ayers and Larry Sinclair.
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