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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Good answer!
McCain is a lot faster on his feet than the o-dummy.
Please please please please please Obama, pounce on this. We need to keep the lipstick / pig controversy front and center for the next 1,200 hours.
McCains’s otherwise sharp handlers needs to hire a team to accompany McCain round the clock, with orders to nail him in the flank with a tranquilizer dart, the second he starts to go into his “maverick” mode, and let’s angry, dumbass Obama up off of the mat.
"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
This makes McCain look stupid... Runs ads on it, then says, no... it didn’t refer to Palin... What a DOLT...
The thing I like about the RNC strategy is that McCain takes the kid gloves off when the time is just right.
The ad featuring Obama magically parting the Red Sea is still my favorite.
"Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama!!"
"Behold, his mighty hand!!!!"
He has Obama battling Palin while Biden flies around unnoticed and ignored. This makes Obama fight Palin while McCain stays above the fight and Biden is on the sideline.
In one move he has taken himself out of the fray and relegated Biden to a non-factor. Brilliant.
He’s stating the simple fact that Obama did not literally call her a pig. I don’t think anyone has said that he did.
Did he call her a pig?" McCain was asked. "No, I but know that he chooses his words carefully, and it was the wrong thing to say," he responded.
You seem to be the "stupid" one here!
With this, he's reverterd back to the dumbass he was before Palin... Does he think that ZeroHussein would EVER give him a pass??? On ANYTHING?
Congrats you almost been here a month.
Mac played this well, Obambi’s disgraceful comments (Mac clearly said Obambi’s comments were an indirect, clever way of attacking Palin without appearing to, pure Bill Clinton politics, although Obama is no Bill Clinton) have already inflicted extensive damage on the messiah with respect to women, if I were Mac I wouldn’t over due it.
Show where Governor Palin took offense at the statement and I might think otherwise.
Seems everyone was whining about the ‘lipstick’ comment BUT McCain and Palin.
Clearly the R ticket are NOT whiners!
McBrilliant!
Yes, I think he may have been better to just let it go, and not say anything, letting the acid keep eating into the Golden Chile’ on its own.
Are you guys seriously stupid.....read his comments again.
What he was saying was he didn’t outright call Palin a pig, he cleverly phrased it.
As amazing as it is to me also, McCain wasn’t backing down here, just saying that Obama uses slick language.
There is a difference between whining and being so aloof that you can’t face reality. R’s are historically retarded about social issues....that’s why the Country is going down from within without a shot being fired.
Precisely! But don't hold your breath that some of the extremists here will understand...most of them are still in the tank for the 4th worst president of my lifetime (George W. Bush) who comes in only above Carter, Clinton and just barely better than Nixon.
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