Obama: Lipstick on a Pig (Did he just call Sarah Palin a pig and a stinky fish?)

Politico ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Ben Smith

[kristinn]

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."

"We've had enough of the same old thing."

The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Yes...they are live...BUT, no women. A women takes this ‘differently.’ I want to see if Greta (who hubby supports McCain now) goes with this one...

[School of Rational Thought]

This comment and the booting of Lieberman is the substance of an advertisement to clearly show who can change Washington.

[BraveMan]

I'll bet you're having fun on this thread . . .

[tsmith130]

I think you’re right. The odds of both of them using a lipstick references on the same day are slim to none if not planned in advance.

[Yankee]

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

From what I heard on Mark Levin, the meaning was clear. BO was calling her a pig. You would have to take his words out of context to say he meant something else.

[manc]

he’s either still bitter for not getting picked or he is just trying to be balanced for his new job

forget that put colmes in his place

[stockstrader]

It is an old saying. And nothing would be thought of it, had Gov. Palin not already owned the pit bull/lipstick joke. It was clearly a reference to her alone, and if you watch the video , the audience got it right away.

It reeks of NUANCE--just ask Andrea Mitchell.

[spectre]

Obama is proving what a useless empty suit he is. Nothing but a skinny kid with a mouth kids beat up in school.

Obama is proving that a useless empty suit with a Harvard Degree is still a useless empty suit.

sw

[Right Wing Assault]

Drudge shows hits on right hand column, almost all the way down.

[ConservativeMan55]

I saw upthread that Bolton has been assigned to Palin’s team.

You wanna talk about a take no prisoners approach.. Bolton is the man.

[henkster]

The crowd cheering for the lipstick comment was the same crowd that cheered when Jeremiah Wright said “God d*** America.” Different faces, same crowd.

[tomkat]

... John Bolton has been assigned to Palin’s team.

OUTSTANDING news !

[george76]

Obama: ‘You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It’s Still a Pig’

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/obama-says-mc-1.html

[tsmith130]

Ah, ok...now I see what you were getting at.

[Canedawg]

“Have you seen the bill orilly inteview with the bit O???
He is so lame”

He did not acquit himself well. I thought the interviews were damaging to him.
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zero refers to “they” and then immediately equates one of them to a pig, and the other to an old fish. It’s all in the context.

[piasa]

I wish my computer was up to it... I can picture a broken piggy bank with lipstick on its snoot, the Øbama logo on its side, and a few paltry wooden nickels spilling out.

[manc]

I would like to point this out to all

Every time I see a dem crowd it always looks like a freak show
the women in that crowd in NH look like freaks or men and the man putting his thumbs down looks like a woman

off topic about freak shows
but just how many blacks in NH are voting for Obama, I ask because it has less than 3% black yet it seems many blacks got to NH to see their messiah, their leader, their new saviour

[CurlyBill]

This is priceless! Obama is like the guy who has 10 piles of dog crap in his yard. He goes to the fence to whine about a neighbor, then somehow manages to step in all 10 piles of crap and tracks it into his own house... then blames the neighbor!!

[tomkat]