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."

[polymuser]

worse than that he just called every hockey mom a pig with lipstick.

And every older Vet a smelly old fish.

[Justice]

You can put a jackass in a suit and it’s still a jackass. A stinky jackass at that.

Justice.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Good observation. It all fits together — his church, his studies and teachings of Alinkski methodology, and his friendship with Ayers.

Remember when Kerry made a joke about assassinating Dan Quayle? “Quayle hunting.” Then there was Alec Baldwin joking about stoning Henry Hyde and his family to death.

Some sense of humor these guys have.

[tina07]

Always watched that show!

I saw Abe Vigoda once at my local supermarket of all places. It was in Ringwood, NJ back in ‘87 or ‘88.

[tina07]

perfect!

[manc]

LOL that is brilliant

you know a man from Nigeria was over here on business and I talked to him for about 20 mins
anyway he said that one of the things he had noticed about black people in this country is that they moan they are poor have no money etc but are fat from eating ,yet in his country all the poor are very thin

[hercuroc]

I missed that this morning-is that their new line of attack,subtly using the "pig in lipstick" line?

if that's the best they have

[Jeff Head]

It's better to put lipstick on a pig than try and sugar coat a turd...except it's obvious to anyone with eyes that Sarah Palin is no pig.

WHAT SARAH PALIN REPRESENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS

[newzjunkey]

It’s torture to hear him talk.

I can't decide if he can't think of the words or is too busy trying to parse them in a Clintonian legalistic fashion. Initially, I thought it was the second. Now? I'm not so sure that his admitted coke abuse didn't have a more lasting effect.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

To be fair, I’d be delighted if women travel across state lines to see Sarah Palin. But as for the freak show, if that long haired guy laughed, he gives all long haired men a bad name, doesn’t he?

[RayChuang88]

And The Zero has stepped in it this time.

[killer_rat]

Oye, Allen C. and his shoddy defense of Bambi’s “pig” comments. Al needs to crawl back under the rock from which he came.

[Signolife]

At her next speech, just as Sarah begins to speak, she should pause, pull out her lipstick, apply a little, give a sly grin then resume her speech. She won’t have to say a word about Obama’s insults, but the crowd will go wild.

[musicman]

"Pigs are particularly offensive to Muslims."

[A Boy Made Of Win]

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[stockstrader]

And I think you get my drift.

Yes, I do.

SO MUCH NUANCE in everything Hussein says!!

Don't the democrats FLAUNT that NUANCE????

[BluH2o]

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

Affirmative action at work ...

[hercuroc]

that would be sweet!

[Patriotic1]

Somewhere, off in the distance, Hillary is doing a happy dance, and Bill is laughing quietly.