Obama gets ovation with ‘lipstick on pig’

Reuters ^

[Chet 99]

September 9th, 2008

Obama gets ovation with ‘lipstick on pig’

LEBANON, Va - Democrat Barack Obama enjoys poking fun at his Republican opponents and their claims to being “agents of change.”

“You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered and yelled and eventually got to their feet.

“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 audience, which had a particularly strong reaction whenever Obama mentioned Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, appeared to enjoy the “lipstick” comment the most.

When Palin gave her acceptance speech at the Republican convention in St. Paul she joked about being a hockey mom, saying the only difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom was lipstick.

[Lyford]

The Messiah’s getting desperate, calling our gal a pig. Little bit of flop sweat there.

He didn't call her a pig. He used a time-worn cliche. If McCain had chosen Mitt Romney as his VP and Obama has used that same cliche, no one would have noticed. The fact that he chose Palin does not make it a sexist comment, any more than the use of "niggardly" or "eeny meeny miny mo" is racist. For any of us to whine about it is buying into the left's political correctness and I'm not willing to do that.

I would have derided anyone complaining of McCain's use of the expression to describe Hillary's health care plan, and I'll deride anyone who complains of it now.

Senator McCain, Governor Palin - don't whine. It's unattractive...

[Lady GOP]

[KingSnorky]

>>this from a dude who’s married to RuPaul.<<

That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time!!

[LasVegasMac]

Obama, I want to see you eat a piece of bacon.

SHOW ME.............

[fightinJAG]

Macaca.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

GET REAL. GET REAL

Are you SERIOUS ?

GET REAL ? POS

He used the word PIG talking about Sarah.

[muawiyah]

Not quite. Obama is making the type of references homosexuals use about women. A real man wouldn’t say this.

[EscapedDutch]

Posted this in another thread, but it is worth repeating:

You can put a suit on a Chicago, zero experience, zero accomplishments politician, it's still an empty suit!

JP

[ETL]

Sarah Palin's 2008 RNC Convention Speech (44 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKgNrb3baNM
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Baracuda!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sN-d2NbUMo

[Lady GOP]

[Carley]

Personally demeaning your opponent is about as classless as is possible, but not unexpected.

[section9]

Let’s be clear, most of the people who get close to these things are the activists firsts, and the committed Dems second. Of course they’ll applaud anything demeaning about Palin.

This will hurt Obama.

Best,

Chris

[Aria]

I think you’re right - if you spend any time on blogs where a lot of liberals post you’ll see that the gap between them and us is basically unbridgeable. I think that in general they are less analytical and have a lot more difficulty facing the world the way it really is.

[muawiyah]

The expressions were typical of those used by male homosexuals about women. The target was very clear.

Larry Sinclair has discussed this nature of the man before. Now we are hearing it from the man himself.

For him to fall into bath-house speech patterns suggests he is under tremendous pressure and just can't keep up with the stress of the campaign.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...if you spend any time on blogs where a lot of liberals post you’ll see that the gap between them and us is basically unbridgeable.

The Enemy Within.

[Lady GOP]

[ETL]

Obama is making the type of references homosexuals use about women. A real man wouldn’t say this.

Exactly! Maybe he's 'soft' on John and is jealous of Sarah???

[Cedric]

Let’ be honest: America was/is ready to elect a black man President, but not a black man who calls a white woman a pig.

[mrmargaritaville]

I wish I could take credit for it but I took it from Andrew Wilkow\Sirius Radio. I haven’t been able to listen to elrusbo since I found Wilkow. He is the BEST conservative talk show host on the air.