Posted on 09/10/2008 4:55:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
An Obama campaign spokeswoman opened today's Morning Joe with an aggressive defense of his lipstick line, arguing that Obama was being criticized "for saying something that John McCain has said before, that Barack Obama frequently says about 'you can dress something up.' He was talking about the Republican change argument."
A bit later, bolstering her argument, the spokeswoman described the conference call the McCain campaign arranged to respond to Obama's line. She pointed out that all the reporters asking questions on the call were women, and that all of them asked McCain representative Jane Swift "are you serious?" in alleging that Obama was alluding to Palin.
Concluded the Obama spokeswoman: "If you read the quotation in context, he's not talking about Sarah Palin." Oh, wait. That wasn't an Obama spokeswoman. It was Andrea Mitchell, sitting in for Mika Brzezinski.
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The faux outrage is all on the side of Obama/Biden
>>Hussein’s indignant denial, just DOES NOT PASS THE ‘SNIFF TEST’.<<
The literal meaning, in context, of Obama’a remark does not refer to Palin. It’s quite possible that Obama’s intended subtext refers to Palin, but even if that is true, I think this is making a mountain out of a molehill. Some voters may see this as McCain trying to distract attention from the real issues. You gotta pick your battles.
>>Yup, the two sides call each other names (racist! sexist!) while neither is really proposing anything to deal with real problems. How sad. What a bunch of petty playground punks.<<
Obama said he will stop weapons research (at a time when the Chinese shoot down satellites and have stealth subs which pop up in the middle of a US carrier task force) and this is what McC wants to talk about?????
My issue is that neither has anything remotely approaching a plan to balance the budget and pay down/off our debt. McCain’s “ cut earmarks and everything will be fine” mantra is comical: they are a tiny fraction of spending. And we know what Obama will do.
What is the plan to stop transferring our national wealth to the Chinese, Saudis, etc.? “My opponent is a sexist/racist”
Yes. I'm furious at all the talking heads on FOX ignoring this previous school-boy prank, giving the finger to Hillary - and his audience got it then too.
We need to FREEP Hannity, O'R, and the McCain Campaign with their video and ask them to explain this away - the only reason he did dared do the lipstick thing was because the media all let the other one slide. There needs to be another ad named “His audience gets it” and then run the finger ad, followed with the lipstick ad - so people can see that his audience gets it, like a class room getting the nasty gesture of the class clown behind the teachers back. End the ad with “Is this the statesmanlike actions of a sitting president who deals with world leaders? You decide”
C’mon Freepers - let's stop this all out defense of ‘bama from the media
It's up to us....
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