Obama’s sexism is showing, and this time he can’t blame it on his adoring blog minions.
The news bias against Hillary Clinton during the primary campaign is well documented. Heck, the NYTimes even quoted Dr. Howard Dean complaining about it:
“The media took a very sexist approach to Senator Clinton’s campaign,†Mr. Dean said in a recent interview. “It’s pretty appalling,†he said, adding that the issue resonates because Mrs. Clinton “got treated the way a lot of women got treated their whole lives.â€
The article contains many snide remarks…Chris Matthews calling Senator Clinton a “she devil”, Mike Barnacle saying she looked “like everyone’s first wife standing outside a probate courtâ€, the NYTimes writing about Clinton’s “cackle” and the Washington Post commenting on her “cleavage”…and the article notes that the positive coverage of Obama was 90percent in December, as opposed to Clinton’s stories, which were only 61 percent positive. but the article insists that the numbers “evened out” late in the campaign 48 to 45…
So now that Obama is the winner, he is getting the radical feminists to attack McCain, and especially Palin. But the moderate feminists, those whose feminism is based more on reality than marxist anti man paranoia, are a little less enthusiastic. And the press wonders why…
So now, since Senator McCain chose a woman governor to be his running mate, the Daily Kos and Andrew Sullivan others on the left of the blogosphere are into a “bash Palin all the time” mode. She is the enemy: a “christianist” (to use Sullivan’s term), a mother (how dare she work) and an “anti choice extremist” (she just had her Down’s syndrome baby for political gain, goes one rumor…)
It’s so bad that Republicans are touting the errors as campaign points, and the NYTimes has had to apologize for printing one untrue rumor. The same press who couldn’t bother to investigate how Obama’s far left backers helped him starting in his launch in Chicago politics and continuing with a press and left wing blogosphere machine that painted Hillary as a loser long before the votes were counted. So now the mud is being splattered by the same attack machine, but this time, the American people are listening.
The problem? A lot of the attacks are personal.
No, no sexism here, folks, just move along.
Obama is trying to smear using his blog supporters. No big deal. He did the same to Hillary, so what else is new?
By using his minions, he can remain the messiah without getting his feet dirty.
But one suspects that Obama, with his childhood lived overseas, doesn’t understand the nuances of the United States.
So today he put his foot in his mouth and declared:
 “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It’s still going to stink after eight years. We’ve had enough,” he exclaimed to a standing ovation.
Of course, he defended using the phrase, saying it was an old proverb.
Except that it isn’t. The proverb is a variation of a more common proverb, (you can’t dress a pig in silk, or you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear).
Wordwizard discussion group traces the expression as a Southern variation…and the
expression has been used in politics, by John Edwards, for example, in 2004. But it’s not an expression one uses every day, nor one that I was familiar with.
However, Obama denies that his phrase was referring to the Palin quip (that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is…lipstick).And we are supposed to believe that Obama wasn’t calling Palin a pig. Right…. It was just a slip of the tongue.
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Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the rural Philippines. She writes about human rights in Africa at Makaipa blog.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackMcCain said the same thing of Clinton’s health plan just last year. If it wasn’t sexist then, it isn’t sexist now.
Or perhaps sexism is allowed, just only when a Republican is committing it?
In context, from the article you referenced….
“We’ve been talking about change when we were up in the polls and when we were down in the polls,” Obama said as surveys suggested John McCain and Sarah Palin have overhauled his lead for the November 4 election.
“The other side, suddenly, they’re saying ‘we’re for change too.’ Now think about it, these are the same folks that have been in charge for the last eight years,” the Illinois senator told a crowd of 2,400 people in Lebanon, Virginia.
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It’s still going to stink after eight years. We’ve had enough,” he exclaimed to a standing ovation.
What a bunch of BS! Can we return to ISSUES please?
I’m confused…\
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Everyone is missing the point. Obama was saying that Palin is the lipstick and McCain is the pig – Palin is the newspaper and McCain is the fish. So infact he complimented Palin and insulted McCain. It is a very accurate analogy that clearly illustrates the trick republicans are trying to pull on the America people to get their pig elected. That pig being John McCain. But lipstick smears and wears off quickly. It needs to be re-applied, which is why McCain keeps Palin so close on the campaign trail. Without Palin to make McCain look good everyone will see him for what he really is.
Also not enough attention is being paid to the fact that Palin is an unknown quantity who is turning out to be quite deceptive, vindictive and extreme and alot of her attraction to voters come down to her looks, compared to Obama and McCain. So even if the analogy is applied to her it is very accurate and highlights how her looks are bing used to manipulate voters. She looks good but she is a pig of a politician. The lip-stick on a pig analogy is also an accurate discription of McCains lies about being an agent of change and a maverick.
All three interpretations of the lipstick/pig analogy clearly describes how the America people are being deceived by the McCain Palin ticket. A vote for Palin and McCain truly is a vote for lipstick on a pig, whichever way you look at it. After two weeks of republican hype and hoopla Obama has very accurately described the republican ticket in a way that everyone can easily understand.
Obama has been using that same line for quite some time, well before Sarah Palin was on the ticket. It’s part of his stump speech. Republicans are gutless, soulless liars – they will say and do anything to get elected.
Again, we are focusing on things that make no difference in Americans losing their homes, young men and women dying in a senseless war, the dying economy. If the republicans feel that Obama should apologize to Palin then they must consider her a pig. This analogy has been in existence for a long time. Palin put herself in the big boys game so she should try to learn somehting from Hillary. Being a soccer mom is not a qualification to be in the white house. Have you been to a soccer game and saw how the soccer moms act “erratic and uninformed”
If Palin is supposed to represent women then she must do it with intellegence and strength not with the old agenda that makes the “Good Ole Boys” think we(women)can’t handle the heat.
Whomever your choice,
Please listen to the issues people and not the things that are trying misdirect the purpose of the election which is to choose the best candidate to bring this country out of the mess that it has been drowning in for the past eight years.
Now that’s a Fist Jab…Attaboy
“What a bunch of BS! Can we return to ISSUES please?”
It’s always funny whenever the liberals are exposed, the reaction is always the same. Let’s get back to the issues.
Obama attends Wright’s church for 20 years…not an issue.
Obama is pals with a known terrorist…not an issue.
Obama calls Palin a pig…not an issue.
Obama gets $300,000 for Rezko to buy his house…not an issue.
Step 1 when trying to get out of a hole is stop digging. Yet Obama just got an even bigger shovel.
Ever notice that the right wing posts are 9 miles long?
Now this is just plain bickering! I defended Palin when attacks were geared towards her family. I heard what Sen Obama said in detail and did not feel like it was directed towards Gov. Palin. Read the transcript. As a solid republican supporter I must agree that it is a cheap use of the sexist card by the republican party. Do research and you will find it is common Washington verbage also used by McCain at one point. Lets grow up and wait to hear what she has to say on her views and direction of the country. Lets not play the victims when we are just as much to blame on scrutiny of our opponents! To be frank bickering like this and playing victim is really turning me and alot of other McCain/Palin supporters off. It is getting to the point that sheerly the media and our opponents feel like they are walking on thin ice when mentioning her. Almost as if she is untouchable. Republican strategy and tactics are getting old and boring. We are gonna lose to dems because of this. Lets grow up and stick to facts. C’mon….Thanks!
Yup
Obama did not call Palin a pig. What he should call her though is a liar. Besides, Palin wants to play with the big boys. If she can’t take it she should quit.
OMG… Can’t anyone see Obama for what he is? A slick talking Rock Star. He has no more experience to run this country than I do. We would have been much better off with Hillary running the ticket. But, she’s not and we have to vote for the person not the party. And I think Obama is a lier and why isn’t anyone talking about his having taken part in Islamic ties. Open your eyes! Come on…. Do you want someone to run this country that has ZERO experience. He has spent more time running for office(s) then running one. Say what you want, but it’s a FACT.
This all smells fishy to me.
Let’s not all get sidelined and stick to the issues not gender, race, religion, guns, blah blah, blah.
Come on folks get some sophistication on news coverage paticularly in our blogs, because we lost it in mainstream media.
Hit the Republicans in the gut (issues) and they will fall.
Thank you George Bush for laying down almost eight years of groundwork for the Republicans demise.
McCain’s “Change” is only more of the same and Bush is to blame.
Y’all are stretching. It wasn’t a Palin reference, but since you think it is, I guess your insecurities are showing.
Or as your buddy Rush would say, “You’re showing who you really are!”
Oink, oink.
No Way…No How…No McSame…No Miss Piggy
Breaking News…The A.S.P.C.A has filed charges against O’Bama…Citing him for animal cruelty…for comparing a pig to the G.O.P.
“Lipstick on a pig” is an old saying just like the phrase he used right after that one, which was about wraping a fish in new paper.In fact, McCain used the same phrase when speaking about Hillary’s health care plan, GET THE FACTS! Nancy- you are either completely ignorant or guilty of trying to slant articles to make your case. It is completely dishonest of the McCain campaign to take “old sayings” and try to infer sexism and a WASTE OF THE PUBLIC’s TIME. Nancy if you were interest in the truth you would look at they way Obama and McCain has voted regarding women’s issues- then at least you would be able to start at a place of FACT. When you write such baseless dribble you prove that you think people are mindless zombies that can not think for themselves! You are a disgrace to women and their intelligence.
Get it straight. If he had said “you can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear” I suppose you would find that equally sexist.
Methinks thou doest protesteth too much.
Although Obama didn’t mean anything by it, I do. Sarah Palin is a pig and needs to be made into bacon.
Palin came out swinging. She is no victim. It is embarrising to me as a woman when the sexism card is used. There is a video clip of Palin calling Hillary a whiner for using the sexism card. Palin said that Hillary just needed to work harder.
Palin should apologize to community organizers
OBAMA MUST THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STUPID !!!
It’s one thing when Obama tries to cover up mistakes he’s
made in private, or when he feebly tries to cover up or misdirect
us, by saying that he never heard Wright’s anti-American sermons
over a 20 year period … but, when Obama tells us that the
Palin lipstick/pig remark wasn’t an insult directed towards
Governor Palin, then Obama is adding insult to injury towards
the American people. This creep is not Presidential material.
Gina, What exactly do you know about Obama’s record on voting for women’s issues? You are an example of the mindless zombies saying things you hear with out looking into the truth yourself. When you say Obama is trying to cover up mistakes he has made, do you ask if Mccain or Palin are trying to cover their mistakes? You are calling Obama a creep? So is McCain a creep because he used the remark lipstick/pig first when refering to Hillary Clinton?
It is a shame that you would not take your right to vote seriously and read about where the two (McCain & Obama) stand on issues, review their voting history and what that means to you, review their tax plans to see how that effects you, etc. Use you energy to inform yourself on the issues that face our country and less on calling names.
Boy, the responders mostly seem to have more sense than the original author.
Don’t you GET IT. The same tactics McCain has had used against him (by George W. Bush), he is now using against Barack. He has become a clone of George W. because he has been convinced by the Republican Party handlers that this is the way to win elections (along with messing with voting machines). So, if the handlers are really running McCain (note THEIR choice of Palin, not McCain’s), then what CAN you expect but MORE OF THE SAME. They will control him in the White House until he becomes ill, then they will have someone cut from thhe very same fascist cloth to do their bidding.
For a moment, think of the extremist similarities between Palin and Dick Cheney. You could ask “What’s the difference between Palin and Cheney. Lipstick”. That would work too. Or is that sexist?
The problem is there is reason why the line is drawing laughter from the audience. The line by itself is not offensive or that funny, but the line now implies much more than it once did. Palin’s joke at the convention branded her with the word lipstick, so a reference to lipstick now is going to be seen as directed towards her. That was probably not the intent, but that is the implications. It is like a line directed at a ‘Community Organizer’ would rightly be considered a slap at Obama.
According to the Dallas Morning News and the Whitehouse website, the phrase “like putting lipstick on a pig” is a favorite of Dick Cheney and was used by John McCain himself last year to describe Hilary Clinton’s healthcare plan. Former McCain press aid and republican PR consultant Torie Clark wrote a book 2 years ago titled “Lipstick on a Pig” about PR spin in politics (you can find it on Amazon).
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/09/turns-out-dick-cheney-knows-ab.html
This blogger is an idiot! And if you want to be an idiot like this blogger vote for McCain. That way you can enjoy higher gas prices, higher food prices, more foreclosures, bomb bomb Iran and other anti American police state intrusions into your lives.
Jon is right, listening to the actual clip, it’s the audience inferred that “Lipstick” = Palin and “Old fish” = McCain. And, Obama’s verbal tone and pause of the piece indicates, to me anyway, that the intention was exactly the same. Mildly funny and barely inflammatory, but for Obama’s camp to “categorically deny the inference” is BS.
Sorry! I am a lifetime southern Democrat and I believe that the remark was deliberate. Maybe a speechwriter thinking he was being clever, but Obamam said it! It is just too much of a coincidence. Everyone in this country knows about the Palin listick line. Take an honest shot at your opponent based on the issues, but don’t take a cheap shot like that. Sorry, Obama just lost my vote for sure. And the old Fish line was clearly directed at McCain.
Obama wouldn’t know an original idea if it hit him square upside the head. Now veiling this derogatory remark as an “old political saying”, a remark which was preceeded by more plagiarized words for this speech…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078816/posts
Obviously Obama does not remember the “old saying”..it’s not WHAT you say, it’s HOW you say it?
I am not convinced Omaba intentionally meant that remark to be a reference to Palin; however, since she used that famous line at the convention, the botttom line is Obama should have known better. Perception is reality. Had he been astute and intelligent, he would have made the inevitable association himself, and avoided this entire debacle.
And Obama’s smug, self-righteous defense of the comment was in error also. He should have approached it unemotionally, with no additional quips. Instead, he came off as insincere and almost haughty to me. The polish is starting to wear off, and Obama’s gaffes are piling up each day.
Lifetime Southern Democrat- You are obviously not that if you would base your vote on anything other than issues! You are as dishonest as your title. No lifetime democrat would cast a vote on anything other than issues. I believe this may just be a battle of intelligence, one that you are losing.
It is completely a waste and all you people that are stupid enough to cast a vote without learning about the issues, etc. deserve the blame as for all the BS as Daman stated. You people are “willing to cut of your nose to spite your face”- another old saying!
Of course it was intentional and it was low class. His audience certainly got the joke. Obama was being too cute by half just as he was when he flipped Clinton the bird after the ABC debate. And to set something straight for the people comparing McCains use of the phrase to Obama’s. Clinton had not just made reference to herself in terms of her lipstick as Palin had 5 days earlier – if you don’t understand the difference it’s a waste for me to try to explain it to you.
and so after the dems come to a stop from spinning wildly from being t-boned…the yelling and name calling and feeble attempts for vindication start.well, I suppose they could just admit it,and leave well enough alone, but what the heck, I’ll watch and see what happens.Besides,its not Sarah Palin that has started this, its what she said, how she said it, what she is, and what she stands for.Trying to undermine it, put it down,change it, is like trying to touch an idea or bottle the wind.”we” are Sarah.Gonna shoot us all?
Palin–now there’s a cunt!
(remark edited for name calling and off subject)
Look at the yourselves, this is ridiculous.
1) both parties’ candidates are crooks.
2) this mysterious ‘change’ ain’t happening, American imperialism will continue and which ever candidate continues it will carry a huge following cheering us all the way to collapse.
Bush ran on non-intervention, and look at how many countries we’re killing people in now. His supporters, who once supported non-intervention, are behind him cheering the murdering now. Obama, McCain, same deal. The most irritating is Obama’s anti-war followers will be pro-war after Obama and his regime sell the next one correctly.
You people are being fooled, and articles/issues like this keep your egos and argumentative subconscious busy and happy. Does anyone care we’re giving $1bn to Georgia? I mean, does anyone F’ing care?! “Thanks for pissing off Russia, thanks for speeding up our missile shield and thanks for being an ally that allows Western-friendly corporations to run oil through your land, here’s $1bn.” Obama would have voted for that, McCain too.
Wake up for America’s sake.
all Obama can say is change, change, change
his choice of VP shows how much change he wants.. an old white guy is very different
have you ever thought all this “change” he is talking about could be a change for the WORSE ! his best asset is being able to charm a crowd and give a motivational speech about (say it with me) change.
if obama is elected, then ya might as well stick a fork in us, cause America is done
Amazing the eloquence of the highly educated, and the statesmanship represented by Obama, McCain, and others.At least now we know that none of the Presidential candidates are diplomats. A diplomat is one who can tell you to go to hell in such a fashion that you look forward to going. Rest easy Amerika, at least now we know what they are not.
damon,
do you know that the price of a barrel of oil for october has dropped to $103? do you know that the dollar rose to an 11 month high against the euro?
It is fascinating to read all the ignorant Obama posters on here in not even being aware that Mo Dowd of the New York Times put the lipstick slander on Mrs. Palin and that EVERYONE in the Obama gathering cheered it because he knew exactly what he was insulting them with.
Furthermore, for the poster who deemed it ok to call Mr. McCain a pig, it is past time that someone exposed that Barack Obama was dusting off a Michael Dukakis insult which Dukakis apologized for in calling Ronald Reagan a stinking dead fish from the head down with all Americans the bloated dead body.
THAT is where the dead fish reference comes in Obama being a ghoul and stating that all old people have the smell of death about them.
If posters are so warped that they do not think such brutish language is reprehensible then enjoy the savage they see in their own mirrors.
This was beyond lipstick insults to all women. This was insulting all the old people in America.
This is liberalism, calling all women tramps and terming all old people as expendable.
Barack Obama got caught in his Letterman cocktail sick humor of New York and the posters above further revealed what makes up the Obama camp in being the same seared souls who have no comprehension of what is out of bounds behavior.
Dr. Reyes is completely correct, but she did not notice the slander directed against the elderly.
OBAMA TALKING ABOUT PIGS””’ …..(edited by nreyes)
Palin is the lipstick the GOP is the pig, but before i digress.
Im voting for an American who questions America not the one who didnt. He certainly is not John McCain!
Lest we forget where this country came from, then let us question Vietnam again. John McCain wasnt a hero then so why is he one now? It was a pointless war then so why isnt it now?
The American’s who sought answers about this pointless war then are no less patriotic today as they were then. So why didnt John McCain buck the McCain family trend in favor of his supposed literary passion? Why wasnt he suspicious of his government then as our forefathers intended by qualifying our right to bear arms?
The majority of Americans questioned our government’s actions over Vietnam so why didnt John McCain? Did John McCain fly over Vietnam so people could become community organizers? Did John McCain fly over Vietnam so people could pick the responsibility of a community themselves? Apparently not!
This country ought to sit down and seriously examine the John McCain record from the inception. Was his daddy ready to let him die there in the name of honor? My understanding is that the two men werent very close to begin with. How much of that “record” is a one-sided heroic tale and how much of it isnt. We all know that some sailors share some pretty big fish.
For those who say this isn’t an issue: Yes, sexism is an issue when a remark is put into the context of commonly using sexist ridicule instead of going into details of disagreement to destroy one’s “enemies”….
well i see the ole liberals are really upset over the “chosen one” being picked on. well i have never seen such a sorry case of whinning in all my life. the above posters calling gov. palin one of the worst words even used on my drill rig, shows the class of you people and the your willingness to sink even lower in my opinion. you really sicken me as much as im sure i sicken you. what if i said something “thank god for the sickle cell” in reference to the “chosen one obama” the comment in reference to gov palin has the same effect on me. anyway your boy ran a good race to bad that he showed his true colors and turned out to be exactly what i thought he was from the beginning ….just a spoiled egotist with nothing but a speach given 2 years ago. lol. a community organizer what a joke.
BUT SHE IS A PIG!
she’s a book banning, librarian firing PIG!
…and the lipstick doesn’t help her out one little bit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You selected a pig as your vice president..HAHAHAHAHA!
The only reason McCain chose Sarah Palin was to get the church vote. They were completely against McCain until he chose a supposedly christian woman.
Vote for an independent candidate. Stop voting for the lessor of two evils.
You, madam, obviously have no idea what you are talking about. In context, Obama was talking about McCain’s declaration that he is about change. To that, Obama replied that McCain was putting lipstick on a pig. So how on Earth was he calling Palin a pig? Just because Palin used the word lipstick in an earlier speech? John McCain has said the phrase two different times, one to describe Hillary Clinton’s health care plan – was he too, then, calling Mrs. Clinton a pig? Of course not, and neither was Obama. I hope that, with a a seven year war and a five year war, a mortgage crisis, and a tanking federal government that McCain will apologize quickly for ridiculous accusations and spend a little more time on these pressing matters.
And to the author, stop spreading lies and deception!!
John Edwards said it too?
Funny on how you picked up on that but failed to mention that Carl Rove also said it as has John McCain more than once (Once when referring to Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan, and once when referring to John Kerry). I’ve seen the video and the context was explicit, only a moron or a liar would say that Obama wasn’t talking about John McCain’s attempt to differentiate himself from Bush-style politics.
Take the L out of Palin and all you’re left with is PAIN.
Fred says:
“BUT SHE IS A PIG!
she’s a book banning, librarian firing PIG!
…and the lipstick doesn’t help her out one little bit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You selected a pig as your vice president..HAHAHAHAHA!”
Except those are lies. She never fired a librarian and never banned a book. As for the rest, that particular brand of verbal feces doesn’t impress anybody.
Other things Palin didn’t do that the Democratic Party wants you to believe she did: She did not join the Alaskan Independence Party and she did not cut funding for special needs education.
Additionally, it is sexist to suddenly demand to know why a mother of five isn’t concerned with caring for her family versus pursuing a political career as the Vice President. I’m unsurprised that this line comes from the Democrats.
Go check this out if you’re actually interested in reading rather than preaching: http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986
Ugh. As a female I feel violated by this post. I guess it’s OK when McCain says it, but not when Obama does. Good thing I vote on issues, and I don’t like any of Palin’s stances.
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My god…u jr associate asst. journalists are killing me….
Mrs. Palin is an inspiration for working women everywhere. Compare her to the radical man-hating feminists. No comparison. Compare her to the shrill Hillary Clinton. The Mrs., it takes a village,(stealing from taxpayers to pay for other peoples laziness) Clinton. No thanks, says Mrs. Palin, I’ll go hunt and get my food. I’ll do it, because I can. Have women forgotten that Helen Reddy song? My lord, Reddy must have had a premonition called Sarah Palin.
It doesn’t matter who becomes president things are not going to get better here or anywhere else. It is written
Neither little human candidates will stop the coming Helghan attack.
Your ISA thinks they are defending the human populus but they are prolonging your suffering. You will all be destroyed.
Us Helghast are a strong and proud people who will stop at nothing to eliminate any threat to our well being.
Remember what we did to Vekta City. Your American capitol is next.
ALL HAIL EMPEROR VISARI!
We don’t need to get back to the issues, because this IS an issue. And the issue is that McCain has shifted from honorable to a liar. He knows that this is BS. Just watch Hardball for a list of how many republicans have used exactly the same phrase recently. McCain’s campaign manager wrote a book with the same name as the phrase … the book talks about political spin, etc. It is a common political phrase, and for McCain to suggest otherwise is the opposite of straight talk. Six months ago I was singing the man’s praises because of his character. Today, he is just another lying, slimey politician. A Bush clone. The last thing we need in the White House.
Oh my gosh! Have we nothing better to worry (or talk) about? Let’s pray for the 10-14-08 ship to come and help us all on earth…..we sure need it.
LOL! So much for Mr. Above-It-All.
His hordes of adoring minions might idealize him as the second coming of Morgan Freeman, but he can’t really hide is innner “community organizer.”
Ken
http://www.LaserGuidedLoogie.com
I suggest everyone read the entire darn transcript of this thing. Summon up some reading comprehension and get over it!
Give me a break. This is all I’ve heard today. If this is a sexist remark, why has MCcain used the exact words? He was even talking about Hillary when he said it but no jumping on him. If Palin is only going to attack when she speaks and NEVER take questions, why should she or any of you think she is off limits anyway? This is all we have seen for 8 years. I have had enough, I would vote for a turnip if that was the only choice I had other than the Republicans. Are you better off now than you were in 2000? Is the Country? Is the economy? Is health care? Are there more jobs? Is education better? Is crime down? If you can answer yes to those you need to find out who is drugging you.
Here’s a view from the outside.
The US Govt had a surplus of $237 billion in 2000 and it is now in deficit to the tune of $482 billion. The US current account deficit for 2000 was $435.4 billion, or 4.4% of US GDP. Now it’s $3.7 trillion or 30% of US GDP.
And McCain/Palin are going to offer US citizens something new? Like what, an invasion of Iran and war with Russia? Like the man said, “you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig”.
That’s OK folks, just enjoy your little fantasy about the new girl while the rest of the world lines you up in their sights. Empire US is about to hit the S-bend. Obama was a glimmer of hope but you just can’t let go of your provincial prejudices. Huff and puff all you like but you are goin’ DOWN.
Now where are the animal activists getting upset at the slandering of the poor old pig? Pro-Animal-Testers put lipstick on pigs, and Jim Henson too I suppose.
How dare a human compare another human to the noble pig. Pigs don’t invent weapons and go out to war. The frollick and roll around in the mud. If they’re like me they look real purdy and fall in love with frogs.
I am offended that Obama slighted pigs with his metaphor and I am also offended that the frozen vegetable guy took it as an insult.
Calling Palin a pig in lipstick is an insult to pigs everywhere. She also compared pigs with hockey moms! Eeek
This blog piece is simply another piece of hypocritical garbage. As has been shown on various media outlets, McCain said the very same thing four times within the last year, towards both Hillary Clinton and Obama. That the Republican ticket cannot offer anything but lies, smears and phony outrage demonstrates the bankruptcy of their position.
McCain and Palin are a couple of loons, unable to offer an affirmative case for themselves.
As usual, Nancy – you “hit the nail on the head”. Great blog, please keep it up. You’ve got the shrill liberals on the run – just like McCain and Palin have.
If Obama needs to apologize to palin then John McCain needs to apologize to Hillary Clinton for using the exact same phrase about her policy and Tory Clark needs to apologize to every woman in America wears lipstick.
Palin is who started with the lipstick talk, besides that this is a free country of free speech. What’s the big deal about Obama’s comment on the lipstick and a pig? He is actually right on the idea (I guess that only people more mentally wide get the real message). Other than that, you can’t trust a woman who kills for sport and is proud of it…pro-life??? Hmmmm….can anyone explain?
Yeah guys, go ahead and make the same mistake twice that took this once great country to the merge of the abyss. Vote on MCain for your next president, another four more years of Bush ideology, then come out and cry. Then cry out loud saying that you wished you knew better. Hahaha, go for it, the great dark angels of Apocalypse are waiting for the move so that they can fulfill their destiny. The first sign of the Doomsday will be lipstick on pigs and cookie monsters (watch your cookie jars kids!) hiding in little dark corners around town searching for unattended cookies. Yek Yek Yek.
Actually another name around here for pit bulls, is Pig dogs.
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Down here means the Southern Hemisphere. I am NOT an American, thank God!
kent meadows on September 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm, said in reference to the LIPSTICK comment the following: “what if i said something ‘thank god for the sickle cell’ in reference to the ‘chosen one obama’ the comment in reference to gov palin has the same effect on me.”
Kent, your thought processes tell a lot about you. You please keep voting for the Bush’s, Cheney’s, McCain’s, Palin’s; the likes of you make for a good fit for their methods and policies, and as a Progresive I NEVER want to on the same side as you in ANYTHING. Thank for showing YOUR TRUE COLORS.
**radar’s funny!!** GREAT article!!
Seriously, the “PIG” himself loving his blowjobs from gay men and loving his blow, calling the kettle “black!” LMAO!!! how ingenious! Obama is where he is because of his high-powered “MALE” sexual partners and NO OTHER REASON. AS IF every female in this country has never met a pig in a tie???!! LMAO
Yea, the blow job-lovin obama is gonna be our next prez – sure he is!
Of course, he called Palin, or McCain, a “pig” you have to “BE” a pig, or certainly “THINK” like one in order to recognize it in someone else!!!! LMAO!! Idiots!
All nonsense, as everyone keeps “pretending” obama is different, or better, than McCain! HOGWASH…..
THEY BOTH want more war, only with different countries!
GOD FORBID YOU SHOULD VOTE INTELLIGENTLY AND VOTE GREEN PARTY, LIBERTARIAN, OR INDEPENDENT!!!
NO. YOU’re going to toss your vote to ONLY 1 OF either of these losers and “pretend” you don’t have any other choice – making you an idiot!!!!
thereby you hope for a better lifeboat when this ship named “AMERICA” crashes, burns and sinks. But, you’ll see….. you’ll all be lucky if you’re able to find driftwood, never mind getting a lifeboat!
And there you have it, the racism comes out. One can feel the hate comming off of the comments some of you post! And most of you in the name of your religion you slander,lie and name call a man based on his color. It is true, you will not vote on issues, you will not because you are lazy and stubborn and do not think for yourselves, you allow yourselves to make decisions based on HATE not LOVE and you hide behind your belief that you are somehow christian.
if you put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig, how about, if you put a monkey suit on a monkey, its still a monkey.
Nancy, get your facts straight for a change. Obama will do more for women’s rights than any Republican in the last fifty years ever did. Mccain/Palin will try to reinstall everything the religious conservatives want. That includes the pro-life agenda, putting god back in public schools, and creation nonsense into classrooms. And if you had listened to the whole talk, you would have noticed that Obama was referring to Mccain, not to Palin.
To OMG….
So what if Obama has islamic ties ????
Does this mean he’s gonna fly the next “ghost” plane into the pentagon??? come on, get a life.. stop being so culturaly blind and vote with your heads for a change…the world world can see what a mess the republicans created over the past eight years… it will take a miracle for anyone to fix up their mess. whether you like him or not, you only have one option to try and repair the damage done by bush and his cohort neocons….
To JIMH815: That’s right, Obama will allow women to choose the type of veil- black with eyelits or black mesh.
Seriously, most of you commenting aren’t even registered. None of you even have a clue. Its as if you just heard about the election yesterday or are getting paid by Obama. I bet over 90% of you are from India or Pakistan and are writing these comments during your breaks from selling Americans direct tv installation or collecting for JC Penney’s!!
Fuck it!!! This entire election is a black pig with lipstick on it and it’s greased and we’re running after it like idiots.
Geeezzzz people, where is the civilization here? All because of lipstick and pigs, anyone needing a lipstick kiss on the…(well, use your imagination)? Vote on Obama or the pig or whoever, but pleeeaaase, do not vote Mcain, this is a guy from Australia from the great outbacks, I know better folks, you will just have another term of Bush politics, unless you like it, off course. I’m glad I’m here with the crocodiles, I feel much safer in here, besides that, Dude, no pigs in the area, not even wild pigs, the crocs ate them all. Come join me, let’s have a steak. Canguru, if ya don’t mind it!
you wouldn’t recognize sexism if it hit you in the face, nor understand a cliche that everyone in Washingotn has used, including your beloved war “hero”, who remains a prisoner of his own mind.
David Rockefeller (CFR founder), page 405 of his 2002 book Memoirs: “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” ISBN-13: 978-0812969733
Obama is here to grab the guns and further subdue the US under one world globalist control and nightmare.
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All major politicians and BOTH political parties are completely controlled by WALL STREET JEWS and the rabid ZIONIST ISRAELI NEOCON BLOCK! Wake up America. Your “choice” is rigged as always! Heads you lose, tails they win!!! Ron Paul was the closest thing you had to a wise and honest politician and the Hebrew media blackballed him plain and simple.
TALMUDunmasked.com – just in case you wanted to know what these people REALLY think about you “dirty Gentiles”
Judicial-Inc.BIZ
To OBAMA supporters:
Pleaase DONATE money to the OBAMA/BIDEN presidential election campaign!!
wisewoman
So if I said
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This is getting good! What about “If you put high heels on a macho-woman she’s still going to be a macho-woman”? Or…”If you call an idiot a smart guy he wii still be an idiot”? Getting good, any more of these stupid quotes, anyone?
Difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney? LIPSTICK!
My oh my so many paranoid answers, so little time to answer them….
The charges of sexism coming from the likes of John McCain are laughable!! This so-called maverick has voted against equal pay for equal work for women. He has also insulted the appearance of an adolescent girl (Chelsea Clinton) in the ’90’s because he disagreed with her parents’ politics. Also, please note the 4-letter word he called his own wife in public.
Any criticism of Palin–even when justified–seems to elicit this response from the McCain campaign. But if she aspires to the number 2 spot, she will have to take criticism just like the other 3–especially if she takes over in the event that something happens to McCain.
Sooner or later, through overuse and through misapplication, the word “sexism” will lose its relevance. Like a lot of others, I am increasingly turned off by its overuse. Sexism
is too serious a problem for it to be used frivolously. It is NOT sexist for the voters to want to know Palin’s political stances.
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