Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig

[Joanne98]

The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today:

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."
Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?

The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don't think he is stupid. And the only way one can conclude that Obama meant to refer to Gov. Sarah Palin as a pig is to have concluded that Obama is as dumb as a doornail.

Obama is fond of this particular phrase. To wit, in 2007:

'I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment,' Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday in a telephone interview. 'George Bush has given a mission to General Petraeus, and he has done his best to try to figure out how to put lipstick on a pig.

And so is John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton....

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obama_did_not_call_sarah_palin.php

[kwenu]

1. He didn't. But I wouldn't give a damn if he had anyway.

[rug]

2. Why not?

[kwenu]

5. Because the Republicans smear you, don't play by the rules, and laugh at you when you do.

And they win doing that.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Stop even trying to defend it

Who gives a fuck.

Just say "they're crazy. and they need sense of humor."

This is our attack, not theirs.

[pdxmom]

4. This article needs to be email blasted out to everyone in your address

book. The right and those trying to find sexism in every word that is uttered are already smearing Obama on this. Ambinder's article is the most clear and comprehensive of all of the write ups I've seen about this. Time to strike before the right twists and misquotes. I've already sent it out to everyone in my address book.

[msallied]

6. The fact that you are even trying to defend it speaks volumes

about the lack of Democratic spine in some cases. Jesus. We want him to come out swinging and get all defensive when he does? Come off it!

[x-g.o.p.er]

7. If Obama isn't out front on this IMMEDIATELY

he gets boxed by the MSM as saying he was referring to Palin. I know he didn't, or wasn't, referring to her, he was referring to McCain being the agent of change.

But perception is reality, and the perception will be, in about 3 hours, that Obama called her a pig.

It's already the headline on Drudge, and it's being promoted that way. It will get picked up by other outlets, who will run with it without doing ANY research, and then the talk radio gang will have a field day tomorrow.

This is going to be a political shitstorm.

God damn it.

[stuntcat]

11. oh no

:( :scared: well Pig does roll easily off the tongue lately..
He just better be very careful from now on.

[Demeter]

8. He Didn't Need To--It's Obvious to the Casual Observer

[Not a robought]

9. Obama absolutely did not call her a pig

but that doesn't mean she isn't one.

[stuntcat]

10. that was me that did that

:hi: :blush:

[zulchzulu]

12. Comparing Palin to a pig is completely insulting to pigs

She is scum. Pigs are OK.

[WindRiverMan]

13. Hell, I wish he would just come out and call her a pig

then call McCain a servile, horny, old man who will do or say anything to win.



P.S. Sarah, sorry dear, but you are pig. If the shoe fits Cinderlla....

[Bubbha Jo]

14. She's the one who called herself an animal with lipstick on.....

not Obama. They were both good uses of symbolism to get a point across about a party that's brought us the last eight horrid years.

This is a big todo about nothing.

[Carni]

15. She IS a pig!

I don't care if he called her that even though he probably didn't! lol