You know what McCain/Palin are MOST upset about concerning "lipstick on pig"?

[scheming daemons]

Palin can no longer use the "Pitbull-Lipstick" joke in her stump speech.

It will bomb miserably now.

[Honeycombe8]

1. What planet did you say you're from? Of course, she's going to cont. her ONLY speech.

Now, the Repub writers will just add a reference about Obama's slur against her.

Rovian politics.

[scheming daemons]

2. What Obama did YESTERDAY was Rovian politics.... played brilliantly too

[Honeycombe8]

4. No, it wasn't. He used a common expression. Any time PALIN is in the news, Dems lose.nt

[TornadoTN]

6. Agreed- it is a common expression and connected well with the people at the rally

It's a non-issue, especially since it was in context - Obama was speaking about McCain's policies, not the two as people.

[Marsala]

8. Obama is too smart to not realize the connection between the two jokes

I think this was planned.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Of course it was planned...it drew the mccain camp into a trap

They look like fools. They're unhinged.

[scheming daemons]

10. EXACTLY!

The only way to cut through the media clutter that was all-Palin-fawning-all-the-time was with a big splash like this.


Brilliant.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Don't know what you're looking at, but I'm looking at a trap set for Obama. He's talkin'bout Palin,

not the economy or healthcare or the wars.

It's a COMMON expression that is used ALL THE TIME. Palin doesn't own the word "lipstick."

McCain used the term at least twice referring to Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan. Cheney used the term referring to something about Kerry. Lots of other politicians have used the term in recent years.

That's all it was, pure & simple. No way Obama wanted to be talking about sexist charges instead of healthcare.

[ContinentalOp]

14. GOOD! He should be talking about Palin.

People who care about healthcare, the economy or the war are not undecided still at this point. We need to tear down this cult of personality they've built around Palin. It's the only thing their campaign has going for it. We need to show them to be thin skinned, whiney, wimpy, hypocritical, and petty. If we just ignore Palin, they get to craft an image of the average jane hockey mom and it stands unchallenged.

[Honeycombe8]

18. No way the future PRESIDENT should be elevating status of opposing 2nd banana by talking 'bout her.

Any time a future President is discussing the little guy on the other side, he LOSES.

PRESIDENTS don't talk to or about SECOND BANANAS. That only elevates the status of the second banana, and decreases the status of the PRESIDENT.

He shouldn't even say her name, if possible. She SHOULD be totally unimportant to him, unless asked directly a specific question about the opponent's VP candidate. Then he should sluff it off, say something complimentary, and move on.

Roll in the mud with pigs, you become a pig yourself. With or without lipstick.

It's Biden's job to roll in the mud with Palin. Second banana vs. second banana. McCain is the presidential opponent. Obama should keep his eye on the ball.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. The McCain camp look like fools

Now CNN is even showing McCain's brutal Chelsea Clinton jokes.

If you can't see this as a clear Obama victory, you are weirdly hooked on losing. Or something. This is a clear clockcleaning of the Mccain smear machine. They got their asses handed to them.

Oh, by the way, whenever they show McCain using the 'lipstick on a pig' line, they have to show him dissing Hillary's health care plan, and all his surrogates have to explain that no, he was really dissing the PLAN, not Hillary! You think perfection like that happens by accident? I think you just like losing so much that you can't even see when we win something. Or something.

[samuraiguppy]

17. I think so too n/t

[annabanana]

3. Wow... Her one and only speech is getting a little thin. .

That line is out..
The bridge to nowhere line is getting thin...
the earmarks line is very vulnerable..

Silent Sarah will just have to come out and wave like the Pageant Contestant she is.

[marylanddem]

5. Yup.

[ogneopasno]

7. No, it's the fact that McCain used the phrase against Hillary Clinton.

nt.

[TexasObserver]

11. YES! This is how it's done.

You booger up their talking points and make them punchlines.

[Liberal Dose]

12. You are so right!!

:rofl:

[secondwind]

15. It was totally brilliant of Obama........when we hear the word "Lipstick"

from now on, will we think of Palin's acceptance speech, or Obama's speech?

Obama's of course!