Tom Tomorrow:
Remember when we had Ross Perot on TV every day saying "Ya cain't honrswoggle a chicken with tea kettle if ya ain't ready to dirty up yer britches!" and "As we say in Texas, for every chitlen there's a dab of pig swill that ain't gonna churn itself!"
That shit could mean anything. Even Ross didn't know what he was saying. So the McCain campaign could have projected any meaning they wanted, and who could argue?
i think the assumption is that obama made the lipstick reference knowing the republicans would take it completely out of context as a sexist remark and blow up a non-story into front page news. this gave obama the opportunity to clarify his remarks on a much larger scale, linking mccain's economic policy to bush's.
if you believe that was an intentional strategy, then you can call it brilliant. but if you think it was just a poor choice of words, then it's just a poor choice of words that has arguably turned in his favor.
What's funniest about it is that the remark drew McCain to unleash their entire sad bag of greasy tricks in mid September. It lanced a boil that might have caused some discomfort in, say, late October.
Perhaps it's not "sexist", but you can't deny it's certainly "swinist".
And for the record, I would like to respectfully point out, I WAS THE FIRST to make the "lipstick/pig" connection:
(http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/palin_read_to_lead - see comment #22)
a full SIX DAYS before Obama's speech.
Although Senator Obama does me a disservice by not providing proper attribution, I'll let it pass, because I'm just that kind of guy.
And no, the McCain campaign cannot cite my comment as evidence of plagiarism on Obama's part, either.
Fucking republicans. I think it's likely that Obama intentionally riffed on Palin's "lipstick" line.
But how does that mean he "called her a pig"?
On the other hand, it seems that any time Obama does something that I think is clever and might describe using the word "riff" he is probably not acquiring new voters.
@1 - Thanks for posting that. Tom Tomorrow, as usual, has hit the nail squarely on the head.
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