2008 The Pig
posted by on September 10 at 18:16 PM
No, he has never put lipstick on a pig, Sen. Barack Obama told David Letterman in an appearance to be broadcast tonight on CBS’s “The Late Show with David Letterman.”“But I think it might be fun to try,” Obama said.
In defense of his critique Tuesday in Virginia of Sen. John McCain’s pitch that he’s a changemaker, Obama said, “It’s a common expression in at least Illinois. I don’t know about in NYC. I don’t know what you put lipstick on here.”
“Keep in mind that technically, had I meant it this way, she would be the lipstick,” Obama added, referring to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. “The policies of John McCain would be the pig.”
The pig comment might just be one of Obama’s most brilliant maneuvers. For several reasons: one, it put him back on the front page; two, it shows that he has the devious side that Kerry totally lacked; and three, in response to McCain’s charge of sexism, it gave Obama’s campaign a way to negate the expression race card—“gender card.” Don’t be surprised if we see a pig bounce.
that's badass.
sure man sure
but for the real bounce he should have said " lipstick on a sow"
Don't you mean "Don’t be surprised if we see a pig fly?"
If anyone will try to make a pig bounce, it will be Letterman--dropping it off a 5-story tower.
Chuck, your analysis is a perfect contrarian indicator. Obama really fucked up.
If that really is exactly how Obama said it, that's ... jesus, that's tremendous. She's the lipstick, McCain's policies are the pig. I've been a fan of Obama as a person for quite a while, but it's one of the few times I've heard Obama the campaigner put something so rightly I wanted to cheer.
He needs to bring that guy -- a mix of Bill Cosby and law professor and James Carville -- to the debates.
If I were gay, I bang him.
What, is lipstick on a pig only okay when McCain says it about hillary?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPYkNQlJMM
This is the best news I've heard all day. Genius response. We're going to be fine. He's not Dukakis, he's not Kerry. Now I just have to worry about my 4 WaMu accounts.
Obama on Letterman can be seen here:
http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/964805.phtml
I am going to have an ulcer by November
This campaign is the most hilarious drama ever! Lipstick on the pig, in my opinion. I also liked his response to the neocon "outrage".
"Enough!"
Now I wanna see some bare knuckle brawlin' on the senate floor!
I just said "fuck yeah" three times to my laptop.
mccain:pig
palin:lipstick
any idiot can understand that. and that's the only undecided voters left.
Okay...
Yesterday: pig = McCain's policy; lipstick = Change
Today: Pig = McCain; lipstick = Palin
Tomorrow: ?
I think Obama is rattled by Palin.
It's not good sign when your Presidential Candidate is rattled by the other guys Vice Presidential Candidate.
#15, Palin personifies the change in McCain's campaign. She supposedly shook up Alaska and is supposedly going helping bring change to Washington. Do you need everything beyond 6th grade literature topics explained to you?
#16:
"Shook up" = Same old corrupt Republican shit.
@16
Wow. With you everything has to end in a personal insult doesn't it?
Not an insult, just a question.
Regardless, I'm not going to feel bad about throwing a lighthearded "insult" at someone who tells people "fuck you" for no real reason and enjoys "poking sticks at people" for fun (ie trolling).
This is pure Axelrod. Genius.
As a former member of 4H, I think this reaches middle america and wakes us up to the reality that McCain is putting lipstick on the massive debts he's driving the American Middle Class into, trying to convince us they're not pigs.
And yet ... they "oink"!
They're still pigs.
@19
No. You just puppet instead.
I don't puppet. Interestingly enough, other people don't like you.
Obama will never recover.
Every woman I know feels it is a sexist insult - of course - all the so cool political savant men can now say, "who gives a shit what they think."
You- gotta- be
Sorry to tell you that this site is classic group think, cloaked in very cool us, locus Seattle, interesting, but folks here are totally invested in Obama and don't want any comments to side track their dreascape.
That is OK, just have to know this sow ear will not become silk, and tons of lipstick bought at Goowill only works late at night, in the alley.
Ida, could you define groupthink for us? That word seems so popular with trolls and contrarians, lately, I'd like to see if you actually know what it means.
Larry@24: You know some really dumb women.
Larry @24 - I'd like to introduce myself to you, just so that you can't say that anymore. No woman I know thinks that comment was sexist. IF, and we know that it wasn't, but even IF it were directed at Palin, it still wouldn't be sexist, just mean. It was just an experession, which the Republicans are now turning into a smokescreen to blind you from the very good point he was making.
And as far as I'm concerned, she is a pig in lipstick. She needs to clean up her own house before she moves into the White House. Seems her clan is lacking in family values.
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