Slog - Comments on The Pig http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:16:17 -0800 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:02:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by walrus that's badass.

]]> walrus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137449 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:40:15 -0800 Comment by Buddy sure man sure

but for the real bounce he should have said " lipstick on a sow"

]]> Buddy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137456 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137456 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:43:41 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster Don't you mean "Don’t be surprised if we see a pig fly?"

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137459 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:44:24 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable If anyone will try to make a pig bounce, it will be Letterman--dropping it off a 5-story tower.

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137461 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:46:53 -0800 Comment by mistermix Chuck, your analysis is a perfect contrarian indicator. Obama really fucked up.

]]> mistermix http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137468 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137468 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:49:08 -0800 Comment by Andy James 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.

]]> Andy James http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137476 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:52:06 -0800 Comment by Hal If I were gay, I bang him.

]]> Hal http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137501 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137501 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:04:52 -0800 Comment by Anon What, is lipstick on a pig only okay when McCain says it about hillary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPYkNQlJMM

]]> Anon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137528 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137528 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:13:55 -0800 Comment by threnody 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.

]]> threnody http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137541 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:22:24 -0800 Comment by Maria Obama on Letterman can be seen here:

http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/964805.phtml

]]> Maria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137631 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:04:10 -0800 Comment by Seanford I am going to have an ulcer by November

]]> Seanford http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137729 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:51:06 -0800 Comment by UnCommonSense 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!

]]> UnCommonSense http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137765 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137765 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:10:46 -0800 Comment by Explorer I just said "fuck yeah" three times to my laptop.

]]> Explorer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137779 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137779 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:17:15 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon@home mccain:pig
palin:lipstick

any idiot can understand that. and that's the only undecided voters left.

]]> maxsolomon@home http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137782 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137782 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:18:43 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me

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.

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137832 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:37:37 -0800 Comment by w7ngman #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?

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137872 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137872 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:51:14 -0800 Comment by Mike in Olympia #16:

"Shook up" = Same old corrupt Republican shit.

]]> Mike in Olympia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137889 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137889 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:00:00 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me @16

Wow. With you everything has to end in a personal insult doesn't it?

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137903 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:05:44 -0800 Comment by w7ngman 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).

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137984 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1137984 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:33:02 -0800 Comment by Demolator This is pure Axelrod. Genius.

]]> Demolator http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138002 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138002 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:44:30 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138014 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:54:34 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me @19

No. You just puppet instead.

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138056 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138056 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:11:45 -0800 Comment by w7ngman I don't puppet. Interestingly enough, other people don't like you.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138195 2008 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:02:49 -0800 Comment by Larry 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."

]]> Larry http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138512 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138512 2008 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:25:26 -0800 Comment by Ida 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 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138522 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138522 2008 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:35:21 -0800 Comment by Greg 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.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138529 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138529 2008 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:42:15 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Larry@24: You know some really dumb women.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138537 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1138537 2008 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:46:37 -0800 Comment by Charm 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.

]]> Charm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1139059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_pig#c1139059 2008 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:02:22 -0800