The audience's reaction... they love that phrase. Not because its about Palin, just because they're just that into metaphors and the One's cleverness. They always get really excited and energetic when that phrase is used. At least, I think so, I'll have to google that to find out and make sure. But, hey, I'm sure they do. These are the intellegentsia, right?
Are you all joking?!?! He wasn't talking about Palin you bone brains, he was talking about McCains half-baked policy ideas. Uh, did ya know that McCain used the exact SAME phrase numerous times? It's on tape people. Get a grip and stop acting like mindless goofballs!!!
Oh, you think? Was he still talking about Hillary? Or are you saying that 40 million people listened to Palin's acceptance, but he somehow missed the one impromptu crowd killer reference to lipstick? C'mon, ye disciples of Obama can't run around praising him for his unearthly brilliance in one breath and then excuse this gross negligence in the next! Actually, word has it that his manager had put "stinky fish in paper" on the queue cards, but he went off script! LOL! Obama, you can do no wrong!
No question, McCain used the same phrase. Must be a Washington "insider" phrase like the tight "thumbs up" thing that Nixon started. If I used it where I live, referring to another person, it would come off as derisive no matter what. McCain at least said it combined with a preemptive apology (Bush Doctrine in practice?). But without much stretching, Obama meant McCain as the pig and Palin as the lipstick. It was a brilliant epithet and got a cheer from the crowd. They knew to what he referred.
Are you all stupid?McCain said the same thing about Hillary Clinton and that´s no problem? It´s just a byword that´s all. No reason to let yourselves be influenced by Fox News and friends
Yes, but listen to the tape, McCain apologized simultaneously as he made the statement, "I hate to say this, but her HEALTH CARE PLAN IS like a pig with lipstick". Also, he properly stated that it was the healthcare planet to which he referred as a pig. Yet another liberal false parallel.
First of all, I´m not liberal. Second, if you claim McCain was talking about Health Care, you have to accept that Obama was talking about McCain´s plans to mask his dowdy plans as change
There's no dispute on what the parties said. However, Obama made his lipstick comment only a few days after Palin's and you have to put it in that context. Obama was talking about change and it is easily inferred by other campaign comments that he was arguing that McCain's agent of change is Palin. That would make McCain the pig and Palin the lipstick. Some linguistically challenged GOP have argued Palin was called a pig, but proper semantical analysis has her as the lipstick. Equally insulting.
I don't recall him calling American's stupid, but he made light of the fact we don't speak much French and was caught speaking ill of folks "clinging to their guns and Bibles". I don't think he holds Americans in very high esteem, and I think it's starting to sink in. One time would be a slip, but this is starting to form a pretty reliable pattern of contempt and elitism.
Let's not kick a guy when he's down. Just don't let him near a microphone unless he's had enough sleep. Ouch, commence the implosion of the Democratic ticket! Who knew what damage McCain's VP pick could wreak on the enemy?!
Wow, foot in mouth, or fatigue on the campaign trail causing suppressed resentment to surface? Not sure which, but this is one of the biggest political gaffs ever made! Is this what Obama really feels about women? We know how he secretly feels about people clinging to their guns and bibles! More condescension from Obama?
Before the lefties lash out, I have to ask what everyone would say if McCain used a euphemism like "pot calling the kettle black".
The audience's reaction... they love that phrase. Not because its about Palin, just because they're just that into metaphors and the One's cleverness. They always get really excited and energetic when that phrase is used. At least, I think so, I'll have to google that to find out and make sure. But, hey, I'm sure they do. These are the intellegentsia, right?
102936 1 year ago
@102936 "they're just that into metaphors and the One's cleverness"
Hey, you're the first comment in almost two years! I guess the buyers' remorse left the goons pretty silent.
seismedia 1 year ago
Are you all joking?!?! He wasn't talking about Palin you bone brains, he was talking about McCains half-baked policy ideas. Uh, did ya know that McCain used the exact SAME phrase numerous times? It's on tape people. Get a grip and stop acting like mindless goofballs!!!
TheCountryMouse 3 years ago
Oh, you think? Was he still talking about Hillary? Or are you saying that 40 million people listened to Palin's acceptance, but he somehow missed the one impromptu crowd killer reference to lipstick? C'mon, ye disciples of Obama can't run around praising him for his unearthly brilliance in one breath and then excuse this gross negligence in the next! Actually, word has it that his manager had put "stinky fish in paper" on the queue cards, but he went off script! LOL! Obama, you can do no wrong!
seismedia 3 years ago
. . .Just so nobody gets confused, I am siding with countrymouse.
Get real people, "lipstick on a pig." He meant nothing by it.
Think America, Think!
Obama '08
asotheshow 3 years ago
No question, McCain used the same phrase. Must be a Washington "insider" phrase like the tight "thumbs up" thing that Nixon started. If I used it where I live, referring to another person, it would come off as derisive no matter what. McCain at least said it combined with a preemptive apology (Bush Doctrine in practice?). But without much stretching, Obama meant McCain as the pig and Palin as the lipstick. It was a brilliant epithet and got a cheer from the crowd. They knew to what he referred.
seismedia 3 years ago
Are you all stupid?McCain said the same thing about Hillary Clinton and that´s no problem? It´s just a byword that´s all. No reason to let yourselves be influenced by Fox News and friends
giovanniziber 3 years ago
Yes, but listen to the tape, McCain apologized simultaneously as he made the statement, "I hate to say this, but her HEALTH CARE PLAN IS like a pig with lipstick". Also, he properly stated that it was the healthcare planet to which he referred as a pig. Yet another liberal false parallel.
seismedia 3 years ago
First of all, I´m not liberal. Second, if you claim McCain was talking about Health Care, you have to accept that Obama was talking about McCain´s plans to mask his dowdy plans as change
giovanniziber 3 years ago
There's no dispute on what the parties said. However, Obama made his lipstick comment only a few days after Palin's and you have to put it in that context. Obama was talking about change and it is easily inferred by other campaign comments that he was arguing that McCain's agent of change is Palin. That would make McCain the pig and Palin the lipstick. Some linguistically challenged GOP have argued Palin was called a pig, but proper semantical analysis has her as the lipstick. Equally insulting.
seismedia 3 years ago
Thais guy is nasty.
Yesterday he called Americans stupid
and today Governor Palin a PIG
no wonder..this guy's popularity isgoing downhill.
WonderfulSarah 3 years ago 2
I don't recall him calling American's stupid, but he made light of the fact we don't speak much French and was caught speaking ill of folks "clinging to their guns and Bibles". I don't think he holds Americans in very high esteem, and I think it's starting to sink in. One time would be a slip, but this is starting to form a pretty reliable pattern of contempt and elitism.
seismedia 3 years ago
Socially tone-deaf Obama has just alienated more voters.
You can give a dipstick a Harvard law degree, but he's still a dipstick.
eksdem 3 years ago
Let's not kick a guy when he's down. Just don't let him near a microphone unless he's had enough sleep. Ouch, commence the implosion of the Democratic ticket! Who knew what damage McCain's VP pick could wreak on the enemy?!
seismedia 3 years ago
Wow, foot in mouth, or fatigue on the campaign trail causing suppressed resentment to surface? Not sure which, but this is one of the biggest political gaffs ever made! Is this what Obama really feels about women? We know how he secretly feels about people clinging to their guns and bibles! More condescension from Obama?
Before the lefties lash out, I have to ask what everyone would say if McCain used a euphemism like "pot calling the kettle black".
seismedia 3 years ago