No wonder she was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it…
Oh, and I WISH, the Democrats had a Presidential candidate with enough balls to call women in the other party nasty names.
You know, like how theirs called Chelsea Clinton ugly and said Janet Reno was her dad and I don’t mean metaphorically, I mean, literally.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
So…you don’t think the pig comment was about her? Seriously? Like, really?
September 10th, 2008 at 11:29 am
OMG, it is soooo obvious!!! And when he referred to a “fish,” he was actually referring to Cindy McCain.
However, when Jon McCain called his wife a cunt, he was talking about John Kerry’s fiscal policies.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Just as soon as you get McCain saying it on video it’ll be like, omg, almost the same as Obama’s comment.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
You must be the only ex Hillary supporter that still likes Obama after the pig remark.
I read the comments on the Hillary Forum after Obama called Palin a pig and a stinking fish. They are beside themselves with anger. Pages and pages and pages of anger. The incident where Obama gave Hillary the finger is brought up time after time.
Now with Obama not apologizing, he has lost the women vote and the election.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
You know, when I hear a statement like that coming from a woman, or a supporter of a woman candidate, with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, I think you know that doesn’t do us any good – women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Of course he wasn’t talking about Palin. But if he does apologize I hope it’s something like “I’m sorry Sarah Palin’s supporters and senator mccain think Palin is a pig with lipstick.”
September 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Rick, yes, Hillary had perceived sexism and Palin has actual sexism directed at her (no one ever said, ever, that Hillary should’ve stayed home and raised Chelsea, something people are ever so casually saying about Palin) so that’s the difference. But I don’t see Palin bitching about it anyway. She doesn’t bitch. She shoots.
Dawnie, here’s the thing. “Lipstick on a pig” is certainly a phrase that is commonly used and doesn’t normally refer to the other person as a pig. However, Palin has popularized the hockey mom v. pitpull=lipstick line to such an extent there’s no way Obama was unaware of it or that this comment was incidental. It was a blunder, fer sure, but I’m fairly certain it was a planned blunder.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
OMG! It is on video and of course it was the same, Karol. Nobody made a big deal out of it when McCain said it because he didn’t mean anything by it. Or so I thought.
Are you willing to concede that McCain called Hillary a pig?
September 10th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Spin! SPIN! SPIN!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
“You must be the only ex Hillary supporter that still likes Obama after the pig remark.”
…nope.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
The worst insult that a Muslim can call another person is a pig or anything to do with a pig. It is the reason it would be the insult of choice for Obama.
I am going to forgive Obama because I feel a wave of multiculturalism coming over me.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Ugarles, I was referring to a video of McCain calling his wife a cunt.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
LOL, it doesn’t matter what he (Bobama) meant. When you’re a candidate of one of the major parties for President of the United States, you should be, well, presidential. You know, like that McCain guy. Alas, B. Hussein has been unmasked as the not ready for prime time candidate that he is. Had he a clue in the world, he wouldn’t be talking about the bottom of the other party’s ticket, and he most assuredly was.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Did he ever deny it, Karol? I’m pretty sure that he did not.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Did he ever deny it, Karol? I’m pretty sure that he did not.
So, OBVIOUSLY, that makes it true. John Edwards denied having an affair while his wife was dying of cancer. Bill Clinton denied doing an intern. If I were McCain and I had never said it I wouldn’t deny it either. Denial turns it into a story instead of just fuel for idiotic blog commenters ala Rick.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
While Karol works herself up into a froth, I can’t help but wonder — why would anyone think that Obama intended to reference Palin? What did he have to gain?
He obviously knows that the McCain campaign is going to bend over backwards to find a sexist component to anything he says about Palin, so why would he intentionally step into that? What could Obama possibly have thought he might gain from calling Palin a “pig”?
The only remotely logical explanation would have to be that Obama cleverly dropped the phrase (along with the “decoy” fish phrase) at a routine campaign stop precisely so that the McCain campaign would overreact, causing Palin to be associated with tarted-up swine in the minds of everyone in America for two days straight.
On a related note, is casting McCain as the (very) white knight riding in to rescue his damsel in distress really the way to establish Palin’s feminist cred?
September 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I’m sorry, you must have us confused with doofy liberals. Establish Palin’s feminist cred? Are you serious?? Poll after poll shows that women completely reject the feminist label and all the bullshit that goes with it. Why would the McCain campaign want to turn her into a feminist? She’s perfect as is.
Ok, fine, Obama didn’t mean to reference Palin. Either he meant it or he’s just dumb. Fine, I agree, he’s the latter, you win.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I think the smart people think it was funny in a way only smart people will get.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I think people on the left like to sit in a circle and tell each other how smart they all are. Why is it, again, Obama won’t release his transcripts?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
The truth is, whatever was meant, Obama should embrace the lipstick-on-a-pig furor.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
“Ok, fine, Obama didn’t mean to reference Palin.”
Agreed, but whoever told Obama he should use that phrase in response to Palin is a complete moron. Unbelievably BAD political advice. I suspect someone on Team Obama is about to get fired.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Nah, they just don’t get it. That’s why he did it in the first place. The difference between the primary process, and the general is several orders of magnitude.
It was easy to snatch Hitlery’s purse in the early primaries when she was strolling to the nomination, but when she chased him down and started to kick the shit out of him… well he still got the purse, but everyone in the neighborhood knew who the punk was. It was a close run thing.
Now unless B. Hussein can shit 100,000,000 black voters, and get every college student to set down their bong long enough to find their polling place, the math just doesn’t work. Like I said before, expect the trend to strenghthen in the next month, and McCain’s lead to grow.
Bottom line, B. Hussein and the people around him aren’t rocket scientists, or even statisticians, that’s why they became lawyers. Math is hard, and they just aint that bright.
September 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Good point Dawn - I keep forgetting about Chelsea Clinton’s radiating beauty.
Arf.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
“…why would anyone think that Obama intended to reference Palin? What did he have to gain?”
The only remotely logical explanation would have to be that Obama cleverly dropped the phrase beacause he’s so much friggin’ dang smarter than everybody else, Rick-ster!
September 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Oh yeah, Charles, the answer is definitely for Obama to try to sound “folksy”. As Camille Paglia writes:
“I have become increasingly uneasy about Obama’s efforts to sound folksy and approachable by reflexively using inner-city African-American tones and locutions, which as a native of Hawaii he acquired relatively late in his development and which are painfully wrong for the target audience of rural working-class whites that he has been trying to reach. Obama on the road and even in major interviews has been droppin’ his g’s like there’s no tomorrow.”
Heh heh. Good luck with that.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Oh, and also this from my Democrat friend Peter Feld:
“Just to show that advice like mine is falling on deaf ears at Obama HQ, the campaign is convening a conference call in about three minutes to announce the formation of “Alaska Mythbusters.” For unknown reasons they are determined to make this race Obama vs. Palin. The 1996 campaign was about “building a bridge to the 21st century”; Obama’s people really want to take this one down the bridge to nowhere.”
Hahhahaha. I love this election.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I’m tellin’ ya! And the 50-state campaign? No longer circling the bowl. Now comfortably resting in a settling pond at the sewage treatment plant. How stupid do you have to be to not see THAT coming!
However, on the upside, McCain has a cabinet level position open for Bobama after the election, lol.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I don’t want folksy. I want him to be on the attack. Dropping his g’s sounds iffy to me as well. I didn’t think he sounded particularly good the first time he said “lipstick on a pig” but he should run with it now. But he won’t.
Anyway, you’ll have to excuse me. Apparently we need to prepare for war with Russia.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Wow. This is a comments clusterfuck!
September 14th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Evidently Dawn is on a tour of the swing states registering to vote precinct by precinct.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Fourth one down on this week’s Post Secret:
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