Time for a good old fashioned GOP hissyfit

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Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Obama Puts Different Twist on Lipstick

What’s the difference between a more hopeful kind of politics and old-fashioned attacks? Lipstick.

Barack Obama says the John McCain-Sarah Palin policies don’t represent change, they’re “just calling the same thing something different.”

“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Obama said during a town-hall style event here Tuesday night.

The comment played on Republican vice presidential candidate Palin’s joke during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom was lipstick.

Obama has been hammering the Republican ticket for adopting his change mantra. “This is a guy who supported George Bush 90% of the time. What does that say about somebody’s judgment that they agree with George Bush 90% of the time?” he said.

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’ it’s still going to stink,” Obama said. “After eight years, we’ve had enough of the same old thing. It’s time to bring about real change to Washington and that’s the choice you’ve got in this election.”
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What say you, geniuses?
 
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Obama is a Socialist is what I say.

I don't vote for Socialists. It's really that simple.
 
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I say that Obama is wishing he had pulled out a big tube of lipstick and put Hillary on the ticket.
 
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GAVol said:
I say that Obama is wishing he had pulled out a big tube of lipstick and put Hillary on the ticket.
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He had a tough choice. Either get a vp that he could easily overshadow and that wouldn't take away from his message and appeal... or bring in BOTH Clintons by nominating Hillary (Bill will be in the background and the foreground).
 
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Obama needs to be careful with his analogies. The lipstick on a pig comment could get him in trouble with the female voters out there. It could be a rallying point for the female undecideds.
 
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KB5252 said:
Obama needs to be careful with his analogies. The lipstick on a pig comment could get him in trouble with the female voters out there. It could be a rallying point for the female undecideds.
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He's frustrated. I think that's beginning to show....he's no longer as cool and confident as he was before the RNC.
 
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KB5252 said:
Obama needs to be careful with his analogies. The lipstick on a pig comment could get him in trouble with the female voters out there. It could be a rallying point for the female undecideds.
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I think the whole flap over the lipstick comment is completely manufactured. Everybody knows exactly what Obama meant and there was nothing sinister about it.

On the other hand, Biden taking a shot at Palen's advocacy for special needs children by saying she doesn't support stem cell research is just plain stupid. It may be factually correct, but I don't think you need to be a master strategist to realize it's a bad idea to attack the lady with a Down's Syndrome child over special needs advocacy. :wacko:
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
He's frustrated. I think that's beginning to show....he's no longer as cool and confident as he was before the RNC.
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he's finally getting asked some tough questions and is having to speak in more detail on how he is going to lead. he's starting to contradict himself and that's causing some problems even if the mainstream media is giving him a pass on most of it
 
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If Obama meant "lipstick on a pig" as an insult to Palin, then he's too crude to be President.

If he didn't see the inevitable association with Palin's lipstick comment, then he's too dumb to be President.


Either way, Obama loses.
 
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GAVol said:
I think the whole flap over the lipstick comment is completely manufactured. Everybody knows exactly what Obama meant and there was nothing sinister about it.
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I actually think his use of "lipstick" was a deliberate, indirect stab at the Palin speech. That pitbull/hockeymom/lipstick sound byte was played over, and over, and over again last week....I think he knew that the dem crowd would get the reference, and applaud it.

But I don't think he, in any way, was calling Palin a pig.
 
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ttocswob said:
If Obama meant "lipstick on a pig" as an insult to Palin, then he's too crude to be President.

If he didn't see the inevitable association with Palin's lipstick comment, then he's too dumb to be President.


Either way, Obama loses.
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First McCain said the exact same thing about Hillary's health care plan and it had absolutely nothing to do with Sarah Palin. It's a pretty standard saying that has been around long before Obama said it. I could see the point if it had never been said and Obama made it up.
 
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I am pleasantly surprised to see the right wing of the VN acknowledge that the outrage over this comment is feigned. I know you aren't saying you agree with the substance of his comment. But I am glad to see that regular folk aren't up in arms over this turn of phrase and aren't buying into the effort by some to make it more than it was.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I am pleasantly surprised to see the right wing of the VN acknowledge that the outrage over this comment is feigned. I know you aren't saying you agree with the substance of his comment. But I am glad to see that regular folk aren't up in arms over this turn of phrase and aren't buying into the effort by some to make it more than it was.
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Just like my VN Lefties don’t buy this crap from the NY Governor. Right?

"Paterson sees the repeated use of the words "community organizer" as Republican code for "black". "

wcbstv.com - McCain Campaign Fumes Over Paterson's Racism Claim

Or Democrat Randi Rhodes:

Randi Rhodes Says McCain Was 'Well-Treated' In Vietnam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt8Sgt6K9YE
 
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lawgator1 said:
I am pleasantly surprised to see the right wing of the VN acknowledge that the outrage over this comment is feigned. I know you aren't saying you agree with the substance of his comment. But I am glad to see that regular folk aren't up in arms over this turn of phrase and aren't buying into the effort by some to make it more than it was.
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hey lawgaytor, if palin said the phrase, "pot calling the kettle black" what would obama's people and the democrats be saying now?
 
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lawgator1 said:
I am pleasantly surprised to see the right wing of the VN acknowledge that the outrage over this comment is feigned. I know you aren't saying you agree with the substance of his comment. But I am glad to see that regular folk aren't up in arms over this turn of phrase and aren't buying into the effort by some to make it more than it was.
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Glad to see you have such a high opinion of our open-mindedness.

It was dumb ploy by the Republicans that could back fire. I just watched Obama's response and likewise it was a dumb ploy to suggest that this is politics as usual but he is above it. Apparently he doesn't listen to his own commentary.

Overall, this stuff is a waste of everyone's time.
 
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