Little-Acorn
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I've been hearing lots of jubilant editorializing from various conservative and Republican groups, saying that the selection of Sarah Palin as McCain's VP candidate, has the liberals worried and even "desperate". I pretty much ignore most of the hype - there's still two months to go before the election.
But this is the first report I've seen of Barack Obama himself stooping to the kind of desperate rhetoric and personal insult of his opponent, that is characteristic of true panic.
Palin can say things about herself like "Know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.", and it's just a humorous joke. Just as Obama could conceivably refer to himself as a "nigger" (he hasn't that I know of, but some black people refer to themselves and their friends with that word), and the term would have no insulting meaning.
But Obama's use here, takes it to a whole new level. I don't recall EVER hearing a presidential candidate publicly refer to a major member of the opposition as a "pig".
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html
Obama: 'Lipstick on a pig'
September 09, 2008
Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
But this is the first report I've seen of Barack Obama himself stooping to the kind of desperate rhetoric and personal insult of his opponent, that is characteristic of true panic.
Palin can say things about herself like "Know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.", and it's just a humorous joke. Just as Obama could conceivably refer to himself as a "nigger" (he hasn't that I know of, but some black people refer to themselves and their friends with that word), and the term would have no insulting meaning.
But Obama's use here, takes it to a whole new level. I don't recall EVER hearing a presidential candidate publicly refer to a major member of the opposition as a "pig".
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html
Obama: 'Lipstick on a pig'
September 09, 2008
Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
