Obama on McCain/Palin: “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”; Update: Video added; Update: “A pathetic attempt to play the gender card”
posted at 7:08 pm on September 9, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Perfectly innocent, I’m sure, just like Michelle’s bon mot last week about the importance of choosing a running mate who’s smart was perfectly innocent. Even though in that case, as in this one, reporters on the scene were so struck by the audience’s laughter they went out of their way to mention it.
Just your right-wing media exaggerating things as usual.
“That’s not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.
“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”
The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
That’s Jake Tapper and a co-author, themselves “no doubt thinking” that Obama was kinda sorta calling Palin a pig. Otherwise they wouldn’t have wasted a post on what was otherwise a throwaway line at a random town hall.
And they’re not the only ones who took it that way.
Exit question: I defended him when he took heat from women for the “likeable enough” comment and his Annie Oakley goof on Hillary, but then came “sweetie” and now this. How come The One keeps running into these funny little misunderstandings with comments aimed at women politicians?
Update: Bear in mind as the inevitable nutroots naysaying about this gets going how insistent and ingenious they were in spinning secret offensive subtexts out of McCain’s ads. They’ll drill through six feet of bedrock to find “code” in something a conservative says, but they won’t dust off the topsoil of Obama’s comments.
Update:
Update: Here’s the video; the McCain camp is already coming after him for it. He doesn’t overemphasize the line, as you might think he would if he really wanted to hammer the point, but then if he hammered the point he wouldn’t have plausible deniability. Having watched it, I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt — more so than Kaus is, apparently — just because I hate when the left pulls this with innocent statements made by conservatives. But again, the point isn’t what he actually meant, which we can’t know; the point is how different those secret liberal racial/gender decoder rings seem to work when it’s one of their guys in the hot seat. David Bellavia, a war hero, got smeared with accusations of unconscious racism on MSNBC for making an innocent remark about Tiger Woods. Fortunately, the Messiah is above such unconscious impulses.
Update: And right on cue, here’s the governor of New York drilling through six feet of bedrock.
Update: Here’s Gov. Jane Swift laying into Obama on Team Maverick’s conference call this afternoon.
Update: The campaign that played the race card so skillfully against the Clintons suddenly locates its scruples.
“Enough is enough,” Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters
“The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy – the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year,” she continued. “This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.”
Here’s a story of McCain using it last year. Hillary, of course, hadn’t made any lipstick references to herself before then so there was no context for McCain to play off of.
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That’s def. the way to go.
Spirit of 1776 on September 9, 2008 at 10:11 PM
Leave the victim complaining to the Obama Camp.
On that topic, here is the latest campaign fundraising email for Asshole-Rod:
Damiano on September 9, 2008 at 10:11 PM
FiveWAys:
How can McCain make Palin look like anything? He is not her Daddy. He just said he wanted an apology and if he had not GOPers would have been livid with him.
It backfires on Obama for the simple reason that he created the situation. That pic was up on Drudge before McCain called any conference call.
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:11 PM
and that’s the angle we spread by word of mouth….
“oh yeah great guy….can’t be bothered to show respect to the flag, flips off Hillary accidentally, waxes ebomic about McCain’s honor, and then calls Sarah a pig and John a dead fish…total class.”
portray him as the punk he is and break the media’s aura.
sven10077 on September 9, 2008 at 10:11 PM
I don’t think you need tinfoil, but if you have any to spare, I’ll give you my shipping address. Do you carry industrial strength?
I am not seeing the backfire on Obama. Links please?
Loxodonta on September 9, 2008 at 10:11 PM
I agree. All the MORE reason for Palin to play the peace maker and calm the troops down while dismissing Obama as playing a childish mis-directed game of tit-for-tat.
She comes out strong- Obama comes out weak.
Let see if that happens.
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Questioning McCain’s honor? Great move.
Slublog on September 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM
+1
I’m not one to blow stuff out of proportion, but I think I got a little rattled when I shouldn’t have too.
BadgerHawk on September 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Besides being clever hardball politics, yes this was also a trap in the same spirit. Again, internal emails would show they had the response to this outrage pre-planned just like a chess move.
Remember, the Obama war room no doubt saw us respond to the Beckel teaser pig they let loose the other day. They knew what would happen but they also knew they were going to lose the election if they didn’t take a huge gamble fast.
This is that big intentional gamble and McCain has to be careful.
econavenger on September 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Awwwww dammit.
Palin’s sister is on Greta. When asked when they knew this might happen, she said they heard rumors for months, but she didn’t pay them much mind due to the fact that ..
.. wait for it ..
“she just seemed too new in her position to be considered for that job”
Oy.
I know .. it’s not really earth-shattering .. but come on ..
cgoode777 on September 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM
BINGO!
What did I tell you all?
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:14 PM
is there any doubt?
We cojntrol the narrative when we hit barry and speak to the people….
not play their game….
word of mouth trumps the newsies only when we use the newsies against themselves….
how does running to them to cry over Barry’s crap go past them?
It lends the limp-wristers relevancy to our campaign they are not entitled to.
sven10077 on September 9, 2008 at 10:14 PM
I agree.
surrounded on September 9, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Dam:
Yeah, like Obama and Biden did not vote for the Bridge. In the end Palin killed the Bridge deal and McCain never voted for it all…so this is the best they got?
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Here’s the key; has he used the phrase before? I use the phrase a lot, so I would have plausible deniability. If there aren’t tapes of him using this before and is new to his vernacular, then it was a deliberate piece of work. I’ll lay odds on the latter.
michaelo on September 9, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Oh please. Like CNN and would have said anything else.
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Demanding apologies has become standard political hackery. It just makes the demander look lame and whiney.
surrounded on September 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM
CNN was roasting Palin over the bridge to nowhere just now also. I hope McCain’s team is planning to mention that Obama and Biden both voted for it twice some time in the near future.
BadgerHawk on September 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Are you posting here?
baldilocks on September 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Why is everybody so upset about this.
Obama is an inclusive kind-hearted liberal.
Surely, he was referring to one of those cute little talking pigs like you see in the movies!
ARom on September 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM
This will have to be one of the dumbest remarks ever for a candidate to make!
A Presidential candidate does not publicly call a woman a pig in America and get away with it! Let alone a woman that America seems to be falling in love with!
This is just so dumb! This guy is his own worse enemy. He might have gotten some momentary applause from some die hard nuts in the audience, but this will cost him dearly with American women tomorrow!
JellyToast on September 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Regardless if he said it before or not:
1. It comes immediately after one of the most talked about/replayed vignettes from the most watched political speech in US history.
2. Obama’s pregnant pause in the middle of the delivery of his quip was willfully placed to elicit a “ifyouknowwhatimeanandithinkthatyoudo” reaction from the crowd. Watch it again.
Cuffy Meigs on September 9, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Aren’t they generated on Daily Kos, then posted on CNN & MSNBC? I don’t go to any of those, but I thought someone earlier in this thread wrote that there was lipstick talk for days at Daily Kos.
Loxodonta on September 9, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Haven’t read every single comment, but here’s my thought.
If Obama’s comment was an innocent slip, then he should have cleared it up upon hearing the audiences reaction. Since it’s pretty clear that the crowd is reacting to the Palin context of ‘lipstick’.
The fact that he doesn’t clarify implies he intended the insult or didn’t mind the ‘misunderstanding’.
Partisan on September 9, 2008 at 10:20 PM
My suggestion: Palin says nothing. These boys are going at it hard with the lipstick lines. Major effing sexism.
Republican local groups should order up some lipstick, red, of course, and put something on it. Not related to Palin, but the whole party. Like Republican Red. Red State. something simple.
Hand them out as little kitschy keepsakes. Keep the anger going. Man, I bet there will be some signs about lipstick at the next rallies.
I want a t-shirt that says “lipstick republican”.
Kat_Mo on September 9, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Yeah, but that website lost it’s scruples, because it comes up with an error. :D
LibertarianConservative on September 9, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Personally I think he knew what he was saying, but that they were setting a trap. Whether it will play out, or blow up in their face remains to be seen.
P.S. on CNN story is about small town rural southern ohio voters being racist as reason not to vote for Obama. Showing unflattering visuals of “locals”.
aquaviva on September 9, 2008 at 10:22 PM
On Special Report the panel talked about other attacks on Palin. Brit Hume said the Democrats have sent 30 lawyers to Alaska to dig up stuff on this woman. I think this will look bad for Obama, no matter how he tries to spin it, no matter how the tools at CNN try to cover him. The Democrats and the media have been to open in their hostility toward her and there have been too many smears against her. There is no way to prove intent, but it all leaves a bad taste.
Those women who switched from Obama to Palin did so for a lot of reasons, but this kind of underhanded nonsense was part of that switch.
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Exactly. Now, who has copies of all his speeches and is going to read & listen to all of them to determine this? Whoever does that, please leave a note with the results, and I promise I will pray for you after your torturous death.
Loxodonta on September 9, 2008 at 10:24 PM
surrounded:
No it does not make people look whiney to demand an apology and believe it or not it is done in the larger world too. It is not as if people outside of politics do not ever expect or demand an apology for something.
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM
You bet. Watch the video again, Barry is acting as if he rehearsed that line- because he did. This entire thing was a deliberate set-up.
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM
I think that Obama is still pissed about the ego puncturing stiletto that Palin wielded during the convention and wanted to land his own zingers. He just has no clue how to do it.
rsrobinson on September 9, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Here is part of the trap
It will be “see they are racists” !
186k on September 9, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Let CNN and ABC and all the other press try to cover for this moron Obama. There will be millions of American woman that will hear or read “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!” and it ain’t going to matter what the MSM says,, the women who will read or hear that sentance will know what Obama was saying, and that will be all that matters!
JellyToast on September 9, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Trust this old dog; this was a big mistake. Don’t get on the wrong wide of the female population. Democrats seem to have that “fly paper stick together no matter what” thing down good, but woman have it born in them.
Keemo on September 9, 2008 at 10:27 PM
mmmm hmmmmm…..
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:27 PM
And no tin foil is really needed for the assertion that Dems pass out talking points and issue marching orders on any given issue, not unless you’re naive enough to think that this (regarding drilling) was a coincidence.
Dems plan their gang-ups, especially since Obama came on the scene. Ask Stanley Kurtz and, if you’re brazen enough, ask him for some tin-foil.
baldilocks on September 9, 2008 at 10:28 PM
wide = side; my bad
Keemo on September 9, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Anybody catch the headline that Al Frankenberry won his primary? Imagine the daily circus if he actually get in the senate?
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:29 PM
badger:
Too bad CNN did not include the fact that Biden and Obama both voted for the Bridge in their story about the Bridge. They are so full of it.
And the truth is the Bridge thing is convoluted and confusing anyway.
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:29 PM
You know the more I think about the more I see thousands of comments from nutroot “astroturfers” posting racist comments posing as outraged “right-wingers”.
186k on September 9, 2008 at 10:29 PM
HATE Jane Swift…but LOVE the idea of the truthsquad!!
ihasurnominashun on September 9, 2008 at 10:30 PM
The campaign needs to shrug it off and act like nothing happened, but some clever political junkie needs to create a YouTube documenting Obama’s serial passive-aggressive disrespect toward women, including but not limited to –
- sweetie
- you’re likable enough, Hillary
- essentially calling his grandmother a racist when it was convenient to get the Wright scandal off his back
- flipping Hillary off, sneaky high-school style
Provide the list, then raise the question, truther-style, about whether Obama respects women. Watch it go viral and watch Obamessiah backpedal furiously on all these attacks.
Laura on September 9, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Are you suggesting that criticism of Obama in Hot Air threads is backfire that will have any significant impact?
Loxodonta on September 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Any State that elects that assclown to public office deserves all the shame that will befall them.
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Terrye.
Yea, McCain’s getting hammered by the media over that right now. I’m hoping he comes out with an ad that says Palin killed it, while Obama voted for it twice, declining to divert its funds to hurricane relief for Katrina victims.
Like AP says, people don’t mind if their politicians change positions, as long as they change towards public opinion. In the end, Gov. Palin killed the bridge. That’s what matters.
BadgerHawk on September 9, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Terrye, thanks for you response…we see it differently, but we are on the same side…
Great idea!
surrounded on September 9, 2008 at 10:33 PM
uh-huh
Along with the lipstick-pig comment it kinda seems….coordinated….doesn’t it…….
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Ooooh! I’d buy one of those!
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Where’s the body language expert? Obama paused and covered his eyes before delivering the line. Just like the audience, he knew exactly what he was saying. Everybody knows exactly what he was saying.
Stick a fork in the “politics of hope and change” meme. This wienie is done.
Terrie on September 9, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Jelly Toast:
Damn straight. I am a woman and this guy is just another self loving self centered man who thinks he can run his mouth and then flutter his eyelashes and say Who me, I ain’t buying it and I bet a lot of other women ain’t buying it either. The media can do their usual thing of kissing Obama’s ass all they want. It will not change the way women feel when they see that clip. People can yammer about wingnuts all they want, it is still undignified and stupid.
I can just imagine this guy in the White House.
Terrye on September 9, 2008 at 10:35 PM
The correct question is: “Are you suggesting that criticism of Obama in Hot Air threads is an legitimate representation of public opinion in general?”
Sometimes it is.
baldilocks on September 9, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Lipstick Republican t-shirts here! I’m getting one!
http://shop.cafepress.com/design/29977079
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Sounds like a great project…
ninjapirate on September 9, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Obama should not apologize. He should say it some more, lots more.
And don’t leave it at lipstick. He should say “you can put eye glasses on a pig, but it’s still a pig” and “you can put a pig’s hair in a bun, and it’s still going to look like a pig” and “a pig can become the Governor of Alaska but it’s still going to be a pig” and nobody’s going to think that he’s talking about Sarah Palin or anything.
Bennett on September 9, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Just heard this from a friend:
The McCain/Palin campaign cannot find a venue large enough for the rally planned for tomorrow. They have moved it from a huigh school gym,. to the football stadium, to the biggest park they could find. They have given out 25,000 tickets and have demand for thousands more.
In Fairfax, Virginia.
Not Podunk, Wisconsin or Eyewash, Missouri. Fairfax, Virginia. Ten minutes from Washington, D.C. Ten minutes from the home of Mark Warner.
Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it, Barry.
rockmom on September 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Yeah, and I think that would sell to the PUMA ladies too. Kind of say why they were voting Republican.
My G_d! This election just became fun!
Kat_Mo on September 9, 2008 at 10:40 PM
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s health-care plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the early 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of
her(The Democrats Socialized Medicine) proposal.Chakra Hammer on September 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Get them here:
http://shop.cafepress.com/design/29977079
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM
rockmom: My sister lives in the area and has always voted Democrat … she is going. I am hearing from many friends in the are that they want to go.
Obama has blown up his own campaign.
crosspatch on September 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM
We need that in red with white writing, too. Holy crap!
Thank you very much Erin. Ordering up and spreading it around.
Kat_Mo on September 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Add Beckel using the phrase and Biden’s comment with Obama’s comment later in the day, there is no doubt to their intent to call Palin a pig.
from Politico:
When “astro-turfing isn’t enough, slash and burn…..
Ozprey on September 9, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Awesome!
baldilocks on September 9, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Please note that Bob Beckel called her the exact same thing when talking to Bill Hemmer the other day. I don’t believe in coincidence.
srhoades on September 9, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Biden too, eh?
Still going with this conclusion?
baldilocks on September 9, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Is it just me or has CNN, especially since the Palin announcement, sunken to levels that have begun to make MSNBC look like the picture of unbiased coverage.
Every time I flip past that channel, they are pushing a debunked Palin rumor, have 2 insane Democrats screaming at the weakest, most washed up former Republican strategist they can find and seem to go out of their way to trash every talking point the comes from the right.
Then you go the the “Revealed” crap they are spewing- fluff piece on how hard Obama supposedly had it, with no mention of Wright, Ayres or Rezco in any negative way. They even glossed over his drug use. The McCain piece, in contrast, focused entirely on him being a rowdy Navy guy, who cheated on his 1st wife, married another rich, drug addict trophy wife and then got involved with the Keating 5.
MSNBC are left wing idiots, but CNN is on a calculated and focused mission.
Damiano on September 9, 2008 at 10:45 PM
This T-shirt is even better! “Read My Lipstick – Vote McCain/Palin”
http://shop.cafepress.com/design/29989855
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Ahh, the beauty of capitalism….I’m gettin the hoodie!
surrounded on September 9, 2008 at 10:46 PM
You know what if Biden said I wouldn’t give it half the thought, it’s Obama’s whole phony arrogant “change” shtick.
I just watched him flipping Hillary the bird, he is punk. What the hell do people see in this guy??
Hell you can’t even use the word “arrogant” without being a labeled a racist by Obama’s clowns.
Keeping with Palin Hockey Mom theme
Biden may be not my cup of tea but he’s a brawler he’ll line up and shake your hand at the end of the game, Obama is a devious cheap shot artist spitting in his hand right after he takes his gloves off to shake yours.
But I do wonder about Biden now.
186k on September 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM
This kind of stuff is easy to get away with even if you say it right to someone’s face. Watch Tiki’s expression here after he doesn’t call this woman the “c word” a few weeks ago. In this case, the woman had insulted him previously and so people thought he was probably retaliating. The difference with something like this, besides the word used, is that they have a private relationship behind the camera that isn’t our business and they aren’t public officials. If it became a pattern though it would be a diff story.
http://deadspin.com/5040391/tiki-barber-the-c-word-and-you
econavenger on September 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM
AP has made the point, as well as several commenters, that CNN is more dangerous than MSNBC because they are more subtle with their bias. They’re also available in a lot more markets and are seen by apolitical people as the ‘balanced’ and unbiased network.
BadgerHawk on September 9, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Biden didn’t call her a pig, it’s a pattern of obvious behavior. All of a sudden, from a bunch of folk that don’t talk like that….is all
Ozprey on September 9, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Unhinged.
Flailing wildly for the world to see he reveals himself to the cheers of the insane.
The United States has been delivered from evil. His chances growing slimmer by the minute have evaporated amongst all ration people.
This is the implosion we were all waiting for Hillary! to have, instead it’s been brought by Barry.
Just damn.
Dorvillian on September 9, 2008 at 10:49 PM
well Beckel talks like that (correction)…
Ozprey on September 9, 2008 at 10:49 PM
What a moronic mountain made out of a nothing molehill.
Next.
Dave Rywall on September 9, 2008 at 10:49 PM
The guy is a punk treat him like one! He runs and hides from the media that don’t adore him until his numbeers are tanking and does the same with debates.
We here in the Republican party don’t call women pigs or insinuate that our leaders stink like fish and we invite like minded Americans to join us come November. An HONEST debate doesn’t need to sink to this level!
dhunter on September 9, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Thanks. Very good answer. It makes me think.
(I wonder what public opinion will be regarding this issue. My values may be too old-fashioned to be taken into consideration. But, then again, I’m a member of the public & we old timers vote in droves.)
After careful consideration of the context of Senator Obama’s comments, I think he used that phrase intentionally. But I don’t want an apology from Monsieur Obama. Instead, whenever I Senator Obama’s image from now on, there will be lipstick on that smirk.
Loxodonta on September 9, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it, Barry.
rockmom on September 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Nothing in the world better than justified and barely tempered anger. Good on ya.
Bishop on September 9, 2008 at 10:51 PM
I don’t s’pose you quick went over to cafe press and put those up for sale yourself, didya?
cgoode777 on September 9, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Thanks for that follow-up
libtard talking point, Drywall- what took you so long?
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:54 PM
I know its almost 700 posts in and this has probably already been noted, but Obama takes a very definite pause after he makes the “pig” remark, just to let the crowd whoop it up.
He knew EXACTLY what he was saying and he has just garnered the term “asshole” from my wife who is non-political and swears about once a year. I seconded the motion.
Obama is now an asshole in my book: a petty, pandering, little asshole with a serious women-hating chip on his shoulder.
Bishop on September 9, 2008 at 10:54 PM
The Obama campaign’s response to the Palin Truth Squad proves my earlier point. They reacted to this too fast and focused too much on a single comment. His camp can claim ‘foul’ ( yeah…like those pathetic bastards would not seek to play victim on something) and pass it off as an innocent, well-worn remark.
But, look at the progression from Day 1:
- “chosen a small town mayor”- campaign statement
- “mayor of Wasilly” – Obama
- Howard Gutman’s rant on Ingraham’s show- STILL NOT FIRED
- “Lt. Governor” – Biden
- “smart people”- Michelle O
And I know there are a lot more that I am missing.
The Truth Squad needs to get back on this and do a better job.
Damiano on September 9, 2008 at 10:55 PM
yeah- he did know what he was doing….
FiveWays on September 9, 2008 at 10:55 PM
No. But I know they have the widest range of political stuff you can buy. I saw their Palin gear the other day, and figured there might be some lipstick products up there. And lo and behold… I think they will be hot sellers now.
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:56 PM
lol
Ozprey on September 9, 2008 at 10:57 PM
And the same could be said about the word “Macaca”, would you agree?
ErinF on September 9, 2008 at 10:57 PM
I know it was off-topic .. but no thoughts on this?
Guess it really is nothing.
I’m sure it’ll see some play over at the kostards board though.
cgoode777 on September 9, 2008 at 10:58 PM
I couldn’t agree more. Anyone who suggests that anything Obama says is not carefully scripted need only look at how pathetically he stammers on anything that is unscripted.
This was no mistake. It is part of a calculated stream of less-than-subtle innuendo and double entendre, with the sole purpose of trying to make Palin into a joke.
I am not one for conspiracy theories, but this was DEFINITELY planned.
Damiano on September 9, 2008 at 10:58 PM
This is how MUSLIMS treat women!
This is how the Reverend Wright treats women!
Why would it surprise that this is how “0′B0MBa”
treats women?
dhunter on September 9, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Agreed. You should have seen the “Palin’s Environmental Record Analysis” they just did on A.C.3 360. It was (almost) video of her personally hanging out of the Piper Cub on it’s mission to shoot the wolves, or personally pushing the polar bears off their ice floes to drown.
aquaviva on September 9, 2008 at 11:00 PM
The McCain campaign needs to forget about this apology stuff. Have Palin do the Obama flickin’ dirt off his shoulder bit at her next event. If the campaign is especially feisty, she could advise the Sentator to “man up, because she isn’t going anywhere.”
rw on September 9, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Shoulda’ .. whoever put that stuff up is probably cleaning up. Hope they’ll donate some of the proceeds to the RNC .. Obama apparently had a big money month.
cgoode777 on September 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM
I don’t understand why everybody’s so upset….did we expect anything less…please. This is Barry “O”.
My cursory research on the guy showed him to be nothing more than what we’ve seen .
And when all this blows up in his face…as it is and will further…
I make a declaration now… I will donate 1000 monel staples to his original career calling….
provided he limits himself to south Chicago.
jerrytbg on September 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM
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