John McCain's campaign immediately jumped on Barack Obama's comment that McCain's policies are like lipstick on a pig, arguing they were directed at Palin - who made a lipstick joke during her GOP convention speech last week.
Suddenly, common idioms are sexist?
If having heard his speech for just one minute, having any knowledge of the expression and the premise of Obama’s campaign, one wonders how the American public can be so obtuse. Or are they? The conservative media is trying to exacerbate the increasingly dishonorable campaign McCain has chosen to run.
In fact, his preceding comments consisted of a list of Sen. John McCain's policies that Obama said were not unlike President Bush's. Palin or her hockey mom lipstick "joke" were not mentioned.
Hillary did not counter or bicker when Senator McCain himself used the same idiom about Senator Clinton’s health care plan just last year. Perhaps we should educate the conservative media and the McCain campaign on the expression itself?
Pay attention now, putting "lipstick on a pig" describes the process of dressing up dodgy idea or thing to make it more appealing. If people put lipstick on a pig, they make superficial or cosmetic changes, hoping that it will make the product more attractive. Notice the words “product”, and “it”. By sheer definition, this usually does not refer to a person, as the Republicans so quickly accused Obama of meaning. Or, so they are trying to convince the American public.
As another reliable sample of traits in the McCain campaign pattern of deceit, this is nothing more than a transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to disparage.
McCain’s campaign has suddenly adopted the Democrats mantra of change. But how can you speak of such change when having supported Bush over 90% of the time?
Disgruntled pig farmers are yet to be heard from.
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It is clear to anyone paying attention that Obama was going after McCain not Palin, albeit in his still futile attempt to define McCain as a 3rd term of Bush. However, in the context of Palin's recent speech and in not choosing Hillary, I'm sure as soon as Obama said it he probably wished he had chosen different words.
What I mean by that is, he is hemorrhaging votes of female independent voters right now- 20 point swing towards McCain since Sarah Palin's speech. Even those who vehemently disagree with Palin on policy appear to be sensitive to how she is vetted by the media.
Obama has got to get back to his message of change and start running against John McCain instead of against George W. Bush. The idea that McCain represents change is off target. Change is what won Obama the primary and still has him ahead in the electoral math. Barely.
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