Obama insults Palin
By Ted Belman
Obama will rue this day for having said “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!”
How insulting.
I don’t think for a moment he wasn’t playing off Palin’s remark that lipstick is the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull.
Do I think he was calling her a pig? No.
Do I think he was thinking of her remark when he said it? Yes.
Did the audience get the connection immediately even before he said “it is still a pig”? Absolutely
Does he regret saying it ? Absolutely.
What does it say about his character or judgement? Lots.
Have Republicans no sense of humor?
Palin started it by plagerizing Pastor Hagee’s joke:
In his book “What Every Man Wants in a Woman,” Hagee wrote, “Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick.”
McCain used the same metaphor against Hillary Clinton’s programs — around the time that McCain was low in the polls. The difference, of course, is that Hillary had not used the :pit bull” metaphor. This is Obama’s attempt at humor, but the joke’s a little bit worn out.
New material, Barak. You need to CHANGE your speechwriters.
And ” A rose is a rose is a rose.”
Democrats are pretty dumb. They should ignore Palin and concentrate almost totally on McCain where there is plenty of red meat, at least until Palin gives her first interviews and or debate. Attacking Palin now would only have the Republicans and Independents circle the wagons around her.
You can take a turban off a Muslim; he’s still a Muslim.
If you ask me Obama was looking to insult/mock Palin. He seems to do that a lot to women. Must be that Muslim loathing of women.
I want to point out how Palin handled Obama’s attack that she first supported the bridge and she tried to get earmarks. Palin, to her credit didn’t get offensive. Instead she went on the attack. ” I didn’t think he’d want to go there. He asked for $1 million a day in earmarks during his full term as Senator.”
Naomi Ragen blogged
This morning Obama addressed the issue but missed the mark. He said we should focus on the issues. He ignored that it was his comment that started it all.
He did not apologize or regret his remark.
Obama calls Palin a pig and a “moosher”
If you listen to all of Obama’s off the cuff (which is to say, the real Obama comes out) remarks, among other things he calls Sarah Palin is a “moosher”. That’s a strange term that the elitist press didn’t pick up on. It is Obama’s pronunciation of “musher”, which is Alaskan slang for a dog sled racer (a popular sport in Alaska).
That is Obama’s way of calling Palin a white redneck. It goes along with his previous off the cuff remark about how pathetic it is that undereducated poor whites “cling to their guns and bibles.”
The real Obama appears to be not only an elitist, but a white-hating racist (genetically, he himself is over half white because of his mother). As he said in his book, despite being raised by his white mother and her white parents, with his black father long gone, he nonetheless made a conscious choice to turn his back on white America and identify with black America (and this despite the fact that so called “African-Americans” were originally kidnapped from west Africa, while Obama’s father came from east Africa, which has almost nothing in common with west Africa).
He is such a fraud that I hope he can’t fool enough of the people at just the right time (on election day). The more I see of him, the more I am convinced that his beloved preacher’s “God damn America!” and his wife’s “I have never been proud of America in my adult life” are the real Obama. The preacher and the wife have both become mutimillionaires as the “champions of black America”. What a country. What a future commander in chief. What a future first lady.
What accounts for the disparities between Obama’s carefully crafted and brilliantly delivered words and ideas in his public addresses and his unprepared responses to questions put to him by the press?
Obama is exceptionally bright and an astute political observer.
I think it clear that he has carefully conceived of and portrayed an image of himself that would be appealing to an America looking for a way out of their morass of difficulties. What better image can there be then one who says to all Americans, with all the sincerity he can muster, “I feel your pain” and I promise you I am the hope and the agent of change for the better.
What better change of course has not yet been precisely explained by Obama and thus his promises of hope and change have not been carefully scrutinized and vetted.
As Rudy Giulianni quipped, hope is not a strategy and change is not a destination.
Obama has managed for the past year to get most Americans to suspend their disbelief as they have been beguiled and blinded by his glitter and golden oratory.
There of course were various efforts to unseat Obama from his pedestal by taking him to task for his 20 year close association with Holy Trinity Church in Chicago and its leader Pastor Wright who for 20 years spewed his Black Liberation white and Jew hating theology from the pulpit and doubtless in private, Obama’s association with low lifes like Rezko, Khalidi and more recently William Ayers and on foreign policy former Clinton advisers including the Brookings Institution’s Susan E. Rice, former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, and former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, all having been against the Iraq war, and his consulting further with former Pres. Carter, Zebrinksi and Lee Hamilton all known for their anti-Israel views.
Some of these insights did seem to mar the image Obama portrayed for himself, but not enough to make much of a difference. Obama remains the media darling, but there are signs that Obama’s image is cracking and those signs are coming from the force of Sarah Palin’s words at the R.N.C. and the Democrat’s clumsy knee jerk counter attacks against her.
Palin just might be the pointed spear thrown at Obama/Biden that shatters the image Obama and his handlers have so carefully and meticulously fashioned for himself.
CNN is doing its level best to blunt the positive shift amongst Americans towards Sarah Palin, with their unabashed Obama supporter Roland Martin who will say just about anything against McCain Palin or to justify just about any Democratic attacks, with nodding approval from Campbell Brown, Jeff Toobin, a less shrill Obama supporter, David Gergen, seemingly even handed but definitely pro-Obama and then one visiting pro McCain pundit who is usually shouted down or interrupted by the perspicious Roland Martin.
In the coming weeks we will see if the taste we had of Sarah Palin and the image we formed of her holds together and she does become the spear that shatters Obama’s self created image.
What goes around comes around. The McCain campaign is doing just what
the Obama campaign did against the Clintons. Deliberately taking
words or phrases out of context and accusing them of racism or some
other evil intent. For example Bill’s use of the term “fairy tale”,
in which he was speaking about obama’s position on Iraq, for which he
was absurdly accused of racism. Hillary’s supposed tears after the
Iowa caucuses as a sign of Hillary’s “racism” and of course her
mentioning the assissination of RFK which the obama camp jumped on to
accuse her of wishing Obama would be assassinated. And also the
mentioning of Jesse Jackson winning the SC primary for which Bill was
also accused of racism. Obama ran a misogynist campaign during the primaries and continues to do so against Palin.