I’ll bet women all over the United States LOVED NOBama yesterday!
I wear lipstick. Sometimes I wear lip gloss. Other days I wear Lip Plumper.
I’m not a Hockey Mom but I am a Mom. I can identify with Sarah Palin.
Why did NOBama have to even go there with the Lipstick comment?
Do you think he should apologize? I sure do!
Sexism in America is most definitely Alive. NOBama followers will tell you racism is too.
It’s all the same to me.
I think Sarah Palin has everybody’s boxer shorts all wadded up.
What do you think?
I’d especially LOVE to hear from Husbands, Fathers, Brothers, Nephews, Grandfathers, Counsins and-so-forth.. that have women in their lives that they absolutely respect, love and cherish.
I think NOBama’s lipstick comment warrants a donation to the McCain/Palin ticket, don’t you?
You’ll have to excuse me while I go and find my credit card and the donation button…
He claims it was “taken out of context” – I claim he is a MORON who said something he shouldn’t have said and now he is doing his best to backpedal out of it.
Maybe we should put some lipstick on him!?!
Personally I think his apology should go out not only to Palin but to all women.
And I think we should send him a shirt with “Diddiot” written on it in big, bold letters!
When I first heard that this sexist remark had been made yesterday, by Obama I thought, no- Obama has a little more class than that. Wrong!
Everytime I try to give the Dems a little credit and a little slack, they come out with the crudest game plan and speeches.
I think Sarah needs to get out in the public and do her “thing”, alone- wearing a glorious hue of lip gloss!!
Amen to all of our Republican sisters. Time to unite and do what we can to put honor and faith in Washington!!!!
No. No, I do not. I think it’s an old saying that’s been used a long damn time and anyone who wants to try and make this into a sexist comment is going to lose and lose big.
I think NObama (and/or his speech writers) was very clever with this one. The “pig in lipstick” phrase has been used lots of times, even by McCain himself in the past. (See http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/10/campaign.lipstick/index.html) That makes it easy for NObama to claim innocence in his use of the phrase.
But he SHOULD have realized that the phrase WOULD be construed as an insult to Palin, so in my book, that makes him either (A) rude or (B) stupid.
Whether you use lipstick, lip gloss, or plumper (or, not) this campaign is getting really FUGLY!
You’re absolutely right, it is a phrase that has been used for a long time, but NObama is a smart man and that snotty grin on his face when the crowd goes wild tells the whole story about why and how he used it.
by Mark Silva
“You can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but in the end of the day, it’s still a pig.”
Barack Obama?
No, his distant cousin.
Dick Cheney.
He was talking about President Bush’s Democratic rival, John Kerry. In 2004.
When Obama uttered the words about the McCain-Palin campaign and its claim to the mantra of change this week, our colleage at Countdown to Crawford, Jim Gerstenzang, recalled that someone else had uttered the familiar colloquialism in another campaign a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Cheney accused Kerry of wearing some lipstick on the wavering faces of his stance on Iraq war funding.
Cheney played the expression during his final 2004 campaign rally, with his wife, Lynne, providing warm-up, in Jackson, Wyo:
“John Kerry has a completely and totally weak record on national security issues, that he’s had a record for 30 years of weakness on national security issues,” Lynne Cheney said.
“He’s working very hard to cover it up,” the vice president said. “Now, we got into the campaign, of course, and he’s trying hard to cover up the fact that he voted against the first Gulf War; against Operation Desert Storm; voted against most of the weapons systems that President Reagan used to keep the peace and win the Cold War.
“But the point is that no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much spin he tries to put on it, that you can’t cover that record up with a little tough talk during the course of the campaign, that as we say in Wyoming, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but in the end of the day, it’s still a pig.”
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It is true that the phrase has been used for a long time and that McCain has used it. On Fox News this morning, even his daughter, Meaghan (mccainbloggettte.com) said he has used it in the past.
Given the context of Palin’s words last week, the Obama campaign knew what they were doing. It backfired and the McCain campaign is strategically smart to use it against him. That is the nature of the political beast.
Go Palin Power! Go John Maverick McCain!
Oh and while you are donating money, you might look into donating to your local county Republican Party, who (I’m sure) could use the money to get the vote out.
Obama knew exactly what he was dong when he said it. Remember he was schooled in campaigning in one of the dirtiest political games in the country, Chicago. The man isn’t stupid and neither are his handlers. He knew exactly the reaction he would get and NOW he can come out and try to claim it was an innocent remark and can we please just talk about the issues moral high ground.
That’s not change, that’s just more of the same dirty politics he practiced in Chicago.
I expect Obama to blame his falling poll numbers on the media. Once that happens and if they turn on him, he’s finished. I sense that the liberal press is already smelling blood in the water; they will tear him apart in a feeding frenzy if he starts blaming them for his failures.
What do you get when you put lipstick on a shark?
great post!
You people make me sick.
“I wear lipstick. Sometimes I wear lip gloss. Other days I wear Lip Plumper.”
Way to miss the point of the comment.
You’re going off about how Obama mad a supposed offense against women, yet, praise Palin, who has done absolutely nothing to protect women. She had the chance, both as Mayor and as Governor in and of Alaska to make laws that would protect victims of abuse. Instead, she decided to become personally involved with her sister’s divorce and abuse her power.
Well, there she goes again. Tina is speaking with her head in her rear-end.
So which is it, Tina? Are you mad that Palin DIDN’T do anything to protect women, or are you mad that she’s been accused of TRYING to protect them?
Have you not been paying any attention, yet AGAIN?
The whole issue with her sister’s divorce is that she’s being accused of “abusing her power” to fire Alaska Public Safety Commisioner, for not firing her sister’s ex-husband, who was a police officer who’d been ABUSING his wife and kids, and given them death threats. He’d been given a slap on the wrist, and the accusation is that Palin thought that since police officers shouldn’t be abusing their families or giving them death threats, that he should have been fired, not lightly disciplined, and that she therefore fired HIM for not firing a police officer who engages in domestic violence.
Now having SAID that– you also have to remember that she’s only been ,accused of that– and there’s an investigation going on to figure out what actually happened.
So which is it, Tina? Are you mad that Gov. Palin hasn’t “done” anything to protect women, or are you mad that in the particular case of her sister, that she’s being accused of “doing something” to protect women?
And by the way— regardless of the accusation regarding her sister’s ex— she HAS done something:
From the Ketchikan Alaska news:
Governor Palin Signs Legislation into Law
July 04, 2007
Wednesday
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin signed 15 bills into law Tuesday, including two bills that recognize those who are serving our country in the military and
two that widen the protection of victims of domestic violence……
….”Bills designed to protect victims of domestic violence and raise awareness of domestic violence crimes are House Bills 213 and 215.
HB 213, sponsored by Rep. Andrea Doll, D-Juneau, provides for the imposition of greater sentences, up to the maximum for the offense, for crimes committed on the premises of a domestic violence shelter.
“People who come to domestic violence shelters need to know that they are safe and protected,” Governor Palin said. “They need to know that they are not in harm’s way when they come to a shelter.”
“A person living at a shelter for abuse victims deserves to be as safe and secure as possible,” Doll said. “The message we want to get out is simple: If you commit a crime at one of these facilities, you will potentially face the maximum punishment available.”
Crimes committed in shelters and safe houses in Alaska are unfortunately occurring in spite of the strict security provided by staff and local law enforcement officials, according to Peggy Brown, Director of the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Assault, who supported this legislation.
“We have had incidents in Juneau and other parts of the state where an individual has come to a shelter to harm a resident,” Brown said. “We must do everything we can to make these shelters as safe as they possible. This legislation will help do this.”
“This legislation may not stop crimes committed at shelters, but it does do two things,” Doll said. “It reminds all of us of the tremendous number of sexual assaults and domestic violence offenses committed in Alaska and it reinforces our commitment to condemn and punish those who would threaten the safety of shelter residents. I am pleased that the Legislature and the Governor support this objective.”
HB 215, sponsored by Rep. Anna Fairclough, R-Eagle River, establishes the Task Force to Review the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. This task force would prepare and present a report to the full Legislature by March 1, 2008 and then will be repealed on April 16, 2008. The task force would bring members of the Legislature and administration together with members of the public to have frank and comprehensive discussions about the council and the issues it addresses.”
The other thing is yes, politicians have been using the pig phrase in past discussions but no politician was ever dumb enough to use it after Sarah Palin already coined the difference between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull.
Obama new full well what he was doing. He chose a phrase with the keyword: lipstick and thought he’s get away with it.