Obama: Lessons On How To Keep Digging

I guess Obama would have us presume Governor Palin is simply window dressing, you know, sort of like lipstick given that she's a woman, as opposed to a pig? Way to go, Barry - keep digging. You're going to take yourself out of three-point range at this rate.

LETTERMAN: Let me ask you a question here, have you ever actually put lipstick on pig?

OBAMA: The answer would be no. But I think it might be fun to try .... This is sorta silly season in politics. Not that there's a non silly season but it gets sillier . It's a common expression in at least illinois. I don't know about in New York City. I don't know what you put lipstick on here. (Silly cringe from Letterman. Laughter from audience) In Illinois, The expression connotes the idea that if you have a bad idea -- in this case I was talking about McCain's economic plans -- calling them 'change,' calling them something different doesn't make them better. Hence lipstick on a pig is still a pig.

"Keep in mind, that technically had I meant it this way she would be the lipstick," Obama added. "The policies of John McCain would be the pig."

Comments

[Mr DeBakey]

Every damn day
Obama's gotta say "lipstick on a pig"
Everyday
And the audience will all laugh & clap
Everyday
For the next week at least

And when the McCane campaign launches its next
Faux Outrage Event
He's gotta do it again
Everyday

[JustOneMan]

This is the idiot the DUMBoCraps want to sit in the Oval Office??? I hear hell be on Sesame street tomorrow with Miss Piggy!

[seekeronos]

Heh. This has got to be the stupidest election ever.

[jharp]

Little known fact.

Pigs are excellent swimmers.

And I worked with pigs (no joke) for about 6 or 7 years of my early life. Hundreds of thousands of them.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

My question is, why is Obie even bothering to justify this? Look, the dude was down south trying to speak sothranese and some people took it the wrong way......some took advantage of it. No one in their right mind can seriously think a hetero male would call Sarah a pig. Except maybe chrissy who I suspect doesn't like females at all.

[Mike D.]

Don't you ideologues realize that the silent, non-ideological majority could care less about this? The left panics, the right gloats and the center yawns and switches to SportsCenter... It's a non-issue. Most people were more interested in what he had to say about Sept. 11, trust me.

[Hope Muntz]

Ha! The lipstick on a pig reactions split straight down gender lines. Men like saying it, so even conservative men are brushing off Obama's use of it. Women know perfectly well what he meant, even the ones who are defending him.

Obama is surrounded by yes-men, so he thinks he got away with it--that's why he keeps talking it up. And why his campaign is currently stuck knee-deep in the pigsty.

[Son of a Pig and a Monkey]

Mike D. You are an illiterate oaf. What you mean to say is "could not care less". Go and sit in a corner and think about it for a while.

[joeb]

23,000 people(most of them white women)turned out to see John McCain and Sarah Palin at a rally in Fairfax County Virginia yesterday. Most all of them were wearing red. A sea of red. Oh yeah! Virginia will be red come November.
If white women are for you victory is close at hand. The old white men are already on board with the Commander in Chief to be: Johnny Mac. Make that mad as hell old white men like me.

[Fred Beloit]

If a candidate used a rustic expression in reference to an opponent, say, "You can look at a mule and tell it's gonna kick ya", there would be snickers from the audience. In Obama's case the Dem audience roared with laughter. They got it immediately. How come some of us don't?

[joeb]

Most unfortunate timing on the part of The Messiah. What did he expect people would think?

[HDTV]

Read in context, which was clearly a McSame theme, lipstick on a pig had nothing to do with Palin. I know the right would rather that it did, but it simply doesn't. The audience heard it in context, so of course they roared acknowledgement of Obama's consistent and repetitive McSame message.

[seekeornos]

"--- Look, the dude was down south trying to speak sothranese ---"

Obama should get Hillary to coach him... or better yet, get Fred Thompson to do it.

That man is the master of witty agricultural aphorisms... did you hear his little ditty he gave at the RNC convention?

"--- Read in context, which was clearly a McSame theme, lipstick on a pig had nothing to do with Palin. ---"

Now that may be the case... but I think it was loaded with double-entendre againt Ms. Palin. Plausible deniablilty, perhaps, but by itself, that remark should not have generated the uproarious laughter that it garnered. I mean, as a remark, it's just not that funny.

Which reminds me of another porcine aphorism: "Don't wrestle a pig; you both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it."

Election year partisan campaigning is very much "Wrestlemania in a pig pen".