Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
I could care less about the comment Obama made but I can see why people are like "WTF".

Go home and ask your wife a g/f the difference between when she proudly calls herself a pitbull or when you call her a pig. I'm sure if people looked at it like that then it would be obvious why this is such a big deal.

Secondly if you heard the crowed they applauded on that comment.. how many southerners have you heard cheer and clap when someone says "you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig"? I'm willing to bet never or on some very rare occassion.

Point being is Obama is either a huge idiot or he's a total jerk.

1. Palins pitbull comment is very well known. Regardless if it's a saying in the south.. Obama knew she said that and had to have had some idea that people would take what he said and applied it to Palin. If he didn't think that it would get turned around this way then this guy has got to be dumb. This is politics, how can you not expect the obvious.

2. If he knew that Palin said this and said it in reference to her then he's simply a jerk.

Again, honestly I could care less about this particular statement but I think this is how the media and a good portion of American citizens view this.
I find it amusing in a very sad way that anyone cares at all about this. I think it's another case of media feeding frenzy over nothing, being whipped further by partisans looking to exploit the trivial.

You listed two possibilities. The third is that he meant nothing by it whatsoever other than the exact point he was making at the time, that McCain's policies are nothing more than the same old "pig" dressed up in maverick "lipstick."

Choose to take it however you like it, but I think the reaction is either oversensitive or cynical media manipulation.

1. Palin is so hurt by this supposed slight, that she is unfit to be even the leader of the local soccer mom association:

Palin: Mr. Putin, you must pull your troops out of Georgia IMMEDIATELY!

Putin: You are a pig with lipstick.

Palin: WaaaaaaaAAAAHHHHHHH!!! Did you HEAR what he CALLED me????? WaaaaaaaAAAAHHHHHHH!!! I'm taking my delegation and GOING HOME!
Grow up, "pitbull!" People are going to say a lot worse about her by the time this is done and she better toughen up.

2. The McCain campaign thinks they can spin this as some kind of sexist slam by Obama by playing up the false sensitivity and fake outrage, and maybe they can boost his negative ratings and strip off some female voters.


Which do you think? The pitbull is so sensitive this really hurt her feelings? Or she isn't really hurt by it, and the McCain campaign is pretending snesitivity for their own advantage?

It's a bunch of hype over nothing. Either that or Palin is too emotionally fragile to be VP in my opinion.