Barack Obama Swipe at Palin "Lipstick on a Pig"

[Breukelen advocaat]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg[/youtube]

"You can put lipstick on a pig.........it's still a pig."
Barack Obama

Some of his rather corpulent supporters in the front rows of the audience certainly prove that point.

Breukelen advocaat Reviewed by Breukelen advocaat on 09-10-2008. Barack Obama Swipe at Palin "Lipstick on a Pig" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg "You can put lipstick on a pig.........it's still a pig." Barack Obama Some of his rather corpulent supporters in the front rows of the audience certainly prove that point. :cool: Rating: 5

[khronik]

It wasn't a swipe at Palin, it was a swipe at McCain's policies. He didn't mention Palin at all.

[Breukelen advocaat]

It wasn't a swipe at Palin, it was a swipe at McCain's policies. He didn't mention Palin at all.

Palin's pit bulls and lipstick comment the other day - you still think he wasn't referring to her?

[khronik]

Palin's pit bulls and lipstick comment the other day - you still think he wasn't referring to her?

It's a common expression in the south, he was in Virginia, he's said it before Palin was nominated, and HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT PALIN.

[Breukelen advocaat]

It's a common expression in the south, he was in Virginia, he's said it before Palin was nominated, and HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT PALIN.

He said it yesterday. I'd be more astonished than angered that he was not intelligent enough to realize what a remark like this would be seen as, in the context of recent history.
washingtonpost.com

[The Figment]

Is this what National Politics has boiled down too? A Partisan debate on lipstic,Pigs and Pitbulls??

"In his best Mr VanDreason Voice"Umm I think we need to Focus Here....Ok Focus Now People,Focus!!

[dragonrider]

It's a very common expression, and we used it all the time at the last place I worked. We made software products, and whenever we had to rush an extra-crappy piece of kluged software into a release, we'd try to "spin" the defects as "features." We called that "putting lipstick on a pig."

The funny thing is that I watched Palin's speech, and when she made the lipstick comment, the first thing that flashed into my mind was "lipstick on a pig!" No, not lipstick on a dog, Sarah! Lipstick on a PIG! I was amazed she even used that comment, because it immediatly brought up the lipstick-on-a-pig image for me.

I have no idea if Obama was making fun of Palin's comment of not, but it definitely is a very well-known saying for dressing up something ugly as something nice. And that is exactly what he was saying the McCain campaign was doing. So I think he had a valid reason for using the saying. (But if he WAS capping on her lipstick comment, then I think that is HILLARIOUS too! Ha ha ha ha!)

[Reefer Rogue]

The point is, McCain is claiming to bring change, but he votes with Bush 90% of the time. Lipstick on a pig.. it's like a wolf in sheeps clothing.. it's still a wolf, and McCain is still 90% bushite.

[khronik]

To be fair, a lot of the 90% of the votes that McCain and Bush both supported were probably things like "supporting the goals and ideals of cancer awareness week" or stuff like that. I can't wait till he's out of office either, but it's only fair.

[8182KSKUSH]

Well, I really don't think he was trying to say anything about my wife, but I think you are right breuk, it was bad judgment in this hyper sensitive political season, he is smart and he should have extrapolated out a little bit, he would have realized how it may be taken by some. But maybe he did and just said fuck it, and fuck them. Maybe he didn't think about it at all. Who knows, maybe he heard Palin make her lipstick comment and it subconsciously suggested that phrase in his mind, he's probably heard it a time or two I am guessing. Probably right as he was walking up to Hillary talking to one of the other democratic candidates! Right before she said, "oh oh, here he comes, Heeeeeey Baaaaary!"

Did anyone hear what Khadafi said about Obama? Funny as hell! Apparently Obama has lost a key supporter or just pissed him off!