Richard Tafoya
Sep 9th, 2008, 06:01 PM
Mark Ambinder at The Atlantic:
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obama_did_not_call_sarah_palin.php
The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html):
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?
The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don't think he is stupid. And the only way one can conclude that Obama meant to refer to Gov. Sarah Palin as a pig is to have concluded that Obama is as dumb as a doornail.
Obama is fond of this particular phrase. To wit (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/13/AR2007091301679_pf.html), in 2007:
'I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment,' Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday in a telephone interview. 'George Bush has given a mission to General Petraeus, and he has done his best to try to figure out how to put lipstick on a pig.
And so is John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton.... (http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/mccain_rolls_out_health_plan_a.html)
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obama_did_not_call_sarah_palin.php
The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html):
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?
The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don't think he is stupid. And the only way one can conclude that Obama meant to refer to Gov. Sarah Palin as a pig is to have concluded that Obama is as dumb as a doornail.
Obama is fond of this particular phrase. To wit (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/13/AR2007091301679_pf.html), in 2007:
'I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment,' Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday in a telephone interview. 'George Bush has given a mission to General Petraeus, and he has done his best to try to figure out how to put lipstick on a pig.
And so is John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton.... (http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/mccain_rolls_out_health_plan_a.html)
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.