Lipstick on a pig?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NotSoSilentBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Obama: 'Lipstick on a pig'

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:

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."

The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."</div></div>

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...g.html?showall

I thought The Messiah didn't believe in personal attacks. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img] </div></div>

Sometimes those pigs get pretty pissed off. I sure wouldn't want to be around one when that happens. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

You know those pigs are mean, and they can bite the shiz out of you.

Mark this down: Just wait til Palin debates Biden - she'll eat his lunch. She's not where she's at because of some political favor and rum running like a Kennedy - she's earned it. And she's earned it from conviction and hard work. I guarantee that before McCain wins in Nov., people will know her, like her, and will vote for her. The commoners will be able to relate to her like no other politician since Lincoln.

Oh please, who hasn't heard the 'put a lipsick on a pig its still a pig' comment.

I've heard that one since I was 5 years old, now its an attack??

Look more power to the people who hate him, and those who somehow think McCain or Palin (who I'd bet good money that you could count those who knew who the heck she was a couple of weeks ago on one hand), are the divine leaders, but this is the same kind of junk thats went on for years.

I feel like we're watching the Johnny Cochran South park 'chewbacca defense' when anything is said, it doesnt have to make sense, just get people fussing about something totally out of left field.

The news wires and pollsters are already saying that most of the white women voters who backed Hillary are voting republican now because of her. I would imagine that a lot more will because of her commitment to helping the handicapped and mentally disadvantaged.

She'll win the election for McCain...by a 15 point margin.

Was McCain the stinky old fish?


In all the furor over the Obama "pig" quote, commentators forgot to examine his entire attack:

"You can put lipstick on a pig. "It's still a pig."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."

When read in the entire context you can see what he seems to mean with his dual animate male/female references and why he probably evoked two metaphors: most would think that Obama is talking about both on the ticket and his anger how each has expropriated his change motif.

So in that sense he appears both to insult the 72-year old McCain as the "old fish" that is still going to "stink", and to refer to Palin, who had famously evoked the metaphor of lipstick in a nationally televised address, as still the pig despite the lipstick.

The fact that he used two metaphors to attack the two, and used expressions referring both to age and Palin's recent use of "lipstick" don't seem to be accidents and that's why the cooing crowd got the old fish=McCain;lipsticked pig=Palin immediately.

I'll leave it to others to deconstruct the historical use of pig as a sexist term in the recent climate of generic attacks on Sarah Palin.

PS. The VP nominee was just announced and already Biden has called her "good looking" and now "a step back for women"?; most know what he intended, but like most Bidenisms they come out wrongly and confirm a popular perception that he suffers from logorhhea and that there is a different standard of reference applied to Palin due to her sex.

Someone in the campaign has got to manage the ex tempore carelessness.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...VkMDMxNWY2NjI=

Damn how many times are you gonna post this? Its the same damn story, might wanna go clean your keyboard off.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NotSoSilentBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Was McCain the stinky old fish?

Someone in the campaign has got to manage the ex tempore carelessness. </div></div>

Good luck with that.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've heard that one since I was 5 years old, now its an attack??
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On Fox this morning a bama supporter was talking about this and said that the term "lipstick" became hers the second she said it at the RNC like the term "community organizer" is bama's and using these terms is a direct refference to either of them.

So yes it is an attack now.