“Lipstick on a Pig” Issue Makes McCain Look Like a Whiner
By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in NewsDoug gave us his excellent post on the “lipstick on a pig†issue. Now I’d like to add a couple of words.
One of the reasons to like John McCain is that he’s tough. But overreacting to a comment by Barack Obama makes his campaign and his supporters look like a bunch of whiners. I don’t think Obama even meant the “lipstick on a pig†idiom to be a personal insult towards Sarah Palin. But even if he did, so what? Suck it up. Palin doesn’t need to be coddled. From what I could tell from her acceptance speech, she can more than hold her own in the political arena.
McCain’s campaign needs to keep their focus if they want to win. Whining and moaning about even the most imperceptible of slights doesn’t make McCain look presidential.
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September 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
“You can put monkey ears on a pig, but he’s still a pig.”
September 10th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
The classic joke is a double entendre. You are apparently saying one thing, but the audience is getting the loaded-on humorous message. Look at the audience, they got the joke. Of course since it’s double entendre, Obama can come back later and pretend he only meant the straight message. He must think the public is totally dumb.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
WRONG! idov, it’s not a double entendre. It’s an update of old sayings like making a purse out of a sow’s ear or putting old wine in new skins. It’s an ancient way of saying you can’t dress up an old idea with new words and expect it to be anything but an old idea.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
This is getting ridiculous not b/c the McCain campaign is faking outrage at this seemingly innocent Obama rhetoric, but b/c McCain is truly pissed off, in a very self righteous way, about getting back what he constantly dishes out – only the Republican rhetoric is really insulting.
Did anybody notice the blog that was quoted in the original post that Doug used to make his point? Now I don’t read garbage like that from partisan hacks unless accidentally stumbled upon, but that blog was really malicious. He insulted about half of the general population while trying to take Obama down without batting an eye! What an ass. And these same idiots have a problem with ‘Lipstick on a Pig’ ?
Well, if this nonsense from the McCain camp works and people vote for him cause of his attacks on Obama rather than knowing exactly what he’s gonna do for the economy of this country, or the war we’re gonna be paying for forever, or the energy crisis – beyond drilling for more oil. If he doesn’t spell out exactly how he’s different in his agenda from the previous 8 years, and you guys still elect him president, then you’ll get what you deserve, and seeing what’s goin on in this economy today it won’t be good. Maybe the best thing for the Dem party is to let the next four years go to a Republican president. They got us into this mess – to some extent – maybe it’s only fair they should get us out.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Oh idov…just because a phrase is a figure of speech, does not make it a double entendre. The word “lipstick” cannot be taken to mean “Sarah Palin” simply because she used it in a speech. (If that becomes the case, I will stop wearing lipstick.)
September 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Donklephant. Home of independent, unbiased commentary.
Translation: I’m actually pretty grounded in leftist thinking, but I tell pollsters I’m an independent despite all indications to the contrary (except for that time I got stoned and voted for the Ralph Nader).