McCain picks Palin

**slap_j** · 09-08-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by S.B.Nichols

I'm sure you can find a better source than huffinton.....I might as well use focus on the family as a source....

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...cCYPgD932FSJ81 (her quote is toward the middle)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...using-com.html

But I tend to stay away from Huffpo and Dailykos as well. Aside from the occasional perusal.

JerryLove · 09-08-2008, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Qingu

Palin makes her first gaffe:

Her ongoing and oft-repeated lie that she opposed the "bridge to nowhere" on the grounds that it was wasteful is not a "gaff"?

(she supported it strongly until after it became a public fisaco and was killed by congress. *then* she opposed it (and spent the federal tax money elsewhere).

Qingu · 09-08-2008, 10:39 PM

I guess it could be considered a "gaffe."

But I view "gaffes" as unintentional and embarassing errors, such as her ignorant misunderstanding of how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac actually function leading her to publically mischaracterize the institution.

Whereas her and McCain's statement about her opposing the Bridge to Nowhere is a planned, deliberate lie.

**meatfinger** · 09-10-2008, 11:02 PM

This whole "lipstick on a pig" attack against Obama is sickening and ridiculous. I'm wondering how low McCain will stoop. It's a huge stretch to even try to associate that comment with Palin based on one comment she made in her speech at the RNC.

And the most ridiculous part is that in a recent interview with Telemundo, McCain cited his least favorite part of campaigning as all the negativity. HE'S THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN THE MOST CONSISTENTLY NEGATIVE IN HIS RHETORIC AND ADVERTISING! Aah!

JerryLove · 09-11-2008, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by meatfinger

This whole "lipstick on a pig" attack against Obama is sickening and ridiculous. I'm wondering how low McCain will stoop. It's a huge stretch to even try to associate that comment with Palin based on one comment she made in her speech at the RNC.

Pretend offence is a classic. MaCain used the same lipstick line against Hillary, and Cheney used it against Kerry (as just two of many examples)

For the record, putting lipstick on a pig is harder than it seems. They try to eat it.

grand_master_d · 09-11-2008, 10:26 AM

Maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate, but picking that cliche was awfully ironic. After all, the "lipstick" comment was the only memorable thing from her speech last week, and it was rebroadcast literally everywhere for a week. Think about it, these guys poke sticks at each other for nearly a year, and I don't think it's too much to assume that Obama could have been giving Palin a real passive "Take that, lipstick!" I wouldn't blame him for it, I wouldn't think less of him... but I also wouldn't doubt it.

JerryLove · 09-11-2008, 11:29 AM

I thought her repeated lie that she opposed the "bridge to nowhere" was pretty memorable too.

That said: Obama was talking about McCain when he said that (I mean, his paragraph in which that sentace appeared named and discussed McCain, not Paulin).

I suppose that the McCain campaign could take Paulin's advice to Clinton: stop whining. But I'm pretty sure that the entire plan at this point is to make themselves look persecuted so that the republicans, indignant, show up to support them.

Qingu · 09-11-2008, 11:44 AM

As Obama pointed out, in the analogy, Palin wouldn't be the pig, she'd be the lipstick on McCain's policy-pig.

Of course, it's infuriatingly hypocritical for the Republicans to get in a hissy fit about this, and then not a day later release an ad characterizing Obama as a vicious, prowling wolf eager to "destroy" Palin. At least Obama has been consistent in not doing the things he's attacked the Republicans for doing.