Palin is the lipstick in the metaphor

[Enrique]

McCain-Bush is the pig.

That is all.

[Betsy Ross]

1. I like it! eom

[Pirate Smile]

2. This is a phrase Obama uses and has used long before Palin.

Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig
09 Sep 2008 07:06 pm

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:

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, 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....

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

[Salviati]

3. And so has everyone else in this country...

If any republican gives a Democrat some crap about it the proper response is to apologize to the republican for assuming that they're a native english speaker, and then explain the idiom to them. Of course you might have to explain what an idiom is first :)

That should drive them sufficiently crazy to shut them the hell up.

[pristinebullet]

4. McCain knows the remark was innocent

But he pretends not to know it in order to stir up his base.

[secondwind]

5. McCain used the same phrase himself a while back

[BlooInBloo]

7. Ask and ye shall receive....

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_09_07_archive.html#1414205842951572720

[stuntcat]

6. that ..

I only watched it once but what you say seems TOTALLY closer to what he was meaning.

They're so obviously trying to pretty up what a big mess of bully PIGS they are.

[yeswewill1111]

8. Grrrr!!!!

Here is the link from drudge...lots of racist comments going on..

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