Yes, the sort of ad designed to run during cable news stories… and never actually runs anywhere else. I’m sure our ever gullible water-carrying media will eat it up, however.
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If Obama wasn’t dumb enough to mnake the remark in the first place, the McCain campaign couldn’t run an ad about it. As if the Obama campaign wouldn’t do the same in reverse.
At least McCain isn’t running an ad quoting Obama’s reference to his muslim faith from last week.
Dumbness doesn’t enter into it, Hedley. It wasn’t a dumb remark and you know it.
For being a self-admitted technological luddite, Senator McCain sure has a campaign which can put out responses quickly and efficiently.
Three months ago if someone had told me that the McCain campaign would be running circles around the Obama campaign I’d have called that person a liar. Yet here we are where, almost as fast as Obama’s campaign can issue a clarification, McCain’s has a perfect-for-TV spot up on YouTube. And, as Mr. Willis points out, it will be on the news channels being discussed, getting McCain’s ad on TV for free. This is text book “being inside the decision loop”. The McCain campaign is responding faster to situations than the Obama camoaign. Even if Obama’s responses are “better” than McCain’s, the response is to a situation which doesn’t exist as it was, so the response is ineffective.
Barack Obama.
Off message, 12 days and still going strong.
More, please.
Obama campaign should run an ad with these prominent Republicans using the same pig phrase:
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig,
but it’s still a pig.” – John McCain criticizing Hillary Clinton’s health care plan, October 11th, 2007
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
– Fred Thompson, January 15th, 2008
And then remind the American public that McCain is misleading them and attempting to avoid talking about his policies on the economy, war, healthcare, etc, etc.
It was a dumb remark in the context of Gov. Palin being a woman and having just made a lipstick reference in her acceptance speech. Someone certainly knew, or should have known, that such a connection would be made. If not for the context of Gov. Palin’s speech then you would be right and it would not have been a dumb remark and no one would have thought twice about it.
t was a dumb remark in the context of Gov. Palin being a woman and having just made a lipstick reference in her acceptance speech.
Hold on. Palin said the word “lipstick” so now every remark that uses that word can be assumed to be about her?
And this is how you children want to choose the leader of the free world?
Godamighty.
Off message, 12 days and still going strong.
Hey, remember those PUMAs? The ones that Oliver and his fellow Obama supporters were laughing off as “McCain supporters pretending to be pissed off Hillary supporters”?
Maybe they shouldn’t have been so quick to blow them off.
Or maybe the Palin attacks are pissing them off. Regardless of the reason, a 20 point swing in a week.
The difference Vanessa and everybody else with the, ‘WAAAAA, THEY SAID IT FIRST” argument?
Hmm. What’s the word? Juxtaposition?
(A Maccaca moment indeed.)
Unfortunatly for the Obama campaign, commenters on the LA Times are better one-liner writers than the people Obama pays a fortune.
What’s the difference between GWB and Palin?- Lipstick
Now THAT is brilliant. It is cutting. It is topical. And it gets Obama back on message tying McCain/Palin to Bush. It’s not twistable into some sort of sexist comment. It would even look good on a bumper sticker or T-shirt.
Hell, since I’m a helpful guy, if the Obama campaign were to use that line in a commercial, they could cut in that picture of Bush as a cheerleader back in college showing that GWB and Palin aren’t even seperated by lipstick.
“I tell rape jokes but don’t talk about lipstick”-Carol McCain’s abandoner
Off-topic
And since the hits just keep on coming, this morning Senator Obama announced his 49 State Campaign with his withdrawl from Georgia.
http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/28130979.html
He didn’t want Russia to withdraw from Georgia as quickly as he has.
For being a self-admitted technological luddite, Senator McCain sure has a campaign which can put out responses quickly and efficiently.
It all started turning around when Steve Schmidt took over the day to day operations of the campaign.
Hold on. Palin said the word “lipstick” so now every remark that uses that word can be assumed to be about her?
CODE WORDS! DOG WHISTLES!
And this is how you children want to choose the leader of the free world?
Deliciously ironic considering the Obama campaign and their supporters spent two weeks yelling “Houses!! How many houses?!?”
Your faux outrage is duly noted.
In 2012 we’ll see who can make the naughtiest anagram out of what the other candidate said, and just pick the president that way. “I believe in universal access to affordable health care” will become “I eat babies.”
Just when you thought “lipstick on a pig” meant something else
Nope Quaker. The Obama/Biden ticket would have still had dozens of lipstick references even if Mitt Romney were the VP candidate.
http://politicalhub.tv/2008/09/10/democrat-introduces-biden-with-lipstick-line/
To paraphrase Stonewall Jackson, anyone who cannot see the hand of Rove in this is blind, suh, blind.
Thanks, mccann. I’m sure Obama is glad for your advice on how not to do something that he never did in the first place.
j mccann, only an idiot would claim that Obama called Palin a pig. Are you an idiot? Because it sure seems like it. My advice: stop being an idiot. Seriously, why are you saying such transparently stupid things? Were you born that way, or has your association with the republicans and John McCain turned you into that sort of person? We’ve seen McCain transform himself into aq moral defective who’s unfit for civilized society. I assume that the same thing is happening to you.
As Jay, j mccann, et. al. demonstrate, most people shilling for McCain are pretty low on the intellectual scale, and lack basic literacy. I’m really not sure their opinions are particularly relevant or welcome.
It’s becoming more and more clear that this election is becoming a fight against the oncoming onslught of moral defectives and public idiocy embodied by join McCain and his fanatical activists. They went so far as to attack Obama for supporting education to protect children from child molestors. McCain supporters are moral aliens. Why they believe they are entitled to any moral or intellectual repsect is anyone’s guess.
This McCain ad was the stunt that finally put Andrew Sullivan in the Obama column. How much evidence did you NEED? I ask.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/mccains-integri.html
Anybody else see McNovocain playing with his wedding ring again yesterday as Sarah was speaking?
Where are Bill-O’s body language experts when you really need them?
This McCain ad was the stunt that finally put Andrew Sullivan in the Obama column.
“finally put Andrew Sullivan in the Obama column”?
What are you smoking, bozo? Faux-conservative Excitable Andy Sullivan has been worshiping at the Obama altar for a long time.
Here’s an example going back to December 2007.
How much evidence did you NEED? I ask.
So your argument is that if Excitable Andy is against McCain and for Obama, then no other evidence is needed?
You may want to work on that a bit.
It’s a mistake to call these lipstick controversy peddlers idiots. The fact is, they are liars and hypocrites (McCain has used the lipstick/pig expression himself, see Vanessa post above), and the use of these false accusations is completely consistent with his overall campaign strategy.
Face it, he can talk about being a maverick, having integrity, uniting America etc. but a glance at his behavior just shows: you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig
Oink
On a related note, BlueTexan’s ass-kicking of this sort of tactic over at Instaputz – What McCain and Palin don’t want to talk about
Damn, didn’t do the link right. It’s on their front page if anybody’s interested.
Mccann, once again you demonstrate how much of an ass you are. Even meghan McCain disagrees with you.
whoops. Damn dangling tags.
OMG!!! How can you people support this hateful man???
Obviously, you’re talking about somebody else.
Dave in SoCal: “So your argument is that if Excitable Andy is against McCain and for Obama, then no other evidence is needed?”
What argument? I was merely reporting. Oh, you mean an argument that OTHER people should line up behind “Andy?” The inference was your own projection. I give people, particularly most people commenting here, MUCH more credit than that. I’ve been enthusiastically supporting Obama for reasons too numerous to mention, since about February.
anotherbozo
formerly of SoCal
It’s a mistake to call these lipstick controversy peddlers idiots. The fact is, they are liars and hypocrites
Well, McCain himself is certainly a liar and a hypocrite, as is Palin. It’s highly likely, however, that j mccann is simply very stupid, which is why he’s taking the “lipstick” baton and running with it. We have to distinguish between the highly dishonest and dishonorable candidates and their very, very stupid minions.
CODE WORDS! DOG WHISTLES!
I see. You don’t actually believe this nonsense either.
And faux outrage? There’s nothing faux about it.
Jay, the difference is that Obama supports and promotes various woman’s issues, such as the right to choose and equal pay. McCain doesn’t. As for making an issue of McCain’s seven houses, it is symbolic of McCain’s utter ignorance about the economy. “Nation of Whiners”, $40/hour lettuce picking, things are just dandy and all that.
So Jay and jmccann ARE the same person? You guys made fun of me when I said that a couple weeks ago!
So Jay and jmccann ARE the same person?
No. Jay has never had a need to mask his opinion behind a sock puppet.
So, if this is not some kind of inside joke, why are all the above commenters bitching about jmccann? Because he didn’t comment on this thread.