Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Republicans want to pull the kid gloves back out.

After leveling vicious attacks against Obama since before he was even the nominee, the Republicans want to put the kid gloves back on. The McCain campaign says that Senator Obama needs to apologize for comments he made about Governor Palin. What Senator Obama said was that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. You can wrap a fish in paper called change, but it still stinks. His comments were directed squarley at Senator McCain. However the McCain campaign now wants an apology for Governor Palin. Is this going to be the new stratedgy? Every time Obama points out a glaring diparage between McCains actions and words, they can just jump up and down screaming be nice to the girl. Talk about sexism. Just more proof that even the McCain camp doesn't take Palin seriously. (want another example how about passing out buttons at RNC that said "The hottest governor from the coolest state") The McCain camp gets question both Barack and Michelle's patriotism, use images of terrorist supporting foreign leaders with Obama in ads, bring up Jeremiah Wright, and try to link him to a "terrorist" from the sixities. But now something not even directed at Palin is too much. Seriously how long will people accept the McCain campaign feeding us BS and telling us it's steak. Oh does it matter that John McCain said, "it's like putting lipstick on a pig" in reference to Hilary Clinton's health care plan? Wake up people.

1 comment:

John Snowden said...

I just posted a similar sentiment, but I think they key point that's missed is that his context had nothing to do with Palin. The joke was a valid use of a modern expression whether you think McCain is the same as Bush or not.

I say "shut up" to this sort of juvenile attack.

I will say that had he made that joke about Palin directly, that'd be out of bounds. But he didn't, people. Even if it was about her policies it'd be in bounds. But it wasn't even about her policies, it was about McCain's policies.