I had to blog this yesterday as soon as I heard it on the Hugh Hewitt show. And at the time, nobody had really picked up the story other than Drudge. But it's all over the blogosphere and the news today. The McCain campaign even launched a web-only response ad (above). And the more I look at the context in which Obama made his comment, the more I'm convinced this was no coincidence. I may think Obama's dead wrong on the issues, but I don't believe he's stupid. I'm quite sure these remarks were carefully planned.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."Ed Morrissey notes that Obama's audience certainly picked up on the inferences in his idiom.
"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."
Given that Palin had very publicly made the lipstick/pit bull joke during her widely-seen acceptance speech, it certainly seems that Obama intended to reference both Palin and McCain respectively in this sequence, with Palin being the pig and McCain the "old fish" wrapped in change. The crowd certainly understood what Obama meant, and roared appreciatively.---
UPDATE: One of Michelle Malkin's readers has an awesome idea..."disgruntled women should send Obama their lipstick." Oink for Obama!
Here's the mailing address:---
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003
DNC Main Phone Number:
(202) 863-8000
Obama's campaign address: (thanks to commenter Mediakatz)
Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, IL 60680
Obama's campaign headquarters phone number:
(866) 675-2008
UPDATE: Here's another reason to disbelieve Obama's huffing denials and feigned outrage. This lipstick kerfuffle is looking more and more like the result of a carefully planned and disseminated Obamaton talking point that backfired. Yesterday, Rep. Russ Carnahan (D- MO) introduced Obama's running-mate Sen. Joe Biden with the following line: (h/t: Allahpundit)
"There's no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick."
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