Obama Puts Lipstick On Palin’s Pig’s Eye, Minnesota
WOULD you like the see the moment when Barack Obama lost the race for the US presidency and insulted womankind?
Sure you would…
But you know what he really meant? Sure you do. Obama was talking about St Paul, the scene of Sarah Palin’s triumph. You know, Pig City…
The crowd whoops, as American must, and seem to have taken the “lipstick” line as a reference to Sarah Palin, who described herself at least half jokingly as a pit bull in lipstick.
McCain supporter Jane Swift, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, says:
“It’s clear to me … that Senator Obama owes Governor Palin an apology.”
Perhaps. But he’s not the first male White House wannabe to use the phrase about a female agonist?
Here’s 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.
And Obama’s used the phrase before. Here he is in 2007:
“I think that both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have been given an impossible assignment…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.”
But what of more subtle take on it all? The Republican convention was in St Paul, Minnesota, formely known as Pig’s Eye, Minnesota, so called after Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant, the first person of European descent to live within the borders of what would eventually become the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The religionists changed Pig’s Eye to St Paul and tried to smarten up an unlovely town.
You know, like putting lipstick on a pig, so to speak…
September 10th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Now this is just plain bickering! I defended Palin when attacks were geared towards her family. I heard what Sen Obama said in detail and did not feel like it was directed towards Gov. Palin. Read the transcript. As a solid republican supporter I must agree that it is a cheap use of the sexist card by the republican party. Do research and you will find it is common Washington verbage also used by McCain at one point. Lets grow up and wait to hear what she has to say on her views and direction of the country. Lets not play the victims when we are just as much to blame on scrutiny of our opponents! To be frank bickering like this and playing victim is really turning me and alot of other McCain/Palin supporters off. It is getting to the point that sheerly the media and our opponents feel like they are walking on thin ice when mentioning her. Almost as if she is untouchable. C’mon….Thanks!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:35 am
I think Obama is thinking more along the lines of, ‘Get thee to a piggery!
……. After that terrific speech of hers last week.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Do they all hate women?
September 10th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Obama is losing it in general and, as we have seen before, he cannot speak well without a teleprompter. This sort of nastiness shows that he is not at all the one to reach out and bring people together.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:27 am
..they all seem to like lipstick & pigs.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:42 am
What about the makeup he has on his purple lips?
September 10th, 2008 at 7:52 am
It’s a crude phrase and used in the context of women…
September 10th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Purple lips?
September 10th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Obama is a PIG. And, if he wasn’t surrounded by 50 people, I would tell him that his wife is a PIG too.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:30 am
So there!
That’s told them.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Yep; informing the world via Anokra is a pretty big standing up to be counted moment in anyone’s life…
September 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Everyone is missing the point. Obama was saying that Palin is the lipstick and McCain is the pig - Palin is the newspaper and McCain is the fish. So infact he complimented Palin and insulted McCain. It is a very accurate analogy that clearly illustrates the trick republicans are trying to pull on the America people to get their pig elected. That pig being John McCain. But lipstick smears and wears off quickly. It needs to be re-applied, which is why McCain keeps Palin so close on the campaign trail. Without Palin to make McCain look good everyone will see him for what he really is. Also not enough attention is being paid to the fact that Palin is an unknown quantity who is turning out to be quite deceptive, vindictive and extreme and alot of her attraction to voters come down to her looks, compared to Obama and McCain. So even if the analogy is applied to her it is very accurate and highlights how her looks are bing used to manipulate voters. She looks good but she is a pig of a politician. The lip-stick on a pig analogy is also an accurate discription of McCains lies about being an agent of change and a maverick. All three interpretation of the lipstick/pig analogy clearly describes how the America people are being deceived by the McCain Palin ticket. A vote for Palin and McCain truly is a vote for lipstick on a pig, whichever way you look at it. After two weeks of republican hype and hoopla Obama has very accurately described the republican ticket in a way that everyone can easily understand.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
..I suppose Baraks “looks” don’t count in this election ..he is young & black but who cares….as long as he is’nt a pig & he does’nt wear lipstick . By the way …has’nt Barak put Hilary Clinton up to counter punch Sarah Palin ? Does Hillary wear lipstick?
September 10th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
possibly - but she is definitely a rottweiler….
September 10th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
….a dog wearing lipstick then.I never heard such a thing…..now I’ve heard of a pig wearing lipstick….but I don’t believe it……pigs are natural creatures without the makeup….whereas politicians are…
September 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Wow.
If you are going to take a comment out of context, you probably shouldn’t show the context via youtube.
Obama wasn’t referring to Palin. Obama was referring to McCain dressing up the same old GOP policies as change.
I wonder how many people can be duped by this bogus lipstick charge…