Disability & Politics

McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

 

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 Justin again thanks for a great link and this added to a story intodays paper about Palin
First Year As Mayor I do not want people learning to what to ask. Appears to me Obama knows what to ask and is up to speed and well Biden he is up to speed.

JUSTIN,THANKS FOR THE VIDEOS! LOL,TOOTSIE

DSB:

[ib] I do not want people learning to what to ask.[/b]

 

Well, there’s a typical democrat thinking process.  We don’t want people “learning what to ask”.  God forbid they learn and develope and better serve the people.  People should stay right where they are the way they are and keep the masses in their classes.  Geesh, talk about elitist!    BTW, you should also mention that her mayoral time may have had a rough start but  she was re-elected and only stepped down due to term limitations.  

 

Her first months were so contentious and polarizing that critics started talking of a recall.  

But the situation calmed, and rather than being recalled, Palin was re-elected. She later acknowledged, "I grew tremendously in my early months as mayor." 

TriDog:

DSB:

[ib] I do not want people learning to what to ask.[/b]

 

Well, there’s a typical democrat thinking process.  We don’t want people “learning what to ask”.  God forbid they learn and develope and better serve the people.  People should stay right where they are the way they are and keep the masses in their classes.  Geesh, talk about elitist!    BTW, you should also mention that her mayoral time may have had a rough start but  she was re-elected and only stepped down due to term limitations.  

 

Her first months were so contentious and polarizing that critics started talking of a recall.  

But the situation calmed, and rather than being recalled, Palin was re-elected. She later acknowledged, "I grew tremendously in my early months as mayor." 

 

Typical GOP tactics .......... whine about lipstick on a pig being a slur on Palin when McCain himself used it to refer to Hillary Clinton's health care plan during the primarys and the phrase is a common one used by politicians.......The word for the day is whine ......... can we have some cheese with that?

 

Palin Camp Takes Umbrage at 'Lipstick on a Pig' Comment

Updated 10:28 p.m.
By Peter Slevin and Michael D. Shear
LEBANON, Va. -- Sen. Barack Obama talked about the barnyard tonight, but whether he intended an epithet was in the ear of the beholder.

"John McCain says he's about change, too," Obama said, leading into a string of ways he contends McCain represents more of the same -- economic policy, taxes, education, foreign policy, campaign tactics. "That's not change. That's just calling something that's the same thing something different.

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig," Obama went on, and the crowd erupted into shrieks, whoops and cheers. "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink, after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing."

Lipstick.

Pig.

Which candidate for national office has likened herself to a pit bull with lipstick?

That would be Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Obama had barely finished when the Republican National Committee staged a conference call with former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift (R), who said in high dudgeon that Obama had made "disgusting comments, comparing our vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, to a pig."

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said he had done no such thing.

Reporters quickly unearthed evidence that Obama had said the same thing about Iraq policy, pointing to a reference the Illinois senator made last year: "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."

Later, it turned out that McCain himself used the phrase more than once, including last year, when he was talking about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1990s health care plan.

He said last October, "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."

Speaking about opponents of President Bush's Iraq strategy last year, McCain criticized their reasoning.

"It gets down to whether you support what is being done in this new strategy or you don't," McCain said. "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig, in my view."

The phrase is a common one, so much so that Torie Clarke, the former Pentagon communications director in the Bush administration -- a Republican and a woman -- named her book "Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in a No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game."

That did not stop Swift from taking umbrage that Obama would use such wording, which she likened to the kind of language most often heard on a children's playground.

"Calling a very prominent female governor a pig is not what we want," Swift said, describing Obama's comments as "offensive."

When asked by a female reporter how she could be sure Obama was talking about Palin, she replied, "As far as I know, she's the only one of the presidential candidates or vice presidential candidates who wears lipstick. It seemed to me a very gendered comment. There's only one woman in the race. It's directly analogous to comments she has made."

The comment would be Palin's. Describing herself as a "hockey mom," she seemed proud of the image she painted when she said in her autobiographical speech to the Republican National Convention, "They say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: Lipstick."

Obama's lipstick line thrilled the crowd in a steamy high school gymnasium in rural southwest Virginia. A half-dozen supporters said afterward that Palin's own lipstick comment was not the first thought that came to mind, although a few said it was not out of the question that Obama was trying to make that connection.

"I didn't really take it that way. Probably should have," said Jeffrey Brown, a fervent Obama supporter from Belfast, Va., who describes himself as a Christian from the lower middle class. "Look, these campaigns are mean. We know that. Things get slung around."

JoAnn Vicars, a retired Bristol police employee, thought Obama's remark was great: "Loved it!" She and several friends scoffed at the idea that Obama was talking about Palin.

"That's the way we talk, buddy," Vicars said, in a raspy local accent.

Brown, in any event, figures on adding the lipstick line to his own political repertoire.

"I thought it was awesome," Brown said. "It's the truth, for one thing. I'm going to start using it right now as I campaign for him."

"Enough is enough," Obama adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters at 9 p.m. "The Mc Cain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy -- the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year."

Dunn said, "This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run."

Anne E. Kornblut contributed to this report. Kornblut and Shear reported from Ohio.

TriDog:

DSB:

[ib] I do not want people learning to what to ask.[/b]

 

Well, there’s a typical democrat thinking process.  We don’t want people “learning what to ask”.  God forbid they learn and develope and better serve the people.  People should stay right where they are the way they are and keep the masses in their classes.  Geesh, talk about elitist!    BTW, you should also mention that her mayoral time may have had a rough start but  she was re-elected and only stepped down due to term limitations.  

 

Her first months were so contentious and polarizing that critics started talking of a recall.  

But the situation calmed, and rather than being recalled, Palin was re-elected. She later acknowledged, "I grew tremendously in my early months as mayor." 

 

Typical GOP tactics .......... whine about lipstick on a pig being a slur on Palin when McCain himself used it to refer to Hillary Clinton's health care plan during the primarys and the phrase is a common one used by politicians.......The word for the day is whine ......... can we have some cheese with that?

 

Palin Camp Takes Umbrage at 'Lipstick on a Pig' Comment

Updated 10:28 p.m.
By Peter Slevin and Michael D. Shear
LEBANON, Va. -- Sen. Barack Obama talked about the barnyard tonight, but whether he intended an epithet was in the ear of the beholder.

"John McCain says he's about change, too," Obama said, leading into a string of ways he contends McCain represents more of the same -- economic policy, taxes, education, foreign policy, campaign tactics. "That's not change. That's just calling something that's the same thing something different.

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig," Obama went on, and the crowd erupted into shrieks, whoops and cheers. "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink, after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing."

Lipstick.

Pig.

Which candidate for national office has likened herself to a pit bull with lipstick?

That would be Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Obama had barely finished when the Republican National Committee staged a conference call with former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift (R), who said in high dudgeon that Obama had made "disgusting comments, comparing our vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, to a pig."

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said he had done no such thing.

Reporters quickly unearthed evidence that Obama had said the same thing about Iraq policy, pointing to a reference the Illinois senator made last year: "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."

Later, it turned out that McCain himself used the phrase more than once, including last year, when he was talking about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1990s health care plan.

He said last October, "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."

Speaking about opponents of President Bush's Iraq strategy last year, McCain criticized their reasoning.

"It gets down to whether you support what is being done in this new strategy or you don't," McCain said. "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig, in my view."

The phrase is a common one, so much so that Torie Clarke, the former Pentagon communications director in the Bush administration -- a Republican and a woman -- named her book "Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in a No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game."

That did not stop Swift from taking umbrage that Obama would use such wording, which she likened to the kind of language most often heard on a children's playground.

"Calling a very prominent female governor a pig is not what we want," Swift said, describing Obama's comments as "offensive."

When asked by a female reporter how she could be sure Obama was talking about Palin, she replied, "As far as I know, she's the only one of the presidential candidates or vice presidential candidates who wears lipstick. It seemed to me a very gendered comment. There's only one woman in the race. It's directly analogous to comments she has made."

The comment would be Palin's. Describing herself as a "hockey mom," she seemed proud of the image she painted when she said in her autobiographical speech to the Republican National Convention, "They say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: Lipstick."

Obama's lipstick line thrilled the crowd in a steamy high school gymnasium in rural southwest Virginia. A half-dozen supporters said afterward that Palin's own lipstick comment was not the first thought that came to mind, although a few said it was not out of the question that Obama was trying to make that connection.

"I didn't really take it that way. Probably should have," said Jeffrey Brown, a fervent Obama supporter from Belfast, Va., who describes himself as a Christian from the lower middle class. "Look, these campaigns are mean. We know that. Things get slung around."

JoAnn Vicars, a retired Bristol police employee, thought Obama's remark was great: "Loved it!" She and several friends scoffed at the idea that Obama was talking about Palin.

"That's the way we talk, buddy," Vicars said, in a raspy local accent.

Brown, in any event, figures on adding the lipstick line to his own political repertoire.

"I thought it was awesome," Brown said. "It's the truth, for one thing. I'm going to start using it right now as I campaign for him."

"Enough is enough," Obama adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters at 9 p.m. "The Mc Cain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy -- the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year."

Dunn said, "This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run."

Anne E. Kornblut contributed to this report. Kornblut and Shear reported from Ohio.