You botched the joke, Barry O
Lipstick on a pit bull, genius.
Not “pig.”
The reaction of the audience speaks for itself. Watch the clip here.
Now, can you imagine if McCain had joked like this about Michelle O?
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There’s lots of debate here in the comments thread and across the blogosphere about whether the McCain camp is overreacting, whether Obama should get the benefit of the doubt for using a common old metaphor at the wrong place and time, etc., etc.
Was he being malicious? Probably not. But it’s yet another in a long line of rhetorical gaffes that demonstrate his ineptitude.
Or, as one commenter below summed it up succinctly: “The guy’s a jerk.”
***
I should also note Obama’s diss of McCain. Welcome to civility, hope, change, and new politics:
“That’s not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.
“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”
The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’” Obama continued, “it’s still gonna stink after eight years.
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Reader Linda: “Someone commenting on my blog re. the Obama ‘lipstick on a pig’ gaffe suggested that disgruntled women should send Obama their lipstick. Not a bad idea!”
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Is it just me or Obama wearing short pants?
AJ – #56
I think you have too much content there.
there is a ” . ” there
lmao, aj!
oops, forgot: ‘or is Obama wesaring short pants?’
(mea culpa, McQueen just said something funny to Faye Dunaway)
I do not give Obama the benefit of the doubt on this one. Why? Because even if he wasn’t aware how some might take this, he should have noticed that his entire audience rose to their feet applauding that line. If it was an innocent mistake, then he should have quieted the crowd right then and straightened it out.
If Obama wasn’t aware of the implications of his statement, then he was the dumbest one in a very large room.
From Drudge:
Bwaahaahaahaahaahaa
The NY Gov. is a stinkin’ RACIST!
‘Community organizer’ is another way of saying ‘Communist agitator’, you stinkin’ moron! It is has nothing to do with the color of his skin!
You are the one playing the race card, you idiot!
This is my world. Even in local politics, speeches are scrutinized before delivery. As much as I dislike this man, he can’t be that arrogant.
I agree 1000% absolutely.
They did it on purpose, both beckel and obama.
Hotair has vid of Beckel saying PIG from yesterday but focuses on other Beckel remarks he got ‘caught’ saying to a producer.
I have ZERO trust that the ZEROBAMA camp wouldn’t do this.
ZERO! (hold your hands high now)
SSSshhhhhhh!
although very true, they don’t need to use that as an excuse also.
He should look in the mirror before he starts making Pig Jokes.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image: Oink!
Macaca moment?
Is it over?
What are you getting at? That Obama knew 9/11 was going to happen?
…it would follow that you could give a pig an ivy-league education and it would still act like a pig
Exactly. Somebody needs to tell Hannity this. He keeps saying he doesn’t know what a community organizer is.
I think the “old fish” reference that followed this lipstick comment was referencing John McCain. OLD fish. Most of the media is not catching this. That reference is what leads me to believe the lipstick and fish reference IS referring to Palin and McCain… despite the denials of the Obama Implosion machine.
His comment was obviously directed at Mrs. Palin and if anyone says it wasn’t is willingly blind to the truth. I agree with those that say his campaign is imploding but the media will carry him through like it did john f’ing kerry. There will also be voter fraud that will be overlooked unless it is suspected that a district came out in McCain/Palin’s favor then there will be demands of recounts. Actually I don’t think the lipstick remark was his own, someone wrote it for him because there weren’t any er’s or uh’s in it same as when he mentioned his muslum faith.
So much for that politics of hope and change and that new shiny glow. Obummer fanatics are making excuses for this empty suit on websites like Politico, saying that the whole “lipstick on a pig” comment is an “old saying.” Well, when the whole audience assumed it was an inside joke about Sarah Palin, then I think this attempt at humor is pretty lame.
How ’bout that dead fish in a wrapper comment? I knew that Obummer didn’t have much substance before this incident, I never thought he could be classless.
Oh, I’m sorry he’s the “world’s citizen,” a reflection of a world that wants America to bend over and be subservient to the whims of dictators and socialism run amock.
No, thank you. Stay classy there, liberals.
Nice choice, atheling.
Let’s not make a huge deal out of this. We already know they are hypocrites because they prove it every time they open their mouths.
On September 9th, 2008 at 9:42 pm, Mookie said:
Let Obama’s words speak for themselves:
A candidate has nothing to sell but words. Barack Hussein “Words Matter” Obama knows this.
If Obama’s not choosing his words very carefully, he’s even more risk as our Commander In Chief.
Gosh, I wonder what would happen if McCain got up and told a joke about egg on a Monkey…..
This Obama character is starting to make John Francois Kerry look like a master campaigner. What a dimwit.
This has probably already been pointed out, but someone whose initials are B.O. shouldn’t be making jokes about people stinking!
Speaking of pigs, does anyone know if bho eats bacon, or ham, or pork of any kind? Does his daughters have a dog as a pet? Just wondering…..I’m sure ya’ll know what I’m getting at.
He eats pork.
He eats
pork100 dollar a lb ham….. and only a taste for the camera’s.Wonder if he’ll talk about her hair next.
Correct, FS – had Gov. palin not used the imagery in refering to herself just a week a go in her VP acceptance speech and subsequent campaign stops, it wouldn’t be out of place. But this written for Obama as a purely personal-level red-meat attack against Palin as even the Obamedia’s ABC News “Political Punch” blog noted:
“The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, “What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
Also, as noted here, it was his second “lipstick-based” attack on her in just one day.
His speechwriters probably imagined it was a good red-meat line to work up the Obamite faithful. Which it was. The problem for Obama is that he’s using these personally insulting attacks to court those whom he already has won – to everyone else he’s just being crude at a very base level.
His writers made a bad judgment in using this particular personal level attack mode and his complete failure to percieve how it would backfire on him bigtime with the general public (and women in particular) demonstrates he’s not the sharpest pencil in the box.
By way of demonstration: If Obama refered to himself as a “Number Two Lead Pencil”, the last line in the previous paragraph would be a personal-level cheap shot.
CoffeeGuzzler said:
When he was in Philly, Obama ate $100/lb. pork instead of cheesesteak.
C’mon guys, he isn’t a muslim. Most likely, I believe he is a “convenient Christian”. That is, he puts forth a flimsy Christian facade because it benefits him to do so, while being a practicing atheist. Does anyone seriously believe this guy takes the Bible seriously after some of the comments/actions he’s taken?
You know the root by the fruit. And no, that wasn’t a racist comment about “Roots”, it is a paraphrase of a Biblical teaching.
I’d agree with that one…he is not the brightest light bulb on the planet…of course those that blindly follow this empty shell are almost as bad…
Obama is such a jerk. I can’t stand the guy.
Please, let’s not become the overly sensitive nuts that the libs have become. If we start wasting our time hyperanalyzing everything that is said, we will have lowered ourselves to their level. Ok, so what if he was referring to Palin? Both sides have used these tactics, so we would be hypocrites to say otherwise. Besides, we all know he is full of it. Sticks and stones.
I read it as Obama calling Sarah Palin a “pig” and McCain an “old fish”.
Pretty lame “joke” but there’s no other way to read it that I can see.
Hey MM:
Is this Obama’s macaca moment?
It is if we keep on it and force the press to force him to address it.
Anyone got a pig suit to dress up in for the next few Obama gatherings?
He is his speech writers. You can not separate the two. That type of arrogance and recklessness in international politics is dangerous.
Obama may not practice Islam. He may not be a Muslim any longer, although he is one according to Islamic law, as his father was Muslim.
Nevertheless, the Muslim world regards him as a Muslim:
An Obama Presidency will encourage and hearten the Muslim world. And that’s not good for America.
He might have used the “lipstick on a pig” line as a well-kown metaphor, or he might have meant it as a direct reference to Palin’s lipstick/pit bull remark. Either way, he clearly doesn’t have the rhetorical or diplomatic skills that could magically transform Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into Mr. Rogers, as he’d like us to believe.
“purplepeep said:
His writers made a bad judgment in using this particular personal level attack”
Naw, FamilyFella, when he wings it he’s all “umm…uhhh….er…”. His handlers came up with something that was too clever by half and fed it to him.
But I did agree with you in noting he was incredibly stupid in not knowing that no good could come from using the “she’s a pig” attack line.
Of course, you might be right – something this dumb is just as likely to have Obama’s fingerprints all over it.
macaca
Look, the whole Obama is a muslim thing, and his middle name is Hussein is childish. I couldn’t care less what some guy in Iran thinks his religion is. Obama is bad for America for the simple reason that he is perceived by our enemies as weak (because he is weak).
As a public speaker, I am telling you, when you say something that visibly stirs your audience, you notice it. You certainly can’t miss a standing ovation. And the line certainly wasn’t that good.
If you say something that the audience obviously takes the wrong way, you stop right there and clear it up. He can spin it however he likes, this is just more votes for McCain/Palin.
GAME OVER – McCAin up 20 by this time next week.
GAME OVER – McCAin up 20 by this time next week.
It doesn’t really matter how BHO meant this comment. That’s not an issue. The real issue is how his comments are perceived. Perception is everything when you are in a campaign (or most other jobs, come to think of it). Anyone with half a brain would know how this comment would be perceived by many people because of the “lipstick” component of his statement. That’s what makes it bad for BHO. If he doesn’t have the good sense not to say something in a speech that would be perceived in such a way, he has no business representing the United States. The idea is downright terrifying considering Iran, Russia, and China. Think of the serious problems his gaffes like this would create.
Please note that Bob Beckel called her the exact same thing when talking to Bill Hemmer the other day. I don’t believe in coincidence.
You’re mssing the point, L-Mom. This helps frame Obama by using his own words: What kind of guy goes around refering to women as “pigs”?
That’s what should be the talk (subtext) of the next news cycle with Obama and his minions having to repeatedly explain that he’s really not crude and sexist.
So it’s not at all about being “sensitive nuts”, L-Mom, it’s more like being thankful for Obama being the “gaffe that keeps on gaffing”.
It would make a lot more sense to sell the oil to Russia and Japan but I’ll let you figure out why.
Exactly! Spot on! Ditto!
Errr…that is, I agree.
Malkin demagoguery and misplaced outrage at its finest…you’ve officially jumped the shark. A serious policy discussion regarding issues would be nice at some point. This site is quickly becoming a blog tabloid.
Pill, you are a seriously unhinged individual.
dakine, Seriously, after all that has been said by the dems since Palin came on that stage you really think that MALKIN is the problem here? She is just repeating what democrats are saying. Todays comments alone are worth at least 2 more points for McCain.
Let’s have a serious policy discussion regarding the issue of cosmetics testing on swine.
What, SonOfDY? You mean the Dems made up “it’s not her baby” story? I’m shocked, shocked!
And thats only 1 of 71 false stories…
And who is providing the fodder? Dems are going completely tabloid on Palin. They are the ones who need to discuss policy.
Here’s the key; has he used the phrase before? I use the phrase a lot, so I would have plausible deniability. If there aren’t tapes of him using this before and this is new to his vernacular, then it was a deliberate piece of snide smear. I’ll lay odds on the latter.
lol, yeah, it would be nice if Obama had a stance on anything other than “present”
Why didn’t he want to discuss any of the “Issues” with McCain when invited to join in on TEN town hall meetings???
Answer: no teleprompter.
Pardon me, but aren’t pig jokes popular among Muslims? Is this evidence of something suppressed?
His sexist pig comment is just the latest proof that BHO has totally Lost it. Sarah is Obama’s ‘worst nightmare’ – a Real American Woman, with more relevant experience, accomplishments, and political acumen than the Obama. Game Over!
More confirmation that the Republicans are using the “they’re being mean to Sarah,” whine to divert attention from the fact that McCain’s policies are unpopular and his “change” theme is ludicrous.
The line clearly referred to McCain’s bogus change theme, and not to anyone at all. And you can tell by the body language, that it wasn’t even a particularly important line as far as BO was concerned.
Playing the victim card, rather than deal with real charges, once again.
Here’s a thought…McCain wins, then Palin runs in 2012 against Obama. You know the left never learn from their mistakes…so why not try again?
Could B.O. have been baiting McCain, hoping McCain would call for an apology, then play innocent victim? Given B.O.’s campaigns recent focus on lipstick, I can’t imagine this was an off-the-cuff remark.
News flash – your candidate has the IQ of 2 less than a cucumber.
Yup, Michael, if he uses it as McCain uses “my friend” then it’s not a big deal. If McCain were to pull “my friend” out of thin air a week after the phrase had become a “trademark” phrase for someone as “lipstick” has for Gov. Palin, then it would be a snide attack.
how did that saddleback thing go for you beduffuslib?
Obama was lambasted.
go back to koskidz land.
Obama is commedically challenged just like Gore and Kerry.
I don’t think I can watch the last Obama-O’Reilly go around. I’m tired of Obama polking O’Reilly in the knee. Does he intend to do this with the third word thugs too?
Let’s just skip all the traditional debates and have Palin debate Obama. He can studder all the way while she escorts that neanderthal back to his cave.
Oh, I definitely think the One is stupid enough to draw and bait McPalin.
That’s why they will play it smart and not even acknowledge/respond, just keep chugging forward…..and leave the One in their dust.
There are reports that the bio on Sarah was the HIGHEST rated show ever on FOX.
And this is before her in-depth interview with Gibson airs on ABC. I think he is going to accompany her when she bids her firstborn, Track, goodbye on his deployment…….
This is going to reach out to middle America….
Don’t forget, an Obama camp follower sneered the Sarah is a “Walmart Mom”….and already the reflex is…what’s wrong with that?
He can put on a pretty smile (with or without lipstick) and still be a male chauvinist (…).
The real problem with Sen. Obama’s “judgement” is that it is based on a world view where chauvinism is accepted, terrorists are “mainstream”, and “hope and change” masquerade for achievement. The reason he didn’t “hear” Rev. Wright is because it was just a part of what he expected to hear and it wasn’t “abnormal”. He doesn’t “hear” his own chauvinism until it is pointed out. Then, of course, he is sure you misunderstood him.
Thank the GODS! Otherwise this crap wouldn’t be worth reading… La Malkin may be a lot of things, but she’s certainly not stupid; she knows exactly what she’s doing, and I wouldn’t blame her one little bit if she were literally rolling around in it all the way to the bank. And the comments… The most hilarious entertainment lots of us get all day is doing dramatic readings of the comments on michellemalkin.com!
I agree with navywife, aj… that there is some goood stuff.
In trying times like this, Winston Churchill really comes in handy. With all that this man went through, he certainly was a gentleman with whom many Americans of opposing viewpoint should reacquaint themselves. When the media and his witless followers blew up Obummer’s ego to enormous, unattainable heights, it was to be expected that some of that extra helium would eventually be “deflated.”
My BS meter was immediately awakened when I heard Obummer promising more funds for Charter Schools while claiming that McCain only sought to cut funding to the greatest boondoggle in our country, public education. As a teacher, I’ve worked in charter schools and some worked and some were a complete mess and were just like the chaotic, “included” cesspools that I’d come from. I hear Obummer wants to reward good teachers with merit pay and get rid of the bad seeds but when you pander to the teacher’s unions of this country and take their PAC money, such as claim belies one’s actual stances in the past.
Has this guy every been accountable for a single “misstatement,” “wrong vote,” or absurdity in his short senate career? He lambasts McCain for being in the Senate way too long but at least McCain was busy leaning way over the aisle accommodating liberalism (a little too much). Where was Obummer when bipartisanship needed to happen?
Instead of making lame *ss jokes like today, how about some explanation of how he’s going to solve the following problems:
Social Security?
Public Education?
Medicare/Medicaid?
Illegal Immigration?
Iran?
Iraq?
Healthcare?
Taxes?
I’ve seen his website’s policy statement spin now I want actual, applicable, real life approaches to these things. Not pie in the sky, philosophical drivel. Using Sarah Palin as a butt to a joke addresses none of these issues. I would also like McCain to start wondering why Obummer is too busy attacking, not so concerned with the “issues.”
He’s trying to give him a “tingle” up his leg. ‘Fraid Obamessiah’s lost his mojo.
Well after this “Luca Brazzi” moment by The One, we can say to him “Your campaign sleeps with the fishes.”
You can put a $2500 suit on a dope-smoking, coke-snorting community organizer, but he’s still a dope-smoking coke-snorting community organizer.
That, from my 17 year old son.
He understands.
Naw, laddie, we’re more than happy to let Obama frame himself as a crude sexist. And there’s already context, remember?
ABC News -Obama’s ‘Sweetie’: Spontaneous or Sexist?
As one those Krazy Koz Kidz commented on this gaffe, it might be “the nail in the coffin” of Obama’s candidacy. I really don’t figure that, but it’s a major blunder since the subtext that’ll people stick in the average voter’s mind is “Obama called Gov. Palin a pig”.
This is red-meat for the Obamites, to be sure. But as I said, he’s just preaching to the converted with these attacks. I don’t believe it will play as well with average folks or with females in particular. The subtext is just way too nasty.
Notice on the Hot Air clip where Flinchy is pinching one into the punch bowl that he uses the word “policy” but he is now in possession of a “black accent” when saying the “Poli-CEEEEE” sound…. he says “except for “Tax poli-CEH” He is now sporting this odd sounding rendition of a Virginia drawl.
What a ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
It just keeps better.
Why are you here?
What a sad life you must lead.
I totally agree, dj. I saw the segments that have aired on O’Reilly and Obummer just shadow boxes around the issues. O’Reilly was blunt with some questions but not some others. O’Reilly pushed in some questions and not enough in others. The tax question really was startling because Obummer’s answer indicated how nothing is really defined with him. It’s like he makes it up or backpaddles as he goes along.
I just love Alan Colmes saying that Obummer’s uhhhhhs and uhhhhmmmms represent any kind of “deep thought.” He thinks that if you wait five minutes to answer a freaking question, then the response is “well though out.”
Yeah, I’m frustrated. I’m just tired of all the shadow boxing from this guy. It may work for the socialist gimme gimme crowd, not so much to people who are skeptical of someone who amounts to the slick politicians that Obummer says he isn’t.
More than that, as a former social studies teacher, I’ve seen some 8th grade students give presentations and answer questions from me about their knowledge better than this man. I don’t think he knows as much as he’d like the American voter to think. He may be able to scam many Americans but there are many more who are skeptical of what he’s selling and why.
Hey, Michelle, your thoughts? Could you start a new threat, with posted video segments about the O’Reilly interview?
What is the story with running the Law Review at Harvard Law and Flinchy? He didnt do it alone. Who else was there? Is the media hunting down these huskies?
I’m not surprised that off the tele-prompter Flinchy is just lobbin it into the punch bowl. He plays “baska-ball” you know. Ya.
Puke.
Bear1909 out
Remember how he scrubbed his site clean of his prenouncements the Surge would fail? Depending on his site for his positions is like trusting “Big Brother”. When they are proven to be so dreadfully wrong his “positions” just disappear down the memory hole.
I’ll bet Joey is ecstatic nobody is talking about his gaffe today, so much for civil discourse this election. But as long as we’re down here and we are speaking of lips, he needs to get at least half the money back he paid for baby moma’s lip job.
emjem,
Check out this video. It’s got plenty of uuuhhs and uuummms in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmfj2t2w0s
Enjoy! Goodnight!
I can’t give Obama benefit of the doubt here. That joke is SO OLD that no one laughs at it anymore. Why start today? And besides, when he paused before he gave the punchline, you could hear the crowd getting louder, cheering, and Obama himself was even smirking.
What a boob.
dakine? Is that you?
Nope… some will. Obummer’s joke was stupid, lame, even petty. Is he really a change agent? Or a new face on old liberal ideals?
Isn’t it a little bit disengenous for liberals to continue to link McCain to Pres. Bush (the voting record) when in actuality, McCain has reached way too much across the aisle gladhanding liberals and their “ideas?” If it wasn’t a particular important line, then why did it garner so much amusement or attention or assumption from the crowd he was pandering to?
Isn’t this what Obummer is claiming? That he never got a fair shake from the media and dealt with that for the past 19 months? When has Obummer actually discussed the issues instead of offloading simplistic soundbites that mean nothing without details? Why didn’t Obummer take McCain up on his offer of the town hall debates that all Americans could participate in? Perhaps, if he had, we wouldn’t be discussing Obummer’s new campaign tactic- smearing Sarah Palin.
Y’all have played the “politically correct” speech game for years. Well, Poncho, your guy just verbally stepped in it BIG TIME. So following the rules of the “politically correct” speech game,(your rules) we get to mercilessly verbally beat him about the head and shoulders.
Is it fair? Machts nichts. You never cared and since the first rule of war is reciprocity, your side will receive as much quarter as you have given.
Reminds me of the time an old Colonel told me about when he caught a VC regiment, who had bloodied his battalion for weeks, in the woods and called a Brigade’s worth of artillery air bursts on them. All he said was “We had a good day.”
Our turn.
I could take the “joke” / “comment” both ways.
My wife said he meant to offend Sara! Personally, I think he either knew better and patronized to his audience, or he is a dunce!
Given that he is a liberal, I don’t give him a pass. I took the comment to be offensive and he personally smeared the next Vice President of the United States. He is one offensive dude!
Since we all know how you love to swoop and poop, I’ll take your comment with a bit of salt. I think Obummer’s tactics are tastless and bring down his campaign. Speaking of which, why is it that he’s even using the whole pig with lipstick line? What is he trying to illustrate? Is he trying to wow the folks with his comedy routine? Does his “comedy routine” actually answer any questions?
I think you sell both Michelle and her readers short and if you hold this blog in such low esteem, then perhaps you’re not its intended reader or a reader (such as dakine, contrarian that he is) with an open mind. Sometimes, things get silly, but the attacks on Palin are no joke and nothing to be dismissed.
If this blog is the height of entertainment that you’re gettng, you’re really letting down the person who cuts your paycheck.
Stop being a useless tool, start asking the questions that we’re all asking: why the hell does Obummer feel the need to say such crap about Palin? What does it accomplish and why is it a part of his campaign?
Who else is gonna ask: the media at large who are so far up his butt that they haven’t seen daylight in a long time? I have a sense of humor but Obummer isn’t sticking to the issues, he just wants to derail McCain’s bounce. It’s tactics, not details.
He is a dunce. He didn’t intend that for Sarah Palin, he was talking about McCain and change. One could say he was giving an insult “on the sly”… but the guy isn’t that sly or that quick. He can’t do innuendo without a Teleprompter.
How about some intellectual integrity people?
Here’s what needs doin:
Social Security: Freeze enrollment; maintain current enrollment for 3 years; new enrollees receive individual retirement accounts managed in escrow with local financial service providers (certifiable); retirees filing claims within next 3 years are transitioned to the IRA plan after 36 months.
Public Education: de-certify teachers unions immediately; re-structure pay incentives for new teachers, and extend the length of the school year by 60 days; abolish special education and “mainstreaming”; establish charter schools for all things “special”; abolish “gifted testing” and eliminate all “dual immersion” programs for Spanish speaking students; require proof of citizenship to enroll child in school k-12; eliminate competency based testing standards and transition to mastery learning standards for reading, writing, and arithmetic; abolish “social studies” K-5; eliminate “ant-bias” curriculum from K-6; require teachers to complete an annual fitness and health physical or risk suspension and leave without pay; eliminate all “Islamic Cultural Immersion” programs from K-12.
Medicare/Medicaid: Kick all illegals and Americans or Mexicans living in Mexico out of the program.
Illegal Immigration Increase the law enforcement arm of local, state, and federal bureaucracies by 20,000 over 3 years and enforce every single existing immigration compliance law on the books. Close businesses by susspending licenses to operate that hire illegals. Fine hospital emergency rooms that provide primary medical care to illegal immigrants. Suspend public schools that enroll illegal immigrants to receive state enrollment based funding- fine the school districts.
Shoot to kill on the border. Privatize deportation services. Initiate a bounty hunter incentive: Wanted Alive. Deport incarcerated Mexicans in US prisons: make Mexico send the transport plane to haul them back to Mexico with a note taped on their forehead “If you come back we will kill you.” No more babies becoming instant Americanos.
Iran Pave it.
IraqRedeploy to Northern Iraq where most of the oil is and defend the Kurds (the worlds largest ethnic minority and help them make a nation (They love us!) that would undo Iran, Southern Turkey (cant trust the Turks) and lead to the thing we should have done in Iraq from the beginning PARTITION IRAQ. Take excess US paper money and buy up all excess Iraqi dinars to help retire the US National Debt in the next 10 years.
Healthcare Keep it private but regulate the Insurance carriers, brokers, underwriters, attorneys and healthcare companies managing provider networks. Commoditize health care premiums basing them on supply and demand forces. Arbitrary pricing goes away. Competition drives prices down. Spawns new company creation to produce new products. Keep the government out of the provider and insurance business— a total ponzi scheme like contemporary Social Security.
Taxes National Fair tax or comprehensive VAT. Abolish the IRS and prosecute top administrators. Revenue share with states to force states to control spending and limit growth of state bureaucracies. Local governments establish their own property tax rates and receive incentive funding from feds for developing budget surplus trusts.
Get to talkin Flinchy and McCain both. Get me excited. I’ve given you my starting point. Anything less is BS. (In my best Jesse Jackson voice)
Bear1909 out
Self-edit #176: threat should be thread. Heh, heh, Michelle, you’re a force to be reckoned with!
You know what really gets to me?
Until Sara came along, a Conservative in my mind and way of thinking, I was going to hold my nose, not contribute, not get involved and do much of anything to support McCain! And vote for him.
Now I am going to get get involved at all levels! We need to win this race. If I am wrong about Sara, well, it won’t be the first time in life I’ve been wrong but she appears genuine–a genuine Conservative that loves her country.
I still don’t agree with John M. but I admire him. He really isn’t Conservative but he is genuine. And he will do his best to protect this country and hopefully Sara can teach him Conservative values.
I want to thank liberals this day, because every time I think they’ve already said the most retarded things they can possibly say, they prove me wrong, & make me laugh again.
With the way they are unraveling lately, I feel like I’m on the Harlem Globe Trotters, & we’re playing against “The Nationals” or something..
Too funny.. Barack Obama is truly becoming a parody of himself..
Palin got under Obama’s skin with her “community organizer” line in the Repub Convention and he can’t stand it and he can’t get over it. Ha. Steam, Obama, steam.
Setting aside all political inclinatiions and disagreements, it’s worth it just to see Obama brought down low. No one is more deserving of it than him – he desperately needs a major lesson in humility.
This is the kind of BS that make me actually want to go burn a bra. Nancy Pelosi’s maybe.
Hi emjem -
I think since BillO didn’t take Geraldo to task for his nasty “I’d spit on her” remarks about her, Michelle probably isn’t all that interested in what BOR has to say. And I agree with her.
BOR is a pompous self-promoting ass to begin with anyway and didn’t press Obama at all in the interview. He’s not a “newsman” so he could have easily given Obama a “Mike Wallace-60 Min” style interrogation. I believe he even promised the Obama campaign beforehand that he’d use kid gloves on The One.
Now, if Laura Ingraham had sat in for BOR and done the interview, it would have been worth watching! Otherwise, BOR is irrelevant for the most part, at least in my view.
But if you want to view and comment on the interview or segments, I think if you went to YouTube and searched for “O’Reilly Obama Interview”, I’m sure you’d find the clips and some heated comments to jump in on. Also the Fox site might have the interview online and maybe it’s open for comments.
That’s so Late-60s, Jenn.
But, if memory serves, we young fellas actually didn’t complain a whole lot about that aspect of the femininsta movement back then.
On September 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am, purplepeep said:
tpierce2 said:
You know what really gets to me?
Until Sara came along, a Conservative in my mind and way of thinking, I was going to hold my nose, not contribute, not get involved and do much of anything to support McCain! And vote for him.
Now I am going to get get involved at all levels!
Setting aside all political inclinatiions and disagreements, it’s worth it just to see Obama brought down low. No one is more deserving of it than him – he desperately needs a major lesson in humility.
Amen! What an arrogant person. My question??? Who controls him? He is not worthy of the position! Someone, some organization, some group controls BHO.
He does not have enough talent or experience on his own to have come this far to be running for POTUS!
Soros, moveoneorg or all of them combined or an organization we don’t know about? He is not qualified to be much more than a Senator that votes “present.”
On September 10th, 2008 at 12:51 am, Jenn of the Jungle said:
This is the kind of BS that make me actually want to go burn a bra. Nancy Pelosi’s maybe.
Jeez Jenn,
in California your would create a huge fire. Burning her bra!
If you burned her brain you would, maybe at best, light a small barbecue!
Give it some thought.
Nothing good from Nancy!
Sending stinky fish would be a better idea.
Stinky fish talk should be off the table, too.