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You botched the joke, Barry O

By Michelle Malkin • September 9, 2008 08:20 PM

Lipstick on a pit bull, genius.

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.”

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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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#449653

On September 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm, love2rumba said:

Rumba, just a friendly note: we don’t use the “N-word” in these parts.

OK, I got your context…the only disagreement (and its a small disagreement, by the way), is that there are several “N” words used in modern political discourse by both the left and the right..that is “Ni%%er” and “Nazi” (and whatever is or is not attached to the word, such as “feminazi” etc. ) I wanted to be specific to illusatrate something of stark value, hence I put the word in quotation marks to illustrate the word and its effect as very bad form of name calling…since calling Obama a “Nazi”-the other “N” word- would raise question marks in my mind as to its relevance at this point.

Your point is noted and I will try to be a little more careful
#449716

On September 10th, 2008 at 4:31 pm, Rob said:

Keep crying McCain campaign, and see what happens.

What might happen is VICTORY!

Go PALIN!
#449726

On September 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm, purplepeep said:

love2rumba said:
Your point is noted and I will try to be a little more careful

No prob at all, Runba – I’m not the cops here, lol. It’s just there are some words that kinda jump out atcha.

I’m mindful of not using some terminology mostly because it could be used in a wrongful attempt to discredit Michelle or a valid point she is making on a topic.
#449901

On September 10th, 2008 at 5:45 pm, Send_Me said:

Good grief. Talk about a slow news day…
#450414

On September 11th, 2008 at 3:19 am, secondsight said:

By the way, when Obama says his lipstick line, he wipes his brow with his middle finger lifted. It was a two-fer.
#451603

On September 11th, 2008 at 5:09 pm, RetFireman said:

I love how standing up to the slander and libel is what they call “Crying” and “Whining”. Of course they want it to stop…otherwise they would be allowed to continue to smear, slander and libel unabated.

Standing up for what is right, what is truth and against bullies and thugs is not whining, nor is it playing at a game. It is quite telling of the person and their beliefs who would call it such.