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.

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Ya know, I wasn’t even gonna go here because I thought that about everything possible to say or rant about yesterday’s Obama gaffe of using the lipstick on a pig analogy had been said or ranted. But, true to form, the nutty Dems just can…

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.

Keep crying McCain campaign, and see what happens.

What might happen is VICTORY!

Go PALIN!

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

Playing the phony outrage and victim card is going to backfire terribly.

Hasn’t Obama (and his wife) been doing that since he started running for President, Mistressjustice?

RealImmigrantChick said:
McCain and Palin need to move on NOW!!!!!

I believe they have, Chick. It’s the public that’s talking about it now. When the other guy messes his pants like this, you point it out, make some hay and move on.

Or this will backfire.

Well, if it were the McCain campaign’s sole reason for running for office I’d agree with you, RIChick. But it’s just another item in the defining and framing of Obama as a candidate who is, when the facade falls down, either stupid or nasty. Or both.

Placing the mental images in voter’s minds is extremely important. You may remember Geo HW Bush seeming to be perplexed by a supermarket scanner or Gore’s tendency to exaggeration. (Of course, if it weren’t for his brilliant inventions we couldn’t be having this confab today on the internet.) I could cite at least a half dozen of “Oopsies” that helped one side or another to define an oppsoing candidate.

But not to panic – if nothing else the speed of the news cycle changes the dialogue very quickly, so this will be old news fast. (But Obama’s name-calling will remain in people’s minds.) On this day in 2001 the big news was Gary Condit and Chandra Levy. The next day that story was maybe on page 30 of section C – if it was in the papers at all.

mistressjustice said:
Playing the phony outrage and victim card is going to backfire terribly.

Actually, it’s the “Obama demonstrates he lacks manners and civility” card, MsJustice. But, to his credit, Obama was thoughtful enough to deal it out in public.

Americans don’t like it with race related “gotcha”, and doing it here on gender is pathetically transparent.

To be honest the only debate Americans are having is whether Obama did this out of nastiness or sheer stupidity. I think Americans don’t have a great appreciation for either of those attributes.

Keep crying McCain campain, and see what happens.

Somehow I think they are doing much more smiling than crying, what with all these great boo-boos Obama keeps providing. This is just another in a long line of ‘em.

And with today’s Gallup showing McCain holding his five point lead over Obama (48%-43%) I suspect the smiles are especially wide.

The reality here, MsJustice, is that this will be an albatross Obama has to bear, his own “Macaca moment” or, on a more familiar national level, “Dean Scream”. The McCain campaign has to do nothing more about it, Obama’s slam is now ingrained in the voting public’s mind. Obama can’t unring the Palin-Pig bell.

The bottom line is Obama willingly stepped into a big pile of doo-doo by making his comments and the McCain campaign was smart enough to call him on it.

The amazing thing to me is that this is the first time, in all the elections I’ve seen in my day, where you have the Presidential candidate of one party running against a VP candidate of the other party. e.g. Obama’s insistance on comparing his “community organizer” experience with Gov. Palin’s work as a mayor. Trust me, that’s dumb, dumb politics.

Obviously McCain’s selection of Palin as VP has rattled the Obama campaign to no end. They’ve been on the defensive, shaky and are looking increasingly amateurish. They just seem to have no idea on how to handle it.

“Swift Boat”= The truth being used to expose a liar and a fraud.