Come with me on a magic carpet ride to an alternate universe. In this parallel universe, Barack Obama picked Hillary Clinton to be his veep nominee. During her convention speech, the teleprompter malfunctioned. To give herself a few seconds to regroup, she cracked a self-referential joke whose punchline is the word lipstick. A few days later while campaigning against Obama, John McCain attacked Obama's proposed policies and told a joke about putting lipstick on a pig still leaves you with a pig. The Republican audience howled with delight.

Do you need goggles to understand that?

by Twba on 09/12/2008 11:53:01 AM EST

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So Palin's stupid hackneyed joke made the word "lipstick" unusable for fear of offending your delicate sensibilities?

You hyper-PC, word regulating, thought police, crybaby conservatives are too much.

Grow up.

So can't I then say that McCain offensively using the lipsticked pig comment about Hillary set up Palin's nasty jab at Hillary?

Palin is clearly sexist.

 

by ProfRich on 09/12/2008 01:06:57 PM EST

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So I guess the McCain campaign should tell us when a phrase or joke is okay to use again so we don't accidentally offend Mrs. Palin?

Take it from one of your right-wing mouthpieces if you still can't figure it out:

"There are two kinds of people in the anti-Obama camp - there are McCain supporters and Obama haters. Today the main event was all about lipstick after Senator Obama compared McCain's policy proposals to 'putting lipstick on a pig.' This story comes down to fairness, so let's analyze it in that context. Barack Obama is not a bomb-thrower, he never has been. Also, the Obama campaign knows very well how the vicious personal attacks on Sarah Palin have helped John McCain. So it would be beyond dumb for Senator Obama to smear Sarah Palin. The only people who would do that are the vile smear merchants at the DailyKos and some elements at NBC News. For anyone to say Senator Obama consciously compared Mrs. Palin to a pig is unfair. If you don't like Barack Obama, there are enough legitimate issues to challenge him on. But independent Americans, those who will decide this election, don't like this kind of stuff. And until pigs fly, they never will."

It's obvious that we have only one type of Republican here in the forum--Obama haters (including racists).  Nobody seems willing to be very proactive about telling us why McCain is so great for our country.  I wonder why that is.

by desertpear on 09/12/2008 03:22:09 PM EST

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I seriously doubt Ms. Palin was offended by Barack's trash talking. I wasn't offended.

I just pointed out that the audience recognized it for what it was. It doesn't help you to pretend that he was not making fun of Palin. It only makes you look stupid or hopelessly goggle eyed.

by Twba on 09/13/2008 12:29:21 AM EST

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