Submitted by lemonwill on September 10, 2008 - 7:17pm.
Actually the question that we should be asking is what the people in the audience that Obama was speaking to believed. Do you really believe that they did not make the connection between the reference to lipstick and Sarah Palin's comment about lipstick on a pitbull? I agree that it was a slip-up by Obama and that he did not consciously call Palin a pig. But the sad fact is that the audience believed that was what he was doing. You can see it in their body language and you can definitely hear it in their laughter. That is what the McCain campaign is so vociferously decrying and if the shoe were on the other foot the Obama campaign would scream out in protest as well. So let's put this issue at rest, but we should all acknowledge that it was not just Republicans that saw it - the D's in attendance got great pleasure from it and that is the sad fact in this controversy.
Lipstick controversy
Actually the question that we should be asking is what the people in the audience that Obama was speaking to believed. Do you really believe that they did not make the connection between the reference to lipstick and Sarah Palin's comment about lipstick on a pitbull? I agree that it was a slip-up by Obama and that he did not consciously call Palin a pig. But the sad fact is that the audience believed that was what he was doing. You can see it in their body language and you can definitely hear it in their laughter. That is what the McCain campaign is so vociferously decrying and if the shoe were on the other foot the Obama campaign would scream out in protest as well. So let's put this issue at rest, but we should all acknowledge that it was not just Republicans that saw it - the D's in attendance got great pleasure from it and that is the sad fact in this controversy.