This Lipstick thing has legs.

[The Liberal Thinker]

And it's going to really hurt McCain.

I really think this is the beginning of the end of the Sarah Palin "Savior" narrative and the beginning of a "McCain-Palin are liars" narrative. McCain's overplayed his hand, and has gone right into Obama's trap. I mean, he's been finally using the word "lie" and attacking the Republicans. And I think the media is really going to start focusing on this theme of the two of them being liars.

Obama knows what he's doing. I'm no longer scared.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Lipstick establishes the truthful meme of endless republicon lies, spin, obfuscation

Run with it. Pound it. It symbolizes the truth about republicon lies and amorality.

[dolo amber]

2. Someone should make McCain/Palin lie lie lie pez dispensers

while the iron is hot. :thumbsup:

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. They're completely inauthentic actors - Palin is the Lipstick Thespian

Even the media know the outrage in phoney. They go with it mainly to sell soap powder and wart cream.

[holiday]

4. what i don't understand is how this woman could be such a

barracuda pit bull but yet it's never her that says anything, it's obama. and they are doing a disservice to women in politics when they act like you have to watch every little thing you say to a woman in political position. no one will want to hire us if it's going to be a witchhunt for sexism all the time

[holiday]

5. i meant it's never her that says anything it's McCain.. it's always

a mccain spokesperson.. she never gets to talk off the script

[Median Democrat]

6. Unlike The New Yorker Cover, MSM Fails To Ask If McCain Is Too Thin-Skinned To Be Prez

Remember the New Yorker magazine cover that specifically depicted Barack and Michelle Obama. It directly portrayed him as a Muslim, and her as a revolutionary. Yet, when the Obama campaign expressed mild disappointment of the cover, the media roundly criticized Obama as being "too thin skinned", and questioned whether he had the temperment to be President.

Now, we have a comment by Obama using a common expression of "lipstick on a pig," that did not even make reference to Sarah Palin, but to John McCain. Yet, John McCain explodes with outrage and loses his temper claiming that this remark was a sexist smear of Sarah Palin. In light of the New Yorker controversy, the question that must be asked, but which Big Media has repeatedly failed to ask, is whether John McCain is too thin skinned to be President. Does he have the temperment to be President given how his camp has lost its collective temper over such an innocuous remark? Indeed, given that John McCain himself used this remark, you have to wonder about John McCain's judgment.

Afterall, assuming Big Media is not entirely in the tank for John McCain, shouldn't John McCain's fitness to serve as President be called into question given that a similar question was posed to Barack Obama with respect to much more direct smear of Obama by the New Yorker?

[leftynyc]

10. I like the way you describe

his reaction - "explodes with outrage" and "loses his temper". It falls in nicely with the meme that mccain doesn't have the temperment to be president. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the effect that Sen Obama was going for.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

7. I monitor my 78 year old mother as to how low info voters feel.

All her girl friends "on the avenue" are mad at Obama for "saying such a terrible thing about a woman".

But the good news is that they all hate McCain just as much for using his POW status "to make people feel sorry for him".

[mrreowwr_kittty]

8. Welcome to DU, Liberal Thinker. I like the way you think. :) nt

[me b zola]

9. I agree completely

Well, except that I was never scared. :)

[CJCRANE]

11. It neutralized the pitbull meme

that's for sure.

[hasssan1]

12. I pray to god and hope you are right my Friend.

[backscatter712]

13. Yeah, I think it bit him in the ass too.

I've mentioned it before. Obama plays Rope-a-dope. He'll stay quiet for a little bit, let McCain and the media attack him, absorb a few hits, until McCain gets too cocky, or tires himself out by spinning too hard, and makes a mistake. Once that happens, Obama lets him have it, hard! You saw his counterpunch yesterday.

Just like in the primaries, Obama's strategy involves getting his opponent's attacks to boomerang.

[BeyondGeography]

14. Obama: "Sarah Palin is the lipstick, John McCain's policies are the pig."

Not so hard to understand.

[mchill]

16. A friend saw a sign about the Pig wearing Lipstick

And even though she didn't even know the backstory, she assumed it was about McCain and Palin. Looks like McCain has turned it into his own anti-campaign slogan.

[flamingdem]

15. I like the title for your post

:thumbsup:

[barack the house]

17. Yep, we have always underestimated Obama but he is so wise he knows us better than we know ourselves