What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If the McCain campaign really wants to play this intellectually dishonest inference game, then how do they explain this?
We are being asked to believe that he [Obama] called Sarah Palin a pig. If the people making that accusation have half a brain they know it's not true. This is not a question of interpretation. It is a fact. So now we find out again that John McCain is prepared to tell an absolute lie--in public, verifiable, uncontestable.
He does not have the minimal public integrity to be president of the United States.
Never mind the fact that McCain has a history of telling overtly sexist jokes about Chelsea Clinton's looks and women enjoying rape, he and his surrogates have the chutzpah to call Obama sexist for using the exact same phrase he used about Hillary. I guess McCain figures, damn the truth, whatever works. His presidential ambition knows no bounds.
CBS has also asked the McCain campaign to stop running its ad featuring Katie Couric because it is just plain "misleading." Yeah, you could say that.
Pigs are intelligent animals and to call McCain a pig is an insult to them.
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GregbeingFrank
3:33PM Sep 10th 2008
Obama's audience laughed and figured Obama was referring to Palin:::different with McCain..LOL.....Quite the OBlunder with the "Pig" comment....I've thought for awhile it was Obama's to lose-----Greg-----http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2734923/
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Edward McMillon
3:32PM Sep 10th 2008
John McCain is George W Bush. Please do not insult any animal by making a comparison with the ______ mentioned in the prior sentence.
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eric
5:39PM Sep 10th 2008
Are the distortionas that you write like these that the democrats are using? 100 years in Iraq, how many houses a person owns, voting with Bush 90% of the time? These kinds of distortions? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE JUST FOLLOWING SUIT. If Obama wants these to stop. Perhaps he should lead by example.
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Di
3:35PM Sep 10th 2008
Why are people making such a big deal over Obama's statement about the pig & lipstick. Obama did not start the analogy of Palin and a pig. Palin is the one who compared herself to a pig in the first place. She's the one who said the only difference between her (a woman) and a pig is lipstick.
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Rias10
3:38PM Sep 10th 2008
McCain keeps talking about change is coming. But on all the big bread-and-butter issues — taxes, Social Security, energy, trade, health care — there really are not big differences between John McCain and George Bush. McCain's Social Security plan is almost identical to George W. Bush's.
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Washington Post editors.
The McCainites think the American people are stupid.
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Dante
3:51PM Sep 10th 2008
If they showed the whole interview except soundbites. He was talking about mccain and his politics not palin he never mentioned her.
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Francis Xavier Pope
3:47PM Sep 10th 2008
Sarah Palin called herself a "pit bull". A pit bull is a dog and a female dog is a bitch. Sarah Palin called herself a bitch. And I agree.
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Mike in Atlanta
3:50PM Sep 10th 2008
McCain/Palin you can run but you can't hide. sooner or later you will have to face the issues..McCain=McBush(they are the same). Palin=Palie(lie all the time)..
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K Gutierrez
3:52PM Sep 10th 2008
The difference in McCains comment and Obamas, is that McCain apologises before he makes his statement, so people know it isn't a personal attack on Hillary. Obama makes his lipstick remark and its pretty apparent the audience thinks its about Palin,they jump up laughing and clapping, does Obama try to clairfy what he mean't? No he stands there and smiles. Also odd that Biden had his own lipstick remark yesterday.
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shelia9901
3:51PM Sep 10th 2008
To Rias:
I'm sorry to inform you that at this point in time, the American people are acting very stupid. Stupidity is a learned behavior, so I assume that they learned it from Bush. There is no intelligent reason that the repulican party should make a deal out of this unless it is a smoke screen so they don't have to speak on the real issues. I agree with the fact, at this point, it does look more like a popularity contest than a presidential campaign. But the american people, not the media are really in control. Sure the media can put it out there, but it is up to us to "denounce it" and force the issues to be spoken on. If we stop putting energy into this, then it will go away and then the republican party will have no other choice but to deal with the issues.
Obama/Biden 08-12
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Lorran
4:04PM Sep 10th 2008
A vote for Oboma is a vote for 'Socialism' i wonder if anyone else gets as frustrated as i do here with being pillaged, over regulated, and general enslavement?(to help our fellow men of course) or feel like they are shackled by red tape, every move made being controlled by taxes,tickets,fines,fees,regulation,paperwork,documentation,identification,license,lease, interest,etc... compliance. Society or Government control/abuse? Where is the line? Am I the only one that constantly feels like they are unable to comply? Helping the poor of our nation or Socialism or worse an abusive government moving to communism directly under our noses? Who is profiting? Is this our government? Do you know where your money goes? Where is our balance sheet? Why is the government not responsible for a full disclosure of every cent and where it goes yearly to each citizen as we are responsible to 'our' government to give them our financial information each year that we 'owe' them? Because 'they' are big, and we are small? am i delirious? oh, wait, i have thought too much, where is my wii? full compliance. i am a responsible person, aren't i? trusting? surely, they have my best interests in mind. trusting. You are free, therefore you pay your own way, but, give us the money you earn,pay taxes for all things that you should buy of the money you have left over, although we don't have to offer anything directly back to you, you are free. what can i do for my country? mass indoctrination? incorrect history books? abraham lincoln, hero or slick fast talking politician that pulled a fast one on the people to win a war with mind control and inciting the ignorant? http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-civil-war/lincoln-emancipation-proclamation.htm I tire myself... the government tires me, no more open range. no staking your claim. this was the hard life? this is the hard life? you can no longer see the looters,cattle robbers,thieves... when you fight the machine you fire blind. on this 'they' count.
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Lorran
4:03PM Sep 10th 2008
The actual term is 'A bow on a pig' Obama inserted 'lipstick' himself.
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Paddy C
4:02PM Sep 10th 2008
and what about McCain's joke that the reason Chelsea was ugly was that Janet Reno was her father. That was a 3 for one shot. As it turns out Chelsea is quite attractive. I hope he can judge the future in other matters better than he did for Chelsea.
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Patrotic Mom
4:04PM Sep 10th 2008
Di,
You really need to get your facts straight before making comments. Palin said in her speech that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull is that a hockey mom wears lipstick. You made yourself look ignorant. Palin was comparing how hockey moms are tough like a pitbull when it comes to their children. Obama is another one, who needs to grow up and act like a man. He is upset because he is falling behind in the polls, I wonder why that could be. Maybe because of his constant sexist remarks (first towards Hillary Clinton and now Palin).
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Mary Lovett
4:09PM Sep 10th 2008
Mccain's taking what Obama said out of context. He need (McCain) need to get back to the issuses. He talks about change lets see some, a little bit
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Robert
12:34PM Sep 11th 2008
It seems to me that McCain was the one calling Palin a pig. Obama was discussing McCains health,economy, etc. issues and made no reference to Palin.
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David S.
4:10PM Sep 10th 2008
Is this what the election boils down to? Geez...Palin called herself a "pit bull with lipstick" come on, pit bull, pig, who cares? Palin claims she is so tough, yet she is letting the GOP try to paint anyone who questions her record in politics as sexist. This silly strategy of the media is evil will only get her so far, and only plays to the base of the Republican party. It will take more than the base for her and MCain to win in November. We will know more when Ms. Palin finally faces reporters...poor Charlie Gibson. That guy is in trouble. If he pushes Palin on one issue, look for the GOP attack dogs to call him every name in the book.
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Patrotic Mom
4:13PM Sep 10th 2008
Isn't it funny how it is always an Obama supporter that has berate a woman. Obama supporters need to wise up and really listen to him talk. He doesn't speak in real sentences. Go get transcripts of Obama's speeches and try to understand them, you can't. He is the biggest flipflopper in the history of politics. Please try to keep your comments on a higher level of maturity and refrain from cursing. Very unbecoming.
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Lorran
4:12PM Sep 10th 2008
Not stupid enough to submit to Socialism and common robbery... Who does Obama fancy himself? Robin Hood? steal from the 'rich' and give to the poor? Last I knew this 'was' America, where people can prosper and 'CHOOSE' to which charity they would like their money to go, if any! And he can take my gun when he pries it from my cold dead fingers! When we are unable to protect ourselves, even from our own government if necessitiy arose, we are ALL IN TROUBLE!