Should Obama apologize to Palin?

Maybe after they loose the election there is a career for all in Stand-Up. As for fish, it doesn't take 8 years to stink. As for pigs, they grow up on farms. As for pork, Farm Bill!
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This is going to blow up but it is taken way out of context. Obama would never make a low blow like this, it was a complete accident. Lipstick on a pig is an old expression, look it up on google. The fact that it coincided with Palin's lipstick remark is very very bad. I mean it makes him look terrible. But it wasn't intentional and was not a reference to Palin. Look at any of Obama's speeches and you will see that he would never go that low.

No apology, just shows Obama's FLIO FLOP OR BETTER WORD STUPID-

Of course he should apologize.
The Obamessiah says, "How do they have the nerve to say [reform]?" Funny. Every thinking American is asking the same thing about him.
There is nothing in Obama's background and record to back up the vague sloganeering about "change", "uniting", "hope". The guy is a run-of-the-mill corrupt Chicago Machine hack with a thin record.
Obama has had a 17-plus year personal financial quid pro quo relationship with the political "fixer" Tony Rezko. He has endorsed the worst, most corrupt and incompetent politicians in Cook County -- Todd Stroger, Alexi Giannouias and Richard Daley.
Obama claims to not accept money from federally registered lobbyists... but he accepts money from these same lobbyists' business associates and spouses... and he accepts money from lobbyists who happen to not be registered. He accepts bundled checks. He uses lobbyists and other government relations professionals as advisers. He has been bought and paid for by the big corporations.
How stupid does he think the electorate is, anyway?

Sure. Soon as she stops lying every day in her stump speech, everyone can kiss and make up (or put make up on the pig).

"Don't try to teach a pig to fly - it frustrates you and annoys the pig."

There, I said it - I'm a 'pigist!'

Obama's right in every way1

And you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear either!

Surely someone else can help me continue this fun little game?

Anyone?

: )

McCain used that very phrasing in talking about Hillary Clinton's health care policy. Perhaps John McCain should apologize to Hillary for insulting her?

from 10/11/07 The Swamp...

"McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's health-care plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the early 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal."

It is Obama that is the pig... with all his unending promises, self-serving baloney, bad treatment of Hillary, and Styrofoam pillars for a campaign of $500 MILLION dollars.

Someone makes a true CHANGE in picking a woman candidate and all he can do is stand back and take cheap shots.

Women of America, this MAN DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CONCERNS!

The republican fake outrage is getting old.
Sarah Palin is a serial liar, a global warming denier, someone who believes in killing wolves and bears from aircraft, someone who does not believe in environmental protection, and a religious fanatic who would take this country into her "end times" scenario. They're hiding her from the press because they don't want these FACTS to come out. Once they do, the nation will reject her for good and sufficient reasons.

As far as deference, I suggest that she be given the same amount of deference that the republicans and the media gave to Hillary Clinton since 1992.

sooooo,lets see,McCain does it,heck,thats ok,....Obama does it,well what a nasty man,awwww,ha,ha,ha...

Obama is on O'Reilly...when do we see Palin actually talk for herself?

This is absurd. The Senator used an idiom.

I'm Jewish. I don't get offended when I hear people ask for Juice with breakfast.

Its pure and simple pandering for sympathy.

You's expect this comment from Biden. What is Obama up to? Trying to be funny is one thing but the guy is just handing over the ammo

For what, for using an age old saying !!? Come on, Republicans, get some real issues to discuss, instead of avoiding the political debate. America needs an adult, meaningful, political debate, nor more name-calling and distortions and misinformation !!! Change the subject, but that will not work, the times are too important and America is in great need of an honest, compassionate leader. That leader is Senator Obama, he deserves your support, he wants to lead America, back to its ideals !! The Bush-McCain Republicans have had their time in our great office of the Presidency and look at the mess, in which, they have put our country. No more, Republicans, until they apologize for leaving America in the ditch and in the lurch !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

He was not talking about her daughter,
so he should not. When is the government going to stop forcing people to give jobs and money to women.

Then, of course, there was the Michelle Obama comment at a swanky high-rolling fund-raiser, along the lines of "what Barack's VP pick shows is that he's not afraid of smart people."

Passive aggressive, that's the Obama couple! They're kind of piggy themselves, aren't they?

Man, the McCain campaign must think the American people are stupid. Trying to spin Obama talking about McCain-Palin as "CHANGE" into him calling her a pig? Give me a break.

Should Obama apologize?

Absolutely not. First of all, McCain used the same phrase when referring to Hillary Clinton's health care plan. Secondly, it's a metaphor! I don't feel that McCain or Obama should have to apologize for a figure of speech. I don't believe that either candidate meant to call Clinton or Palin a pig.

This is another example of how the American public is distracted from the real issue

I doubt very seriously, that Jane Swift is that stupid, however this fits into the pattern of the GOP's plan of attack. Keep the people distracted by continuously launching baseless accusations and employing circular reasoning, thereby placing the focus on anything, other than the issues relevant to this nation.

An interesting way to put this story...just how is it relevant to Obama's sexist gutter slur to dredge up something McCain said in a long ago primary ABOUT A MALE?

FTR, I just heard ABC's report on the same story, and they totally evaded any context on Sarah Palin while mentioning Obama's remark.

This was obviously a crude remark aimed at Palin's 'the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom? lipstick' joke.

Stay classy, Obama...the more we get to know you, th emore we see who you really are.

I do find it insulting. What is he trying to say? It is just like his "sweetie" comment. Obama is threatened by women with actual experience. . .

Absolutely not, you have to be joking. its a metaphor used for centuries in this country, the one about the fish is lot better anyway. can you get a clue and write something more important, like the fact that people are dying still in this senseless war, loosing jobs, loosing homes, no one gives a shit about your stupid article, but I really enjoyed that section on McCain referring to whatever his name is as a pig, that is priceless, thank you for that!

McCain speaking about Hillary Clinton -

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.

It should also be mentioned in the article that when McCain rebuked Hillary Clinton for her health care proposal he also said, 'I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig'. From this readers perspective, truth is a two way street.

No, this is a well-known phrase referring to their campaign as a whole, not to Palin personally. Sheesh! This is no certainly less sexist than Palin's joke about the difference between hockey moms and bulldogs! Crimeny! To paraphrase Gov. Palin, quit your whining.

Yeah, just no darn sense of humor, as Obama goes hard after the female vote. The fish stink bit was even funnier!

Obama and Biden: Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.

Seriously? Really? This fake outrage stuff is getting old. Does the McCain camp really think their supporters are dumb enough to fall for this old trick?

Take something entirely out of context and pretend it's about something else?

Really? They're not that foolish, are they? Or are they?

I am in shock after watching MSNBC and David Gregory this evening.
He interviewed the MSNBC investigative reporter and asked her about Sarah Palin's views and actions as governor in Alaska.
The reporter stated Sarah Palin has expressed her belief's that children should be carried full-term once conceived.
She then explained that once elected Governor Palin had done nothing to make abortion more restrictive in Alaska and refused to call a special legislative session when individuals on the far-right requested her too to address this matter.
David Gregory looked shocked that a far-left lie was being shot down on MSNBC.
It appears that Sarah Palin has strong beliefs regarding abortion but she has done nothing to bring fear to others who have equally strong beliefs going the other way!

bad enough to get beat up by a pit bull with lip stick but a pig? This is getting to be fun. Obama better remember what she did to da moose.

Palin called moms vicious child-killing bitches with lipstick. So we're even, except pigs don't kill children.

Palin owes Obama an apology for making such a cheap accusation. Now I see what Obama means about "making stuff up"

Give me a break. If Obama uses the phrase "silk purse from a sow's ear" will they claim he's talking about Bristol?

You KNOW that if Obama's camp did something similar if McCain mentioned "dark times" or something then people would be shrieking.

This is like the feminist version of the Nat X show from SNL and as a woman it makes me want to vomit.

I told you Obama was ready to implode and give us his best Howard Dean Scream.

Obama is such an idiot.

Obama is guilty as charged.

Apologize? For what? Telling the truth? You've GOT to be kidding.

I've used that same phrase countless times over the years. Never once did I use it to refer to Sarah Palin, or any other woman, for that matter.

The phrase "lipstick on a pig" means to make only superficial or cosmetic changes. It has absolutely no sexist component whatsoever. It is entirely appropriate in context given the new found emphasis on "change" - from Republican rule to Republican rule, apparently - now parroted by the McCain campaign.

And no, mouth breathers, "cosmetic" isn't sexist, either...

It's an innocuous comment only taken out of context by political opportunists. No need to apologize for a harmless popular analogy.

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Jill, EVERY REAL REPORTER even Pickler's headline is Obama:McCain is putting lipstick on a pig, YOURS as a republican enabler "Should Obama apologize"...Everytime I see you on Hardball all you do is defend McCain....and you still are, a real FRAUD....by the way your writing is "piggish"

No way women will vote for Obama, he is such a sexist.

the Obama guy is a loser and a crook so what else is new?

Oh, boo hoo! They're calling us names now, oh boo hoo! First, he wasn't referring to Palin per se, just the situation. Second, look at what McCain said about Chelsea Clinton (he called her "ugly"). Third, remember the questioner at a McCain speech who asked (regarding Hillary) "how do we beat the bitch?" McCain just smiled and didn't correct the questioner.

Oh, those Democrats, they are so MEAN. They're calling us NAMES. Waaaaah.

They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

If this comment was directed at a Democratic candidate, none of the libs would be writing this off as "harmless popular analogy". They would jump on the righteous indignation train just like the Republicans are doing now.

Hypocrites!

If this comment was directed at a Democratic candidate, none of the libs would be writing this off as "harmless popular analogy". They would jump on the righteous indignation train just like the Republicans are doing now.

Hypocrites!

The hypocritical, whining, victimization rhetoric of McCain & Palin is silly. The can dish out lies & slime, but can't handle the truth.

Apologize for what? Using an analogy that I've used for years? Please.

I agree. Republican change is just that, the same old pig, prettied up for the electorate... but you know what, the lipstick wears off.

McCain opposed this year's 21st Century G.I. Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. Instead, he co-sponsored a weaker version of the bill. The bill he opposed passed 92-6. He is the only senator who didn't show up to vote, aside from Senator Kennedy, who was hospitalized.

McCain voted against an amendment providing $20 billion to the VA’s medical facilities.

McCain voted against providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

McCain voted against increasing VA funding by $1.5 billion by closing corporate loopholes.
Retired Army General Robert Gard said McCain's proposal for concentrating health care on just combat injuries would "shortchange those veterans who suffer from non-combat related conditions." He is apparently unconcerned about the number of veterans this would affect, including the 15% of female combat veterans who suffer from military sexual trauma.

When the VA was busted for circulating a memo suggesting doctors lower their diagnosis for veterans in order to save money, McCain replied: "it''s not important."

McCain voted against requiring minimum periods between deployments last year and against limiting soldiers' deployment to twelve months.

McCain said Obama didn't visit our wounded soldiers in Germany because he couldn't take the press with him. But the press was never scheduled to be there! Obama was only going to take a military adviser to the hospital in Germany. The adviser is a campaign staff member, so the Pentagon decided to consider it an improper political event and nixed the adviser. In fact, under the same rule, McCain was denied a visit to a military base in April. Also, Obama visited wounded Americans in Iraq without any press around. A McCain ad showed Obama shooting a basket and said he "made time to go to the gym but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras." But the basketball footage was from a visit with troops in Kuwait.

McCain assured the public five years ago that we would get out of Iraq fast, lose few Americans, and the Iraqis would bear the expenses.

McCain said Iraq and Pakistan share a border.

McCain thought Iran was training, as he put it, "Al Qaeda in Iraq," but Al Qaeda is a Sunni group and Iran is Shi'ite.

The only reason that it was clear that Obama was referring to Palin was that Palin first called herself a pitbull with lipstick on. I think it is a shame that we thought it was funny that the first woman VP nominee in the republican party essentially called herself a bitch with lipstick on during her acceptance speech. Palin should first apologize to women for furthering the notion that being a powerful woman means being a bitch.

If McCain apologizes for "calling" Mitt Romney and Hillary pigs (as he did during the campaign as others above have pointed out), then yeah, then maybe Obama should consider apologizing. Until then, forget it. The Republican camp are acting like whiny babies at this point -they spent their entire convention mocking Obama, rather than discussing how they were going to fix this country. How anyone can't see through the rhetoric is beyond me.

View the video.

Isn't Obama trying to woo women to vote for him?

Comments like this are not going to help.

Poor, poor decision making by the Obama camp.

Um, those folks quoting McCain using Lipstick on a Pig comment are missing the point. Yes, it is a common phrase used a million times, but things are a little different in the Presidential race once Palin used the Pitbull Lipstick comment. Obama's comment was a prepared remark and he knew what he was doing and so did the crowd when they laughed at it. How would the Dems like it if McCain used "calling a spade a spade"? Not funny. Nor was Obama's childish remark.

Barack just had his "macaca" moment.

I think he shows his lack of knowledge of zoology. Pigs are quite intelligent compared to other animals, eschewing cosmetics for substance. .

Remember, Palin likened herself to a pit bull with lipstick. Why anyone would compare themselves with the second most violent dog in the US, and consider it a virtue, is beyond me. We don't need violent dogs in the White House.

Last November, McCain said the following about Hillary Clinton's health care program: "I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig,"

If the Republicans keep making an issue out of this, Obama should release a statement quoting McCain. Then he should keep using the phrase, and when he does it point out that he's borrowing from McCain's rhetoric against Hillary Clinton.

If Obama apologizes for his comment, he's hopeless.

Well, I guess you can put a Harvard education on 2 people who are not proud of this country, but.........

Does not suprise us that Obama says stupid things like that. He is a complete idiot

Bad timing on Obama's part, but it is an old saying. I'm more concerned that Obama doesn't understand that doubling the capital gains tax will result in an enormous loss of jobs. Let's stay on the issues.

I dont get it, why do they want an apology for Palin? Obama didn't say Palin is like a pig with lipstick. He didn't compare Palin or Women to a pig with lipstick. Did he? This is stupid. Grow up Republicans

Suddenly the Republics are all 'PC'??
Don't worry, Palin, he's just being uppity.
Obama; Keep swinging. You are starting to hurt them at last.

Why should Obama Apologize? I thought Palin was a pitbull. If she can't take a little barb, maybe she should go back to Alaska where everyone loves her. This is the big time, honey. They play rough.

The last thing America needs, after 8 years of Fool and the Gang, are the Manchurian Candie and Eva Braun in the White House.

Certainly Obama should apologize...just as soon as Palin apologizes for her ugly little slam against community organizers, whom she doesn't imagine to have any real responsibilities.

if you can't take the heat.....

Obama & Biden need to come out swinging. The McCan't and Pain camp whine more than a toddler and are more prickly and sensitive than a 13-year old girl.

The lipstick wearing hockey mom is unqualified. Period. Being able to multi-task (as every mother does...working or not), does not make her qualified to run the country!

Everyone who votes Republican because Pain is a woman should have their voters registration card revoked. This is one time in history when everyone should vote with their brains and not necessarily with their politics. We need someone SMART in office. McCan't and Pain to NOT fit the bill...no matter how much lipstick they smear on or how long they were held as a POW.

After running their Celebrity Obama ads with Paris and Britney, McCain's camp said "have a sense of humor." So let them lighten up as well.

Obama is so frightened he doesn't know what to do, he's a stuttering idiot.

Palin was the one to say she wore lipstick. Joe Biden has not mentioned if he wears Polo, Armani or Brute. Palin was the one to say she brought home the moose bacon and fried it up in a pan--as she seemed to fib about getting rid of her chef. McSame never was concerned about teen pregnancy before he chose a VP running mate hot for abstinence. Palin is the one to throw babies and teen pregnancy in out faces at the convention. She referred to herself as a mother more than a few times. When others call her on this she freaks. HYPOCRITE.

It was a stupid line, poorly delivered. He knew it was a mistake half way through. He should also apologize to Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles for stealing the part right before the pig line from his cartoon last Friday. I guess Biden is teaching him well.

No apology necessary. As a matter of fact, it shows Obama on top of his game and a very wry sense of humor and point-making. The GOP squirming proves how effective his remarks can be.

I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but if you see the video and listen to the context he really seems to be saying Palin is a pig and McCain is an old fish. Even the audience was left with that impression given their cheering.

Over the last two weeks Palin has been using her lipstick/pitbull joke and the Obama uses his lipstick/pig joke. Plus his campaign's initial attack on McCain was that he was too old.

That's a little too coincidental for me. And, again, his audience thought that's what he meant. That's why they cheered so much.

I think this is a comment that's going to stick to Obama especially after he ignored Hillary for the VP spot.

Palin should apologize to hocky moms for calling them (B word that ends in ch) when she said the difference between them and a pitbull is lipstick. That was her quote and she wasn't referring to male pitbulls. The word for female pit bull is the same for all female dogs. So she stepped in dog doo doo on that one and no one called her out for that. At least not yet.

Obama lost. Don't forget Palin's "What's the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom?" joke in her convention address, answer: lipstick.

Obama's poll numbers for white women voters are already plunging, he just put a fork into his hopes. Done.

Not unless he wants to be called uppity again

At least he didn't reference Skeletor - wife of McSame. You've got to be kidding. Now we're going to get defensive on name-calling? Boo-hoo Palinites. What's she going to do if she's President and someone calls her a bad name? Boo hoo

Thank you Larry T. post..
If Obama says squat the Repubs take offense..Apologize...I think not..For what??The bottom line. She wants to play with the big players. Fine. Just don't scream foul everytime you get hit verbally..Makes us women sound like twits....When will the vetting take place??This fairy dust of hers is getting thick...

Lipstick on a pig? How is that different than Scarah saying she was a pit bull in lipstick? Whitewashing a lie is whitewashing a lie in any other language. I'll bet Bush and Cheney are glad for Palin in the face of the worst economy equaling the depression, the lies for war, no troops to really come home, and the record number of troops commiting suicide. Bush does to the troops what bad horsemen do to their horses--he rides them hard and puts them away wet. McCain seems to approve. Acceptable phrase, gentle screener.

I'll say it. Barack WAS wrong. Palin is a dog with lipstick, not a pig. She said so herself. And that dog won't hunt, in spite of the repubic propaganda machine.

It is possible that he did not mean it as calling someone a pig but his audience sure took it that way.
He is clearly flustered by the last two week's developments and this is a mistake. His base may love this but isn't going over too well with independents.

WO WO WO......Everyone who criticize McCain for saying the same thing about Hilary are not paying attention. Remember OBAMA has started his campaign stop the smear in politics; he devoted a website to all smears against him, and this is one of his changes he's supposed to bring. He's not going to be like every politician. He is going to rise above it.

It could be an honest mistake. How could he be expected to know Palin had made a direct analogy about herself using the word "lipstick" almost a whole week ago if he doesn't even know his own party controls both houses of Congress?

Slicker than snot on a sow, right on Obama stick it to her!

I've had it with the potty-mouthed liar from Alaska who gets the free ride and took six years and five colleges to get a bachelors degree in journalism. I've had enough of dummies calling the shots.

Come on you news reporter journalists make me proud, report on the pit bull with lipstick's distortions and tell us what she has really done and who she really is.

Come on people, let's get Democrats registered to vote and get out the vote for Obama, I've had enough of these ignorant lying fools.

Go get 'em Obama!

Obama seems to know a lot about PIGS. What LIPSTICK DID HE USE with Larry Sainclair?
Democrats are out of control! PANIC ON BOARD! They missed the unique opportunity to put a woman on the ticket. The MAVERICK DID IT. Sarah Palin will come out pretty soon to give the final shot. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. CAN OBAMA HANDLE PUTIN & MEDVEDEV? THE ANSWER IS NO! THE GAME IS OVER. Democrats will lose again.
Max

No they should not apologize

Mccain is the one that should apologize for the digusting ad he just release......I am assuming Mccain is PRO CHILD MOLESTER based on his new ad

If you ever thought McCain was a man of honor or your repsected him, you should not anymore....he is a DISGUSTING PIG

If he apologizes, he may as well concede. Why should she be allowed to insult, slur, lie, and say basically anything she can to get elected and one comment, obviously taken out of context, be considered offensive. Frankly, the whole Repub platform is lipstick on a pig.

I've heard enough from the hard-right conservative media!

americans are such whiners.

Hey Now. Let the republicans enjoy their week and a half of fun until she has to start talking on her own one-on-one without a pre--written speech or a team of rove-trained hit pigs behind her. It's an old time repub tactic - and it works. but that doesn't make it ethical and it doesn't make the statements true. tick-tock bushies...it's almost over.

The usual old boy network of double standards. No apology in order. It is what it is.

From reading the coments on this blog, the Democrats are getting desperate with their rating falling-

I hope he keeps talking. Every time he opens his mouth you can tell he is a product of affirmative action policies.

yes, Sen Obama should apologize for insulting pigs.

I say calling a pig a pig is not an insult. But calling a pig Sarah Palin is... an insult to the pig that is!

Sorry? Sarah can take it. She can do anything... take a bridge to no where...tie a pitbull to it, smear it with lipstick and then sell it all on e-bay for a profit. On the seventh day SHE will rest.

Obama made a BIG mistake in doing this! It's always demeaning for a man to call a woman a pig (demeaning to the MAN, that is!) His speechwriters should be fired! They are desparate! They should just cool down before they blow it!

The inescapable conclusion is that Obama is totally inept as an extemporaneous speaker (that's off the cuff, for you left wingers). It was just another of his gaffes and women all over the country are incensed that he was referring to Palin or using that term that is derogatory to women in general. And he wonders why white women are deserting in droves. So will black women if they really think about it.

Absolutely NO - he should not apologize to Palin. With all the smarmy commentary from her about Obama in the RNC speech she deserves to get hit back - even if she's a "girl".
Granted someone else wrote her speech but she could have had it changed. She should have no special dispensation simply because she's a woman, has a baby with a disability and a pregnant daughter. She is a person who goes for the jugular and should be treated in kind. Not especially a good political move but what she deserves given her behavior and lack of empathy for victims of rape and incest, etc.

My candidate was being more kind than I ever could be when referring to Yukon Jane.

I say take it as a compliment and a warning - wait til he starts hitting you on your policies and Alaskan record.

I think Senator Obama's "lipstick" comment is little more than a harmless slip of the tongue, like when he alluded to his Muslim faith. Not worth talking about. Back to the issues....

Obama owes Palin an apology. That was the lowest thing any candidate has said in this election!

Obama owes an apology to all women, not just Palin. Pig is a derogatory term for women and he's saying that cosmetics don't matter, they're still pigs. Obama and his minions get their noses out of joint when someone says they're "uppity," a perfectly acceptable word in the dictionary meaning arrogant. Now he insults women by
likening them to a pig. What a dufus!

What does Obama need to apologize for? Is Palin all of a sudden a victim... can't she take it?

Give me a break. I hope Obama doesn't fall for this crap.

I'm a woman and I don't think that expression has anything to do with gender. It's an expression that has been used a zillion times... I love the way McCain is using Palin in the election. It's a joke. She's a joke.

If the Republican's can't handle a simple expression then they are not fit to lead. Cry babies.

The audience knew what he meant and it was obvious. I can only wonder where a Harvard educated dude from 111st picked up such language. Must have been Rev Wright.

Silly story. More relevant is McCain's implict support for child predators in his latest ad when he attacks Sen. Obama's sensible advocacy to teach kindergartener's about "stanger danger", calling is "sex ed". What a pathetic old coot.

OK Bamacult people, McCain called Hillary's health plan a "lipstick" plan,he never referred to her as a pig.
Bamalama on the other hand called Palin a pig. That is unacceptable.

No. He and Biden should hit with even harder comments and more often. Repubs are nothing but liars.

Absolutely not.

A pig is smarter than a pit bull, SHE should thanks HIM for the upgrade!

Palin, the empty skirt, should apologize for insulting my intelligence. Let her keep trying to sell the idea she was against the bridge to nowhere.

THE REPUBLICAN FAKE OUTRAGE OVER THIS NON-INSULT IS BOTH PREDICTABLE AND LAUGHABLE...!

I can go through the list of comments here and count at least 7-10 fake outrage comments from "MJ" under various fake womens post names (who knew?).

THE GOP - "ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO MAKE YOU FORGET THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF OUR OWN INCOMPETENCE"!

Ok...This Election is getting pretty darn silly.

this coming from a woman, who, in her acceptance speech equated herself to a dog with lipstick, if she had any brains, she'd thank him for the upgrade.

hello---
read a book you illiterate republican fools! it's an IDIOM!
maybe they don't teach ENGLISH where you are from, like SCIENCE
but get over yourselves.
THIS ELECTION SHOULD BE ABOUT ISSUES
like palin being against equal pay for equal work, like palin being against reproductive freedom, like palin having NEVER LEFT THE COUNTRY ... and GETTING HER PASSPORT IN AUGUST FOR THE FIRST TIME .

wake up and read a book for a change besides the old bible .

He'll apologize to the pigs as soon as she apologizes to the bull dogs.

You can put lipstick on a hockey mom, but she's still a hockey mom.

I am glad that people are not being distracted from what the real issues are in the race. As people are suffering from high gas prices, high food cost, high college tuition, high clothing costs, and everything else you can think of, they want Americans to focus on irrelevant comments.

It is great to witness Americans standing up and declaring "not this time." There is no way the media pundits can spin the fact that we are in the worst economic situation in years!. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
EIGHT YEARS IS ENOUGH! WE WILL NOT BE FOOLED AND BAMBUZZLED INTO FALLING FOR ALL OF THE DISTRACTIONS!

John McCain knows, the Republican Party knows, we all KNOW that Palin is not ready to be Commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation on earth! I have been listening to her speak over the past week, She says the same thing over and over again. The SAME things she said in her acceptance speech at the convention.

Her big gaffe on the lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers, " ??? Her comments demonstrates a total lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues that face the next administration!

It is clear that she is being shielded quite heavily by the McCain campaign because they know when she has to answer questions she does not have a clue about health care, education, foreign policy and the declining economy!

John McCain showed just how much he cares about our beloved country, by choosing someone as inexperienced as Palin! Moreover, Palin is being used to boost the Republican Party base, who cares nothing about her, her family (children) etc. as long as she hops through their hoops to get to where they want to go. Well meaning women should be outraged at the audacity of old man McCain taking advantage of young woman Palin!

However, it appears to tell us a lot about his judgment, after all, all of the women he has chosen have been "beauty queens" and apparently much younger than himself!

After all the hoopla is over, the American public will choose the candidate who has been consistent on his call for change over the past year, the candidate who has changed forever the way campaigns will run, how funds are raised and how people get involved and motivated from the bottom up!

Thanks Obama for caring enough to keep it real!

Hey Jill Zuckman!

Do you do anything other than repeat word for word McCain press releases...you know, things like ACTUALLY CHECKING TO SEE IF THEY'RE LYING AGAIN?!?!...or, you know, ACTUAL JOURNALISIM?

It's been obvious to everyone but you since this election started that you have your head up McCain's arse and wouldn't know objective reporting if it slapped you square in the face.

"lipstick on a pig" is a very old and widely used when someone is trying to sell a bad product/idea. It has no male/female conotation. There is no need to apologize!

If Caribou Barbie is so offended over a common expression, how is she going to handle Al Qaeda?

If anything, McSame should be apologizing for his latest ad, mischaracterizing Senator Obama's program designed to protect kindergarten-aged children from sexual predators as "sex education for preschoolers". McBush is a liar and an adulterer, and Caribou Barbie is a pathological serial liar, a thief and a cheat. I don't want to hear any more bleating and whining from the Greedy Oil Party.

Obama was talking about their game plan. That they are basically putting lipstick on a pig. Trying to trot out old ideas as new. If I could do sign language I would try that to help everyone understand the use of the analogy. But I guess the Republicans new game is to yell....yell all the time....no matter what we are always right....and even if we are not.....we are going to keep on spewing out crap until everyone believes it. This is beyond belief. Good night.

Why worry about crap like this when we are 9.5 Trillion in the hole and nobody is responsible. The heads of the Ginemaes are walking with millions. This trivial bs just fuels the incompetency in govt.

a commonly used phase showing what scum they are, they hire some more ex bushies.

a commonly used phase that mcbush used himself, showing what scum they are, they hire some more ex bushies. mcbush is showing what low life he is.

I thought liberals were the ones who were "whiny and only concerned with political correctness?"

Obama's right - no apology required at all. No, he should absolutely not apologize. Sarah Palin is a Big Fat Liar.

To vote for Obama would truly be a vote for an end to our great country. Like the fall of Rome, we will destroy ourselves from within.

Good to see you back Barack Hussein Obama. Thought you were Mr. Nice and Respectful Guy. Oh, yeah, NOT! You went to the Rev's church for 20 years and was in a drug induced coma and never heard a racist word. Your comment is absolutely the low of low and you will pay for it by losing the election. Women are sick and tired of men like you, scums of the earth, treating us like that. I will campaign my heart out for the true patriotic ticket and the one with the most amt. of experience. Go McCain/Palin.

did you know that muslims's use of pig is very humiliating? maybe barack HUSSEIN obama remembers that from one of the madrarsas he attended growing up in indonesia.

Since we're talking about animals...

NObama's goose is totally cooked!

Ha-ha!

McCain/Palin all the way in'08!!!

Women, especially the grossly unqualified, are used to receiving anything and everything, tailored /customized sans difficulty and handed to them in a chivalrous manner, now including the presidency. While real issues decay in dust, women are steering election criteria towards which candidate treats Gov.Pitbull with more respect? Absolutely laughable. cringeworthy.The real apology shall one day come from America to the world in advance, for what they are about to inflict on this planet by electing McPalin in November--the world's worst pandora's box ever.

Another attempt to divert attention from issues by the GOP, and make it an election about 'personality', in which they can slander and lie their way to victory. Ignore the issues of the economy, the quagmire of a war based on lies, our declining public education, erosion of civil rights, and the imposition of pro-life and other lifestyle choices by the GOP gov't. Vote for keeping things the same as they have been for the past 8 years b/c you think Sarah Palin is 'hot' or McCain's 5 years in solitary somehow should negate his strict party-line voting that has led us to trouble. Then watch the country's remarkably fast decline continue, suck up to the Chinese and Russians to get in their favor, and become another failed empire in the history books, doomed to fail as a result of arrogance and stupidity.

Why should he apologize? She stuck her foot in her mouth when she referred to herself as pitbull on national television. If you don't want to be referred to in some derogastory way, then start with yourself.

The Republican's attack machine is disgusting, amoral, and cynical. If the voters buy the Republicans' line of swill again, it will be a sad day for this country and a worse day for the world.

Senator Obama has nothing to apologize for. Nothing. He has all the class that Steve Schmidt and the other Rove progeny entirely lack.

McCain has sold out whatever credibility he has. At one point, I considered him a decent, promising politician.

Of course Obama meant nothing by it. This committee has been formed to take nothing and make it into something ugly. This tactic started with Bush senior and is so dishonorable, but unfortunately quite effective. Most Americans haven't got the intelligence to decipher the rhetoric. The Republicans will ride dishonest strategies like this all the way into the White House again, and frankly, I am sick of the whole thing. Our nation will never be able to unite after this election. So many disgusted citizens are talking about leaving. That is the abominable level to which these divisive elections have taken us. God help us all.

Haha, in YOUR FACE McSame/Palin!!! Republicans have glass jaws and are wimps.

Trash-talking seems to be the new campaign strategy from Obama. I guess this is just another desparate move from a man who lost his way.

Obama will apologize when pigs fly.

Obama will apologize when pigs fly.

Anyone who's seen the video can tell that Obam is making a reference to Palin because of her line at the RNC that the difference between hockey moms and pit bulls was lipstick.
During the primaries, Obama did this sort of thing a lot to Hillary Clinton --- he would say things that the audience took the way he wanted them to take it, and he'd get big cheers and applause, but then later would claim he didn't mean it like that.

It's very passive-aggressive...and childish. Like the speech he gave right after the Philadelphia ABC debate where he gave Hillary Clinton "the finger" and then later claimed he was just scratching his nose. But, you can tell how angry he was about his poor debate performance...and this was not nose scratching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69JVgf0ioq8
What a petulant child the democrats have nominated for the presidency. Clearly not ready.

Is this the change we can believe in?

Good grief, folks. It's politics. Let's save the apologies for the voters. Just goes to show you, though, what some of us have known all along--Obama is a true politician in both the best and worst sense. So are the other three.

you could never insult her enough in my book. she's the female version of bush. never saw an oil company she didn't love especially BP. why would you want a politician from alaska as your running mate. they are dirty from oil company payoffs (see ted stevens). book banning, introduced partisan politics to small town alaska, promoter of inhumane aerial killing of wolves,( $150.00 bounty proposed by her for every wolf foreleg) ( better keep an eye on your dog with palin around). staunch abstinence only advocate. maybe she can do for the rest of the country what she's done for her daughter. insult away i say, she deserves it.

McCain voted for $150 billion in earmarks over the last 6 years. Sarah Palin is America's welfare queen, She requested, lobbied for and got more pork than any other mayor or governor in the nation.

She took a small town with no debt and ran it $22 million into the red even though she hired a Jack Abramoff associated lobbyist to help her now indicted buddy Sen. Ted Stevens get Wasilla $27 million in federal pork.

She's blowing millions as governor giving each Alaskan household over $3200 out the state's coffers this year while taking another $300 million+ from the rest of us in federal pork.

Republicans will do or say anything to get elected. Faux outrage, baldfaced lies, you name it. Enough already.

Palin is a joke.

Ah, I see. The Super Secret Decoder Rings can only be used to decode latent racism in the words of Republicans, not coded sexism from Democrats. I really must get me one of those rings..

Everyone knows its republicans that take the cheap shots! And they seriously need to get more original! Stop copying other people's slogans!!

I say we criticize the people - on either side of the political spectrum - who behave so insidiously as to attempt to co-opt standard English language as a means of furthering their political agenda. I mean this sincerely: individuals who do this - the 'gotcha' and the word-twisters, the 'black hole' means racist and 'lipstick on a pig' means sexist peddlers - are utterly blameworthy. Why don't we call them out more often, instead of responding in a reactionary fashion to their insane accusations?

"You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.” “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink."

Does anyone actually believe this wasn't planned in advanced?

Obama need not apologize - the solution is just to vote for McCain-Palin. Obama - is more of the same politics and not the change we need.

The wealthy GOPers have found a way to get the "commoners" to vote Repub, so they can get their tax cuts. Anyone making at or under $227,000/year needs to Google and take a serious look at where the McCain vs. Obama tax plans will have them in the next few years. You're being used. The rich GOP don't care about abortion and prayer in school - they just care about their money and you're handing it right to them. I hope you get a thank you card.

And, when the economy continues its fall into recession, what's going to happen as the poor get poorer? When a young person has nothing to lose, crime does pay.

And, when Palin and her ilk reverse Roe v Wade... will women stop getting pregnant and having babies? No, they will get pregnant, be unable to make a choice re: what is best not only for themselves but also for the BABY, and thus give birth to babies they cannot afford to raise. These babies will be humans that will suffer - they will live hungry and scared. Is this better? Is this what God wants? Is this what the GOP elitists really want -- more people needing help? More people encroaching on their perfect world?

Better lock the doors, GOPers - when you make this bed, you're going to have to lie in it.

He doesn't need to appoligize - this will cost him enough votes to make it all worth while - and he has lost yet another day with the focus firmly on Palin and the search and destroy mission of the press and liberal establishment.

I'm a Hillary woman, and I believe this was a female jab by Obama.

He treated Hillary the same way!! Anyone remember; "You're likable enough, Hillary?"

Even Biden said lipstick won't make the economy better.

It's no secret that the timing of the use of LIPSTICK is not by accident.

HOW DARE THEY!!

Gee, I thought Palin was supposed to be "tough". If she can't get over this just how good is she going to be in the foreign policy arena?

Pathetic is right.

No apology necessary.
Palin is supposedly tough as nails, but thus far, measured by the bleating from the McCain campaign (yes, it's still he that would be C.I.C, everyone else seems to have forgotten that), the nails seem to be the variety that dwell on ones fingertips.
I want to know what colors Palin favors for her lips and nails.
Is it "Rouge Cou", "Light Sweet Crude" or the more subtle shade of "Trooper Taupe"?

Obama should first take his foot out of his mouth then apologize to Palin

The people asking for the apology are the ones that must think that Palin is a pig. This is a common saying and it fits the McCain campaign without implying any personal insult.

McCain must be very happy that he has shifted so much discussion away from the issues of the campaign over to frivolities. It's understandable. He has very good reason to want to do that.

Well, I am insulted, however, it appears that O-O-Ob-Obama is so used to being idolized that he be-be-be-believes he can say anything. As well he sh-sh-sh-should.

Say what you really think Ba-Ba--Ba-Barack!

Th-th-th-that's all folks!

What's the difference between lipstick on a pig, and lipstick on a pitbull? Not much.

The "lipstick" on a pig comment is clearly directed at Palin and plays back to her own reference to lipstick during the convention. Obama is clearly rattled by her, enough to throw off the veneer of civility and manners he has maintained to date. This won't help him. He should leave the mudslinging to the naturally ungracious and mean-spririted Biden. Biden is good for little else. It is certain Obama will lose now, possibly in a landslide. But he had run two good campaigns and could have come out of a loss with his head high, a gentleman. Even that is gone now. Sad,

In the big picture of Political Jabs this is no big deal. However, given the recent "surge" in the polls, much of which is attributed to white working women, this comment was politically stupid. It was also too calculated to be just an ad-hoc comment, we know he is totally scriptied. You can tell that Obama Nation is becoming really concerned about losing Hockey Moms, Soccer Moms and all other working Moms and well they should be.

NObama's goose is cooked!

Sarah Palin is running to be vice president, Sen Obama looks so weak going after the vice presidential candidate who happens to be a women.

Under normal circumstances Obama's comments would be fine. However, this comes right after Palin's "hockey mom.. pit bull" joke at the convention.

The timing and comment were definately intended and on purpose. After all Obama never makes a statement or decision without thinking it over carefully for several hours, days, weeks....

He is panicked at the rise in the polls by McPailin..

Phil Gramm was partially right, he just got the group wrong:

The GOP is a nation of whiners.

AN APOLOGY WOULD BE A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT.
Obama's lip stick / pig remark ... and, Biden's unsavory children with special needs remarks show us what a couple of creeps these two candidates are. In lieu of Sarah Palin's comment about hockey moms, pit bulls and lip stick, Obama's lip stick/ pig remark was extremely demeaning. Even though I am not an Obama supporter, at least I thought he had some degree of class and sophistication. He can try to cover his tracks by saying that the lip stick remark was not directed towards Governor Palin, but anyone with half a brain knows that's exactly what he meant. I think Obama knows his campaign is in real trouble, and that's why he's stooping to such desperate, insulting and distasteful attacks. Obama is definitely not Presidential material.

Obama should appologize....to the pigs.

Who wouldn't be insulted by being compared to a Republican politician?

McCain's handlers are trying to intimidate the press into leaving the poor "barracuda" alone. Dionne nails it when he exposes the shielding tactic for what it is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090801907.html?nav=slate

A very angry man-- this liberal senator. Headline today, Sept.9. McCain leads Obama 49-44. He got a reason to lose it and perhaps "unintentionally" said the wrong thing.

Politician or common folk, the worst thing anyone can do is compare any woman to a pig! It surely displays that Barrack has no common scense what so ever, this is the Democratic's dream man, hah!

If he thinks this way about this issue, what about the others? The true inner self is showing, what about his true intensions?

Demos, your in for a real surprise! This Is History!!

The Democrats continue to lose another presidential election, Obama is demonstrated every day as the worst candidate, has nothing to do its color, this man is sexist, doesn't like women who are better than him.
Obama should be remembered for his Rev. Wright and his best friends (Rezco, Bill Ayers, etc.) and need paint better their past, using another "lipstick".

For those of you defending Obama, you've already forgotten this video, haven't you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOFp-RDpvM

Have doubt? How about he does exactly the same "face scratch" move in front of another audience at the same place in his speech (1:18 into the video)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlR9DNfqGD4

So, he gives Hillary Clinton - a FELLOW DEMOCRAT - the finger passive-aggressively in front of two audiences, and you think he was just making an innocent use of the phrase "lipstick on a pig?"

John McCain made it clear he was talking about Hillary's health care POLICY, whereas Obama was ragging on Palin and McCain the whole speech. Stop defending a juvenile joker that Obama is!

Oh for crying out loud. Is the word "lipstick" now forbidden because Palin uttered the word?

"Lipstick on a pig" phrase has been used forever to describe someone who is one way and tries to pretend they are another. Obama is far too smart to refer to Palin in this way and has more respect for women than that.

Stick to the facts and stop making up stuff that isn't there. Maybe even act like adults.

Obama is the real pig in all of this. Chicago and Cook County politics taken to the national level.

Hell yes Obama should apologize for that jerkwater comment he made about pigs and lipstick! This was no accident and he damned well knew who he was referring to here. I am now sick and tired of the ridiculous and uncalled for attacks on Sarah Palin. The truth is Obama is terrified and running scared because he is now dealing directly with something neither he or the Democratic party did not expect in their worst nightmares, namely an empowered woman who happens to be a Republican and who is now empowering other women just by her example alone. Right now, McCain doesn’t have to do a single thing to insure Obama is going to end up blowing the election. Obama is doing it all by himself, every time he now opens his mouth and even remotely makes reference to Sarah Palin. Maybe someone in his campaign needs to offer him a nice piping hot cup of SHUT THE HELL UP!

no apology!

when are the republicans going to apologize for ruining the image of america in the eyes of the world?

when are the republicans going to apologize to the families of all the soldiers who died in a senseless war in iraq?

when are the republicans going to apologize to all the families who lost loved ones in katrina?

and the list goes on and on...

was this a personal attack by obama on palin? no. it was a personal attack on every right-wing neo-con who has tarnished our once great nation.

get over yourselves.

Maybe McCain should apologize for using the lipstick on a pig comment that he used on Hillary Clinton.

Kermit the Frog just called, he said Miss Piggy will not be voting for Senator Obama and she is outraged. Obama needs to stay on message, he's not good at trying to be funny or cutesy, it's just not his thing. It gets him in trouble every time. Obama needs to be himself and get back on message.

Obama has lived as a racist against white america all his life. Of course he is promising change because for the first time in his wife's life she is proud to be an american. Help him our Reverend Wright.

STOOOOOPID remark!!!

I remember when the Obama people got ticked when a T-shirt FOR Obama depicted the monkey, Curious George.

Fish?
Pigs?
Monkeys?

They're all starting to sound like a bunch of jack*sses!

there is nothing to apologize for. we should all start concentrating on things that actually matter regarding the election and stop wasting time on non issues.

Listen to the crowd react when Obama said this - they completely understood the double entendre that was being used, for its so close in time to the lipstick comment from Palin. Yes, it was meant as it sounded; yes, Obama's denial is disingenuous.

He didn't say anything wrong and even if he had actually called Palin a pig (by they way, yes this IS a common expression, maybe if you stopped watching American Idol for 5 minutes you would know something) who cares? The elephants aren't apologizing to the country or Obama for making fun of community organizing, a far more egregious insult and ascary sign of their utter disregard for anyone who is not already rich and powerful.

When Senator McCain apologizes for his misognist remarks and publicly addresses using the "c" word on his wife.

To those that would say Obama should be addressing McCain..President to President..I would say that currently the GOP is running Palin ahead of McCain..taking the spotlight off of him, understandably so, the classic misdirection..so in all fairness..Obama is going head to head with the top of the GOP ticket..at the moment..and all brought forth by the movers and shakers of the GOP running this campaign.
As for the "pig and lipstick" comment from Obama...it was all above boar-d.
You have to be careful what you say in explaining your case and what metaphors you bring to light in any speech because they can..and will be used against you..she inititated the allusion..Obama just had the wit to "one-up-her" and that's all within the boundaries of fairness and etiquette..after all, she was the one that mocked him first about his credentials as a "Community Organizer" in other words she oinked first so she had one coming..just remember Lady Palin.."he that oinks last oinks best."

Obama was not talking about Sarah Palin, He was talking about the McCain ticket.

The Republicans can win this election if we avoid the issues and play the sex discrimination card with this token.

I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but if you see the video and listen to the context he really seems to be saying Palin is a pig and McCain is an old fish. Even the audience was left with that impression given their cheering.

Over the last two weeks Palin has been using her lipstick/pitbull joke and the Obama uses his lipstick/pig joke. Plus his campaign's initial attack on McCain was that he was too old.

That's a little too coincidental for me. And, again, his audience thought that's what he meant. That's why they cheered so much.

I think this is a comment that's going to stick to Obama especially after he ignored Hillary for the VP spot.

Posted by: SAM

BINGO ! ! !

Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness.

Was Obama the best the dems could do??? Hillary should have been nominated. Obama is horrible.His racists pastor and his sexist remarks show his true color.

Now we see why Obama didn't pick Hillary. He does not think a woman should be in the White House.

Well we got new for you sexist. A woman will be in the White House. And you will go back to Illinios.

I am glad the Dems picked Obama. His pick of Biden over Hillary and his anti-Women remarks will give John McCain and Sarah the Win.

God Bless America.

Why is anyone even discussing this? REAL journalists would ask hard questions about POLICY, not proverbs.

ASK Ms. Palin about her love of earmarks! That's a policy question! ASK Mr. McCain about his economic plan! THAT's a policy question.

These Republican shenagigans are intended to distract the American voter from what really matters. And it aint lipstick on a pig.

no apology is needed - same thing McCain said years ago about Hilary's health care agenda.... if Obama was referring to the GOP show-pony gal - good for him - looks like he has a pair after all.

I say calling a pig a pig is not an insult. But calling a pig Sarah Palin is... an insult to the pig that is!

Posted by: Li
Are You consider Yourself a Human Being ?

John McCain used those exact same words when he was talking about Hillary Clintons' heath care plan. Did he need to apologize? Was he calling Hillary a Pig? We should be talking about the issues.

Novel solution for everyone here: How about each side take off their boxing gloves, stick to the issues, and speak on the solution they propose?

Now wouldn't that be a novel approach?

He shouldn't have to apologize. It's a saying! Palin is the one who called herself a "pitbull with lipstick"! What a joke.

no, he shouldn't apologize. it's a commonly-used colloquialism. why is it, Jill and Mike, that the conservative Trib will always praise the right, but the dems say or do ANYTHING and you vilify them? I'm sick of this bias on the Tribune's part.

Barack, do not apologize, and get out there and win!!

Has anyone watched the clip of the speech prior to this comment. "Now think about it, these are the same folks that have been in charge for the last eight years.

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough."
It could be interpreted as you can put lipstick on Sarah Palin and she is still a pig, like the folks in office for eight years.
Senator Obama, apologize and move on, you lost my vote for president, don't lose it as my senator....

Even is Obama was not talking about Sarah Palin, MANY people in the audience thought he was. That is reason enough to apologize.

McCain/Palin have nothing to say about what they are gonna do, so all they can talk about is Obama. How about some ideas from the repubs? They don't have any...

It is stupid and ridiculous to think Obama was using that remark against Palin.

The republican party is despicable...

The faux uproar by the far right regarding Obama's comment just shows what wusses they are. "Oh, he said something that I don't like." So if serial adulterer and admitted bribe taker John McCain and his serial liar running mate,Sarah Palin can not take the heat of a Presidential election, how can the American people honestly expect them to be able to stand up to those who mean to do harm against this country?

This is news, why?

The GOP sure can dish it out but don't have the spine to take it.

Why didn't the republicans complain when McCain made a similar "pig with lipstick" remark targeted at Hillary Clinton? Learn to take what you dish out.

Obama will catch heat for this one. I'm from Texas where this phrase has been used long ago and I'M SAYING HE SHOULD APOLOGIZE ! ! !

FIrst off, Palin referenced herself as a Pitbull with lipstick, THAT IS WHERE HE SCREWED UP, he took a stab at Sarah Palin by referencing that AFTER what she said and then using the excuse of McCain using that comment prior. If he didn't like something McCain said he should have gone after McCain NOT PALIN who he's been after since she was named on the ticket. TIME TO RUN AGAINST MCCAIN or he won't get anyones respect. Pretty bad showing you're threatened by the VP pick especially after you say she has no experience !

Only people who think low end would project and blow the comment into something it wasn't. Obama has nothing to apologize for. McCain might want to apologize though for some of the below the belt punches he's been throwing.

I'm embarrassed for your newspaper that you would even publish something as inane as this given all of the real issues this country faces. I realize that it benefits McCain to take everyone's eyes off the ball, but the fact that the mainstream media repeatedly falls for these nonstories is a disservice to the reading public. Guess I know where I won't be turning for actual news about what the candidates' views are on issues as I decide who to vote for.

What does he need to apologize for. Since, Obama has been in the spot light. They have wanted him to aplogize for his back ground. Aplogize for not being ignorant, and now they want him to apologize doing what they have been doing for years playing the game.

So, i think Palin should put on her armour.

And he should not apologize, for what.

One of my personal litmus tests for whether people are nuts is if they believe that Creationism should be taught in public schools. Palin apparently strongly supports the teaching of Creationism. How can anyone with even half a brain support someone who supports the teaching of Creationism in public schools?

He wasn't even talking about Palin. Look at the context, Obama used an old expression to talk about how McCain says he is an agent of change, but his record shows quite the opposite. What Obama meant was McCain's record is a "Pig" and that he simply can't get away from it by putting "lipstick" on it. In fact McCain used the same expression recently and he was talking about Hillary Clinton. It is clear the hypocritical Republicans will use this yet again to keep people off focus. By the way, there are quite a few "pigs" in the Republican Party; pig like in fascist! Oh no, I just had an ugly thought, John McCain in drag and lipstick, excuse me, I think I'm ill. Seriously, the McCain Campaign is making me ill. No apology, McCain; how 'bout you go pound sand.

Absolutely not! We all know what he was referring to. All the hype about Sarah Palin will disappear soon what goes up must come down. Any woman who believes that a woman should carry a baby after rape on incest in truly insane. Don't tell me what I can do with my body. And her stand on Sex Education is truly ridiculous sweep around your own front doors before sweeping around others.

It was actually really funny... In one line, Obama alluded to both McCain (who used the line earlier) and Palin, who used the idea of lipstick....

and all tucked into a commonly used expression...
it was very clever and witty.... where is your sense of humor Republicans...??

do you have no sense of repartee?

Obama was clearly talking about McCain right before he made those comments, but you can count on the party without a plan for the future to try to create a bogus talking point about sexism to keep the sheep that voted for Bush twice from ever discussing the issues. This stunt by the McCain campaign which comes straight from the Rove book of misleading the sheep with nonsense long enough to get elected should be obvious to most people as a way to keep people from asking Palin the tough questions. They are hiding her away from interviews so they can keep the media and voters from ever learning about her records and opinions.

McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis said last week that the election "is not about issues" but instead is about the candidates' personalities."
The plan being to slander Obama and put the pretty hockey mom on tv telling the same lies over and over without fear of repercussion because they have made the painted the media as being sexist if they even question the woman running to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
You would think that most women would be smart enough to see they are being played, but if they are the same women that voted for Bush twice they have a record of being gullible, so buying the McCain camps spin shouldn't be a big surprise.

Anyone who doesn't think an apology is warrented, just doesn't get it.
Barack Obama is running for our nations highest office and should respect ALL people. Men/Women, Repubs/Dem's. This kind of behavior if it came from the oval office today, the media would demand an apology. Also, it's kind of like being married, even though you don't get it and everyone else does, apologize and move on.
Maybe Obama should have some town hall meetings like McCain wants to show him up at his own game. Quit swinging at pitches in the dirt by going after the VP choice and go directly after the candidate. If this is leadership, then please drop out....

Obama doesn't get it. Apologize and move on, this story and his attacks of a vp candidate are playing into the repub's hands which is why they are tied/leading over obama. The longer he drags this on, the more votes he loses to the repubs. Quit playing tic-tac-toe and get back into a game that you can win. Heck, at this point Obama should do the town hall meetings with mccain instead of all the debates where nothing is gained, talk to the people and show your differences. The networks already love obama so why not appeal to the voters.

Saw Obama's speech this morning. I am glad he did not apologize. He has nothing to apologize for. It is the media like Fox that have made this a big story. Hannity arguing with
Huckabee about this being a common phrase in the south. Anything to distract from the issues. Let's not let the McCain camp get their way.

SINKING LIBERALS & FAR LEFTIES ACTIVISTS:

YOU GOT THE WRONG NUMBER HERE. SARAH PALIN IS TOUGH.

OBAMA IS DONE! GOING AFTER PALIN INSTEAD OF McCAIN IS A SIGN OF DESPERATION.

OBAMA IS USED TO PUT WOMEN DOWN WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES BUT THE SILENCE OF THE CORRUPT AND BIAS MEDIAS.

SARAH PALIN IS NOT HILLARY CLINTON. SHE KNOWS HOW TO FIGHT BACK. MOVEON.ORG WILL APPRECIATE THE GOP VERSION OF TCHAIKOVSKI'S "THE NUTS CRACKER". ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. JOHN McCAIN IS A TRUE LEADER WITH TIME, SPATIAL AND STRATEGIC AWARENESS. JOHN McCAIN RESPONSE TO OBAMA'S FAILURE TO PUT A WOMAN ON THE TICKET IS MAKING A HUGE DIFFERENCE NOW. THIS MEANS CONFIDENCE. McCAIN'S ABILITY TO TAKE HUGE BUT REASONABLE RISKS, ABILITY TO MAKE GOOD DECISION WITH A VISION: WHOLE SYSTEM REFORMS WITH THE RIGHT PERSON NOT POLICY CLEANING WITH THE SAME AVERAGE BIDENS. NOBODY BETTER THAN A BIG MOUTH WILL SPEND TIME TALKING ABOUT LIPSTICK. JOHN McCAIN KNOWS HOW TO CLOSE THE DEAL: SARAH PALIN IS THE CHANGE OBAMA IS SPENDING ALL OF HIS TIME ONLY TALKING ABOUT. SARAH IS NOT PERFECT BUT WHO CARES? BY THE WAY, WHO IS PERFECT? SARAH PALIN IS THE CHANGE. WHO CAN DENY IT? FOR THE FIRST TIME, WOMEN, AVERAGE JOs, BLUE COLARS & HANDICAPs WILL HAVE THEIR SAY IN THIS ELECTION NOT HOLLYWOOD, BIAS MEDIA, MTV BRITISH POP STARS & GERMAN SHEPHERDS. DON'T YOU GET IT. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DEMOCRATS WITH THEIR FAR LEFT ACTIVISTS & THEIR YOUNG STUDENTS NETWORK(ENJOYING LATTE WITH MOM AND DAD'S MONEY AT STARBUCKS) ARE OUT OF TOUCH. THE WORLD HAVE CHANGED NOT THE DEMOCRATS. Max

John 9:13AM

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Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

Play it and weep, Republics.
McCain = the complete hypocrite.
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Case closed; McCain, guilty
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http://beltwayblips.com/video/john_mccain_likes_lipstick_on_a_pig_references_too/

He didnt call her a pig and Mccain's tactics are the same old bull....can we please elect someone who has a good education? Someone we can be proud of speaking on behalf of our country. Mccain cant even remember things he said from one day to the next...he is senile! And Palin is as bad as Bush with all those ignorant one liners that only a redneck would get fired up about! When did intelligence STOP being a qualification for president?

poor widdle sara. they're picking on her. non-sense.
if the "pit bull" barricuda can't take this how would she ever be able to stand up to putin, amidinajad, kim jun il, china, al-quaida, pakistan et. al.
further where is she? in hiding? most candidates hit the sunday talk shows, are making appearences, talking to reporters. not sara gramps mccain and the republican handlers are scared to let here out and about since she is totally incompetent to be v.p. let alone president. she is just a puppet with rove and cheney's hand up her back.
what a waste

How can you compare someone as inexperience as Palin to someone like Hillary Clinton? There is no comparision. Why would any one vote for her JUST because she is a womanI. And remember...if it looks like a pig and walk likes a pig...its probably a pig.

This blog sure is making a lot of headway. Keep up the hard work. It's amusing that some of you liberals will state that republicans can't focus on the real issues in a blog about a statement that was taken out of context. This must be a real issue that needs to be defended! Obama has proven absolutely nothing to me to this point.