By George Harris, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
Let’s do the history.
Governor Sarah Palin said the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull is you can put lipstick on a hockey mom.
Obama, ridiculing the McCain/Palin’s new "change" mantra, said,
"You can put lipstick on a pig. "It's still a pig.You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
And the Republicans cried foul, saying Obama was calling Palin a pig. Or maybe a fish.
Say what? Sarah Palin says she’s like a pit bull but with lipstick, but don’t dare compare her to a pig?
Of course, Obama didn’t put the lipstick on Palin but on the opponent’s campaign slogan.
Whatever. The uproar made me wonder when the pigs, pit bulls and fish are gonna take offense.
“Hey,” Porky says, “Don’t even think about putting me in the same sentence with a pit bull. This is an affront to porkers everywhere.”
“Speaking of Washington lobbyists,” the pit bull says, “the porkers have practically ruined this country. You can put lipstick on a lobbyist and some congressman will ask it for a date.”
“How offensive,” Porky replies. “Lots of lobbyists look really nice in lipstick. And who’d want to date a pit bull, even one with lipstick. Anyway, don't you dare compare me to a Washington lobbyist.”
“Now you’ve crossed the line, Porky. I know a pit bull with five kids, and people are standing in line to get to see her.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah, Fishface.”
“Don’t call me Fishface! Unless you mean like a dolphin ‘cause they’re cute. And don't mix your metaphors.”
"You probably mean don't confound the similes, you illiterate slime dog."
“Well, lipstick on your collar tells a tale on you.”
“Huh? What does that mean?”
“If you can’t figure that out, you’re dumb as a post.”
“Don’t you dare call me a post.”
“Oh, never mind.”
And this is what we call political discourse.
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Editorial board is stacked
Editorial board is stacked to the gills with left-wing kooks, and now, come the election, all of their Reader Advisory panel have come out of the closet as left-wing kooks.
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No,
this is what we call yet more left-wing propaganda from a rag that's already overflowing with it.
Obama always knows what he is saying...
Did Obama call Sarah Palin a pig or allude that she was one? No. Did he know that his audience would link it back to her? I have to say, “Of course”. Did they? Absolutely. You just have to listen to their reaction.
Obama was being cute and got caught. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that it was discussed before he said it. If nothing else (and he is much more), he is a very smart guy and an artful communicator.
I think his supporters are caught between a rock and a hard place. They can admit he knew what he was doing, and admit that he has become just another business-as-usual politician. Or, they can continue to claim that it was an innocent remark and question his intelligence and judgment. Either works for me
Or, maybe I just give him too much credit…
What Happened to Honor
McCain knows his complaints about Obama's use of the same phrase McCain used for Hillary's health care plan is another cynical attempt to throw sand into the eyes of the electorate. Cynical like his attempt to steal the Change theme from Obama, cynical like appointing an airhead Christian fundamentalist as VP candidate, .. where is the McCain of 2000 - a so-called man of honor and dignity? He is now a puppet of the Rove/Limbaugh clique that with Cheney controlled the Bushies. The War Hero that hides behind a woman's skirts and throws sand in the eyes of the voters - McCain has made hollow the word Honor .
Wait till he finds out
Poor Mainstream_Coalition. She's still having to wrestle with the awful thought that maybe her AM radio girlfriend Pilinodal Cyst Man was WRONG when he told her that if you call someone a "lib," they'll run shrieking from the room. Try it: "LIB! LIB! LIB!" dammit, they're all still here.
Lipstick on a pig
How sad that it's already come to this ... issues anyone??
http://lifeisacookie.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/the-pigs-are-flying/
If Palin's handlers would
If Palin's handlers would let her actually talk to the press and answer some policy questions, there would be plenty of opportunity to write more substantive stories. The interview with ABC news should be very enlightening. If her handlers are so afraid of her embarrassing herself, maybe they should have talked McCain out of picking her.
Yet another lib!?!?!?!?!?!?
Good grief, the entire editorial board is stacked to the gills with left-wing kooks, and now, come the election, all of their Reader Advisory panel have come out of the closet as left-wing kooks. This ditz just entered two left wing diatribes.
No wonder this POS keeps sliding into the tank, they made sure their "advisors" were of the same ilk as their already tedious editorial board.
"Uh, we think you should have more left-wing propaganda and less investigative reporting and we think that Kansas city's history of corruption should be perpetuated."
"Gotcha, stay the course."
And this is what we call legitimate Political Comment?
Please.
Not even worthy of response.