FINAL COUNTDOWN FOR USA ELECTION 2008

I thought it was just used as the term is commonly used without innuendo too until I heard later that prior to this remark, the crowd was chanting to him "No pitbulls! No pittbulls!" That explains why the crowd whooped and hollered and rose to their feet when he said it. Changes the perspective doesn't it?

*** A different kind of political pork: Anyone else thinking that the McCain campaign -- who earlier this summer accused Obama of playing the race card -- is laughing at how easily they were able to bait some in the media to bite on this faux “lipstick on a pig” controversy? It's amazing the McCain campaign's ability right now to drive the talking point of the day (especially with Drudge and the tabloids), allowing them to win news cycle after news cycle. Any day the campaign is not about Bush, not about the economy, not about the fundamentals of this environment that make this an election favoring the Democrats is a good day for the McCain campaign. We'll see how easily the media takes the bait today on this McCain Web ad, which clearly distorts Obama’s line from yesterday. Conservative bloggers will pretend to be outraged and help drive this storyline today. Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn responded to the faux controversy with this statement: "Enough is enough. The Mc Cain campaign's attack … is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy - the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run." Will Dunn's statement have the same effect that the McCain campaign's "enough" statement had on Team Obama regarding race?

"Spare me the phony outrage, phony talk about change, we have real problems, we need real answers;
not distractions, diversions and manipulations."

We need to keep pointing out what we know and see and our impressions and defend our candidates with something substantive. That will be our best shot since Obama doesn't have a whole lot of substance going for him.

Who cares whether he made it up or not? Jollily singing a song about bombing another country is hardly presidential. I mean if you're a talk radio host you might pull stunts like that, but as candidate to be president of the USA? Seriously? Can you imagine Ike having done that, or FDR?

Foxfyre wrote:

We need to keep pointing out what we know and see and our impressions and defend our candidates with something substantive. That will be our best shot since Obama doesn't have a whole lot of substance going for him.

Clearly he does have substance, as evidenced by the fact that the McCain campaign (and you) only wants to talk about their fake outrage at Obama using a common analogy. The horrors! If he did not have substance, you all might actually be talking about issues. But why talk about issues and have an actual debate (that you might lose) when you can instead cry sexism and media bias.

Me too. I took Foxfyre's word for it, but that would make all the difference on this gaffe. It would show intent, or probably no intent.

“John McCain says he’s about change, too " except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics,” Mr. Obama told his supporters here. “That’s just calling the same thing something different.”

With a laugh, he added: “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 going to stink after eight years.”

In the latest sign of the campaign’s heightened intensity, Mr. McCain’s surrogates responded within minutes and called on Mr. Obama to apologize to Gov. Sarah Palin for the lipstick remark. But to those in the audience, it was clear that Mr. Obama was employing an age-old phrase " lipstick on a pig " and referring to Mr. McCain’s policies. He had not yet mentioned Ms. Palin at that point of his speech.

This happens every election cycle. Every four years. This is what we do. We've got an energy crisis. We have an education system that is not working for too many of our children and making us less competitive. We have an economy that is creating hardship for families all across America. We've got two wars going on, veterans coming home not being cared for -- and this is what they want to talk about! This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about.

You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It's not the Democratic candidate, It's not the Republican candidate. It's you, the American people. because then we go another year or another four years or another eight years without addressing the issues that matter to you. Enough.

I don't care what they say about me, but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swift-boat politics. Enough is enough.