lip stick on a pig?

[HappySqurriel]

The_vagabond7 said:

HappySqurriel said:

"You can put lipstick on a pig - its still a pig. You can wrap a piece of old fish in a piece of paper and call it change, its still going to stink after 8 years."

I think only a fool would argue that he wasn't alluding to Sarah Palin (a woman who's most famous quote to date involves her being a bulldog with lipstic on) and John McCain (a man who is constantly criticized for being old) with this quote. I think the association he wanted to make was quite a bit different than the one he did make (I assume he wanted people to associate Sarah Palin with pork filled bills/earmarks) and didn't think about the negative connotations of calling a woman a pig.

 

I think you're reading waaaaay too much into that. It's a common used phrase, McCain used it referring to Hillary, Dick Cheney used it reffering to John Kerry, Obama used it referring to McCain. It didn't mean anything other than what he said, what McCain said, what Cheney said, and what a thousand other politicians said. There is no second level that is sexist, or trying to tie it to Palin's porkbarrel spending. The rest is just bullshit politics.

I think you're being fairly naive ...

Modern politicians tend not to write their own speeches, and their speeches are analyzed to the point where most of the implications and interpretations of the speech are well known; I don't think this association could be accidential.

 

Anyways, I think the more interesting thing is that Obama has let this become as large and well known of a mistake as it has become; it may not be the largest political mis-step ever, but it has taken the coverage of him away from the big speeches which is where he is the most successful.