The lipstick reference was deliberate
Bookworm on Sep 10 2008 at 9:04 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Mike Devx was right, and I was too generous. Obama was not phrasing things infelicitously or making Freudian slips when he made the lipstick/pig speech. He has now admitted that he intended to refer to Palin when he used the phrase “lipstick,” something he denied right up until he got onto Letterman, when he suddenly started leaking out the truth.
Of course, Obama still denies calling either Palin or McCain pigs or stinky fish, but we’re already familiar with the Obama pattern when it comes to lies: first you deny everything, then you start trickling out the truth until everybody is bored and no one is listening anymore. If he follows that same-old, same-old pattern, we can assume that he’ll eventually admit that, well, the pig referenced wasn’t realy the stale old Bush or McCain policies, but was McCain himself, and that McCain is stinky old fish too.
I wonder how long it will take before the American people stop enjoying the sense of being played for fools.
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Obama’s mouth really moves faster than his brain, which really emphasizes how he is not ready to be President and could have disastrous implications for our country.
Watch re-runs of last’s night’s 4th interview with Bill O’Reilly (which I have not been able to find, yet) – O’Reilly, in his usual provocative way, sets-up a question with a statement that Europe is “weak and cowardly” (I paraphrase). Obama answers rhetorically in the affirmative.
Now, I fully believe that this is simply Obama agreeing in acknowledgment of O’Reilly’s question while thinking up a response, rather than Obama agreeing with O’Reilly’s point. However, the video out-take would indicate that he agrees with O’Reilly’s statement “Europeans are weak and cowardly”.
This sure sets him up to have a good relationship with Europe when he gets elected, doesn’t it? This is a rookie mistake that true diplomats (or GW Bush) would never make.
By the way, I agree with the statement. The fact is though, I don’t have to maintain a good diplomatic relationship with Europe as President.
I reminds me of his earlier comments suggesting that he would have no trouble invading Pakistan to hunt Osama bin Laden. The Pakistanis were not amused.
The one thing of which I can be very certain is that there will be much more of these types of “gaffes” to come.
Since I’ve cancelled my satellite TV (a few months back) I won’t be able to watch Governor Palin’s ABC interviews with Charlie Gibson. Also, it appears ABC is going to break up the interviews into even smaller segments to appear across a wide variety of their news-related shows, to occur over the next two-five days.
If anyone tracks down a list of videos from all these shows that would serve to present the entire interview set, and posted them here to Bookwormroom, that would really help out a lot. I think this set of interviews, her first *national* exposure to the people without a teleprompter, are highly significant events.
I’ll be trying to find all the segments myself, but I expect it will be bewildering difficult to locate and assemble the entire set.
Thanks in advance if anyone succeeds! Heck, maybe after they’re done cutting and dicing the interviews up into so many smaller segments, ABC will post the videos of the original interviews themselves, and do us all a favor.
I feel like I’m being played for a fool every time I’m remindedjust how little I KNOW about this man who thinks enough of HIMSELF to feel prepared and qualified to lead the free world but who thinks so little of US that he refuses to go public with his credentials that any boss would ask of a job applicant – and aren’t WE are the BOSS?!!
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — “not available”
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — “not available”
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate – - Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
13. Record of baptism– Not released or “not available”
14. Illinois State Senate records–”not available”
If any of this information has been released, I’d like to read it.
Marguerite, you might want to keep tabs on
http://www.obamacrimes.com/
Mike…do you check into Hot Air? Apparently there are some good videos there…the latest may be a response by Palin on the Bridge to Nowhere earmark. I don’t have sound on my computer, so I don’t check them, but there’s a link on WolfHowling this AM.
The entire O’Reilly-Obama interview series is supposed to be showing this Sunday if you have friends that are interested.
I saw an article yesterday that said that Greta’s Palin special had the highest (by Nielson’s count) ratings in the 12 years that Fox has been on the air.
Marguerite’s point is a good one. There is little paper trail available about ∅bama compared to other candidates. It certainly is amusing that ∅bama would attack Palin for whatever she did as mayor, when there is no corresponding paper trail available for ∅bama’s 8 years as a state legislator. My understanding is that his office records for his time as a state legislator have been destroyed. However, there is one item with which I will take issue.
3. Columbia Thesis paper — “not available”
Here I would like to defend ∅bama . This was NOT a graduate thesis. It was an undergraduate paper . How many of us have saved the papers or lab reports we wrote as undergrads? I certainly didn’t. A few I wished I had saved, but that’s the way it goes.
If it can be proven that papers written by his classmates for that particular class- it has something to do with the USSR and nuclear policy IIRC- are ensconsed in the Columbia library, then you would have a point. I doubt that very much.
I believe that the difference with his wife’s undergraduate paper that is in the Princeton library is that this was an independent study school-wide requirement for all Princeton seniors, not just for a particular class. In general, universities do not put undergraduate papers in their libraries. Nor do they put all graduate papers in libraries- just the reports, theses, or dissertations that were a requirement for the degree- as opposed to papers that were merely required for passing a course.
Anyone please correct me if I am wrong.
http://www.obamacrimes.com/
I’m glad he’s a democrat.
Thanks in advance if anyone succeeds! Heck, maybe after they’re done cutting and dicing the interviews up into so many smaller segments, ABC will post the videos of the original interviews themselves, and do us all a favor.
McCain’s campaign advisers were idiots not to get Fox News over ABC.
If Palin decided on ABC, then I’d suspect she was engaging in deep deceptive strategies, but this looks more like McCain got jacked and didn’t know about it. Like with the Atlantic photo.
THis is one of the things I told Neo I was worried about: that McCain would be so gullible, due to his bipartisan “working” with Democrats in the Senate, that he’d expose his back, and thus our back, to the daggers of our enemies.