Barack Obama may very well have experienced his own personal "Macaca" moment yesterday.
George Allen lost his Virginia Senate seat in 2006 over a silly word he made up on the spot at a campaign rally in some obscure little burg. What Obama did here was worse.
For the record, I do not believe that Obama meant to call Sarah Palin a pig. I think he is more of a gentleman than that. He is also an intelligent public figure....which renders what he did say all the more incredibly stupid.
This line is now being discussed on every cable news channel, every radio talk show, every political website and on the Drudge Report. And McCain/Palin went up with a new ad overnight responding to it, treating the whole thing as though Obama meant the comparison intentionally....which they have a right to do, as the aggrieved party.
I have seen the clip a number of times already, and you can watch the stunned look cross Obama's face as he shades his brow with his hand, once he realizes what he has just said...followed by the raucous laughter of the crowd, which clearly took the jibe as a nasty personal shot at Palin.
This is bad for Obama...very, VERY bad. I would not be a bit surprised if he loses the Presidency over this. A Presidential race, rightly or wrongly, often rises or falls on small moments. Remember Dukakis' answer to the question from Bernie Shaw about capital punishment at the 1988 debate in LA? How about Al Gore's sighing at the first debate in 2000? And Walter Mondale's promise to raise taxes at his nomination acceptance speech in 1984? (Though does anyone really think Mondale ever had a chance?)
Steve Doocy from Fox & Friends wondered out loud this morning if the "lipstick on a pig" line has, perhaps, been being bandied about around Obama campaign headquarters for the last couple of weeks....and it slipped out of Obama's mouth in a moment of fatigue? Plausible, I think.
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Yes it is a sad thing, that we as voters, can be swayed so easy. Worse the media can run with anything, and we Americans who can no longer think for ourselves, just go with it. Was he calling her a pig... they are all pigs, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. So let us all put on our lipstick and flip a coin.
Obama would be better off to hire Ann Coulter as his campaign manager. 57 states...gun clinging...Michelle's numerous rantings...now this. The fact that he didn't mean it as a direct attack against Palin is even worse. At least then he could show he's willing to get his hands dirty. Now he just looks spineless and incompetent. We are literally witnessing a spiral downward similar to that of Brittany Spears. I predict within a week we'll see him getting his head shaved in an Asian beauty parlor.
Anonymous: I wish you would identify yourself so I and the readers would know from whence these remarks come!
I agree that we have no one to blame but ourselves for our government. All in all, we get about what we deserve. I disagree, though, that they are all pigs. Many politicians are good-hearted men and women, and some are people of courage. They are all imperfect, just like the rest of us.
I won't be flipping a coin this election. The choice is very clear, and couldn't be more so.
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