He has no mastery of the english language nor of speaking, his only mastery is reading aloud. I think that is all this is, I do not think he was insulting Palin intentionally.

It doesnt matter what he meant or not.......the crowd behind him took it as him calling Palin a pig.......This, I think is going to really damage him.  His campaign is in full spin mode........it matters not, it is the perception of what he said. 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

"'You can put lipstick on a pig,' he said to
an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience,
clearly drawing a connection to Palin's joke. '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.'" [LINK]

Barack has now resorted to calling Palin a Pig. Furthermore, he refers
to McCain as an "old fish" that stinks. I guess this is the high-brow
sophistication the Democrats want in their president. Hateful and
mean-spirited ad hominem
attacks we garner a giggle, but in the end, it demonstrates their
inner-fear and desperation. In the end, these tactics only alienate
swing-voters and may cost the Dems some of their female votes.

Some much for tolerance -- Obama shows his true colors; he is
misogynistic and an ageist. (I have now doubt because as a child he was
raised as a Muslim that he has antisemitic leanings.)

(Apologies for reposting again.) 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

I'm a female lawyer.

Obama is a male lawyer.

We both know what the "appearance of impropriety" means.

Barack Obama knows what an intentional comment is, and he made one today when he intentionally inferred that Gov. Palin is a pig.

There are no excuses.

It was intentional.

If it was not intentional (and I don't buy this for one instant), then he has proven himself to be completely stupid (i.e., dumb as dirt) and therefore not qualified for public office.

But trust me--he's desperate.  And this was intentional.  And he's so full of himself that he thought it would be cute.

Verdict:  Wrong.

No woman is going to take this kind of insult.  And I'm not a stupid woman.

Words have meaning, Mr. Obama, and you just used them to mortally wound your own campaign.

Better get used to that house in Chicago--you'll be there quite some time. 

(Hillary and Bill are probably laughing their heads off plotting her 2012 campaign.  Every day brings another gift to Hillary when Obama puts his big foot in his mouth.)

(FURTHER, the media is completely covering up for Obama's intentional statement.  I am not buying it.  I can't handle another sycophant in the media.)

Sycophants!!!!! 

Note to McCain campaign:  Use this in an ad:  Point out that "words have meaning."  Obama said this......and then he publicly insults Gov. Palin.  I can't believe it. 

LOL-I think somebody just pressed the flush lever.

-Dave.

What I really think.

Barry loses it, whatever it happens to be - whoever put up the money for him to go to college, should demand their money back. His biggest problem, while "thinking" on his feet, is that he continues to put his feet in his own mouth. Now, because of his own flumuxed way of thinking, he will have to try to explain what he meant. Instead of really telling people what he wants to do (tax, raise taxes, then spend the money in order to raise more taxes) he tries to tell jokes - like the other demolibs, we know that they're lying 'cause their lips move.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

I just read it here.....

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D933H0F80&show_article=1

and in it I see this line....

"McCain's campaign immediately organized a telephone conference call in response and called on Obama to apologize for calling Palin a pig."

I swear people!!!  Give me a freakin break!  It's a "saying,' a metaphor, a figure of speech!!!!  And it's not something he just made up, it's well known to be that type of phrase.  I swear, have they not heard of that ever having been said millions of times?  Of course they have, they're being stupid.  Has anyone here never heard that said?  I for one am TIRED of this BS!  From either side.  He DID NOT CALL HER A PIG!!!! GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!!!!!!!  Get over it and quit with the nonsensical complaining about it!!!!!!!!!!

CRAP, are they, and some here, doing exactly what we claim liberals do??? And that which we call STUPID???  Just questioning if he called her a pig is insulting to MY intelligence.  The McCain team needs to go work on important stuff and quit this NONSENSE!  Leave this whiny crap to the libs!  And that's exactly what this is...whining!

At first I thought it was innocent, but now I don't know.  That hand up to his forehead when he said that was the fishy part.  I'd like to know what a body language expert says about that.

"Look, she's new, she hasn't been on the scene, she's got five kids.

What has that got to do with anything????

Is that code for "she's inexperienced and how is she going to do the job and take care of her kids" ?

Obama knows what it is.  So does his audience behind him...and SO DO I.   He stops as if thinking before he goes on with it....oh he knows what he did.  and it was a very very very bad  move.   I'm NOT going to forget it.  I've already started forwarding the video to friends.    THIS is a deal killer and shows exactly what our Mr. Obama is. 

Of course this was intentional!

If it wasn't, he would of immediately come out with an apology.

Obama, is once again getting excuses made for him on the msm that I have seen so far...

I am sick of it!

If this was McCain saying anything like this, OH PLEASE we all know what would be going on...

...adn I haven't even looked at McCain's response yet...

Btw...I was outside BBQ'n and I could hear my husband screaming you filthy pig....I later found out about all of this...he was and is still furious...

This BS is maddening, it is also 10,000 votes at a time added to our side of the aisle folks...

So Chosen One...keep up the good work...along with your supposed snafu about your Muslim faith...

Open Mouth...Insert Foot!

Palin Power!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Obama pretended he was an alpha-male when someone said something about his wife.

Now this.

Maybe the time has come for Todd Palin to speak. Obama has become known for choosing words carefully. I think his message was clear. Let Todd speak up about this and watch the McCain/Palin numbers go up. Again. 

The old saying actually goes, "you can't put a silk dress on a pig". He didn't say that. He used lipstick from one of her popular lines.

Keep doing it. Keep putting your foot in your mouth.

Ladies, if you're reading my comment, send this asshole a letter and a tube of lipstick. tell him how you feel about the comment.

P. O.
BOX 8102, CHICAGO, IL 60680
USA

Mr.L

No doubt in my mind that when his handlers sent him out, they told him to work that phrase in.  That it was a deniable backhand at Palin.

"What? Who? Us?  Awh, that sayin's old as the hills!"

You know, I just flipped over to MSNBC and Rachel Maddow's new show is on and it occurred to me: She's discovered lipstick!

I've really got to laugh because I don't really think he meant to do the association but, I can see this one coming:  I never meant it that way and people are just looking for an excuse to attack me.

Anyway, in the long run, it comes down to judgement and Obama has failed once again.  He can insult Republicans with comments that aren't well thought out, but what about the Russians?  

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

It is all in the delivery- He looks totally ashamed of what he is about to do, he even covers his face and pauses. I think he followed some Palin haters bad advice and even knew it was a bad idea. Super bad judgment when he needs the Hillary voters.

If it looks like a Duck, walks like a Duck, and quacks like a Duck, then it must be a Duck.

Obama, you just made the biggest "botch" in your short political life, and there's no ducking out of this one.

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

This puts me in it. ;-)

While I am not serious, using Obama's "pig" tactics on Palin is the same as saying about Obama, "once a Muslim, always a Muslim." And again, while I am not serioous, since Obama loved a pastor that asked God to damn America, I could say of Obama, "once a traitor, always a traitor."

Whether it was intentional or not, this is a major gaffe. I detect a 4 point bounce for McCain on this one. Keep on imploding Odumba. It looks good on you. Btw , speaking of gaffes, did you see Biden asking a man in a wheelchair to stand.

http://www.youtube.c...

It is not a coincidence that he chose a joke involving lipstick.

You guys know me on here. I call something a nonissue when I think it's no big deal. But this was not a harmless gaffe.

And by the way the audience laughed and clapped, they got it immediately. This was a classless, sexist joke that Hillary would have castigated him over.

We need to get this out there more in the news.

You know, when Dan Quayle made verbal gaffes, the left gleefully labelled him an idiot.  When George W. Bush mangled the language, that plus a million other mostly-imagined sins made him a Neanderthal.  Unless this was intentional, we now have plenty of evidence to label Barack Obama a moron.  And we ought to rub his nose in it. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Here's an impromptu poll question for NewsBusters readers:

On Wednesday morning, how many of the network news shows: Today, GMA and the Early Show, will mention the "pig on lipstick" story?

1. 0

2. 1

3. 2

4. All three.

Intentional or not, IMO it didn't make a lick of sense. If Palin's a pig, I wanna be one, too! And is it my imagination or did he start sounding like Bill Cosby in one of his comedy routines?

I don't want to hear another word about what a terrible speaker Bush is. Obama is worse! His voice, his delivery, the way he fumbles his words. It's painful to watch.

Anybody notice how clumsy he was in saying this? It was really uncomfortable.  It reminded me of when a little kid memorizes a joke but forgets the punchline. It's like he memorized a script but didn't quite have it down as well as he thought.

Obviously he hired whoever Hillary Clinton employed to lighten her up. He has no sense of humor.

I hate to sink to the level of liberals and try to find issue with every stupid thing someone says, even though Obama is a treasure trove of stupidity. On one hand, I think he was trying to say the Bush policies were the pig and McCain's policies were the lipstick, but he proved he's as lousy a stand-up comedian as he is an extemporaneous political speaker.

On the other hand, Obama and his staff cannot possibly be this stupid, to so poorly choose a metaphor involving lipstick on an animal in such close proiximity to Palin using a more flattering lipstick-on-an-animal metaphor a week ago. Or can they?

As many others have said here, perception is the key. Whatever Slappy Obama meant, if enough people think he was calling Palin a pig and it turns enough of them off, it could sway a lot of people to choose the McCain-Palin ticket. And Biden will REALLY have to watch himself to not step in it.

Thank you. I'll be here all week -- try the veal! And remember: at 2 a.m., you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! Good night!

My plan is to just let it go--not worth my time.  The pig reference is probably some muslim, liberal, nuanced, humor that is not close to my pay grade.

"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

Far be it from me to give Obama a break, but the line about putting lipstick on a pig is an old one, and he is just so awkward using a jokey line that he doesn't do it very well.  Must be his inner white man coming out...

I don't think it was a slam at Palin - I just think this guy can't tell a joke.

It gets even better. Seems Biden asked a wheelchair-bound man to stand up today.

...the Magic Oreo is fallin' apart.  Couldn't happen to a nicer yutz.

Well, I guess that Sarah Palin doesn't have to worry about Barak ever trying to kiss her.

Lebanon  Va,  Population 3273 (2000 census). In the heart of what Hussein a** kisser and media wonk Andrea Mitchell called 'real redneck country' the last time Hussein was in the area supporting Richie Rich Boucher, US house of democrat fools.

He called her a pig and that's what he meant to call her. He's an Arab racist showing his true Islamist disrespect, as Islamic Arabs do,  for all women. Remember his slip up a few days ago when he admitted his 'Muslem faith'. He clings to his upbringing to hate and kill anyone who isn't Islamic. Sometimes in his haste or confusion the truth slips out.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Really stupid and desperate comments from the dems nominee that should offend all especially those championing women's successes.

So I guess that if one said "that's like saying the pot is calling the kettel black", then that would be racist and directed at Barry Obama?

You know that every left winger lib would be jumping on that statement as negative against Barry O.

The stupidity and desperation of the looney left is incredible to watch. From the mainstream media to their totally unqualified presidential candidate who truly makes President Bush look like an eloquent speaker. "UH UH UH UH UH", what a moron. Keep up the comments all you liberal fools because that's all you have left.

Are y'all sure Hussein wasn't saying good morning to himself in the mirror when he said this?

The Bible says, "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks..."

I don't think Obama consciously intended to call Palin a "pig", nor did he intend to refer to McCain as "an old fish"; however, these "slips" are just too darned Freudian to go without notice or concern.

Can you imagine the uproar in the MSM if John McCain referred to Obama as "the pot calling the kettle black", or that Obama is "a slave to his ambition"?  The MSM would lose their minds over that even though those are both common expressions and neither considered to be racist on their own.

The point is, if Obama is ready for prime-time on the international stage, he should know better.  It's not a question of rudeness, it's a question of judgement.  Wars have been started for less.

Hey Obama -- this pig don't fly.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Listening to this (yet another) shambolic speaking performance, I wonder when some one in the Main Stream Morons is going to point out the most obvious point about this "orator."

He is one of the most BORING uninspiring public speakers around. And I'm talking about when he has a teleprompter. Off-Teleprompter and it's amateur night out.

His cadence, his delivery, his sibilance, he inability to crack a joke, his timing, his crappy regional accents. They are AWFUL.

Of course, all those in the know, and the tank, know this. But they created the myth about his "oratory," and they just cannot drop it now. The Obamabots are in an orgasmic trance, of course, so they don't even hear what he says

I cannot stand the guys speaking skills. And no.. it hasn't nothing to do with his politics. Ted Kennedy is as loony as they come, a rabid socialist ... but I can listen to him because he has passion and energy and he knows how to deliver.

Listening to Obama is like spending an hour on the phone with the old speaking clock.

And don't even start me on his stage "presence."  What is this constant pacing. It's like a form of Turret's Syndrome. Ants in his pants. It's VERY FRACKIN' annoying. 

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN PRESIDENTIAL SEAL, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOU PRESIDENTIAL

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

It doesn't matter if Obama ment to call Palin a pig or not. I will NEVER vote for Obama.

He is just a little boy who has been trying to find out who he is, why his daddy left him, why he was cursed with a white mommy. While going to a Muslim school in Indonesia, he was taught to degrade women like all Muslims do. It will make him a better man he was told. But he still was lost. But then he found the Trinity United Church of Christ and after hanging out with Rev. Wright for 20 years, his mind was made up. He was the Chosen One!! He is above everybody and if anyone doesn't agree with him is a lying racist. Especially women who were bad and evil because he felt inferior to them.

What happened Obama? Was mommy mean to you? Oh, I know!! She was white!! That's a bad thing in Obama's eyes. Just read his books and you will see. This is why he hates women!

He's just an angry little boy who is mad because his mommy was not like the rest of the black children.

Grow up or get some counseling. President of the United States? I don't think so!!