If you haven't heard already, you will soon enough: Obama ran off a long list of how McCain's policy is the same as Bush's and said, "That’s not change. That’s just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after eight years. We’ve had enough of the same old thing." The McCain camp and the media are drooling over this. It's on top of Drudge and Huffington Post. Scarborough hasn't stopped yapping about it this morning.
The McCain response was obvious. The campaign has released a web ad on the comments.
Anything that could possibly be portrayed as sexist will be. But the media's response is pathetic. Scarborough and Andrea Mitchell are airing the web ad -- in other words an ad the McCain campaign has not paid for, but is relying on the media to distribute -- and both have declared that this is working for McCain. Both have decided that everyone will be more sympathetic to McCain-Palin because of it. There's no evidence of it, mind you.
And one more thing. CNN, to its credit, was quick to note in its story that McCain used the same phrase in reference to Hillary Clinton -- in MAY! From the CNN report:
"In Iowa last October, McCain drew comparisons between Hillary Clinton's current healthcare plan and the one she championed in 1993: 'I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig.' He used roughly the same line in May, after effectively claiming the Republican nomination."
No mention of that by Scarborough.
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I think he did an excellent job of handling it, and in doing so was able to bring to the forefront what is so important about this election.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26640762#26640762
Obama needs to continually respond to the McCain camps tactics in this way. He needs to show the public that the McCain camp is trying to make fools of us. Their use of distractions should be considered insulting; it implies we are completey oblivious to the issues facing this country.
By continually doing this I think he may be able to spark a general feeling in the public that responds to McCain along the lines of "We are not stupid and we will not be fooled and tricked into another 4 years."
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