Here is Barack Obama on David Letterman’s Late Show 9/10. Among things discussed was the lipstick on a pig comment. Obama says Palin would be the lipstick, and the failed policies of McCain would be the pig.
Here is Barack Obama on “The Late Show with David Letterman;”
Joe Biden told a crowd today that he thinks Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice as VP. He was answering questions from the audience when a voter told him they were glad Obama picked Biden over Clinton. Biden shot back at the them, “Make no mistake about this, Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight.†Then Biden continued, “she’s a truly close personal friend and she is qualified to be President of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America and quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me. I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate.” I bet Bill Clinton is going to say the same thing when he has lunch with Obama.
Alan Cosgrove
John McCain has released an ad in response to the gaffe about lipsticks and pigs by Barack Obama . Yesterday in Virginia Obama said, “John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out George Bush – except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics – we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington.’ 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.” He didn’t directly call anyone a pig, but the McCain campaign wasted no time assuming he did, and in politics perception is just as important as reality sometimes.
Here is John McCain’s ad ‘Lipstick’;
UPDATE: The ad was pulled by YOUTUBE for violating copyright rules. It had a part with CBS Katie Couric saying, “One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life.†CBS issued a statement saying, “CBS News does not endorse any candidate in the presidential race. Any use of CBS personnel in political advertising that suggests the contrary is misleading.” You can still see the video on John McCain’s website.
New York Governor David Paterson, a Democrat who is the state’s first black governor, accused the GOP of using racial code words during the convention. “There are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign,†Paterson said. “The Republican party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’ in a sense that it would be a negative,” Paterson said. “But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican convention. A ‘community organizer,’ they kept saying it, they kept laughing, like what does this mean?” Patterson went on to explain, “It means that an individual who could have gone to Wall Street and made a lot of money, and then run for office because he could buy media time, chose to go back and work in programs in a neighborhood where he thought he could make a difference and became an elected official based on his involvement right in his own community.” So now we have to put ‘community organizer’ in that list of words that white people should not use when referring to blacks, especially those running for high office. The Obama surrogates have used race through out this campaign. Including accusing VP candidate Joe Biden of using racial overtones when calling Obama “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” back in January 07. This accusation by Paterson has to be the weakest attempt at race baiting yet. It was clear they were responding to Obama making light of Sarah Palins experience as mayor of a small town. During Palin’s speech she said, “Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” The reason they kept laughing is because offering ‘community organizer’ on your resume to be president of the United States is laughable. Yet the Obama campaign keeps talking about it, and now they say because he ran such a great campaign that that should be used as experience as well. But, didn’t David Axelrod run that campaign?
Alan Cosgrove
Barack Obama has released an ad in response to John McCain’s “Original Mavericks” ad. “They call themselves mavericks. Whoa,” an announcer says. “The truth is, they’re anything but. John McCain is hardly a maverick when seven of his top campaign advisers are Washington lobbyists. He’s no maverick when he votes with Bush 90 percent of the time. And Sarah Palin’s no maverick either. She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.” Then the announcer concludes, “Politicians lying about their records? You don’t call that maverick. You call it more of the same.”
Alan Cosgrove
Here are two great videos by YouTube user LisaNova that introduce us to VP candidate Sarah Palin. The first one is a video about John McCain asking Sarah Palin to be VP. Foul language and lots of laughs.
Is McCain Palin’s Bitch?;
This second video shows us what would happen if Palin met up with Barack Obama in a stairwell.
Palin vs Obama – A Dark Comedy;
John McCain has released a new ad called “Original Mavericks” where he claims that McCain/Palin represents real change. As proof he rolls out several example of change, “He fights pork barrel spending. She stopped the bridge to nowhere.” The announcer goes on to say, “He took on the drug industry. She took on big oil.” They both took on republicans. Then the announcer claims, “They’ll make history. They’ll change Washington.” They seem to be attacking Obama at his roots. So far his biggest claim to fame is his theme of change and his history making campaign so far. It is true that whoever wins, it will be a presidency of historic proportions. For one thing it will be the first time that we spent over a billion dollars on campaigning to elect a president. It is also true that whoever wins will be a change from the last eight years despite all the Obama rhetoric to the contrary.
Alan Cosgrove
Here is John McCain’s ad, “Original Mavericks”;
Speaking to George Stephanopoulos today on This Week Barack Obama caused a stir with just three simple words, “my Muslim faith.” Obama was running his line about they want to scare you, and Stephanopoulos interrupted and explained, “the McCain campaign has never suggested you have Muslim connections.” “I don’t think that when you look at what is being promulgated on Fox News, let’s say, and Republican commentators who are closely allied to these folks,” Obama said. Stephanopoulos then replied, “But John McCain said that’s wrong.” “Let’s not play games,” Obama said. “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come.” Stephanopoulos interrupted Obama to correct him by saying, “Christian faith.” Obama then figured out what he said and explained, “Well, what I’m saying is that he hasn’t suggested that I’m a Muslim. And I think that his campaign’s upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith — something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.”
Alan Cosgrove
Here is video of Obama misspeak about his faith on This Week 9/7/08;
MSNBC reporter asked Newt Gingrich about Sarah Palin’s lack of experience and got a mouthful for a response. MSNBC reporter just wanted it all to end.
Ron Paul takes time off after his rally to talk with Fox News about the campaign.
