"I was just your average hockey mom. I love those hockey moms, you know, they say, what is the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." Sarah Palin, at the RNC."John McCain says he's about change... ...except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy... ...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." Barack Obama, campaigning in Virginia.
It's comforting to know that the Republicans are still the party of dirty tactics, outright lies and totally retarded manufactured scandals.
'Lipstickgate' is the latest. The Republicans spotted that Obama had used the term 'lipstick on a pig' in a recent campaign rally (a line both Obama and McCain have used several times during this election.)
Remembering that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin had described herself as a 'pitbull in lipstick,' they cut that one line out of his speech and used it - totally out of context - to suggest that Obama had called Palin 'a pig.'
Stupid - deeply stupid - right wingers are actually buying this garbage.
The McCain camp released this statement: "Obama was referring to Gov. Sarah Palin. It's obviously disrespectful and offensive. ... Who else has been talking about lipstick lately? It was obvious. The [Democratic] crowd went crazy because of it..."
I'm not sure really what's worse. The fact that the Republicans did something so transparent (I mean, seriously...) or the fact that some of their supporters don't see through it for what it is.
In our age of soundbites, you can take anything out of context and make it look shocking. Just take a peek at this small tidbit snipped from one of Hillary Clinton's campaign speeches.
The actual transcript of her speech was about how she rejects the idea of private-school voucher proposals, saying they'd encourage the development of schools with extreme political, social or religious agendas:
“Imagine the first family that comes in and says ‘I want to send my daughter to St. Peter’s Roman Catholic School.’ You say ‘Great, wonderful school, here’s your voucher. Then the next parent comes and says, ‘I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist …’ The parent says, ‘The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. … You gave a voucher to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent - under the Constitution, you can’t discriminate against me. So what if the next parent comes and says, ‘I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad? … I won’t stand for it.”
But a bit of editing makes it look like she's proclaiming herself as a white supremacist.
In this day and age, you have to take every quote with a pinch of salt and find out what the context was behind it. If you don't? You're just a bleating sheep, calmly shambling along wherever the political shepherds want you to go.
