so is he calling Palin/McCain a pig and an old fish?

lol look for cries of sexism? I guess? I dunno but man is this election going to get real real nasty.

Ironic early in the year I said, a race between Obama and McCain would show a new age of politics,

now I think its going to be the nastiest yet.

and at this point we democrats have to accept it and fight back, we saw in 2004 what happens when we take the high road. this isn't a movie the bad guys can win by playing dirty, either we get our hands dirty also, or we get 4 more years.

Hello plausible deniability!

We all know what he was talking about, but lets hope its reported that way and Americans figure it out!

Well, there you go again! Yeah!

Great!
Its about time!

Can't we move to the offensive and put the old man on the offensive.  I am so sick of Palin, how long can she last?

Today I heard she made a list of countries visited...one where her plane fueled was on the list!!

not Palin.

Welcome to the Democratic party. Dirty politics turns off our voters but brings out the blood-lust in theirs.

Oh please, "lipstick on a pig" is a term older than dirt.

The stinky fish one...doesn't ring a bell though.

Obama is just making the sound track of McCain's next ad.

It's about time. I like this more direct Obama. Just call it like it is. People will follow. Racists wont vote for him anyway. He might as well win over the  undecided with his passion.

People over the years decry negativity,  but they have responded to it over the years. I think people like to say one thing, but act differently. The negative attacks do influence them on one level. It helped the repubs against Gore and Kerry.

Hell, I think it helped Bush Sr a little. Quayle certainly didnt help him win the election. Quayle kind of lowered the gravitas factor of that ticket. It took one of our worst presidential candidates to lose that eleciton. (not a reflection on Dukakis as a decent human being).

I would just like to state that it is insane to think that Obama was directly referring to Palin or echoing her pit bull line from the Convention.

It's funny, even after seeing the guy's personality on TV practically every day of this year, some people still think he would purposely act like a dick.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/arch ives/2008/09/obama_did_not_call_sarah_pa lin.php

Now I have to wait for the insanity to begin. Hopefully people will have some sense.

Thanks for the update, Josh.

At first I thought this was just an ill-delivered off the cuff remark, but it's obviously a well strategized baiting tactic by the Obama camp.

It's remarkable that Big John's team took the bait so quickly!
Ha!

By all mean, Johnny McSame, crank up the outrage-a-tronic 2000.

America loves when its politicians whine.

You threw your punches and now you get the counterpunch.  If you can't stand in the ring, get out of it.

That the Obama camp really has a long term strategy...

It's not going to be about her experience, not about her foreign policy "knowledge," but about her record.

At the debate, Biden is going to call her out on her record and ask her to defend it, which I really don't think she'll be able to do.

Time, Energy and Money for OBAMA and the DNC!

Barack Obama's campaign, which once boasted of an unprecedented broadening of the electoral battlefield, is scaling down its ambitions and concentrating more of its resources on the narrow ground of traditional swing states.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi cs/uselection2008/barackobama/2712605/Ba rack-Obama-lowers-expectations-as-John-M cCains-popularity-surges.html

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seriously this entire post and the followup more than anything is quite puzzling.

He is clearly talking about McCain's message of "change."

I suppose you are trying to say that Obama should avoid making any comments that could be taken out of context?  That would be pretty hard to do.

Once again.
This entire election is bullshit.  The GOP refuses to talk about the issues so instead they undercut their opposition by claiming sexism, personal issues, media bias, and any other card they can.  Ultimately, AMERICANS will have their say and judging by the past; we can not trust them to make the right decision.  

"America has not suffered enough, that's why they keep electing Republican Presidents."

and he really needs to fight back on the $1 billion earmarks lie.

Try accusing the old goat and his pit bull of $1 Trillion in earmarks.  

CNN just had a great news clip on Obama's chances in Southern Ohio.  To summarize the findings "many rural whites are yet NOT ready to vote for a black man.  No matter how many jobs have been lost, or how many of their sons and daughters have died in Iraq.

"America has not suffered enough, that's why they keep electing Republican Presidents."

Here's the way politics works: If you're demanding that the other guy apologize for something he said--and if he has some plausible deniability--you're losing.  You look pathetic and weak.  It's just that simple.

By the way, I just spoke with three friends who were all former Hillary Clinton supporters. Two of them swore they would never vote for Obama, no way, no how. That's all changed. For various reasons, all of them are now committed to Obama!

Response:

That's an old expression, so McCain has obviously heard it before.

In fact he used it while talking about HIllary Clinton's health insurance plan...was he, too, being sexist...or was he just using an expression.

When McCain apologizes to Hillary, I'll apologize to Palin.

How stupid does he think that the American people are?

Palin is a pig. When she decides to stop her bitchin and apologize to Obama for implying that he's un-American, then maybe she'll be upgraded from pig to stupid whore.

Suprise, Suprise, Jerome hasn't posted the fact that the some of the media seems to have Obama's back on this one:

Jake Tapper ABC NEWS

Ari Melber The Washington Independent

Marc Ambinder The Atlantic

Ben Smith Politico

Also from Ben Smith, the Obama campaign official response to McSame's bullshit included in Ben Smith's post:

UPDATE: Obama aide Anita Dunn responds to the McCain campaign's claim that Obama compared Palin to a pig:

Enough is enough. The McCain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy - the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.

good pigs of this country.

It's time to slaughter the pig and shoot the old horse that's with her.

SEXISM IS THE NEW P.O.W.!  DUCK!

Obviously talking about their campaign.  If he had been talking about her, it would have been lipstick on a pit bull.  

Doesn't anyone remember Mc Same's joke about Chelsea Clinton's father being Janet Reno?  Rush and the other right wingers calling for Chelsea's death?  Mc Same laughing at Hilliary being called the B word in the primary?

Come on - they say this stuff we need to talk about their atrocities.

I think he was calling Palin a pig just as McCain was calling Clinton a pig. I often wonder why does a 70 yr old person with a 25 yr  public life go after misspoken remarks. There are bound to be a bunch of them in his history.

Media isn't falling for this one, it seems.

Sorry, Jerome.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/a rchives/2008/09/seriously_1.html

You guys know McCain is hitting that. Bang it out bro.  Make sure you to took that underdog.  

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and George W. Bush?

Lipstick.

Keep it current, Jerome. My man may yet win you over. It could happen. And a lot of my Clinton supporting friends are nearing max out for Obama. Anyone else see how Mississippi "found" 90 million dollars for Medicaid the second after he let McCain trawl in Ole' Miss? Try making another donation to Obama. It save a lot of wasted time arguing with trolls. It puts real people on the groun who knew exactly what Obama was saying, and appreciated it hearing the truth.