Quote:
Originally Posted by Deckard
I don't believe it was intended by Obama as an attempt at likening Palin to a pig. Course not - from everything I've seen of him, that's not his style. (...sweetie  ) But I do feel that he should have been savvy enough to see that using that phrase after Palin's lipstick pit-bull analogy - and not paying attention to the new interpretation that was now open to be gauged from that - would be asking for trouble.
The whole kerfuffle is a stupid great big pile of poo, but there you go..... |
Agreed, but in the back of my mind, I would personally like to see more freedom of expression by the candidates, and judgment placed on the truth value of the meaning, not through dishonest filtering and dumbing down, but I might just be old fashioned vis a vis current american politics. You shouldn't have to be savvy. YOu should just be able to assert your point. It seems like Mccain is the translator of the big funny harvard words so that the rubes can fully get how insulting Obama really is.
Anyway I think Obama's starting to feel like a sane man in an asylum
Quote:
Obama said the McCain campaign moved to "seize an innocent remark and take it out of context because they knew it's catnip for the news media."
"See, it would be funny, but the news media decided that would be the lead story yesterday. This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about...Enough!" he said.
Obama called the attacks "lies, outrage and swift boat politics."
"These are serious times and they call for a serious debate...spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change," he said.
|