It's the Thrilla in Manilla 2008! I should have seen it. I really should have seen it. It's coming! Just wait! "Lipstick on a pig..." HA! Everybody's gonna forget about that come tomorrow through election day!
The McCain camp has been going after Obama for weeks. I've been wincing, and twitching, and trying to somehow get comfortable in my seat ever since Obama gave that fantastic speech.
I thought there was nothing that McCain's people could do to top it.
Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign launched a broadside against Sen. Barack Obama yesterday, accusing him of a sexist smear, comparing his campaign to a pack of wolves on the prowl against the GOP vice presidential pick, charging that the Democratic nominee favored sex education for kindergartners, and resurrecting the comments of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
OUCH! The "Lipstick on a pig" ad was a joke! Nobody was going to take that one seriously. But the sex-ed to kindergartners? Some ding-dongs are actually going to buy that one! I slumped down in my seat shaking my head. The ad was perverted. But prurient interests be damned.
"The Obama campaign has decided that the way to get at Sarah Palin is through personal attacks and sexist insults," Rep. Candice S. Miller (Mich.) said on the House floor.
NO! Obama is bouncing on the ropes!
On a campaign conference call last night, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) lumped together Obama's reference to a female reporter as "sweetie" last May, his decision not to choose Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) or Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his running mate, and his use of the saying "lipstick on a pig" in comments Tuesday to denounce what they call a pattern of sexism.
C'mon man! What are you doing?!? Do something! Anything!
"They really are in a meltdown," said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), a McCain adviser.
Oh god! I just can't watch anymore!
SNAP! CRACKLE! POP!
He just keeps bouncing against the political ropes. His arms protecting his face and sides, and it looks like his polls might buckle, but they somehow are staying level.
Wait! I see something!
McCain is looking a bit tired.
The sex-ed ad:
In referring to the sex-education bill, the McCain campaign is largely recycling old and discredited accusations made against Mr. Obama by Alan Keyes in their 2004 Senate race. At that time, Mr. Obama stated that he understood the main objective of the legislation, as it pertained to kindergarteners, to be to teach them how to defend themselves against sexual predators.
“I have a 6-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old daughter, and one of the things my wife and I talked to our daughter about is the possibility of somebody touching them inappropriately, and what that might mean,” Mr. Obama said in 2004. “And that was included specifically in the law, so that kindergarteners are able to exercise some possible protection against abuse, because I have family members as well as friends who suffered abuse at that age.”
Obama's beginning to stand up straight...
In speech after speech to crowds in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in recent days, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, has made sure to mention the so-called Bridge to Nowhere, the Alaska project that has become the symbol of earmarks, and what she portrays as her "thanks but no thanks" position on it.
When she landed in Fairbanks in her home state on Wednesday night, though, the bridge was notably absent from an (otherwise mostly similar) speech she made inside an airplane hangar before her homestate crowd.
Oh my god! Obama's not having to do anything except take a breath!
What I love about the breathtakingly dishonest McCain ad about Obama's lipstick remark is that it so completely inverts the traditional elites-versus-Middle-America dynamic. If you didn't know anything about who said what, you'd probably assume it was some good ole' boy who alluded to lipstick on a pig and some liberal women's group that took offense. Instead it's basically the opposite.
Here it comes!
"Enough," Obama declared yesterday while campaigning in Norfolk, Va. "I don't care what they say about me. But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and Swift boat politics. Enough is enough."
McCain's arms are beginning to drop! And he looks like he may be about to stumble about the ring...
O-BA-MA! He's gonna take that swing!
With the airwaves already filling up with some of the most negative imagery of the campaign, Obama aides hinted that they would save their toughest counterpunch until after Sept. 11.
McCain... Haven't you ever heard of the "rope-a-dope"?