Nanny Nanny Boo Boo
In the news today, the McCain camp accuses Barack Obama of name calling. Read this blurb:
NORFOLK, Va. (Associated Press) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday accused Republican John McCain’s campaign of using “lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics” in claiming he used a sexist comment against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Calling it “the latest made-up controversy by the John McCain campaign,” Obama responded to the Republicans’ charge that he was referring to Palin when he used the phrase “lipstick on a pig” at a campaign stop Tuesday.
“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,” he said.
Obama’s reference was to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an outside group that in 2004 made unsubstantiated allegations about Democratic nominee John Kerry’s decorated military record in Vietnam.
On Tuesday, Obama criticized McCain’s economic policies as similar to those of President Bush, saying: “You can put lipstick on a pig … it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”
The McCain campaign contended that the comments were directed at Palin, the GOP’s first woman on a presidential ticket. In her acceptance speech last week, she had referred to herself in a joke about lipstick being the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull.
Accusing Obama of “smearing” Palin in “offensive and disgraceful” comments, the McCain campaign demanded an apology _ though McCain himself used the folksy metaphor a few times last year, including once to describe Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan.
There is no mention here, however, of a report by service industry workers at an Alaskan restaurant, that upon hearing Obama had won the Democratic Candidacy, Palin loudly & publicly remarked,
“So Sambo beat the bitch…”
The Big Name Press (Fox News & CNN) can fuck straight off. These are the same people who refused to televise Ron Paul in any of the debates he joined. The first step towards building a Facist State is to control the media.
Let’s lose these bastards, ya heard?
Lord David
Pirate & Artist
Skull Club
New Orleans
September 10th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Yeah, saw this on the news. Pitbull, pig, what’s the difference? The Republicans crying for us to “leave Sarah’s family out of this” regarding her daughter’s loose morals are the same people cramming the entire brood onstage for photo-ops.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I’m surprised they didn’t latch onto the “old fish” comment and start making accusations that Obama maligned Palin’s vagina.
Just shows where the Republicans minds are- say pig, they instantly think woman.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Yes, it’s absolutely amazing that:
A) The Republicans immediatley think any ‘pig’ remark must be about a woman. Unless John McCain is doing it. He prefers to publicly call his own wife a ‘cunt’.
B) Another remark refering to a black presidential candidate as ‘Sambo’ by a state governor, nevermind a Vice Presidential candidate is unworthy of news commentary.
C) These people think they’re best suited to run the most powerful nation on earth, and be trusted with the future of our livelyhood, familes, children and national security.
D) That there’s anyone brainwashed enough to not see through this horrible bullshit.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I am sitting here praying that Obama does indeed take the low road, takes off the gloves, and fights as dirty as he can. It’s the only way to beat these people. There is way too much at stake here to play nice.
If you fight people who live in the sewer, sometimes you have to get down in the gutter. Taking the high road didn’t work for Kerry, and it won’t work here either.
Plus, the one thing Hillary had going for her was her magnificently huge set of brass balls. If Obama’s balls can grow to at least half Hillary’s size, I will be a happy camper.
Time to bloody it up some. Lipstick on a pig does not impress me. In fact, going after Palin is missing the target. Time to go after McCain’s holier-than-thou war record, which isn’t as delightful as it seems. Especially since he is shamelessly using it as an excuse for EVERYTHING, including his inability to keep track of how many homes he owns (while calling Obama an “elitist”). I’m tired of hearing about his two foot cage. A two foot cage doesn’t ready you for the presidency, and does not excuse every other shitty thing you’ve done in your life. Let’s start talking about what a crappy soldier he was before he got captured. How many planes he crashed. How he graduated at the bottom of his class. Then let’s start talking about his abysmal record as a senator. His disprespect for women. His mental instability. Go for the throat. Tell the truth. Bloody. It. Up.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Check this out, Louis.
Bloody enough for you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odb09esH8z4
September 11th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Thanks for posting that, LD. Olberman nails it.
But it’s not blood if Obama’s not saying it. Obamahimself needs to take this sort of rhetoric to the airwaves, and hard; in commercials that proudly say “I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message.” If he were to do that, he’d need no other advertising, as the networks would be running these controversial spots on their programs nonstop, as they did with that Swift Boat crap of 2004. The difference would be that the Swift Boat crap was bullshit, and this is not.
Obama himself will have to have the balls to say these things. Loudly, and without apology. And he’ll have to beat McCain over the head with it in the debates, too.
I’m glad Olberman said these things, but it will only make a real difference if Obama says them, too. Does he have the balls? Jury is still out.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Is it really “balls” as you put it?
Or is it lowering ones own ideals and values to get drawn into the morass of name calling and rat faced bullshit?
I would lose most of my respect for Barack Obama if he left the high road to get down in the mud pit and slug it out with these moronic assholes. I don’t think I’m alone in that, either.
I understand the mindnumbing fear involved in imagining not only President McCain, but post McCain, President Palin.
It actually makes me shiver in horror.
At the same time, should Gandhi have shot back at his fatal attacker? Should Dr. Martin Luther King have hurled the word ‘Cracker’ at his racist detractors? There is a New Wave coming, and I hope with my entire soul that it is one where these petty shitbag throwers are left alone with their own muffeled rantings.
A candidate who wins by “beating them over the head” is not what our country needs now. Nor is Barack Obama anything like John Kerry. I watched Obama speaking to a questioning commitee at Columbia University just moments ago, and found him riveting, mobilizing, a powerful force to be reckoned with, as opposed to Kerry, who was caught on video tape, helplessly babbling on stage as a student was repeatedly tasered for several minutes and fianlly dragged screaming from the room. The best he could was mumble and talk to his hands.
Take heart, friend and neighbor. Have faith that We Are Not Alone. It takes more balls to let someone goad you into a fight and stand firm in your beliefs then it does to lose your cool and jump into the shit heap.
OBAMA ‘08
Because we’re ready for America 2.0
September 11th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I understand your point. And I don’t think you’re wrong.
But at this point of the game, I am willing to admit I’m wrong, I’m willing to be wrong, and stay wrong. At this point it’s not how you play the game, it’s whether you win or lose. If we lose, too damn much is lost.
Let me give you a scenario of why I just don’t care about the high road anymore:
Let’s say a person has a 10 year old son. If McCain is elected, these ridiculous wars will continue for God knows how long (McCain himself has stated that 100 years is a possibility, so thank God for term limits). A year or two into the McCain presidency, there will be a need for lots more troops, and not many are stupid enough to enlist these days. So there will be a draft. Not maybe a draft, will be a draft. And we won’t be drafting kids to fight Hitler, or even communisim, or even terrorists. They’ll be fighting for the benefit of oil profits, as is the current norm. This is reality as we know it.
A McCain presidency will likely last 8 years. This puts that ten-year-old boy of today at risk. That ten year old boy may very well kill or be killed (or both) in some fucking far away desert for Bush/McCain’s bullshit corporate profit war. This is a determination that may very well be made THIS NOVEMBER.
Speaking as a father of a ten year old boy, I find this unacceptable.
Do I care if Obama plays fair and takes the high road? Do I care if he earns or loses the respect of my intellectual liberal friends? No, I don’t. I want the motherfucker to win this goddamn election, and I don’t give a damn how he does it.
If my son has to die in a war, I would prefer it be of the revolutionary variety; the kind where we take these fascists out of power by force or die trying, and the kind where I’d be fighting right by his side. The last thing I’m worried about right now is the “lowering of one’s ideals” or whatever, no offense meant by that, I know that you mean well, and I respect that.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am
There is no more dangerous creature than a mammal protecting it’s young.
I frimly beleive that the high road here is more than ideals. I believe it’s what will get Obama elected.
I, too, have thought through the scenario you describe, and it’s effect on my daughters. I can’t beleive that Barack Obama will blow this chance to to do so much good, and surrender our nation to so much evil. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. I believe that he knows what will work now, and in his presidency.
The alternative is just to horrible to imagine.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I hope you are right. And we are firmly on the same side.
But… do you think Obama would be lowering his ideals if he went public with the same sort of truth that Olberman just said? Telling the truth is not a low road, even if it makes folks mad. In my opinion, avoiding hurtful truths would just be a new kind of low road.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Perhaps we must agree to differ, here.
Whatever one’s beliefs, Barack Obama is a man who knows his own mind and will certainly follow his own rudder on this, no matter what you & I cough up.
Many great leaders and prophets have had followers and deciples who spoke out in their honor and defense, leaving them to address the real issues at hand.
Personally, I find the tactics of the Republican Presidential Candidate and his cronies to be transparent, sophmoric and the gateway to their own impending doom.
While I appreciate Olberman’s rant, it is hardly presidential.
And for my tastes, I prefer Henry Rollins.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:02 am
OK, we disagree. Coolio, no problem.
Back to lipstic on a pig, prepare to have your mind blown:
http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1840624,00.html
Even Bill O’Reilly is getting disgusted with the McCain campaign? This seems impossible. Maybe it’s a trick. Or a sign of the apocalypse (as if we need anymore of those).
September 13th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Not wanting to argue, but just one tiny thing. I hope you don’t really think I found Olberman’s rant “presidential.” My point was that some of the things he said, especially about the neocons exploiting 911 for political gain, need to be brought up by Obama. I would expect Obama, who is much more eloquent than Olberman, to be able to make this point gracefuly and articulately.
But it is a major point, and ignoring it out of fear of criticism is not the hight road anyway. It would be more of the same Democratic party wimp-o-rama that has continuously allowed the neocons a free pass for the last 8 years.
Obama does not walk on water. If he doesn’t get tough, he’ll lose. I guarantee it.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:32 am
You know what, Louis?
I’m beginning to think you’re right.
I watched a clip of John McCain on The View, lying through his teeth about Sarah Palin’s record on Earmarks, saying she never voted for them, when she admits that she has.
He even talked over a disagreeing voice, saying no, no, it never happened.
The news reviewers pointed this out, and just breezed past it, calling it ’strategy’.
If we live in a nation where the highest leader in the land can openly lie on television and be caught at it…and that’s okay, in fact looked at as ’startegy to win’, I want nothing to do with this place anymore.
I’m leaning with you now. If Obama doesn’t stand up to this, not just to win, but because it’s inherently wrong and evil, he probably doesn’t have much chance of winning…
Central America is nice, I hear….
September 13th, 2008 at 11:06 am
The media is the biggest enemy of all. No doubt.
Central America is a little hot for me — but the cost of living is quite low. Canada is tempting, but Elly hates the cold.
I still think Louisiana should secede the union. I’m actually pretty serious about that.
But first, let’s see what happens in November. This McCain terror may pan out like Gustav.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
NEW HOPE FOR OBAMA!
Hold the presses, I do believe Senator Obama is taking off the gloves. Here is his response to the McCain attack ads:
“You know, I was listening to Governor Palin today and she repeated–for what must be the 20th time–a claim that every news organization has already disproved. She said she “told Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ to the Bridge to Nowhere.” Then I heard John McCain speak and he repeated that same false claim, along with several others that have been disproved: she didn’t ask for any earmarks, she sold the plane on Ebay, she fired the personal chef, and so on . . . . and while I was listening to all that, something occurred to me. I’ve been doing this all wrong! You see, I’ve been limiting what I say to things that are actually true. But campaigning is so much easier when can just make stuff up.
“So today I wanted to share with you some things I never have before. For starters, did I ever mention that back in my Chicago days I played professional basketball for the Chicago Bulls? It’s true: when Jordan retired, they wanted me to take over at guard, but I said “thanks but no thanks; I’ve got a job to do in the state Senate.” Oh, and I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before either, but my running mate, Joe Biden, he once wrestled a live grizzly bear…and he won! He also once sold the entire state of Delaware on Ebay. I kid you not.
“I don’t know about you, but I feel liberated. This whole “telling the truth” thing was really holding me back. Now I know how John McCain feels when he says that I’m going to raise your taxes, even though every independent organization who’s looked at it says that my plan gives you a bigger tax cut than his. Well, I say to you John McCain: two can play at that game.
“Did you know that John McCain will raise every American’s taxes by 800,000%? I made that up just now, but it’s as true as anything he’s telling you, so there you go. Oh, and under his plan, if you fall behind on a house payment, Phil Gramm and a team of monkeys show up and take your house away. It’s true. I swear. How do you think he got all those other houses that he doesn’t even know he has?”
Now we’re talkin’.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Oops! Actually, this is fake. My bad.
Keep hope on ice for now.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Dude, that was hysterical.
I SO wanted to believe it…..