Barrack Obama:
Guttersnipe
September 10, 2008
Barack Obama's political career was born in the gutter of Chicago's South Side, and there's an old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Old sayings seem appropriate given Obama's use of one on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 when he said referring to Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska: "You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig".
The type of people who support him got a good laugh out of that. In fact, in the Virginia audience they started laughing half-way through the line because they knew exactly what he meant.
In an ad-lib line during her speech to the Republican National Convention Palin had referred to herself as a hockey mom and said: "They say that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick".
Of course, Obama and his crew denied that they were referring to the Governor. It was just an old joke, they claimed.
Interestingly, however, while introducing Obama's running mate Sen. Joe Biden on the same day in St. Louis, Rep. Russ Carnahan referred to Sarah Palin's record by saying: "There's no way you can dress up that record even with a lot of lipstick".
Lipstick was the Democrats' talking point of the day, and it was no accident.
While John McCain and his running mate were giving speeches about their maverick records to adoring throngs, the Obama thugs were panicking at the latest Gallup Poll showing McCain/Palin ahead by fifteen points with independent voters, and now getting 46% of the female vote.
The Obama campaign is in free-fall and in full panic mode. The rock star's career is being eclipsed by a newer, younger act. Worse, she's a female with an actual record of performance.
Suddenly, the Obama campaign's once vaunted money machine is struggling to keep up with its goals. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea for Obama to have broken his promise to the American people about accepting public financing.
True to character, Obama sent his minions forth to do his bidding. On the liberal blogs they spread rumors about the parentage of Palin's infant son. They have no compunction about using a five-month old, Down Syndrome afflicted baby as a punch line to smear the reputation of a candidate who is adored by the working women of America.
It shouldn't be surprising of course. These are the same characters who praised Obama for defeating a bill in the Illinois State Senate designed to provide medical care to babies who survive botched abortions. From that moral ground it's a minor transition to using a helpless infant in their political games.
Then they aired an ad calling John McCain and Sarah Palin liars.
To top off the day, they trotted out the governor of New York to call John McCain a racist. This would be the same John McCain whose wife brought home a critically ill black baby girl from Bangladesh, and nurtured her to adulthood.
After nineteen months of media adoration for the slick, stage-managed, supposedly post-racial, new-politics candidate, we now see his true character.
Barack Obama: guttersnipe.
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