Obama on Letterman: If That's What I'd Meant, Palin Would Be the Lipstick, ‘McCain's Failed Policies

Source: ABC News

In an interview on the "Late Show with David Letterman" to air later tonight, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., answers some questions on the lipstick controversy.

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"What I like about this scenario is because they -– the Republicans -- demanded an apology," Letterman says, "so that means there had been a meeting at some point somewhere along the line (of) they got together and said, 'You know what? He called our vice presidential candidate a pig.' Well, that seems pretty unlikely, doesn’t it?"

"It does," agrees Obama. "Keep in mind that, technically had I meant it this way –- she would be the lipstick!"

The audience laughs, but Letterman is confused.

"You are way ahead of me," says the late night host.

"The failed policies of John McCain would be the pig," Obama says. "I mean, just following the logic of this illogical situation."



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I feel like I can relax and he will take the lead and make things better.

But tonight I'm setting my timer so I won't miss it.

ever.

Fucking cocksucking Republican fucking trolls. Kick their fucking asses up and down the street!

ROTFLMAO

This is the game they play every election cycle - and it's worked for them over and over again...

I just saw a new McCain ad--running in Colorado (which both parties are doing now) that uses almost word for word and ad by Obama--even the slogan, "More of the same" and it totally ridicules Obama. When is Obama going to run a commercial as damaging as those by the republipigs? So far, judging by the level of intelligence in this state and the ads running, McPalin will win this state on bully tactics--not on issues. But then, hasn't that always been the reason republipigs win? Sort of like bullies in high school: people gravitate toward whom they think will win--whomever is the tougher.

go Barack!

was the lipstick on their failed policies, including the "change" of Palin thrown into the mix.

I'm sure Obama didn't mean it that way, but it sure sounded like his audience took it that way. Given that, it's easy to understand how the Republicans would take it that way. On the other hand they should have dropped it as soon as Obama responded.

Did you not see the whole thing?

He never mentioned Sarah Palin. He was talking about Bush and McCain's POLICIES. His audience most certainly did not think he was talking about Palin and no thinking person who wasn't looking for an excuse to distract the media would have ever taken it that way.

this is typical BS - taking a statement out of context and attaching an accusation to it.

as Kucinich said, WAKE UP AMERICA!

It was quite different than any of the other responses in the speech.

I thought it was pretty funny. Then I found out it wasn't a joke. Bummer.

After they were called on there bullshit, They switched gears saying they knew it wasn't targeted at Palin but the audience took it that way because they laughed differently.

Think about that for a minute.... The audience laughed differently????

Anyone would have to brain dead to even suggest anything that idiotic, but of course they are republicans.

It was the response you'd hear to a funny joke at a comedy club, not the response heard throughout the rest of the speech. Notice the laugh was only for the lipstick metaphor, not for the dead fish one.

They're on sale at the RNC, or so I hear.

Audience cheers: agrees with statement
Audience boos: disagrees with statement
Audience laughs: thought statement was funny

It's not a difficult concept.

He couldn't control how they would react. The only thing the matter is what he said, and you nailed it perfectly.

Republicans have these audience analyzers™ (NO!! YOU CANNOT HAVE ONE!!!)that give instant audience thought process.

the audience reacted and laughed at that also. Even that, when viewed in context, was McCain referring to the healthcare plan and not to Hillary personally.

Palin owns that word now, just like the GOP owns moral, god, righteous, patriot, etc.

Just a heads up.

I mean, what does it say about McCain that he heard lipstick and pig and thought: "Obama's talking about Palin!"


Do they own pig now, too?

they laugh.

I just can't stop laughing about the idea that when McCain hears Pig and Lipstick, he thinks: Palin! What does THAT say? Maybe he's the sexist. He has a dirty mind.

dipstick too.

I knew the saying, and knew what he was referring to, but the line of attack against him didn't follow any logic. If he were talking about her at all, it would be a complement in saying that she is the one that makes the campaign attractive.

except I was thinking "McCain would be the pig.". Obama's wording is better and more precise.

Thanks for the thread, Ramboliberal.:thumbsup:

Once again, Barack is spot on!

Talking about economic policy and putting into the context of lipstick and pigs, that is how an educated, intelligent person would address a complicated issue so that it can be better understood by the greatest number of people.

But really stupid people aren't capable of comprehending anything like that at all, and so their simplistic minds try to grasp for another meaning elsewhere, totally outside the field of economics, a complicated field which they obviously can't grasp in such feeble minds.

For that reason, McSame will get the Joe Six-Pack vote, he'll get the village idiots aand illiterate rednecks and KKKer's to vote for him, even when there's a woman on the ticket, and we can only hope there is enough intelligent voters out there to surpass that morass of ignorance.

BTW today I saw a bumber-sticker, a Dixie 'stars and bars' flag super-imposed with a drawing of General Nathan Bedford Forrest in the middle ( I live in Central Florida). Definitely McSame material here.

I couldn't have said it any better ngant - McSame will get the Joe six pack vote. The ignorant red necks who think they are patriotic cause they fly a flag and own every Toby Keith CD. The lack of intelligence across America is frightening!

So that's what they really think about her. Obama didn't mention her, not even in vague reference. And the repugs' immediate thought after they heard "lipstick on a pig" was palin. What a bunch of two-faced whiners.

They are just throwing anything out there that they think will stick. Only this time it backfired.

That was the first thing that I thought of, too.

They are so used to dirty politics that they have projected their own nastiness
onto Barack and he has deflecting horrific direct attacks of unfounded accusations.

They must hear the term around the office all the time.

and it's out there on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR8IhMMhe8w , but Karl Rove and the other PNAC enablers decide that Obama is the jerk.

When you have NOTHING to run on.. you manufacture this SHIT, these faux scandals to divert attention and TRY to make your opponent unlikable. Fuck that - McCain/McPain is positively toxic when it comes to likable.

I mean this is the guy who talked mad smack about my current Governor, Tim Kaine, blasting him and Obama both on the experience issue and tried to make a mockery out of Richmond, VA.

Haven't seen him say a single word about Palin who has less experience than Tim Kaine, even comparing them directly based on Rove's rant on Face the Nation.

By the way I'm an idiot and live in a cave. j/k I can't believe this is news!

And of course, the Repubs immediately claimed he was referring to Palin as the Pig.

Much brouhaha then ensued.

<snip>"What I like about this scenario is because they -– the Republicans -- demanded an apology," Letterman says, "so that means there had been a meeting at some point somewhere along the line (of) they got together and said, 'You know what? He called our vice presidential candidate a pig.' Well, that seems pretty unlikely, doesn’t it?"

"It does," agrees Obama. "Keep in mind that, technically had I meant it this way –- she would be the lipstick!"<snip>



ROFLMAO!!!!!!! I don't think it can get better than this. Good times are ahead....