can anyone else wear lipstick ever again

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Registered: 10-26-2003
can anyone else wear lipstick ever again
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Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:05am

there are way more important things to discuss, but i am so annoyed that this is what consumes the headlines: barbs over lipstick.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_el_pr/obama_lipstick

A) it is well documented: this is a metaphor that has been used by Obama before and by other politicians as well.

B) but Palin referred to herself as a hockey mom, then made a joke that this was the same as a pit bull with lipstick.

C) therefore any further reference to lipstick will be code for speaking about Palin.

is that the logic here? did i miss the memo?

Bea

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 11:48am

If people are looking at this as a sexist remark from Obama and that he is calling Palin a pig, they need to find something better to do with their time.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 12:06pm
yup it is

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Registered: 09-03-2008
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 2:10pm

I have heard the saying that Obama used about the pig and the lipstick.

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Wed, 09-10-2008 - 2:14pm
"However, since Palin JUST used that line in her speech with the Hockey mom/pit bull analogy"
On the contrary, one reason it's not a big deal is exactly because Palin had just used the lipstick metaphor herself.
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Registered: 04-10-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 3:25pm

McCain has already moved on to accusing Obama of supporting sex education for young children.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 8:08pm

Hey, we have much more to fear from weapons of mass DISTRACTION.

The fact is, Obama was talking about McCain's policies. Go Google it. So, why can't we discuss McCain's policies? They ARE old.

He's going to continue putting American soldiers' lives at risk in Bush's illegal war,

He's going to keep Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, while Obama's trying to CUT taxes substantially for the majority of Americans -- the sixty percent of us making below $66,000 dollars will see a tax break that's three to six times as large as McCain's.

He's going to keep Bush's energy policies.

Really, in what way will McCain be substantially different? I can't believe people want four more years of this disaster.

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Registered: 01-14-2008
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 9:22pm

Do you think it worth comment that the Democrat Chair of South Carolina, who happens to be a woman, today said Mc Cain picked a woman whose only qualification "seems to be that she has not had an abortion"?

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 10:33pm

"today said"

"too little, too late"
Wow! Same day apology is too little too late. Amazing.

"vicious attitude was already revealed."
The comment was peanuts compared to the smear that is regularly made against Obama and which has never been apologized for - and the attempted false innuendo and regular faux indignation that one reads every day in on this forum.

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Registered: 05-06-2007
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 10:43pm

Do you think it worth comment that the Democrat Chair of South Carolina, who happens to be a woman, today said Mc Cain picked a woman whose only qualification "seems to be that she has not had an abortion"?


To be honest, I don't think it's worth a comment. At least not on this thread. Of course

Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
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Registered: 10-26-2003
Wed, 09-10-2008 - 10:51pm

actually i was looking for discussion of energy or the environment or economics or healthcare. but if you want to stick with the sparkly stuff, go ahead.

i could talk in response about the broadcaster who repeatedly called Barak Obama by his full name with special emphasis on "Hussein" - along with veiled accusations and insinuations about his lack of patriotism and his Muslim terrorist ties. But i guess that's not a smear since hi name is Hussein.

So did Palin have an abortion and is that why there's a problem? That's one rumor I had not heard.

Bea