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America’s Piggish Politics: Obama Hits
Back At McCain's Attempts To Claim
Change Mantle |
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September 9, 2008 Last October, asked about
Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., was blunt.
McCain said Clinton's proposal was “eerily”
similar to the ill-fated plan she devised in
1993.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he
said, “but it’s still a pig.”
A common expression, right?
McCain surely wasn't calling Clinton a pig.
After all, McCain's former press secretary,
Torie Clarke, wrote a book called "Lipstick on
a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era."
Elizabeth Edwards told some health journalists
that McCain's health care plan was like
“painting lipstick on a pig.”
Tonight Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of
McCain painting himself as a change agent,
"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but
it's still a pig."
The crowd rose and applauded.
(Some of them no doubt were thinking he may
have been in some way alluding to Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice
presidential nomination acceptance speech last
week, "What's the difference between a hockey
mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.")
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper
called 'change,'" Obama continued, "it's still
gonna stink after eight years. We’ve had
enough of the same old thing! It’s time to
bring about real change to Washington. And
that’s the choice you’ve got in this
election."
Obama's campaign insisted that he was not
alluding to Palin at all.
"That expression is older than my
grandfather's grandfather," said Obama
campaign spox Jen Psaki, "and it means that
you can dress something up but it doesn't
change what it is. He was talking pretty
clearly about the fact that you can't just
call yourself change when you've voted with
George Bush 90 percent of the time."
Obama has used the expression before. Last
September, around the time McCain said it
about Clinton's health care plan.
"I think that both Gen. Petraeus and
Ambassador Crocker are capable people who have
been given an impossible assignment," Obama
said in a telephone interview. "George Bush
has given a mission to Gen. Petraeus, and he
has done his best to try to figure out how to
put lipstick on a pig."
Why should anyone believe McCain didn't mean
it about Hillary Clinton, but Obama meant it
about Palin?
And yet, the inaugural conference call of what
the McCain-Palin campaign is calling the "Palin
Truth Squad" addressed Obama's remark.
And interestingly, the Truth Squad call was
full of half-truths and statements that
weren't true at all.
Speaking on behalf of the McCain campaign,
former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift tonight
flatly stated that Obama had called Palin a
pig.
"[T]he formation of the Palin Truth Squad
couldn't have happened too soon, as we saw
when Sen. Obama in Lebanon, Va., this evening
uttered what I can only deem to be disgraceful
comments comparing our vice presidential
nominee Gov. Palin to a pig," Swift said.
"Sen. Obama owes Gov. Palin an apology," she
said.
Asked why she was so confident Obama was
"comparing" Palin to a pig, she said Palin was
the only one of the four candidates on both
parties' tickets who wears lipstick.
"She is the only one of the four candidates
for president, or the only vice presidential
candidate who wears lipstick," Swift said. "I
mean, it seemed to me a very gendered
comment."
But, Swift added, if "as part of his apology
Sen. Obama wants to say, no, he was calling
Sen. McCain -- who is a true hero in our
country -- a pig, then I suppose we could wait
en masse for an apology to that, as well."
It was pointed out to Swift that, after the
line about the pig, Obama had said, "You can
wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called
'change,' it's still gonna stink after eight
years."
Swift then suggested that Obama was calling
McCain a fish.
"I have a fourth-grader and two second-graders
at home," she said. "I would not teach them
that this is sort of a high-minded debate on
policy issues when they are calling people
rotten old fish or a pig. In fact, it sounds a
lot like some of the least intelligent debates
on the playground sound like at our elementary
school."
A reporter then reminded Swift that in
December, McCain was asked about criticisms
coming his way from then-opponent Gov. Mitt
Romney, R-Mass., and McCain replied, "Never
get into a wrestling match with a pig. You
both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
Was McCain calling Romney a pig? a reporter
asked Swift.
Of course not, Swift said.
It seems to me we should have one rule. If
Obama was calling Palin a pig, then McCain was
calling Hillary Clinton one. If McCain wasn't,
then Obama wasn't. |
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