Right (this is non-political by the way ), I'm sick of it on both sides. The Obama comment was CLEARLY not intended to suggest Palin is a pig. He's not stupid, he's not going to purposely offend all the women in America that enjoyed Palin's line at the RNC. It was a poor choice of words, let it go.
I didn't like that his camp immediately fired back that McCain used the lipstick on a pig line when he was talking about something Hilary said during the campaign either. They seemed too ready to respond.
But let's focus on the real issues. The economy, Terrorism, Health Care. Talk about how you're each going to make us more financially secure, safer and healthier.
I'm very excited about the debates. I hope both sides bring their A game.
I hear you... I debated all day long yesterday and a good part of the evening if it was a good idea to post that commercial out here. I agree... I don't see anyone who is set in their views being swayed by this or anything else. That is fine. I thought this young man did a fantastic job of expressing his views, and the views of many like him.
It is a shame to me that the national debate is not on the issues that truly concern us. It is a matter of finger pointing, name calling, and smear tactics. I don't believe that mentioning 9/11 is always fear mongering. I also don't believe that Obama was being intentionally offensive when he made his lipstick on a pig comment. He WASN'T calling Palin a pig. He was sort of playing off her pit bull/hockey mom comment.
I agree, that Obama didn't mean that comment the way they are portraying it. I don't think he was even playing off her pit bull/hockey mom comment, that's a pretty common figure of speech. But, it would be good form to issue a public apology.
I'd rather see Obama give a deadpan look to a camera and just say "PUH-LEASE!" An apology would more or less equate to "yeah, it was a slam". It wasn't.
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