Obama: You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig. It’s Still a Pig. (With Video and Cartoons)

Via Moonbattery, from Yahoo news:

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience Tuesday that GOP presidential nominee John McCain says he’ll change Washington, but he’s just like President Bush.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin’s joke even if it’s not what Obama meant. “It’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”

McCain’s campaign called the comments “offensive and disgraceful” and said Obama owes Palin an apology.

wits0 provides the video:

Video also at Hot Air.

Another video via Perfunction comparing Palin’s and Obama’s remarks:

Obama could have gift wrapped that pig. He could have dressed that pig up in a tuxedo. He could even have rescued that pig from a Vietcong POW camp.

But nooooo…. It just had to be the lipstick.

Wassamatter, teleprompter go on the fritz again?

The genius then tries to cover his sorry butt by invoking, of all possible absurd and gaffe-tastic strategies, Hillary Clinton:

Obama’s campaign said he wasn’t referring to Palin and said the GOP camp was engaging in a “pathetic attempt to play the gender card.” Obama’s camp also noted that McCain once used the same phrase to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan.

Obama followed up by saying Palin is an interesting story, drawing boos at the mention of her name that he tried to cut off.

i.e. It’s okay to call Palin a pig in lipstick, just as it is okay to call Hillary a pig in lipstick.

Uh-huh… Yeah. This is sure gonna help him with those 18 million already-miffed Hillary supporters. Past Obama possibly-sexist remarks directed at Hillary at Hot Air.

Michelle Malkin is only the first rightfully offended female who’s going to rip BHO a new ratings hole for this.

Oh, and O-bomb-ma… If you’re complaining that every remark that comes out of your mouth can be construed as prejudiced, just because Palin is female… Welcome to the hyper-sensitive world of political correctness you helped build.

UPDATE 11 Sept 2008: Obama makes it worse by explaining that actually McCain is the pig, Palin is the lipstick!

UPDATE 11 Sept 2008: Even worser, it seems that Obama stole his text from an editorial cartoon!

See also the following, case number 61 from Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media:

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I tell ya, Uh-uh-uh-bama and his mouth are his own worst enemies in this Presidential race.

• Obama: My Muslim faith. ‘Nuff said.

• Obama: Palin sucks because she supported the Bridge to Nowhere which I voted for twice.

• Obama: I studied the Koran. Listen to me do the Muslim call to prayer!

• Obama: Your baby is a punishment that should have been aborted!

• Obama: Sorry, can’t answer that, it’s above my pay grade.

• Obama: I choose as my running mate the guy who called me the first clean Black he’s ever met!

• Obama: I never said what I said in front of dozens of video cameras.

• Obama: Eh ah uh uh uhhh…

• Obama: It is safe in Iraq despite what I’ve been saying, see me not wear any body armour.

• Obama: Dear Russia, please condemn yourself in the U.N. for attacking Georgia.

• Obama: There are 57 states (in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

• Obama: You typical white person!

• Obama: You bitter religious gun-clingers!

• Obama: God d*man America! Oh, wait, sorry – that was actually my reverend of 20 years.

And now, the Editorial Cartoons (with lots more here):

Following from Day by Day:

Following from The Ryskind Sketchbook:

Following from Baloo Cartoons:

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Above from this post.

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