Swift: It's hard to apply lipstick in a helicopter
This just in: In a desperate bid to fix her Political Has Been status, Jane Swift is using her position as...something...to bitch about how Obama's being sexist using the whole "like lipstick on a pig" comment. It's surprising that she didn't comment on the "dead fish" remark that followed; she's part Italian!
The simile has little to do with women, and in the absurdity of the moment, everyone seems to forget that all the candidates wear makeup to look good on TV. No doubt her routine will help net her a cushy federal-level position should McCain and Palin get into office.
All of this is to shift focus away from from McCain and Palin rewriting history. The real kicker is that it's a phrase so common, even our good buddy Dick has slung it around, and he was using it to claim that Kerry was a coward who would result in Bin Laden (talk about another has-been) killing us all. See, Jane? Nothing to do with women. It's about Gitin' Them Ter-rists!
PS:Since when did Jane Swift hold conference calls with reporters? Foon Rhee, why did you pass on this crap that was spoon-fed to you? What was the purpose of that conference call? Who arranged it? Hmm?
Title updated; thank you, bostonkid. I bow before you
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Distracting from Issues
We know this is distraction - but how much of it is projection? Particularly when it comes to Jane Swift - Jane who was abused by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Old Boy Network (a classic bunch of Demublicans if there ever was one - they'd be Republicans in any other state, but they are such conformists in Massachusetts).
Why do republicans hear "lipstick on a pig" and IMMEDIATELY think "Sarah Palin"?? I mean, it is a very common idiom ... and Obama was clearly using it to describe McCain's POLICIES.
But Republicans can't talk about policies ... they have admitted that it's all about image and personality! (and some innability to not immedate think "Palin" when hearing "pig + lipstick" for their own sorry brain-rot reasons).
obama meant it
im quite sure he knew what he was saying. i dont even like him that much but i thought it was funny.jane swift is a useless gas bag, with lipstick.
Go watch the clip
He clearly referred to MC CAIN's policies ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg
They want to play little games and distract from the fact that an unelected entity would be running things further into the ground - ROVE.
obama is a smart dude
im sure he was talking about mccains policies but did you hear that pause when he made the pig comment? priceless.i think he referrred to mccain as some old smelly fish wrapped in newspapers.
Can we just get it over with
Can we just get it over with and have Vince McMahon run the entire election for us?
And this has what to do with
And this has what to do with Boston?
boston ma
it is part of america.
Jane Swift, the spokes
Jane Swift, the spokes person from McCain's "Truthy" squad is from Massachusetts.
The McCain campaign barely vetted Palin. Now the press is digging up lots of unpopular narratives about her political and personal life. Rather than field these attacks, they want to go on the offensive and call Obama a person that attacks women with sexist remarks. It's laughable but they wouldn't try it if it never worked.
From the moment Palin walked onto the national scene, the McCain campaign handlers have tried to shield her from criticism by blaming the press for unfair attacks.
Now they're trying to use the press to make unfair attacks on Obama. It's extremely cynical, its gutter politics, and that's what the Republicans have to offer American.
Watch Sarah Palin gender card here.
cheney, mccain...they all say that
Indeed, reporters were drawn to the story and pointed out quickly that McCain himself had used the expression, in October, when describing Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's healthcare plan.
Now it turns out that no less a Republican stalwart than Vice President Dick Cheney used the expression frequently during his last national election. One moment took place at his final 2004 campaign rally, with his wife, Lynne, providing the warm-up, in Jackson, Wyo.
Lynne Cheney:
... John Kerry has a completely and totally weak record on national security issues, that he's had a record for 30 years of weakness on national security issues. But --
The vice president, interrupting:
Well, he's working very hard to cover it up. Now, we got into the campaign, of course, and he's trying hard to cover up the fact that he voted against the first Gulf War; against Operation Desert Storm; voted against most of the weapons systems that President Reagan used to keep the peace and win the Cold War. But the point is that no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much spin he tries to put on it, that you can't cover that record up with a little tough talk during the course of the campaign, that as we say in Wyoming, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but in the end of the day, it's still a pig.
video of cheney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjwVEeq7JiQ
Doesn't matter; McCain has won this round
The fact that you're wasting time thinking about it means the tactic has worked. You didn't just spend X minutes writing about how many houses John McCain owns or how he wants to drill for oil in dead baby whales or anything at all serious. Instead you're still talking about lipstick. David Letterman is still talking about lipstick. We're all still talking about lipstick.
You can only tip your hat in amazement to Herr Rove and his Big Lie strategy. Because it obviously still plays in Peoria - and Boston.
Round 1 goes to the dirty-trick campaign
Rove and Mccain win, America loses, round one.
Obama's "Lipstick on a pig" metaphor reference to McCain's policy's is twisted by Rove/McCain into an insult levied at Palin, rounf one. Oh the outrage.
In round two, Obama fights back. Obama's surrogates will be wrapping this around McCain's neck.
Jane Swift was a former governor of Massachusetts
which makes it relevant to Boston.
Lipstick
And she knows how hard it can be to juggle motherhood with public office.
lipstick
i wonder how hard it is to apply lipstick in a helicopter?
zOMG!
Bostonkid, you've made my week.
Applying lipstick in a helicopter ...
while shooting at wolves with a high caliber rifle?
Actually, she was never governor
She was lieutenant governor up to the day she left office in January of 2003. The Massachusetts Constitution does not bestow the title of governor on lieutenant governors who take over when a governor leaves office prematurely, it only conveys the powers of the governor.
From Chapter II Section II of the Massachusetts Constitution:
Article III. Whenever the chair of the governor shall be vacant, by reason of his death, or absence from the commonwealth, or otherwise, the lieutenant governor, for the time being, shall, during such vacancy, perform all the duties incumbent upon the governor, and shall have and exercise all the powers and authorities, which by this constitution the governor is vested with, when personally present.
Video of McCain Using the phrase "lipstick on a pig"
McCain used it in reference to Hillary's healthcare plan.
She was the Governor of MA--
--that's what it has to do with Boston.
Karl Rove liar liar... at least he's not a lobbyist
Rove ... has insisted that he has no formal role in the McCain camp. He's a commentator now -- writing for the Wall Street Journal, opining for Fox News. As he told George Stephanopoulos recently when the ABC anchor called him an informal advisor, "I wouldn't even go that far -- informal advisor, no way." Rove called his interaction with McCain staffers "chitchat."
The McCain campaign also has tried to douse rumors that Rove, whom Bush calls "the Architect" for helping him win reelection in 2004, is an advisor. Asked whether he has access to inside information, campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said, "He doesn't. He's a Fox analyst."
But this morning the Hill quotes a Republican operative as saying that "Rove has had a consistent, medium-sized role with the McCain campaign."
link
if an anonymous "Republican operative" said it, it MUST be true!
For a guy whose only real job has been as a LAW PROFESSOR, Barry sure misspeaks a lot. Who knew precise language was too much to be expected from the "Harvard Law Review" President?
Interesting
I don't see any statements by Barack Obama in the post you respond to, or in the link.
Is it that you think Barack Obama writes The Hill?
I see a byline by Jackie Kucinich and Bob Cusack.
Random character attacks aren't the mark of a cynic, but an ideologue.
lipstick on a pig
The Bush Years 2000-2008
Four more (or less)? Vote McCain/Palin
Where's Enron?
Can't forget that.
During the hearing, Senator
During the hearing, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked a question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnJAIeEgjSM