I really hate to admit it, but Obama stepped on a land mine with this remark...



...What chance he had of winning this election just went out the door.

No comment on the remark - it speaks for itself.

I am not sure why the Obama campaign is going this way... To be honest, I think if he stuck to a positive message and waited to see if Palin imploded he would be much better off. Even if she didn't implode, keeping to their message would be the better answer at this point. Based on that clip of video though, it appeared he was tired, and not totally coherent on what he was trying to say - and that just kind of fell out on the floor.

They seem to be committing one of the worst over-reactions on this I have ever seen. For all that I respond to you guys here, I try to keep it civil and on the mark - but some of the stuff you guys post is over the top. I don't know if he thought he would get some traction with this or what - or maybe the negative publicity would get folks to focus on him again? Just weird.

We'll see.

I think some idiot in his campaign came up with this line. I really don't see how he recovers from this. Sometimes there is just one defining moment (the check-out stand with Bush Sr., Dukakis not seeming to care if his wife got raped) that just freezes the campaign. This is it for Obama. Short of McCain/Palin massively imploding, I think Obama is done.

LMAO... I was on the fence but now I'm supporting Obama all the way. That was too funny.

me thinks you over react....he was talking about McSame...not Palin.

Republicans, telling it like it is

Fox News reported on the "big" mistake and reported that McSame had used the same phrase during the primaries when refering to Hillary and her health plans.

So...not to say the republikans wont try and use this silly incident as something bigger then it is...but it aint!

I really don't know what to think about this stuff anymore. In my opinion, I think people are out of their minds to vote Republican this year. But you throw a moose-shooting gal who lies about her record in front of people and they go wild. I really don't understand why Americans consistently vote against their own self-interest, but that's what keeps corporate lobbying in business, I guess.

Im sure there are some very applicable parralels in history to the fall of roman empire...Nero fiddling as Rome burned..scapegoats...

personally I found the article below as good an explanation as any...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071126_america_in_the_time_of_empire/

When did he get his southern accent?

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> When did he get his southern accent?


lol, I did notice he's starting to sound less like a northerner.

Was the "lipstick on a pig" remark any less politically correct when McCain used it last year to describe a proposal made by Hillary Clinton?

Not really, but in this highly-sensitive time of sound bite politics it just made for fodder. It isn't the first time a politician has taken a hit for an otherwise innocuous statement... take Perot's "You people" comment that I often post photoshops of.

Another reason that he's got to be careful with that is the complaints of misogyny from the Clinton side during the primaries. He doesn't need any bad press that will piss off women. Palin's speech set up the current context of the lipstick term for this campaign.

I have to say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the way the MSM has handled this today. They have brought up McCain's use of the same term. I am hopeful that, if anything, McCain is going to appear to be overly sensitive on the sexism thing. Obama needs to defuse that once and for all. Not sure if this is the way to do it, or if this will be effective. But sitting on his hands while Palin punched away certainly wasn't going to do it.