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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Obama is doing it too, MMM, dont get carried away. I do not think the right way to win a campaign is through insults, however, and I dont support it. That would just be putting lipstick on a pig. But both sides do it...
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Obama hasn't really bashed at all. Look at Obama's ads and compare them to McCain's. McCain's ads, seemingly, have points that can be easily disputed or either filled with lies. At least with Obama's ads, they attack the issues and counter them, not the person. McCain's side, imo, seem to be doing all the mudslinging, especially that lipstick pig thing. It's, apparently, a common phrase. Even McCain's used it in reference to Hilary's health care proposals, yet, no one called him out for being supposedly sexist.
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During the September 9 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Fox News contributors Mike Huckabee and Howard Wolfson both disagreed with co-host Sean Hannity's baseless claim that Sen. Barack Obama was "talking about [Gov.] Sarah Palin" when he said, "[Y]ou know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig." Earlier during the program, Huckabee said of Obama's comment: "It's an old expression, and I'm going to have to cut Obama some slack on that one. I do not think he was referring to Sarah Palin." Similarly, Wolfson asserted: "[T]here's no question that he was referring to [Sen.] John McCain, not Sarah Palin, and I think anything to the contrary is ridiculous."
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Media Matters - Hannity baselessly claimed Obama's "lipstick" comment was about Palin -- Huckabee, Wolfson disagree
I like the fact that a Republican even admitted that this entire thing is stupid, and if one listened to the entire speech, they'd know that it was taken out of context and twisted, since later on, Obama used another analogy, "You can wrap a fish in newspaper, but it still smells/stinks" something along the lines of that, saying he doesn't agree with McCain's economic plans.
If anything, the ones literally attacking Palin are Obama's supporters, and he can only say so much. He can say, "Don't do this", but there'll still be some who do the opposite, like the women who are only voting for McCain/Palin ticket because Palin's a woman. >_>;