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From Ben Smith's blog:
Obama wears lipstick?
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Read hundreds of comments on the lipstick comment, mostly from the Ben Smith Blog, somewhat leftish to my judgment. By a huge percentage it was understood that the lipstick comment referred to Palin, and the "old fish" comment referred to McCain. A few said, "So What? It's accurate," and some said it was just "a common expression," nothing to get excited about. It is in fact a common expression, but within the context of Palin's pit bull comment, and the fact of McCain's age, there is zero doubt about Obama's intent. (Normally, the fish comment would be "rotten fish", not "old fish".)
Marc Ambinder disagreed. He said it was obviously a slip, otherwise we would have to assume Obama was just colossally stupid; he couldn't possibly have used it purposely because he would have understood how offensive it would sound to so many. Ambinder misses the point. The guy is cheap. This is his personality, so that's what he expressed.
I'm not going to twist common observation into a pretzel so I can pretend Obama didn't do what. What he did was purposeful. But I suppose I could attempt psychoanalysis: Why did he do it? I can answer perfectly: Because he's cheap.
As to why he's additionally so politically stupid? I can answer that perfectly as well: Because he's had no experience. He's never had to run a race from the center against opposition. He's never had to pull together a coalition. Always, he's been either the chosen one of the Chicago machine (with all opposition eliminated prior to the race); or, as in the primaries, he's just had to express one half of the sentiment of the party that is one half of the political sentiment of America. He just had to be left, and an alternative to the hated Hill; but once with a foothold, he didn't really have to be personally politically astute. So that's why he's dumb.
Bottom line: A lot of people want a Democrat this year, it's getting so a lot of people don't want Obama.
Note on tactics: It does appear he can't control his inflated ego, tweak him and he strikes out; and it does appear that Sarah's got his goat. The clear tactic is to keep Sarah in his face.
This shouldn't be that difficult, after all, that's her job, to be the pit bull. She legitimately can attack his policies and experience. If she uses good humor, she can mock everything about him. If she maintains her crowds she of course will be devastating, but in fact she probably only has to mock. He's unbalanced. It will drive him mad.
At some point Sarah should exactly respond with Hillary's words when he said she looked good enough... Whatever it was. Have to look it up... "That hurts my feelings...I'll have to bear up...?" Something in that nature. That response would bring a laugh, and the Hillary women would know exactly what she meant.
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OPEC to cut output by 520,000 bpd.
This is interesting. If this doesn't stop the price slide, prices will plummet. I imagine OPEC is bright enough to recognize that this is going to be annoying to a number of other countries.
Crude was down to $102.06 earlier; just now (1:55 AM) it's $103.57.
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
Reported by Amie Parnes, from Lebanon, VA:
Obama wears lipstick?
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Read hundreds of comments on the lipstick comment, mostly from the Ben Smith Blog, somewhat leftish to my judgment. By a huge percentage it was understood that the lipstick comment referred to Palin, and the "old fish" comment referred to McCain. A few said, "So What? It's accurate," and some said it was just "a common expression," nothing to get excited about. It is in fact a common expression, but within the context of Palin's pit bull comment, and the fact of McCain's age, there is zero doubt about Obama's intent. (Normally, the fish comment would be "rotten fish", not "old fish".)
Marc Ambinder disagreed. He said it was obviously a slip, otherwise we would have to assume Obama was just colossally stupid; he couldn't possibly have used it purposely because he would have understood how offensive it would sound to so many. Ambinder misses the point. The guy is cheap. This is his personality, so that's what he expressed.
I'm not going to twist common observation into a pretzel so I can pretend Obama didn't do what. What he did was purposeful. But I suppose I could attempt psychoanalysis: Why did he do it? I can answer perfectly: Because he's cheap.
As to why he's additionally so politically stupid? I can answer that perfectly as well: Because he's had no experience. He's never had to run a race from the center against opposition. He's never had to pull together a coalition. Always, he's been either the chosen one of the Chicago machine (with all opposition eliminated prior to the race); or, as in the primaries, he's just had to express one half of the sentiment of the party that is one half of the political sentiment of America. He just had to be left, and an alternative to the hated Hill; but once with a foothold, he didn't really have to be personally politically astute. So that's why he's dumb.
Bottom line: A lot of people want a Democrat this year, it's getting so a lot of people don't want Obama.
Note on tactics: It does appear he can't control his inflated ego, tweak him and he strikes out; and it does appear that Sarah's got his goat. The clear tactic is to keep Sarah in his face.
This shouldn't be that difficult, after all, that's her job, to be the pit bull. She legitimately can attack his policies and experience. If she uses good humor, she can mock everything about him. If she maintains her crowds she of course will be devastating, but in fact she probably only has to mock. He's unbalanced. It will drive him mad.
At some point Sarah should exactly respond with Hillary's words when he said she looked good enough... Whatever it was. Have to look it up... "That hurts my feelings...I'll have to bear up...?" Something in that nature. That response would bring a laugh, and the Hillary women would know exactly what she meant.
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OPEC to cut output by 520,000 bpd.
This is interesting. If this doesn't stop the price slide, prices will plummet. I imagine OPEC is bright enough to recognize that this is going to be annoying to a number of other countries.
Crude was down to $102.06 earlier; just now (1:55 AM) it's $103.57.
posted by mouse at 4:13 PM
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