Today the Barack Obama fell to a new low in my book when he described the Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Gov. Palin or Presidential Candidate Sen. John McCain. To quote, "A pig with lipstick is still a pig." I don't even know what more to say about this. Can you imagine what would happen, the outrage in the news media, if anyone called Barack Obama a pig, or any other animal for that matter. Why, it would be outright degrading. This is a terrible political move by Sen. Barack Obama. The McCain camp said that referring to Gov. Palin as a pig was way out of bounds, while the Obama camp reply was that they were actually talking about Sen. McCain. Is there really a difference? To make matters worse, McCain used the same language when critisizing Sen. Clinton last year. However, he hasn't done it lately.
I have never been the world's strongest proponent of Sen. McCain. I think that he has some huge turn offs, not the least of which is over exaggerating an opponents position for his own political gain. His political tactics are nothing though compared to the onslaught from the media concerning Gov. Palin. Once again, even if Gov. Palin is new, so is Sen. Biden, why are we not being constantly reminded that Sen. Biden was said that Delaware was a slave state. Why do we not hear that he voted to end funding for the war in Iraq when he complained on the floor on the Senate that he wanted greater equipment for the solidiers? Why do we not hear really anything from him lately?
In a previous post I stated that I thought Gov. Palin was a poor choice for a Vice Presidential Candidate. While I stand by my previous comments that Gov. Palin was a poor choice, I am amazed at the outcome. I did not think that the media would choice to focus on the most outrageous claims against Gov. Palin first. They completely destroyed any credibility that they might have previously had with most of the US public. They excited the masses into watching Gov. Palin's stunning address followed by McCain's address which attracked a greater television crowd then even Barack Obama's acceptance speach. The continual extreme attacks from the Democratic candidates against Gov. Palin are not helping their case. In fact, Sen. McCain has taken another lead in the polls.
If the Republican's win this one, it may just be because the opposition blew it. When you have the fartherest left Senator in the Congress and the third fartherest left Senator in Congress on the same ticket, that is a mistake in and of itself.
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I think the democrats are running scared. Why else would they spend all this time trying to distroy Palin? They keep comparing her to Obama....umm shouldn't we compare the pres can. to the pres can. & the VP can. to the VP can.?
I wasn't sure about her at first but now, I am impressed with her strength. She doesn't seem to flinch...or back peddle from what I have observed. That's a breath of fresh air...in the stagnent political arena!
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