Lipstick
News reports today suggest that Obama was not targeting Sarah Palin with his ‘lipstick’ comment. And they further express that McCain suggested Hillary Clinton’s heal care proposal was putting ‘lipstick’ on a pig. The phrase originates from sales humor of making a bad product appear attractive to customers in hard sell tactics employed by less than scrupulous sales people.
When McCain used the phrase some time ago Hillary had not used the term lipstick in presenting a humorous turn of phrase as Sarah Palin has about hockey Moms and pitbulls. The use of the phrase by Obama comes so close after Palin’s use of it that drawing the distinction as an insult directed at Palin from Obama is not a stretch. If Obama could not see it as a hazard then it is simply proof that he is out of touch rather than his claims his opponents are.
Stanford Matthews
MoreWhat.com
September 10th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Word just came over the radio on the Rush Limbaugh show that CBS complained about copyright infringement for the video published and linked to in this post on YouTube and it has been removed.
So if you click on it you’ll get a YouTube page without the video. Sorry, but it would be no surprise if the complaint from CBS was prompted by the Obama campaign.
There are other vids on YouTube displaying the excerpt of the Obama stump including his ‘lipstick’ commentary….. or at least there were other vids
September 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
here is a link to a suitable replacement for the video removed at YouTube…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X03m-vXm_Y