 
Indistinguishable...
Barack Obama said yesterday of Repugnican Sarah Palin-Quayle, "I mean, you can't just make stuff up. You can't just recreate yourself. You can't just reinvent yourself. The American people aren't stupid." Today Obama was more to the point, pointing out that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it remains a pig. (Arianna Huffington accurately calls Lipstick-on-a-Pig Palin -- whose cute little story about having sold the governor's luxury jet on eBay is a lie -- "a trojan moose.")
'Bama is getting some balls:
Says of Pentecostal Palin,
'You can put lipstick on a pig...'
Based on one joke that she probably didn't even write herself and the fact that she (presumably) possesses the XX chromosome, about half of the nation apparently believes that Repugnican Gov.-of-Alaska-for-Less-Than-Two-Years Sarah Speaks in Tongues Palin is qualifed to be in charge of the Big Red Button.
The joke that should put Pentacostal Palin into the White House a heartbeat away from the presidency when President McCainosaurus has one foot in the grave and the other on an oil-soaked banana peel goes something like this:
Q: What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
A: Lipstick.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Today Barack Obama said of Palin-Quayle: "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."
Absofuckinglutely brilliant.
Obama later said that he wasn't referring to Lipstick-on-a-Pig Palin's lipstick joke, but whether it was intentionally or unintentionally brilliant, it was brilliant all the same.
Pentacostal Palin is a fucking pig, and there isn't enough lipstick on the planet to cover up that fact.
Because Obama's own lipstick quip was brilliantly funny and accurate, the McCainosaurus-Pentacostal Palin camp was quick to denounce Obama's quip as "offensive and disgraceful."
Oh, fuck you, McInsane, Pentacostal Palin and every God-damned Repugnican on the face of the planet. You dish it out but cry foul when the tables are turned on you.
I'll tell you what's offensive and disgraceful: The Repugnicans' putting a fucking she-Nazi on the ticket with John Fossil Fool McCain as though that's progress.
What's offensive and disgraceful is how the McCainosaurus-Palin-Quayle campaign is doing its best to keep us in the dark about Pentecostal Palin as much as possible until the clock runs out. The presidential election is less than two months away, and the Repugnicans are doing their best to ensure that Americans don't have enough information about Lipstick-on-a-Pig Palin in order to make an informed, intelligent voting decision.
Reports The Associated Press today:
John McCain took a risk in picking little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate, but now the campaign's playing it safer. She's sticking to a greatest hits version of her convention speech on the campaign trail and steering clear of questions until she's comfortable enough for a hand-picked interviewer later this week.
More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the media was a brief conversation with a small group of reporters on her plane Monday -- off the record at her handlers' insistence.
Associated Press reporters were not on the plane, but an aide told the journalists on board that all Palin flights would be off the record unless the media were told otherwise. At least one reporter objected. Two people on the flight said the Palins greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.
By comparison, her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, has been campaigning on his own, at times taking questions from audiences. He split off to campaign separately from Barack Obama the day after Obama announced his selection. They reunited at their party's convention and spent the following weekend campaigning together....
Amid growing sniping from Democrats, the McCain campaign announced that Palin would sit down for her first interview this week, with ABC. It will take place over two days at her home in Alaska.
And then?
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has said Palin will "agree to an interview when we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it."
"She's not scared to answer questions," Davis said on "Fox News Sunday."
So far, Palin has barely spoken with voters either. Since the convention, she and McCain have breezed through a Wisconsin ice cream shop, a New Mexico restaurant and a Missouri barbecue place, shaking hands with diners but not taking any questions. Photographers and television cameras have been allowed full view while reporters are typically kept too far away to ask questions or hear most of the conversations.
Her public remarks essentially have been excerpts of her convention speech, delivered while introducing McCain at rallies....
To be sure, all candidates running for office give the same remarks over and over -- Barack Obama's stump speech has hardly changed throughout the campaign, and McCain has been telling familiar stories and jokes for months.
But none of the candidates in this race has been so shielded from the media, so protected from any spontaneous situation, and Palin's unvarying remarks give the impression that she and her message are being tightly controlled. As before her convention speech, McCain's campaign is briefing Palin for her first TV interview....
The AP writer notes, interestingly, that even Palin-Quayle's story that suggests that she sold the governor's luxury jet on eBay is misleading; the AP writer writes that "what Palin never adds is that the jet didn't sell on eBay despite numerous attempts. The state eventually hired an aircraft broker to unload it."
Lipstick on a trojan moose, indeed.
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