The Truth About Obama’s “Lipstick” Comment

J.J. Jackson* | September 11, 2008

Filed Under Barack Obama, Eyes on 2008, Sarah Palin

By now you have heard Obama’s “lipstick” comment where we whipped out an old colloquialism to try and describe Republican policies as bad. He said: “You can put lipstick on a pig,” but that “It’s still a pig.”

However he did not stop there. Unable to come up with anything original, he continued on to say, “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”

Wow. How deep. The problem is that this, while an accurate description of some actions by the Republicans and President Bush over the last eight years is a more accurate description of nearly ALL of Barack Obama’s ideas.

Higher taxes. More protectionism. Forced “voluntary” national service. Progressive taxation. Government control over education. Wealth redistribution. And on and on the list goes and they are all pigs wearing lipstick.

From Hitler’s Germany to Mussolini’s Italy to Stalin’s Russia to Mao’s China to Kim Jong Il’s North Korea, to Castro’s Cuba to Hugo’s Venezuela – those fish have been wrapped up in the prettiest of wrapping paper, tied with bows and presented to the people. And they have all started to reek within very short order.

How right Obama is. How wrong he also is as well.

Now, Obama claims that the pig with lipstick comment was also not meant as a dig at Sarah Palin who described herself as a pit bull with lipstick. Just for the record the Democratic Party has a posting on its blogs with the title “McCain’s Selection of Palin is Lipstick on a Pig.” WorldNetDaily points this out:

The official website of the Democratic Party has a blog posting entitled, “McCain’s Selection of Palin is Lipstick on a Pig,” illustrated by an altered photograph of a pig with makeup, designer glasses and pearls.

“Palin is a red herring, lipstick on the Republican pig to distract Americans from the real issue that under the leadership of the Republicans the last 8 years, our country is falling apart,” writes the blogger, Elizabeth Berry, a self-described 49-year-old “progressive” from Texas.

The posting was published 11 days ago, well before Sen. Barack Obama drew sharp criticism yesterday when he jabbed at Palin and Sen. John McCain’s idea of “change” by stating, ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.’”

Even more for the record the crowd at the appearance where the comment was made apparently knew what Obama was referring to (i.e. Sarah Palin) with his pig/lipstick remark:

NBC Nightly News reported the audience at an Obama event “actually started chanting no more pit bull. Pretty sarcastic reference to that lipstick joke that…Palin made at the GOP convention.”

Coincidence?

Maybe. But at least we know how Democrats think.

The Obama camp issued this explanation:

Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs told ABC News the lipstick comment was not meant to be a jab at Palin.

“That’s an old expression,” he said.

Yeah, there are lots of “old expressions”. But just because an expression is “old” doesn’t mean that it was not meant in a certain context. And when your surrogates are out there drawing the connection between the lipstick comment and Sarah Palin, your explanations are hollow – just like all the rest of your rhetoric.

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