The Day Pigs Flew
By NewHampster on September 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM in Current Affairs
Originally posted at my home, Partizane.com
Yesterday, September 9, 2008 will live in Barack Obama’s nightmares forever. It is the day his campaign all but ended, The Day Pigs Flew.

Now, I know he just used a common expression that even John McCain uses and I feel confident he was not calling Governor Palin a pig. But that doesn’t matter. Perception is everything. A lesson drilled into any marketer or salesperson’s head. Perception is Everything.
Reality and re-takes don’t matter in real life politics and Barack Obama is experiencing the first real challenge of his political life.
Probably the last too.
It doesn’t matter if he was scratching his face that tme with his middle finger. His audience and all of us assumed he was flipping off Hillary. A Presidential candidate is responsible for every word and every gesture and the context within which they are used. Had Barack been in a hotel suite just finishing his 3rd. glass of Pinot Noir and some jerk filmed him slurring about his hatred of women, I honestly don’t think we’d care. Context is the point. I don’t mind my politician’s getting loaded now and then and I will not hold them to anything they say under the influence and in private.
But the context of a campaign event so soon after Governor Palin used lipstick as a swipe at herself is the issue. Obama and his people knew what they were doing and if they didn’t they are dumber than I thought. The problem is they are still speaking to the blogger boyz in the crowd, the ones there for the free concert. They haven’t figured out yet that this is now the general election and the rest of us are listening.
Perception is Everything!
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