Barack “Words Matter” Obama [Updated]
By Larry Johnson on September 10, 2008 at 11:15 PM in Current Affairs
[BELOW: SCREENSHOTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S DIRECT ATTACK ON SARAH PALIN.]
The candidate who made an issue of the importance of words cannot have it both ways. He cannot insist that words matter then later use the gender equivalent of racist slurs to attack his political opponents and then cry foul. Sorry Barack, you got caught.
Remember when Barack insisted that words matter?
He continued: “…It’s true that speeches don’t solve all problems, but what is also true is if we cannot inspire the country to believe again then it doesn’t matter how many policies and plans we have…That is why we just won eight elections straight, because the American people want to believe in change again. Don’t tell me words don’t matter!“
So, you want us to believe that the guy who says “words matter” just happened to refer to McCain/Palin as a pig with lipstick ? Right. Oh, and he also said:
You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’” Obama continued, “it’s still gonna stink after eight years.
Okay, here’s a simple question–why is “douche” advertised on television?
Yep, that’s right, because there is a certain time of the month that fertile women tend to smell like fish. Also, women who are sexually active and do not use a condom and do not wash can wind up with a fishy smell. Crude? Yes, and I apologize. But it is true.
But of course, Barack would never use subliminal messages to convey his true feelings. Wait, what about Jay-Z?
PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Barack Obama claims to run a clean campaign, but someone in his camp took a swipe at Hillary Clinton through the candidate’s theme song. As Obama and his wife, Michelle, strolled triumphantly into his victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 3, Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” was blaring — a song where Jay raps, “I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.” Most listeners took it as a not-so-sly reference to Clinton. “We didn’t know he used that,” a shocked Clinton spokesperson said. Obama has no problem admitting he’s a rap fan. “I tell you what. I can tell you the kinds of stuff that I love dancing to, and that is, I’m sort of, of the generation of Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind and Fire,” he told CNN along the campaign trail. “But I’m sort of hip to the younger stuff. You know, like Beyoncé’s ‘Crazy in Love.’ That’s a good song to dance to.
Sure, he wasn’t calling Hillary a bitch. Of course he came back to that theme when he brushed his shoulders off in front of an adoring crowd. In fact, Matthew Iglesias found it “pretty cool.”
Or how about Hillary being called “shrill” when she had the audacity to challenge the golden child on his nonsense (see here).
I think Barack was right. Words do matter and he is smart enough to know what he is saying in order to convey a certain message. His sexist assault on Sarah Palin, however, has backfired. Thank goodness. Barack’s wounded victim act is wearing thin.
UPDATE: Well, guess what? The Democrats pegged Palin as a “pig with lipstick” eleven days ago (30 August). BELOW are the screenshots and the image. Did the Democrats repudiate this? Hell no. Here is the link and the quote:
Palin does not change one single thing of what the Republicans are offering which is four more years of George Bush. All that McCain did was to put lipstick on the Pig (the Bush Administration whose failed strategies have wrecked our nation). Nothing has changed except for an exciting and sexy dash of lipstick to freshen up their tired old face of more of the same.
The same people who do not like the Bush Administration for what it has done to this nation are not going to be fooled by the lipstick on the pig. And it they think that the American public are so stupid that they will rush over now and kiss their pig of a platform because it is wearing a fresh touch of lipstick, well I think they will be surprised. Economically, the majority of Americans are at the breaking point. Most American families literally cannot stand another four more years of the same.
Click on the screenshots to see each full-size.
So don’t tell me that Barack did not mean anything when he used this metaphor. And you are doing drugs if you believe he did not have Sarah Palin in mind.
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