It's a good one, Greg.

I like it.

He should also use ABC's confirmation of the book-banning story to say something like "Sarah Palin and John McCain are trying to build a bridge to nowhere for our children."

You could put lipstick on Obama but he would still be a sexist pig, sweetie.

This was one of the things that he did to Hillary and did not get called on. He would make comments which verged on the sexist and act very indulgent of crowd responses to them and didn't rebuke any of his rampantly sexist supporters. He'd be in a different position now if he'd taken the young gentleman to task who thought that ironing was a woman's chore. What if Obama had said that it was a bad to say that about women as to insinuate that shining shoes was a job for blacks?

I'm delighted that the McCain campaign chose the first suitable opportunity to call Obama on this maneuver.

A few points:

1) From now until Nov. 4, 'Sarah Palin' should be 'the name that shall not be spoken' at the Chicago HQ and in the rest of Democrat-land. There is absolutely no point. From hence forth, 'Sarah Palin' should simply be known as the risky first decision that candidate JOHN McCAIN made, which, God bless her, she just is.

2) Pivot back to the issues. Every time the Republicans bring up something specious like lipstick, etc., the American people must be bludgeoned by Rick Davis's 'This campaign isn't about the issues' quote. If this is done effectively, the Republicans will say something like, 'of course we care about the issues'. The repetition of the 'issues' phase will (and should) get old, but if the Republicans don't actually back up their words, the disconnect will be obvious.

3) This Republican campaign isn't John McCain's campaign. It is the Schmidt/Rove campaign. As much as John McCain has changed since 2000, surely HE doesn't want to win the same way he lost in 2000. But the presidency of the United States is a tempting mistress, so McCain has ceded many final campaign decisions to 'Colonel Schmidt'. It has already been noted that John McCain didn't want the Paris/Britney imagery in the 'celebrity' ad but Schmidt insisted on it. The Obama campaign must call out John McCain on this. Rather than saying John McCain is no longer honorable, they should be saying John McCain is no longer in control of his campaign (which seems to be the case). Make John McCain say at a town hall that he stands directly behind every increasingly reprehensible move his campaign has made (which he briefly did during the Paris/Britney fracas), or let America know from every hill and mountaintop that this is a Rove campaign.

How about:

Next time I'll just use John McCain's favorite word: C*#t.

Pufferfish

Nice one, Greg! I like it.

What about a grass roots campaign to get Palin to give the $200 million back? I mean -- if she truly didn't want it, then Congress shouldn't have sent it. And if they did, she shouldn't have deposited the check.

Sarah Palin: Give us our $200 million back! (the petition)

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/giveusourmoneyback/

The thing that's worrying me today isn't the stupid Lipstick thing...

Its a building pushback on the vile kindergartner ad suggesting racism. The same day the press itself is laughing at the McCain campaign's attempt to use gender politics, some Obama supporters (NOT the campaign) are calling the ad racist.

Now, I practically wanted to punch a kitten when I saw that ad, and decided at that moment that I won't be satisfied until I see McCain-Palin brought so low that I see them 3 years from now on Celebrity Boxing facing Screech and Tonya Harding...

But I feel its plenty scummy enough and outrageous enough without pulling the racism trigger. I'm not even sure its racist, just plain evil. And the yes, him with the creepy quasi-pedophile look at the end is gross. But not necessarily racist.

Cynicism and sardonicism is great if your writing material for the Daily or Colbert Show.

Not sure it's going to win over undecideds. But it certainly is good motivational matter for the Base.

I love it!

I don't think Obama will say but 'hey' you just did. And we just can't live in the delusion that it is up to Senator Obama or Joe Biden to 'win' this election. It is really up to us. So, great job!

Pork is definitely a expose that a 527 could work with.

I also like the idea of looking at all of the 'costs' that the american people have paid for privatizing various government functions during the Bush administration. A sort of 'where did all the money go?' expose would be great!
Starting off with the fact that they had a surplus revisiting the cost of the war and 'who' benefited as private contractors in the war, etc. And then ending with the current defecit total or the prediction for year end 2008.

I see so many subjects being fair game for outside groups to nail that don't involve Senator Obama directly. I am going to write and make some suggestions to moveon.org. I am also wondering about why we are not seeing a convergence of environmental groups nailing Bush/McCain for their distastrous positions on the environment which becomes a more and more serius issue by the day. Ads like that can be used to distract from the national inquirer type banter... I mean hitting them on issues... instead of engaging the bs.

I do believe McCain's sleaze education ad yesterday was in response to Obama calling him out for having supported the abolishing of the department of education. Exposing McCain on education another 'smart' idea!

A little off topic but we should be having a very different discussion about Palin by this time. The one reason we are not having it is because Hillary Clinton is tacitly endorsing Palin's run by refusing to take her on.

She is the ONLY person and the obvious choice to match up with Palin on each and every issue they are trying ram down our throats.

For the same reason that I can count on McCain to be McCain in everything that he does, I can now count on Clinton to do only what Clinton is capable of doing no matter what: feeding her own voracious ego - spiteful, self-centered, deceitful and willing to put her integrity on the line for political gain.

In her mind, she is forever dodging bullets on the tarmac while the world burns (for women).

Why not also remind us all of ROVE and what happened in the wake of Katrina, and how this man, who played politics during a natural disaster and while Americans drowned, is now working for the McCain campaign?

http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/06/06/rove_katrina/

Meanwhile, the One-Hit Wonder, Hannah Alaska, presses on with her chart-topper, "Achy Breaky Bridge to Nowhere".

"Please don't build that bridge,
that achy breaky bridge . . . "

Biggest issue in America today? Two weeks ago, who could have guessed?

All Kerry states, iowa, new mex and colordao and this thing is done. I totally diagree with Josh on national polls. Virtually all are using 04 model as are the majorty of state polls. MSM hacks dnt realize this time turnout will make a huge difference. In countless states during primary season Obama only led mere points going into election then he won in huge landslides, why? Turnout, time and again "shocked" the pundits. If this happens again all these national polls will look like a Zogby firesale.

Tweety of MSNBC is bitch-slapping the hell outta the McInsane campaign about the lipstick-on-a-pig comment AS I TYPE . . . Even right-wing tools are ticked off at the crusty old fart and the moose killer.

NPR just did a great piece on Lipstick on a Pig. Quoted McCain saying it in ref to Senator Clinton. Then went on to get a farmer to put lipstick on a real pig!! Really good take down on McWhine sexist remark. Also did a bit on the Bridge to Nowhere and what a lie it is. They are really coming back on the McCain lies. What is that all about?

Why is it when Obama says "lipstick on a pig" the first thing that jumps to mind is "Sarah Palin"?

this whole manufactured nonsense seems reminiscent of both the run-up to the war in iraq, when real criticisms were ignored; and the war itself, particularly when things weren't going well, but bush kept saying that we were 'turning a corner.' and i can't help thinking this a chance for redemption for the press...although i'm not holding my breath.

Obama's remark "Lipstick on a Pig", gaff or calculated?

Only if you believe Barrack Obama is a gifted orator who knows how to play to an audience, would you be offended by a remark that seemingly jabs Sarah Palin?

You would also have to know the street use of this term, analogous to putting a paper bag over a woman's head before sexual intercourse.