Obama doesn't get it- again
Giving still more evidence that he's a long way away from being ready to deal with the realities of national (much less international) politics, Barack Obama is not only in denial about Lipstickgate, but is actively digging himself even deeper into the hole.
He says that his comment implicitly calling Sarah Palin a pig was "innocent," and has accused the McCain campaign of "swiftboat politics" for crying foul.
Yes, "putting lipstick on a pig" is a common Washington term for dressing up something as new or different that's really the same old thing. But to use the phrase less than a month after Palin differentiated herself and other "hockey moms" from pitbulls soley by the use of lipstick constituted, at the very least, a case of Obama putting his foot in his mouth- once again- and for that, if for nothing else, he needs to apologize to Palin.
Obama badly needs to learn that even when your intentions are good, you're still responsible for not only for what comes out of your mouth, but for the context in which it comes out.
He says that his comment implicitly calling Sarah Palin a pig was "innocent," and has accused the McCain campaign of "swiftboat politics" for crying foul.
Yes, "putting lipstick on a pig" is a common Washington term for dressing up something as new or different that's really the same old thing. But to use the phrase less than a month after Palin differentiated herself and other "hockey moms" from pitbulls soley by the use of lipstick constituted, at the very least, a case of Obama putting his foot in his mouth- once again- and for that, if for nothing else, he needs to apologize to Palin.
Obama badly needs to learn that even when your intentions are good, you're still responsible for not only for what comes out of your mouth, but for the context in which it comes out.
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