Barack Obama, probably kicking himself for being so stupid in making that “lipstick on a pig” remark that was obviously a veiled attack on Sarah Palin, is out there now trying to explain what he meant and criticize McCain for distorting his words, and offering the “same old distractions.”
What really gets me about this is that Obama is acting all high and mighty as if taking words out of context to take advantage of it politically is something that a) only Republicans do, and b) something he has never done.
Now, first, I’ve seen the whole comment in context, and if you look at the reactions of the people behind Obama when he made his comment, it’s clear they knew what he meant. But, let’s just for the sake of this discussion say the remark is being taken out of context. Well, this is a strategy Obama and the Democratic Party employed multiple times during his campaign. Most notably the Democratic Party’s ad that used spliced video of John McCain in order to give the false impression that John McCain believed it would be okay if the war in Iraq lasted a 100 years or more.
More recently, was Obama’s acceptance speech at the DNC when he took what was quite clearly a joke made by McCain about being middle class if you made $5 million a year, and treated like it was said straight.
So, in this campaign, Obama has deliberately deceived by treating a joke made by McCain as if it weren’t a joke, and the DNC, on Obama’s behalf intentionally altered McCain’s words in an ad. Who is Obama to whine like a 5-year old that his own words are being used against him?
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