Just when I thought it could not get worse.  Hah, they keep it coming.

South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate “ whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/SC_Dem_chair_Palin_primary_qualification_is_she_hasnt_had_an_abortion_.html?showall

Wow update:  Today Sen. Obama stepped in the muck.  Someone better help him or better yet, get a muzzle.

So, this was not just a quirp Sen Obama, you truly did have your script ready to go and this was no accident.  http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/elizabethberry/Cgsq

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.

Yet, Sen. Obama’s refutes the lipstick on a pig was addressing Gov. Palin  on an ABC News story the following:

Sen. Barack Obama angrily challenged Republican claims that he insulted Gov. Sarah Palin by using the expression “lipstick on a pig” to describe Sen. John McCain’s attempts to paint himself as an agent of change, and called the GOP indignation “phony outrage and Swift boat politics.”http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5769091&page=1

From: the Democratic Party   (for a great read on this smear http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/10/oh-nooooo-they-never-meant-to-liken-palin-to-a-pig/)

Oh Sen. what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.  Talking points from your party and out your mouth.

FYI:  The New York Post endorses McCain Palin ticket.  http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/09082008/postopinion/editorials/post_endorses_john_mccain_128044.htm

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/news/politics/obama__put_lipstick_on_a_pig__its_still__128280.htm reports on the Lipstick on a Pig comment as well.

“you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig?”  http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/09/09/did-he-really-say-that/

Now, who would that pig with lipstick be???  We saw that finger during the speech.  Wow, Sen. Obama you really don’t like women do you?  Another diarrhea moment, sir?  It seems that women are Obama’s button. You want to throw him off his game? Make him compete with a woman. It obviously makes him crazy.

From HotAir, other great moments from Sen. Obama

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/10/mccain-ad-lipstick/

A few more data points for those wondering about Obama’s insensitivity on sexist imagery:

  • “She’s got the kitchen sink flying, and the china flying, and the, you know, the buffet is coming at me.” — April 20
  • “You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out.” — February, Tulane University
  • “I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.” — February
Pig with lipstick


So, which one is it Sen. Obama?

Are you going to lie about this knowing full well that I linked the Democratic Party website which features the lipstick pig fracas before you said it on stage?

Who are you calling an oinker?

I believe that you should apologize!

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/10/perez-hilton-pds-sufferer/ courtesy of Perezhilton.com

I thought that this was about McCain vs Obama, but then again she calls a spade a spade:

“In just three years our opponent has requested nearly one billion dollars in earmarks. That’s nearly a million dollars for every working day,” Palin told the cheering crowd, “So as we reform the abusive earmarks in our state our opponent was requesting nearly a billion dollars in earmarks as a senatorial privilege as I was vetoing half a billion as an executive responsibility.”

Obama appears to be crumbling under pressure, reduced to swinging away at the person who has supplanted him as the political star of the Election.  Good commentary on the subject:

at http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/28911

Palin Truth Squad  http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/09/obama-on-mccainpalin-you-can-put-lipstick-on-a-pig-but-its-still-a-pig/

Update: You can go to the link and hear Gov. Jane Swift laying into Obama on Team Maverick’s conference call this afternoon.  Worth the trip to the link.

Update: The campaign that played the race card so skillfully against the Clintons suddenly locates its scruples.  “Enough is enough,” Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters“The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy – the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year,” she continued. “This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.”Here’s a story of McCain using it last year. Hillary, of course, hadn’t made any lipstick references to herself before then so there was no context for McCain to play off of.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/08/palin-hits-obama-on-earmarks/

Let’s compare.

Mrs. Palin used her veto pen to slash more local projects than any other governor in the state’s history. She cut nearly 10% of Alaska’s budget this year, saving state residents $268 million. This included vetoing a $30,000 van for Campfire USA and $200,000 for a tennis court irrigation system. She succinctly justified these cuts by saying they were “not a state responsibility.”

Meanwhile in Washington, Mr. Obama voted for numerous wasteful earmarks last year, including: $12 million for bicycle paths, $450,000 for the International Peace Museum, $500,000 for a baseball stadium and $392,000 for a visitor’s center in Louisiana.

Mrs. Palin cut Alaska’s federal earmark requests in half last year, one of the strongest moves against earmarks by any governor. It took real leadership to buck Alaska’s decades-long earmark addiction.

Mr. Obama delivered over $100 million in http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122100927525717663.html?mod=rss_opinion_mainearmarks to Illinois last year and has requested nearly a billion dollars in pet projects since 2005. His running mate, Joe Biden, is still indulging in earmarks, securing over $90 million worth this year.

Mrs. Palin also killed the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in her own state. Yes, she once supported the project: But after witnessing the problems created by earmarks for her state and for the nation’s budget, she did what others like me have done: She changed her position and saved taxpayers millions. Even the Alaska Democratic Party credits her with killing the bridge.

When the Senate had its chance to stop the Bridge to Nowhere and transfer the money to Katrina rebuilding, Messrs. Obama and Biden voted for the $223 million earmark, siding with the old boys’ club in the Senate. And to date, they still have not publicly renounced their support for the infamous earmark.

Mrs. Palin has proven courageous by taking on big spenders in her own party. In March of this year, the Anchorage Daily News reported that, “Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is aggravated about what he sees as Gov. Sarah Palin’s antagonism toward the earmarks he uses to steer federal money to the state.”

Mr. Obama had a chance to take on his party when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered a sham ethics bill, which was widely criticized by watchdog groups such as Citizens Against Government Waste for shielding earmarks from pubic scrutiny. But instead of standing with taxpayers, Mr. Obama voted for the bill. Today, he claims he helped write the bill that failed to clean up Washington.

Mr. Obama has shown little restraint on earmarks until this year, when he decided to co-sponsor an earmark moratorium authored by Mr. McCain and myself. Mr. Obama is vulnerable on this issue, and he knows it. That is why he is lashing out at Mrs. Palin and trying to hide his own record.

Mrs. Palin is one of the strongest antiearmark governors in America. If more governors around the country would do what she has done, we would be much closer to fixing our nation’s fiscal problems than we are.

Mrs. Palin’s record here is solid and inspiring. She will help Mr. McCain shut down the congressional favor factory, and she has a record to prove it. Actions mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.

From the WSJ:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122100927525717663.html?mod=rss_opinion_main