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On Pigs With Lipstick, Smelly Fish: Keeping Focus, Eye on The Prize.
We’ve had it with the latest non-controversy, this glaring example of unfair and unbalanced news reporting and opinion. This pathetic try by the Jack Mack minions to distract us is infuriating!
The comments about pigs, lipstick, smelly fish, pit bulls we’ve heard it before. When John McCain said it in reference to Senator Clinton’s proposed health care reforms he received a pass from the media. Good old John McCain wasn’t accused of calling Hillary Clinton a pig who wears lipstick;Â and when he was so accused he said he wasn’t referring to the female senator from New York and that was the end f the discussion; but Senator Obama uses the colorful description and immediately an attempt is made to plant the idea in the minds of the public that the Democrat must be calling the female in the race a pig who wears lipstick. An attempt could be made to have Obama’s remark perceived by some as an uppity, elitist Negro callin’ a white woman a pig.
Let us remember this is an election campaign. Candidates are allowed to reference their opponent’s platform issues, proposals, or campaign ideas in a way the public can understand; fortunately there has been a call for debating the issues rather than making personal attacks on the candidates, and their families. This is still an election campaign.
Incidentally the Jack Mack proponents have not really begun to address the heart of the matter, which is not which animal wears lipstick and still looks like whatever animal it is.
A McCain spokesman says, “Barack Obama can’t campaign with schoolyard insults and then try to claim outrage at the tone of the campaign. His talk of new politics is as empty as his campaign trail promises, and his record of bucking his party and reaching across the aisle simply doesn’t exist.” Although in some circles this is considered a snappy retort. We see it as a continuation of weak, lame, juvenile distortion and deliberate distraction from the real issues.
Again Senator Obama,”I want to address the latest made-up controversy by the John McCain campaign. What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, throw out an outrageous ad because they know it is catnip for the media. It would be funny except for the news media decided that was the lead story yesterday. The McCain campaign would much rather have a story about phony and foolish diversion than about the future.”
The issue is whether or not the Republican candidate can convince the public he will not continue the failed policies of the current administration. Focus people…media moguls, producers, broadcast executives, please focus on providing the electorate with news we can use! Let us not lose sight of the goal. We need change. We need change of party, change of heart, change of administration and a new direction for this nation. And the way to do that is to have sufficient facts to make an informed decision on November 4th election day.
We think Barack Obama’s answers to the attempts at “swift-boating” his candidacy, by offering an immediate response to get us back on track is appropriate. We think it’s ironic that the “straight talk”, think Harry S. Truman, is coming from the Democrats, Obama and Biden, when it was Jack Mack who proclaimed himself sometime ago as the “straight talkin’ guy”, with the now defunct bus called the “Straight Talk Express” . In fact we noticed as have many of you, that Jack Mack and the Republicans are trying, very unconvincingly, to take over the change description.
To the Republicans we say, “Stick to the topic. No smoke and no mirrors.” To the Democrats we say, “Continue to turn up the heat.” In other words, “Give’em hell!”
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