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BARACK OBAMA BRINGING HOME THE BACON WITH PIG REMARK

September 11 2008

Washington, D.C. - "You can put lipstick on a pig," said Obama in front of a cheering crowd. "It's still a pig."

While that remark may have seemed innocent enough, the Republicans have jumped on the statement, calling it a thinly veiled attack on Governor Sarah Palin and her gender. While Obama made the statement in regards to the McCain and Palin duo, politics being what it is, the opposition saw it a little differently.

“The Obama campaign has definitely slipped up here. They are in a spot right now where they are going to be on the defensive over any little mistake so they need to be careful what they say,” said Scrape TV political analyst Gabriel Kinsey. “Their complaints of a thinly veiled attack on Obama’s race in the form of the ‘Community Organizer’ remark more or less fell on deaf ears, but it may just be that people are as sick of hearing about Obama being black as they are about McCain being a veteran. Palin is the new face here, the golden child at least for the moment and she’s going to draw all kinds of water. Plus, you can’t underestimate the American people’s love of pigs. From lipstick on a pig to pork barrel politics, we seemed to have entered a new phase in American politics.”

While name calling isn’t a new thing in politics the growing trend in thinly veiled attacks, or at least accusations of such, is new. While most U.S. Presidential campaigns have show out and out dislike for the opposition, both parties this time are playing the victim card rather than openly criticizing their opponents.

“No one wants to be seen as prejudicial. With Obama in the mix, the McCain campaign made a brilliant move selecting Palin,” said a Washington insider who preferred to remain anonymous. “They put the Democrats in a rough spot because they could no longer be the only ones to claim victimhood. Had the Republicans nominated a man for VP the Democrats would have accused them of racism until the cows, or I guess pigs, came home. With Palin, that’s no longer an option. My guess is that these back and forth vague attacks will end as soon as they stop getting press attention and then both campaigns will have to rely on their individual merits, whatever those might be.”

Of course the pig talk doesn’t begin and end with the latest statement by Obama. Sarah Palin has been heavily criticised for the ‘bridge to nowhere’ and ‘pork barrel spending’ in respect to funds diverted into her home state.

While it’s unlikely that the insults will cease anytime soon, what’s less clear is which side will be able to leverage the personal attacks best in order to bring home the bacon come November.

Edward Bastil, Political Correspondent

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