Mr. McCain also criticized the Democratic plans, but his comments were more in passing and were far less barbed.
But when asked about Mrs. Clinton his speech, he said her proposal was "eerily" similar to the plan she came up with in 1993, when she headed a health care reorganization effort during her husband's administration. "I think they put some lipstick on a pig," he said, "but it's still a pig."
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I'm embarrassed to say that the great state of Oregon voted a ban on gay marriage in 2004 (I think). (I guess 57% of the hetrosexuals somehow fear gay marriage is a threat to their marriage.) I'll never forget how one person summed it up:
"There's no way you can put lipstick on that pig."
Thank goodness that law was later put into effect that allows same-sex couples the same legal rights as opposite-sex couples.
What seems to me as Ironic
is that the ones who scream the loudest
end up getting caught on camera "crossdressing"
or in airport bathrooms
or having sex with a male "Page"
I think Shakespeare said it best
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I'm guessing that when Obama said it he knew McCain had already said it. Obama knew that since then, "pitpulls with lipstick" had been said (so we're getting odd lipstick comments from two Republicans, now), pork barrel spending and "she's a pig at the trough" had been said (by somebody) - so Obama's repeating it threw it back at McCain with much more wit. It had developed LAYERS of wit, to it.
And then the McCain camp cried about it, even though all they'd been doing since the convention is make put-downs, and trying to be witty about it. I think that makes them look like cry babies. Espcially since Obama is just turning McCain's own expression against him.
As far as the gay marriage thing ... speaking from the perspective of someone who counsels people from all walks of life, I can tell you that 1.) homosexuals are a severe minority, 2.) they are in equal numbers as pedophiles and other sexual deviants, 3.) the human body is not designed for homosexuality (i.e., scrubbing a penis back and forth in feces in a rectum), placing them in the same grouping as sexual deviants, 4.) many of the patients of psychiatric wards have homosexual histories, 5.) homosexuality, disease, mental illness (like bipolar disorder) and drugs use all have a high comorbidity rate because bipolars and drug addicts engage in risky sexual behaviors, and from a psychiatric perspective, 6.) homosexuality so blurs the boundaries set forth to us by creation that it is hard for homosexuals to define the remaining boundaries in their lives, giving birth to organizations like NAMBLA.
It has little to do with threatening the meaning of heterosexual marriage, it's just encouraging a deviant lifestyle that has a detriment beyond what the two deviants do in their own bedroom. Psychiatric wards are locked for the safety of the patients, it is illegal to commit suicide, and we have poison control centers -- we don't condome self-harm, suicide, or allowing children to die from ignorance by getting into poisons, and therefore "gay" marriage cannot be condoned.
It is none of my business what two consenting adults chose to do in their bedroom. If i can hold hands and love who I wish, why is it so hard for others to mind their own business. Their love doesnt make me change my mind about loving my wife. It doesnt affect me in the least..how come it affects you so much?
Bryan Bales ,
I have an idea,
but according to my dearly departed mother
I talk too much!
self-assertive action,
Independent thinking,
And of course continuing education.
"It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it."
Aristotle
As far as the lipstick comment - even though it has been used before, it was a tad odd to have used it RIGHT now, don't you think? One can say it is a "common" comment, but........Actually, I find the humor in it - this is just politics after all.
Hi Fred ~j