Didn’t take long for the McCain camp to take advantage of this one.
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Update: Gotta tell you … at first I thought it was a funny line and just innocent. Then I started thinking … Obama knows what Sarah’s most famous tag line is. He could not be that stupid. I think this was one was well planned … hoping to take a subtle shot at Palin the way she has hammered him … maybe letting it slide by. I do not think they expected the blowback and frankly I wouldn’t have expected it either. But the liberals are the ones who birthed and reared “political correctness” … and now they have to deal with their creation. Either way its a gaffe and every guy knows if there’s a word that really ticks women off it’s the word “pig”. Not good.
Update 2: Washington Post runs cover for the camp.
JoAnn Vicars, a retired Bristol police employee, thought Obama’s remark was great: “Loved it!” She and several friends scoffed at the idea that Obama was talking about Palin.
“That’s the way we talk, buddy,” Vicars said, in a raspy local accent. (that’s just to make sure you know the Post reporter is talking to a real American, Jim added in his raspy local bitter clinging style)
Then the Obama camp cries “Uncle”!
“Enough is enough,” Obama adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters at 9 p.m. “The Mc Cain 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.”
Dunn said, “This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.”
Why … its sounds like “they have had enough!”
Update 3: Gee the Washington Post couldn’t find anyone in the crowd who thoiught Obama meant Palin … but HotAir links to the Politco who seemed to find folks in the crowd who did.
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He was building up to the line and, if he had executed it seamlessly, would have been deniable. But he fumbled, made the use of the line look labored and is taking the heat now for his mistake. Were Obama the brilliant speaker that some would claim him to be, he'd have realized that he should have abandoned the line. Once he'd fumbled it, it was no longer deniable and, thus, a liability.