A donkey is an animal with long funny ears,
He kicks up at anything he hears.
His back is brawny and his brain is weak,
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak,
So if you don't...........go to school,
You may grow up to be a donkey.
Cho. Or would you rather swing on a star,
Carry moonbeams home in a jar,
And be better off than you are,
Or would you rather be a pig.
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His shoes are a terrible disgrace.
He has no manners when he eats his food.
He's just plain lazy, and extremely rude,
So if you don't care a feather for a fig,
You may grow up to be a pig.
Swing on a star
With apologies to the ghost of Bing Crosby...
For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?
ReplyDeleteAndrew Sullivan
Perhaps Andrew would like to revisit some of his own comments, or some of the obvious false ones he didn't protest.
ReplyDeleteAnd which of his comments would you have in mind?
ReplyDeleteObama's not the only one who talked about pigs, lipstick and a female political opponent, BTW:
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.”
The issue isn't who has used the expression, but if Hussein was applying it to Palin.
ReplyDeleteI, and millions of others, think he did for the reasons I wrote.
Feel free to disagree.
if Hussein was applying it to Palin.
ReplyDeleteI, and millions of others, think he did for the reasons I wrote.
Reasons?
Yes, let's see what he said, and use common sense:
Let's just list this for a second. John McCain says he's about change, too. Except -- and so I guess his whole angle is, "Watch out, George Bush, except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove-style politics. We're really gonna shake things up in Washington." That's not change. That's just calling some -- the same thing, something different. But you know, you can -- you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig.
Yup, he clearly doesn't reference the personalities, but their version of "Change".
He was, as I noted, attempting to make a cheap shot point. To be cute. His minions caught on, they laughed.
ReplyDeleteSo did millions of others. They didn't laugh.
Now. Enough on this one.
And, as you can see, Palin wasn't mentioned by name in the quote, so it was obviously a reference to her.
ReplyDeleteGot it.