Desperate for Attention

Down in the polls and desperately seeking the attention the Obama camp is used to receiving from the media, Barack's tongue slips, because isn't there no such thing as bad publicity? Actually, in a Presidential race, I believe there is. At first I looked at the comment and automatically knew it was a jab, but then I decided to step back and really analyze it, could it really just be a figure of speech? It could have been, but I can almost guarantee you that it was not.

Before B. Husein Obama decided to use the "Pig in Lipstick" analogy at his Virginia speech, his campaign had already used it, and it was while referring to Sarah Palin. A Democratic Congressman, Ross Carnahan, was introducing Joe Biden earlier that day at a campaign speech, while commenting about her record, Carnahan said “There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick.” It is obvious that the lipstick was becoming a part of the democrats' talking points, only a week after Sarah Palin gave her "Pitbull in Lipstick" speech. The Democrats are desperate to receive the attention that they are accustomed to, but Sarah Palin is stealing the spotlight, and there is no way they are going to let her do that. The McCain camp received a huge bounce from the convention, as oppose to Obama's 1 point hop. They are angry, because they own the media, there is no way that someone else should have so much coverage, let alone be ahead. The Democrats, now have become desperate and will become more and more hostile and insulting. After all, it is their innate behavior.

The Obama camp has come back at the request of the McCain campaign for an apology by stating that it was an analogy about their use of the word "Change." They have also said that the McCain camp is playing the "gender card." I was at a loss of words after having heard that, I mean isn't part of the Obama campaign mantra playing the race card? His delivery, (Obama's speeches are getting worse and worse and his anger is making him less than eloquent), was that of a joke, he paused for the punchline and all. Unfortunately when Obama does not have a teleprompter he loses the ability to speak as well as usual, and he also loses his comedic timing. Aside from having trying to deliver it as a joke, he followed it up with another analogy, one about an "old fish" and how it still smells if you wrap it in paper. Now isn't McCain's "old" age another talking point of the Obama campaign? Two bad analogies, now the democrats are much wiser and planned that that. They would never put those out there unless it was on purpose.

My theory is that Obama lost a lot of his base when he started practicing the politics of old, the politics he said he was not a part of. Now, he is trying to reach back at that base, the liberal fringe, by taking cheap subtle shots at the McCain camp. America, fortunately, is too wise to fall for any of his cheap tricks.