The little messiah is on the defensive

Yesterday a leftist challenged my labeling of Obama's "pig in lipstick" remark as a "gaffe". Technically he is correct in that Obama said exactly what he meant to say, and the crowd in Lebanon, VA understood exactly what he meant.

What Obama did was employ two double entendres. This allowed him to make a statement which was on the surface a criticism of McCain and Palin's policies but which included a personal insult directed at each candidate.

It was deliberately implied that Sarah Palin was a "pig in lipstick" and that John McCain was an "old fish which still stinks, however wrapped". However Obama can plausibly (if you are willing to go along with him in the joke, as the MSM clearly is) claim that he was only talking about policy, not personalities.

What made Obama's clumsy (and if you watch the video you will see that it was very clumsy indeed, the man has no sense of timing) attempt at stand up comedy a gaffe was the way in which he badly underestimated the reaction of both the McCain campaign and America's women.

The McCain campaign has clearly decided to follow the advice of Thomas Jefferson who said, "I think it to our interest to punish the first insult; because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others." They are going to strike back every time the Democrats attempt to pull off some too-clever-by-half bit of mockery. And if events to date are any indication of things to come the GOP is, for once, going to be more creative and effective than their opponents.

All one need do is look at the way the simpleton Obama is out lamely explaining what he "really meant" to realize that the momentum of this campaign has definitely swung in the Republicans' favor. And all this happens right after the feeble minded Obama got sucked into defending his qualifications to be president against the Republican vice presidential candidate - and not making a convincing case for himself!

Sarah Palin, a one-woman battle of Midway.