Barak Obama might not have meant the words he said today to be taken the way they were, but what was he thinking? While I do not believe he was being mean, he had to have known that his statement about putting lipstick on a pig was the wrong thing to say.
After all, Sarah Palin had just used the lipstick metaphor the week before to indicate that she was an everyday mom, like millions of others in America. And with the obvious response she was getting he had to know that a slur on her using that comment would be interpolated into a wider slur on average working women everywhere.
The real problem for the left in America is this; most Americans are not multi-millionaires like nearly all the Senators and Congressmen are. So for most Americans, these people are not seen as being like us because they aren’t. Liberals use ideology to create a false connection, but there are times, like with Ronald Reagan, when conservatives create an identity with a candidate because they are like the rest of us. Like Sarah Palin did.
Campaigning can go on and you can attack the other candidate, but you cannot attack average Americans by proxy this way. After all, even most rich people started out poor and do not have a haughty attitude like that. While that might only cost Obama an election in America, it might cost us an ally if he did it to another nation while in the White House.
McCain has attacked Obama heavily for his inexperience, and today that inexperience clearly showed the American people that Obama is not ready to be President.