A Basic Lesson In Reading Comprehension

Let's give John McCain the benefit of the doubt for a moment. For the sake of argument, let's put aside questions that have been raised regarding his campaign and take as a given that John McCain is an honorable, trustworthy person who always puts his country first and makes strides to ensure that his campaign for the presidency is conducted in an honest manner. Knowing that, then can we all agree that John McCain is a %$@#@ idiot?

Seriously, is there any other conclusion we can reach when John McCain's first instinct is to cry sexism when Barack Obama uses a common phrase :

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."

"We've had enough of the same old thing."

Anyone who would look at the comments above and conclude that Barack Obama is referring to Sarah Palin as a pig is such a fool that educated people should be laughing them out of the public square. John McCain thinks he should be the next President of the United States, but I'm sitting here thinking "How the hell did John McCain even graduate from high school?". Anyone with a basic reading comprehension can understand the phrase "lipstick on a pig" and how it relates to what Obama is discussing. This is the sort of thing John McCain should have learned in elementary school.

Since it's not only John McCain, but all of his boosters as well who have seen their ability to read devolve to a kindergarten level, let's break this down so John McCain can understand it. In the example above, what Barack Obama considers their "new 'change' mantra" is the "lipstick", while their actual implied agenda is the "pig". But even if you sympathise with McCain's narcissism and insist that this is a personal attack, it still doesn't mean what John McCain thinks it does. In that case, and again, this is basic reading comprehension here, Sarah Palin is the lipstick and John McCain is the pig.

But John McCain isn't a pig. He's a dumbass.

Comments

[jcharlotte]

Like an imcompetent magician; the viewer knows his trick(s).

[youarekillingme]

Yo, LeftRight and grendl! You are both being ridiculous. "We all" do not agree with you. It is a common expression that's been around for decades. Get over it. Unraveling of his campaign? Are you that persuaded by the media coverage? It's a fact, fish stinks and a pig with lipstick is still a pig. Don't be so sensitive, you're acting like a republican. Find your spine and don't give up so easily.

[LeftRight]

Yes, I know, I was being a smartaleck, talking about the fishy smell as a joke which apparently didn't come across.

[LeftRight]

It's not the pig one that's sexist. It's the fish one! He's claiming that sarah quaylin smells like fish!

[royboy828]

Getting back to the argument of this article, reading comprehension, how did you arrive at this conclusion, LeftRight? I hardly think he meant that she smells like fish. I think she as a candidate stinks. She was brought in at the 11th hour and everyday the crap about her keeps piling up. She is the ultimate hypocrite. What I don't understand is why educated people, especially women, are actually going to vote for her. If I were a woman, I would be insulted.

Another thing, the pig with lipstick comment has been made by McCain several times and it is on video and his daughter says he uses the expression all the time. I think it is amazing how the McCain/Palin ticket criticized Obama for so many different things, but they are doing a lot of the things that they were accusing Obama of doing. They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but damn.

I do hope we can get back to the issues of economy, foreign oil dependency, and the environment. Those three issues alone are enough for any thinking American not to vote for Palin.

[LeftRight]

I'm sorry. Apparently my sarcasm didn't come across. I was pointing out how both of the analogies that Obama used are simply that. Comments that no matter how much mcbush talks about change he's STILL the guy who's voted with bushco(tm) more than 90% of the time since bushco(tm) has been in office, and 100% of the time this year!

[grendl]

We all know the lipstick on a pig was a reference to Ms. Palin's pitbull/ lipstick joke.

It's word association and it was just a bit infantile and no too suble for Barack to make such a reference. It shows an unraveling of his campaign, which I find a bit disturbing.

The dems are taking the bait. McCain has thrown a soccer mom made good at the party, someone who attracts all those 3 a.m. in the morning phone call worrying mothers and fathers, placed her as an outsider ( while being an insider himself ) and co-opted the change mantra for the GOP.

It needs to be hammered home time and time again. Palin belongs to the party of record. The party that has eviscerated the Constitution, and tried to put this country into the hands of the religious right.

[unitron]

"We all know the lipstick on a pig was a reference to Ms. Palin's pitbull/ lipstick joke."

We do? The phrase "putting lipstick on a pig" has been around several years, probably a great deal longer than the hockey mom joke, and even if Obama felt like calling Palin a pig I really don't think he'd be stupid enough to do it in public.

[grendl]

The lipstick comment is now infamous. Everyone's talking about it,

You think someone with Barack's I.Q. wouldn't foresee the correlation?

I like Barack, but please. He's not stupid.