One of the biggest zingers from Governor Palin’s speech before the GOP Convention was a joke about how Hockey Moms are separated from pit bulls by the wearing of lipstick. The big controversy in the last 48 hours was Obama making a reference to McCain’s policies, and the old addage about “putting lipstick on a pig”. The blogosphere and Drudge spun that as a personal attack against McCain-Palin which the mainstream “drive by” media spun as a mysogynist personal attack against Palin.
Now… sensible people will discern that Obama, a Harvard graduate, didn’t intend to launch a sexist attack against a female Vice Presidential candidate. He is already in far too much trouble with the women in his own party for shutting out Senator Clinton. But sensible people also should now that Obama, a Harvard graduate, knows the meaning of double entendre. He should have known that any uncharitable language that isn’t specifically directed will be spun. He should have learned his lesson after the “clinging to god and guns” comment that took his ‘champion for the commoner’ image and turned into an elitist snob. He should have know. But he didn’t. Because he’s not that smart.
Here’s the great irony; Dubya, a Harvard graduate, gets a bad rap on his intelligence even though his grades and IQ place him above pretty much anyone he’s ever contested. He gets that rap because… lets face it… he sucks at speeches. Even when he stays on script, his delivery is clumsy and his timing is awkward. When he goes off script, his humor and mannerisms become cocky and sophomoric. This plain spoken demeanor is what you want from the guy you’re buying a car from, but not from the Leader of the Free World.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, is an excellent orator. His speeches are energizing, even musical. You don’t even care about his message, because his speeches hit all the right buttons. But Barack goes off script too, and the results are hilarious. And the more he goes off-script, the more people will want to see it, which means the media will oblige.
The love affair of the national media with Obama is over, and what will be interesting now is the coverage of the downward spiral of his campaign.
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