Obama's woes have nothing to do with 'lipstick'

We now know who you are voting for in November!!!!!!

you go Howard it is about time someone told the truth about Obama.

Man this guy just goes on and on

Any constructive criticism is helpful. I hope Obama take it, digests it and takes from it what he feels he needs to. Every little bit of assistance counts - especially when lies and eceitful attacks are raining on him by his opponents.

Some of your points I understand. When are we going to here McCain's faults? The double standards are amazing in this election cycle. Did you have to say pride? Is he suppose to walk around doubting every move he makes? If he would have chose Clinton, folks would have been in an uproar. Can you give the guy a break? He didn't need to FOLLOW McCain around at Town Halls to care about the people. I do agree he needs to attack McCain and his policies but some folks fight fair and others fight nasty. McCain is the latter and does not get my respect for it.

LOL!! Obama Binliden are Plagiarists McCain said it first about hillary health care plan!!LOL!!
DURKA DURKA A BURKA FOR EVEY WOMAN!!

"But if I were an Obama partisan I would be worried that his mistakes have a common thread - pride."

Let's read that again... r e a l s l o w...

"But if I were an Obama partisan..."

Is this unintentional humor? Someone tell Rush...

Howard, come out of the closet. Please.

It's seems to be okay for McCain and Palin to make jabs at Obama, but when the jabs come
back McCain and Palin cannot handle them, they get wimpy and I say if you can't take the
heat get out of the kitchen. Play Fair or get lost and go home to your rocking chair McCain!!!

Hi Howard
it is a shame to accuse obama of all these things. none of your accusations are true. a glaring example is that you claim obama does not have specific policies, how about tax cut for people earning less than 250K, college money for service and many more. it is beneath you to do that. we seen through you already but for god sake respect your profession of being analyst or be bold and come out and say you are one the "hardworking blue collar workers--- a code for white racist" who can tolerate a black man being their president. yes obama is not perfect but what he has done is beyond expectations. he will be fine and will win this election alright without your advise. thank you

Why is McCain and Palin getting a pass? For the last week, all I have heard is the same speech , I heard at the convention. Please have them "change" their message, I am bored to death. That will help me. On the subject of sexism, they are accusing Obama. Why won't they check out if she is a racist.

Exactly, where's the pitbull with lipstick? Surely the pitbull can take on the pig.

Howard, how do you know that Obama didnot use that joke against Palin. Are you his speach writer? All you had to do was listen to the uproar from the crowd and you knew they got the joke. Infact, they were roaring when he said "lipstick", waiting for the punch line.

Howard, do not start tainting your reputation on sticking up for a candidate. Praise Obama when he does something right and point out his errors. On this one, you missed by a mile and everyone watched you drop the ball. Your better than that, start acting like it.

the clintons would be happy with phone calls? get real.

Where to start. The author buys into the narrative that he and others have created for Obama and then at other times tells Obama to move out of that narrative and then move back into it.

Next he chastises (sorry if I spelled that wrong) Obama for not pressing McCain on some of the character points his campaign has brought forward. What then is the job of the press? Do they just bring it up or to they plan on asking McCain about any of this and if they do are they going to let him off easy with the same old tired and lame lines? How blissfully unaware of themselves are these fools? I once wanted to be a journalist, but I wouldn't dream of it now if I had to swallow my pride each day and play along with our politicians in this silly game of trying to manipulate and deceive the public. They do the same up here in Canada. I feel real bad for any American caught up in this garbage and seeking solutions for their predicament and not recieving any help through any means that was meant to assist them.

Obama is not perfect but he still exhibits the characteristics that have inspired millions to believe that faith in your government and faith in themselves to get America out of the mess its in, is indeed possible. He has gotten this far by not cowering to people like the Clintons and now you want him to turn around and pull down his pants for them? He has written his own narrative and he intends to stick to that narrative because it's as close as we can get to the truth from a politician as we can get these days. That's better then pride. It's strength of character. That demonstrates leadership abilities to me.

The press and media owe you more than this America. In absence of that, I beg of you to encourage those of you who buy into the tripe they are forced to swallow to close their mouths so to speak and look elsewhere for the answers. Read what's on the man's web site and McCain's too and see what applies to you. Be wary, it's not like Obama and McCain are not capable of being dishonest. Look elsewhere if you must but be certain. This is not a flip decision you make and it certainly should not be influenced by the hack author who brought up this brutal piece today.

Ok, Howard, now do an article on McCain's Woes, and there have been many. I guess hell will freeze over before that happens. Double standard continously at work.

Spanish equivalent.
The equivalent of the PIG LIPSTICK refrain/proverb in Spanish is:
Even though the monkey dresses in silk, she remains a MONKEY.

Check in the internet, (google) the Spanish equivalent:
Aunque la mona se vista de seda,
mona se queda.

However, I learned it as a child as:
El mono, aunque se vista de oro y seda, sigue siendo mono.
=
The monkey, even though he dresses in silk and gold, continues to look like a monkey.

Obamba just opened himself, and all the black race, to the most feared comparison and implication of the refrain ....

In Spanish the refrain/proverb means that an ugly person (phisically or in character), no matter how much rich adornments she covers herself with cannot change her real appearance. Plus other more sophisticated and truthful connotations.

Did Governor Palin really make a racial slur and sexist remarks about Obama and Hillary after the Primaries.. Reportedly she said this in a public restaurant. "Did Sambo beat that bit-h?" I have seen this in several emails. Is it true? As a black female I find It very offensive. Why is this not checked out?

Not to mention, if he HAD taken public financing funds everyone would have been outraged because he would have had only $84 million to work with. Now at least he has control of his message rather then leaving it to the DNC to define for him or 527 groups. He should fight back again McCain/Palin. It is terrible that they can just sell out right lies and people believe them. Obama will fight back. He is a quick study and a really smart guy. I can't imagine that after beating the Clinton's out of the nomination, he's going to just sit back and let Sarah "barracuda" shred everything he's been working for. He's much smarter then that. Just wait until she has her sit down, I think at that point people who just liked McCain for Palin will take another look at the situation and realize that she's not who she claims to be. Obama will keep going after them on the stump and in interviews.

To the Truth will set you free above:

Please tell me that you dont get your facts from emails you read from Dem spammers....Do you also believe in the Easter Bunny....? Get real....read real facts and then make a decision....come on already...

the truth-you are an idiot. Crap, I sound like a democrat. Probably not even a black female.

I was up early this morning listening to Joe in the Morning(?) They had Pat Buchanan on. Who was way off base, and made to much out of nothing. My impression is they seem to glorifying on that "stupid statement about the pig. It much to do about nothing. I think the media and McCain needs to apologize to the public for distracting us from the issues, and making a mockery out nothing. They seem to be helping McCain's agenda.

Apparently the truth will set you free gets her info from the funny pages and spam emails...and then believes it like its fact....but she wants to ignore the Dem machine working to destroy the only true American on both tickets...Palin...
Bottom line is Palin is the threat they dont want to see...and its working....I say GOOD....keep bashing her and America will embrace.. her....Hey look at the recent polls.....it just sunk Obama's boat.

I think you made a couple of fair points but lets face it you miss the real point... McCain has surged in the pols because he sold his soul to the lunatic fringe on the right led by Rush Limbaugh and his fellow Christian blowhards. McCain's new campaign of telling the same lies day after day even after they have been proven to be false has been successful. Apparently it's true that Karl Rove is now advising McCain. Why this works is that the news media is apparently afraid of the RNC and they rarely set the record straight. Than on top of that you add an attractive woman candidate to the ticket who happens to make George Bush seem like a flaming liberal, you have her read the same lies that McCain spouts every day, and than sequester her away so that no one can actually question her to see if she is qualified to become the vp. The right wing is happy and the lazy American voters who don't bother to seek out the truth are satisfied hearing these political fairytales that the Republicans are spouting and in the end we end up with four more years of disaster and will wonder how it happened again.

Don't fault Obama's campaign , the real problem for him is the press lacking the guts to fight for the truth, the the insanity of most of the Christian right who think they alone speak with God and follow his plan, ( very similar to the Taliban) and most of all the lazy voters in this country who allow liars and frauds to get their vote. It makes me sick!

Fineman is dead on with the complaints about Obama. His arrogance with not taking public financing was done clearly because he thought he could get tons more money from his minions. Now, I see they are sending out emails trying to get money they thought they'd be getting from Clinton supporters. Also, for someone squawking change at every turn putting an entrenched politico like Biden on the ticket certainly caused some to wonder what kind of change he's talking about. The bottom line, McCain and Palin are telling people what they want to hear, just like Obama is. Obama can rant and rave all he wants, but people are finally seeing the true Obama and are moving to McCain. If that's not true, then please explain how surveys across the board are showing Obama losing support and McCain gaining it.