I keep trying to respond to this and the UT / my net connection keep spazzing out.

I stand by my previous analysis. This was intended to reference Palin as a pig in a way which left the door open to plausible deniability. When you look at at the totality of the prior Dem posts, the lead-in to the speech, there is no other probable conclusion. Sure, there's the possibility that it was intentioned otherwise but an objective weighing says otherwise.

IMHO, I am more willing than other conservative leaning posters to give the benefit of the doubt to slips of the tongue or poor choices of words. Really I am. But this went beyiond the pale and was a mistake on Obamas part.

>>I'm sorry you find this offensive I just can't understand the robotic agreement with improbable explanations if they come from a politically friendly source.
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>When I lived in Iowa I heard this expression used with exactly the meaning Obama gave.
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>The problem (one of the problems) with the current climate of demonization is that anything which could possibly be taken in a bad light WILL be taken in a bad light. If it MIGHT have offended then it is deemed to have been INTENDED to offend.
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>IMO, this is true for all the idealogues, regardless of point of view.