Florida Battle Ground State? Barack Obama can Soon be Saying Goodbye to the Sunshine State

Florida is close to being taken off the table as a battleground state and painted red.

Could Barack Obama being saying goodbye to Florida? With 350 paid staffers, 50 field offices and spending an estimated $8 million in campaign ads in the “Battle ground” Sunshine state, Obama may soon be saying goodbye to Florida. With all the money, assets and resources used in Florida there is little to show for Team Obama. As stated in the St. Petersburg Times, Obama is farther behind in the state than John Kerry was at this point in 2004, even though McCain began buying Florida TV ads only last week.

Florida will not be dealing with hanging chads in 2008

Presently, Real Clear Politics has McCain/Palin slightly ahead in the electoral college.

He is farther behind in the state than John Kerry was at this point in 2004, even though McCain began buying Florida TV ads only last week. By this time in 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign had spent $13-million on Florida TV. In the rolling average of Florida polls compiled by the Web site RealClearPolitics.com, Obama has never taken the lead over McCain in Florida, and the latest average shows him behind by 5 percentage points. They were tied in early August.

Four Florida polls came out this week, with one showing a tied race, the others showing McCain leading by 5 to 8 percentage points.

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Obama in Panic Mode as Democrats Worry … McCain/Palin and now the Republican Party Surging

The main stream media did Barack Obama no favors by propping him up, carrying his water,throwing him softballs and making it possible that he defeat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. The ends result was that they created a false image and an even more false persona that Barack Obama was greater than he really is. Suddenly Obama finds himself in a dog fight for the presidency when many in his camp thought it was a foregone conclusion. As many in the Clinton camp in the beginning of the primaries thought that Hillary’s coronation was a formality, Obama finds himself in the same boat.

Having to defend one’s point of view and policies has its advantages. Having to constantly face tough questions and face the never ending barrage from the MSM builds character. It also reveals the very character that one already had. Thus is the present case with John McCain and Sarah Palin. Palin faced Charlie Gibson of ABC News in the same manner as she faces everything, like a pit bull wearing lipstick. The fact of the matter is she faced him and questions that Obama has never been asked. Lesser people would have folded. Candidates that had no core values or character would have whimpered and been crushed. Instead, the ticket of McCain and Palin finds them self for the 5th day in a row in the Gallup poll ahead. Here is an eye opener, McCain has seized a 3 point lead in the Rasmussen poll.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows John McCain up by three points, his largest lead since Obama wrapped up the Democratic Presidential Nomination. For most of the past several months, Obama has held a modest lead with McCain slipping ahead by a single point on just three of the past hundred days.

Not only is Obama in panic mode, the entire Democratic House and Senate are in meltdown mode wondering what truck just ran them over. Once again Democrats have counted their chickens was too early. According to a Gallup poll regarding the generic congressional ballot, the battle for Congress is now competitive. The once 15 point lead for Democrats has been reduced to 3 points. Democrats are in disbelief that their Congressional lead is all but gone. Now wait until Congress starts really using the coattails of McCain and Palin on the campaign events.

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Is Obama Throwing Press Under the Bus … Obama Just Won’t Let Lip sticking a Pig Comment Go … Palin is Lipstick, McCain policies are Pig

Now for the latest spin from Barack Obama regarding lip sticking a pig. How is it that a day later he has an entire analysis on the sentence that he claimed yesterday had nothing to do with Palin?

Now Obama claims the “lip stick” comment is a Made Up Controversy … Ahh Barack, You are the One who Created It

It get’s even better, Obama throws the media under the bus.

 “Keep in mind, that technically had I meant it this way she would be the lipstick,” Obama said. “The policies of John McCain would be the pig.”

Barack Obama put his foot in his mouth when he uttered the comment yesterday,  “You can put lipstick on a pig, … “It’s still a pig.” A day later and Obama is still making her deliberate screw up news and defending his comments. Is this man ignorant? Let it go, take your lumps and move on. However, the Obamamessiah feels the need to further explain his ignorant and thoughtless comments on the Letterman Show according to the Politico.

LETTERMAN: Let me ask you a question here, have you ever actually put lipstick on pig?

OBAMA: The answer would be no. But I think it might be fun to try …. This is sorta silly season in politics. Not that there’s a non silly season but it gets sillier . It’s a common expression in at least illinois. I don’t know about in New York City. I don’t know what you put lipstick on here. (Silly cringe from Letterman. Laughter from audience) In Illinois, The expression connotes the idea that if you have a bad idea — in this case I was talking about McCain’s economic plans — calling them ‘change,’ calling them something different doesn’t make them better. Hence lipstick on a pig is still a pig.

Obama claims that this is a made up controversy by the media. That is correct, The Chosen One” is biting the very hand that has fed him to a Democratic Presidential nomination. As Stop the ACLU states, the MSM holding Obama accountable, this is uncharted territory.

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More from Obama’s Lipstick on a Pig Reference to Sarah Palin … Obama, Ready to Smear

Over at Instapundit, there is much talk and discussion regarding Obama’s “you can put lipstick on a pig” comment. If one does not think that the comment was not directly aimed at Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, then I guess we are all to believe that Obama is both ignorant and a terrible speaker. What else could one surmise if Obama did not intentionally go after Palin less than 2 weeks after Palin made the hockey mom reference to a pit bull wearing lipstick? All of Obama’s problems caused by the fact he did not have the guts to put a woman on the ticket and his campaign was out maneuvered by McCain’s.

BTW, since when is it the role of a Presidential nominee to attack the VP of the other side? Think the pressure is not setting in with the Obama camp as their tanking poll numbers tank? All of the news is about Palin & McCain, none about Obama and Biden is AWOL.

And Scott Llewellyn writes: “Um, you’re kidding right? a slip? a gaffe? Obama just innocently and/or randomly used images that invoked Palin (lipstick) and Mccain (age)? Someone lauded for his rhetorical skills didn’t see where that was going? Someone lauded for his intelligence couldn’t foresee that, even if innocent, his images would be interpreted as references to Palin and Mccain? This is not even a close call (my wife gasped when i told her what obama said about pig/lipstick, without knowing any context or having me prime her with a reference to Palin), and Obama can’t have it both ways (I’m a brilliant speaker, but not responsible for the obvious implications of the images I use).”

WATCH THE NEW MCCAIN/PALIN AD

Team McCain is running circles around the Obama campaign

Do you know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick (Sarah Palin)

“You can put lipstick on a pig, … “It’s still a pig.” (Barack Obama)

The Gateway Pundit: LIPSTICK LIBERALS… Obama Camp Gangs Up On Alaska Mom

For the Obama apologists who think that the “lipstick” comment was not meant to refer to Sarah Palin, think again. It was a concerted, calculated and orchestrated effort on the part of Obama and his Democratic surrogates. Why is Obama sinking in the polls, because of this … The Obama Campaign’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  

This was a very ugly day for the Obama Campaign…
First… At a Joe Biden event today in Missouri, Congressman Russ Carnahan attacked Governor Sarah Palin. Referring to her record, Carnahan said,

“There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick.”
Classy. Then later in the day Barack Obama stuck with the cosmetics theme, saying:

“You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.”

Barack Obama will regret the day he ever decided to be cute and make the “lipsticing a pig” comments as indicated in Patterico’s Pontifications: Obama’s “Macaca Moment” (Updated)

Obama makes Obvious Reference to Hockey Mom, Pitbull & VP Sarah Palen:” Lipstick on a Pig … It’s still a pig”

Obama maybe is you who are the pig … a male chauvinist Pig. Barack Obama, you just crossed a line that you can never return from.

Your comment is about as un-Presidential as it gets. Who tells you to say these things? Hey “Chosen One”, do you ever wonder why you are trailing in the polls and trending downward? That’s it, what a man you are showing yourself to be, attacking a woman like you were a third grader. Then again, that’s about all the experience Obama actually has.

The MSM and the liberal blogs have pounced upon Sarah Palin as if she was the anti-Christ. Now the candidate of CHANGE, the Obamamessiah who said he would conduct his campaign in a manner different from typical politicians has crossed the line and gone after female VP candidate Sarah Palin. Obama stated, “You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

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.”

The crowd apparently took the “lipstick” line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: “lipstick.”

Obama will forever regret the day he made the lipstick comment. People can make all the excuses they want for Obama, he did just call Palin a pig. Palin referenced herself as a pitbull with lipstick and Obama just slapped at her. Obama, you should be utterly ashamed of yourself. Hopefully women in this country will see you for what you really are … a typical low rent, no talent politician who will say anything to slime an opponent in order to get a laugh. You are a sad pathetic excuse. What would possess you to say such a comment directly and personally toward a women … maybe it was your Muslim faith? Then again, I am sure it was all just perfectly innocent, NOT!!!

So which was it?  Was Barack actually referring to the Governor of Alaska — and the GOP’s vice presidential nominee — as a pig?  Or was he so clueless that he didn’t understand the impact of his words?

 

Of course, he’s panicked.  But that’s no excuse for heading straight to the bottom of the barrel.

UPDATE III: McCain camp angry over Obama’s ‘lipstick’ comment