Sorry Genie...cross posted.

If Obama doesn't use a script writer, I think its well past time that he did.   His form of words on the "lipstick" issue, If accidental, were of the magnitude of a pile up on a motorway and have rebounded big time.

Either he was being deliberately offensive or he made a serious mistake in what he decided to say.

I have heard many of his speeches, and for someone challenging an incompetent, stumbling government, he seems reticent, vague, other-worldly. He does not appear to have the conviction to appeal to working class Americans with no political affiliations.
Remember we on Mudcat are mainly of the chattering classes, psuedo intellectuals who relate to the fairly tales spun by Mr Obama, but even genuine intellectuals DON'T WIN ELECTIONS....Ake