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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: ManyMoose who wrote (83470)9/10/2008 8:51:59 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 542105
 
The point is that they are going after Obama for exorbitant earmarks while painting Palin as some kind of earmark saint, when she has been greed personified in getting them for Wasilla. She certainly DOES have something to do with it.

I think the problem with your pass is that you used words that sounded less like a pass than an absolution.

Even calling it a gaffe is silly to me, but then my mominlaw had never heard the expression before and immediately thought it was connected to the funny lipstick line. So I suppose there are many who don't know the expresssion.
Like Lane, I think people should admit their own linguistic limitations, rather than blaming the person using them appropriately.
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