[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 143 (Wednesday, September 10, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H7960]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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            HOW MUCH MORE CAN BARACK OBAMA DISRESPECT WOMEN?

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, the campaign of Barack Obama 
cannot refute Governor Sarah Palin's record of change and reform as 
Governor of Alaska. She took on the ``Old Boy Network'' in Alaska and 
she won. She took on corruption throughout State government and rooted 
it out. She took on Big Oil and made it serve the interests of her 
State. She is a true agent of change.
  So now the Obama campaign has decided that the way to get at Sarah 
Palin is through personal attacks and sexist insults. Yesterday, the 
Associated Press quoted the following: `` `You can put lipstick on a 
pig,' Obama said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous 
applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's 
joke. `It's still a pig.' ''
  Well, Mr. Speaker, Senator Obama might find such jokes funny, but 
women will only find them insulting. American women also understand 
that if this is the kind of change that Senator Obama is offering to 
America, it is really no change at all. Senator Obama owes Governor 
Palin and the women of America an apology.

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