Obama Puts Different Twist on Lipstick
Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Lebanon, Virginia.
What’s the difference between a more hopeful kind of politics and old-fashioned attacks? Lipstick.
Barack Obama says the John McCain-Sarah Palin policies don’t represent change, they’re “just calling the same thing something different.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Obama said during a town-hall style event here Tuesday night.
The comment played on Republican vice presidential candidate Palin’s joke during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom was lipstick.
UPDATE: The McCain campaign quickly struck back convening a conference call with reporters and former Mass. Gov. Jane Swift to paint the common expression as a sexist jab at Palin. “As far as I know there is only one candidate in this contest who wears lipstick,” Swift said.
If this were a Republican gaffe, they would have already been labelled as a male chauvenist pig (pun intended). But this is the Anointed One, so it will probably not get more than a passing notice from the MSM. But it is the top item on drudgereport tonight and probably tommorow.
I see McCain's 5 point Gallup lead sneaking up to double digits in the coming days as Obama turns more women off (the one's that marry, have kids, and shave their pits). The far left granola girls are never going to vote for McCain anyway.
Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Lebanon, Virginia.
What’s the difference between a more hopeful kind of politics and old-fashioned attacks? Lipstick.
Barack Obama says the John McCain-Sarah Palin policies don’t represent change, they’re “just calling the same thing something different.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Obama said during a town-hall style event here Tuesday night.
The comment played on Republican vice presidential candidate Palin’s joke during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom was lipstick.
UPDATE: The McCain campaign quickly struck back convening a conference call with reporters and former Mass. Gov. Jane Swift to paint the common expression as a sexist jab at Palin. “As far as I know there is only one candidate in this contest who wears lipstick,” Swift said.
If this were a Republican gaffe, they would have already been labelled as a male chauvenist pig (pun intended). But this is the Anointed One, so it will probably not get more than a passing notice from the MSM. But it is the top item on drudgereport tonight and probably tommorow.
I see McCain's 5 point Gallup lead sneaking up to double digits in the coming days as Obama turns more women off (the one's that marry, have kids, and shave their pits). The far left granola girls are never going to vote for McCain anyway.
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I think you're right. He needs to keep it up and be that perfect agent of change...
