Lipstick On A Pig

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Last October, asked about Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was blunt. McCain said Clinton's proposal was "eerily" similar to the ill-fated plan she devised in 1993. "I think they put some lipstick on a pig," he said, "but it's still a pig."A common expression, right? McCain surely wasn't calling Clinton a pig. After all, McCain's former press secretary, Torie Clarke, wrote a book called "Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era." Elizabeth Edwards told some health journalists that McCain's health care plan was like "painting lipstick on a pig."

Tonight Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of McCain painting himself as a change agent, "You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." ... "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,'" Obama continued, "it's still gonna stink after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing! It's time to bring about real change to Washington. And that's the choice you've got in this election."

The McCain campaign called Obama's comments "disgraceful" and demanded an apology. The campaign added that Obama, in addition to calling Palin a pig, might have also been calling John McCain a fish, which, of course, would also require an apology.

The media seems to find all of this fascinating, as if use of an old American expression, utilized by all kinds of political candidates from both parties for generations, might be some kind of sexist insult -- not when McCain used it to slam Hillary Clinton, but only when Obama used it to criticize the Republican campaign in general.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/10/politics/animal/main4433795.shtml

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1. Obama should respond, "Mccain calling me disgraceful is like the pot

calling the kettle black."

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2. Lipstick

Here's a fun one... Go to JohnMcCain.com (and do it on an empty stomach so you don't lose your breakfast) and at the bottom of the page, put "lipstick" in the search box. Low and behold, John McCain uses the phrase three times and archives it on his website.

This morning on XMs POTUS08 channel, they had the audio clip of McCain using the lipstick remark from an October 11th, 2007 press conference. The guy from the RNC said it wasn't the same, because McCain has respect for Hillary, blah, blah, blah... These RNC guys are nothing but opportunistic mindf*cks.

*sigh*