According to the Associated Press:
On Tuesday, Obama criticized McCain’s policies as similar to those of President Bush, saying: “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”
Let me put this plainly and factually:
- He
- Was
- Not
- Talking
- About
- The
- Governor
- Of
- Alaska
But what’s going to stick in a lot of people’s minds is that he did call Sarah Palin a “pig,” even though he didn’t, and he’s used that cliche line before Palin ever became the veep pick for the GOP. Steve Schmidt strikes again.
Oh, and McCain’s said it before, too:
The lipstick maxim is hardly new to either Obama or McCain. The Democrat has used it in the past, and McCain repeated the folksy metaphor when he criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on health care. McCain was never accused of being sexist when he uttered those words.
Somewhere Hillary Clinton is smiling very very big, maybe even planning for 2012.
