Lipstick on a pig?

It seems a lot is being made of Barack Obama’s comments yesterday about the McCain/Palin ticket calling themselves the “Change” ticket.  For the record, here were Sen. Obama’s exact comments:

John McCain says he’s about change, too, and so I guess his whole angle is, “Watch out George Bush.” Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics … That’s not change. That’s just calling something the same thing, something different. But you know … you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You know, you can … wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after eight years.

 

The McCain/PalinCamp jumped up immediately with righteous igdination that Sen. Obama was directly referring to Gov. Palin, calling her a pig in lipstick, and demanded an immediate apology.  This after Gov. Palin self-referenced herself as a “bulldog in lipstick” both at the Republican National Convention, and on the campaign trail.  Now, I can see how someone from the great state of sand and sun and cactus that is Arizona could confuse a pit bull and a pig – they’re both short, ugly, and sometimes mean – but It’s not like Sen. McCain hasn’t used the term himself.  In this election.  On the campaign trail.

And then, there’s this just in – Gov. Huckabee, one of McCain’s backers, one of the Republicans – effectively said that the McCain/Palin camp were blowing this out of proportion.

54 days until November 4th - let the insanity reign.

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