Ah, nothing warms my heart like old-fashioned manufactured outrage. So without further ado... The latest controversy in this never-ending election saga - quickly becoming an inescapable nightmare - is that Barack Obama used a silly and innocuous cliche on the campaign trail. Oh, it referred to pigs and lipstick. Yeah, I know, Sarah Palin popped into my head too.
From the Times:“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics,” Mr. Obama told his supporters here. “That’s just calling the same thing something different.”
With a laugh, he added: “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.”
In the latest sign of the campaign’s heightened intensity, Mr. McCain’s surrogates responded within minutes and called on Mr. Obama to apologize to Gov. Sarah Palin for the lipstick remark. But to those in the audience, it was clear that Mr. Obama was employing an age-old phrase — lipstick on a pig — and referring to Mr. McCain’s policies. He had not yet mentioned Ms. Palin at that point of his speech.
Did the McCain faithful realize the sheer foolery of their idiotic proclamation? Probably not. John McCain, after all, used the same expression about Hillary Clinton's health care plan last year. Moreover, his former press secretary (who happens to be a woman!) titled her book - guess what? - Lipstick on a Pig. So, a grand thanks to Jake Tapper and Josh Marshall for assuaging my worries, exposing the hilarity of the situation and, of course, reigniting my passion. I've had it with these Republican thieves and their treacherous phoniness.
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