Obama’s “Lipstick On A Pig” Comment (Video)

Barack Obama’s reference to “lipstick on a pig” has Republicans very angry and wanting an apology. While the Democrats are accusing John McCain of a “pathetic attempt” to play the gender card. Whether Republican or Democratic, Obama’s comments about Sarah Palin “lipstick on a pig” is pretty low, don’t you think? See video below.

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Obama seems to be “sticking his foot in his mouth” quite a bit lately. First he slips and says “my Muslim faith” during an interview, and now referring to Sarah Palin, vice presidential nominee, with the comments “lipstick on a pig”.

McCain’s camp said Obama’s remarks were extremely offensive and an attempted slam directed towards nominee Sarah Palin. But some say McCain had used that same phrase describing a policy of Hilary Clinton’s?

Obama’s campaign responded by saying McCain was running a “dishonorable campaign.”

Obama made the remarks at a Virginia campaign stop late Tuesday afternoon stating:

“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 — we’re really going to shake things up in Washington,’” he said.

“That’s not change. That’s just calling something the same thing something different. 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. We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”

In Iowa last October, McCain drew comparisons between Hillary Clinton’s current health care plan and the one she championed in 1993: “I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it’s still a pig.” He used roughly the same line in May, after effectively claiming the Republican nomination.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told CNN the campaign saw a “big difference” between the two references: “McCain was referring to a policy proposal. Obama was referring to [Alaska] Gov. Sarah Palin. It’s obviously disrespectful and offensive. …

“Who has been talking about lipstick lately? It was obvious. The crowd went crazy because of it.”

“The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy — the same analogy that Sen. McCain himself used about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year,” said Obama campaign senior adviser Anita Dunn. “This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.”

McCain’s friend, Mike Huckabee took Obama’s side on the issue, saying he didn’t find it to be a slam towards Sarah Palin.

“It’s an old expression, and I’m going to have to cut Obama some slack on that one. I do not think he was referring to Sarah Palin; he didn’t reference her. If you take the two sound bites together, it may sound like it,” he said on Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes.”

So do you think Obama meant it as a slam on Sarah Palin or that he was just using a common saying innocently?

See the video below:

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