Working in the media during an election year sometimes feels like listening to a room full of preschoolers tattle on their friends.
The lastest tattle comes from the McCain camp pointing fingers at Obama for using the adage “…lipstick on a pig.”
Republicans demand an apology and say Obama is trying to play the gender card.
After reading Obama’s full statement to the crowd gathered Tuesday in Norfolk, Va., I’m not so sure.
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“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,’” Obama 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,” he continued.
Obama went on to praise the McCain/Palin camp for their interesting stories and personalities.
Hey candidates . . . can we just stick to the issues? Remember? We have men fighting overseas. We have children whose parents can’t afford health care. Gas prices and housing crunches are killing the American economy and our jobs are moving overseas.
I don’t think Obama was calling Palin a pig when he made the lipstick remark. And if he was, so what? I mean, Obama’s ears make his head look like a taxi driving down the street with its doors open. An insult is what it is…be the bigger camp and quit tattling like preschoolers.
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