Obama, a senator from Illinois, made the "lipstick on a pig" remark during a speech in Lebanon, Virginia, on Tuesday while ridiculing McCain's assertion since the Republican nominating convention that he and Palin would be "agents of change" in Washington.
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig," Obama said as the crowd cheered. "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink."
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Ah! Welcome to the fine art of media manipulation. We will not talk about the failing economy. We will not talk about the 45 million people without healthcare. Or the millions who have lost jobs and can't find new ones. We will talk about a folksy expression that all the candidates have used, and probably most of us too. I have. But isn't this more fun? Until we wake up on January 21 and realize we face another 4 years of the Bush administration. This piece at least fairly presents both sides. Now I just wish the media would let it die.
