The Great Lipstick Controversy pt.2

Written by: Maurice Doubleday on Sep 11, 2008 7:35 AM EDT

Enough. This lipstick debacle has to end. Apparently “lipstick on a pig” is some sort of political cliché that has been used by Republicans at least twice on record. Including our Vice President Dick Cheney (not a standard of politeness to live up to, given) and John McCain himself. At first I believed it was a true blunder on Obama's part to use the analogy so soon after Sarah Palin's not-so-funny joke about hockey moms. But now it's just political hype to distract the Obama-Biden campaign from the issues.

This kind of insincere indignation on McCain's part is the worse part of all. Since when he is so sensitive to women or any minority? This is the same man that kept Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday from being a legal holiday on a federal basis...allowing his home state of Arizona to ignore it.

Obama calls these attacks phony. Which considering the history of Republican trickery is an easily won argument on his part.

I think if McCain is the guy with so much integrity, he would let it go and ask his base to do the same. But that's a dream that I doubt will come true.

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