“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 gonna 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.”
McCain huffed and puffed and accused Obama of being mean and nasty to poor little Sarah, claiming the line was a reference to Sarah's line about lipstick being the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom.
Unfortunately, McCain used the same line, about lipstick on a pig, in reference to Hillary in October, then he used the line again in May.
What a fraudulent attempt to manufacture an issue. I guess when you have nothing to run on, no real platform, you have to make everything about personality. Maybe McCain should take a look in a mirror. He may see, beneath his own lipstick, a close resemblance between the McCain pig and the Bush pig.
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This is the worst of the worst - straight from the Rove playbook. Pandering to the lowest common denominator with lies and inflammatory BS. It disgusts me to the point of nausea. The scary part is how many people will buy it -- and have bought it in the past to elect the likes of W. I continue to hold out hope for the intelligent margins who may finally get it after 8 years of consequences.
In the midst of this gutter gloom to which McCain has taken things, there is one hopeful sign. News people, who used to simply report "both sides" of an argument, are beginning to call him on it. Joe Klein called one of these recent ads "the slimiest" he had ever seen. Mark Halpern is calling it "madness." And numerous ones are calling them on the "bridge" lies.
At the very least, McCain has lost his preferential treatment from a press corps that he so carefully cultivated during his "Straight Talk Express" days. He has sold his soul to Karl Rove.
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