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Yesterday I wrote about Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” statement that I feel was a not-so-subtle reference to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The McCain-Palin camp went on the offensive and responded with the following video ad.

Looks like Obama really stuck his foot in his mouth this time. To rephrase another of his statements from yesterday, he may end up being the old fish wrapped in a piece of paper that will still be stinking in eight years. (Obama: “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change.’ It’s still gonna stink after eight years.” If the “lipstick on a pig” statement was meant to be Sarah Palin, do you think the “old fish” was a reference to John McCain?)

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Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin is known as a hockey mom and told a joke during her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention when she saw a group of women holding hockey mom signs: “I love those hockey moms. You know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”

That joke has received a lot of play in the mainstream media and is retold often around the water coolers, talk shows and blogs of America. It has come to symbolize Sarah Palin.

Today, at a Lebanon, Virginia campaign stop, Senator Barack Obama stated “you can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.” What was he suggesting?  Just an old expression or a personal attack?  I think the latter. Judging by the reaction of Obama’s audience, I think they think he’s talking about Sarah Palin also. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

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