"lipstick on a pig"

I hate to drag down the MB Blog with politics, but since this is the third day in a row I am still reading articles about Obama's infamous "lipstick on a pig" comment I feel it is my patriotic duty to set the record straight.  

I know that not everyone has obsessive compulsive disorder with hitting refresh to google news, so I will summarize the controversy.  In a recent speech Obama said that McCain's plans for the future were just repackaged versions of Bush's.  He then said "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig"

Sounds pretty sexist against Sarah Palin right?  Right?!  That's what the appointed head of the "Palin Truth Squad" (not making this up) has been saying.  It has been so successful that there are now attack ads running in battleground states accusing Obama of sexism.

The supreme irony of this is that McCain himself had used the exact same phrase against Hillary Clinton's Healthcare plan multiple times, and it is also the title of a memoir by Ronald Reagan's press secretary.

Obama summed it up best in his rebuttal today.  "The McCain campaign will seize on an innocent remark, take it out of context, throw up an outrageous ad because they know it is catnip for the news media."

The media has obviously taken the bait, but hopefully the American people will know a little better.