Post from Dave Harding's Blog:
Did John McCain Really Call Hillary Clinton A Pig?
Last October, asked about Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was blunt.

McCain said Clinton's proposal was “eerily” similar to the ill-fated plan she devised in 1993.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he said, “but it’s still a pig.”

A common expression, right?

Surely, any reasonable person would say McCain wasn't calling Senator Clinton a pig.

So why when Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of McCain painting himself as a change agent:

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."  "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change"it's still gonna stink after eight years. We’ve had enough of the same old thing! It’s time to bring about real change to Washington.  And that’s the choice you’ve got in this election."

did the McCain campaign "Truth Squad" pounce on the remark?

"The formation of the Palin Truth Squad couldn't have happened too soon, as we saw when Sen. Obama in Lebanon, Va., this evening uttered what I can only deem to be disgraceful comments comparing our vice presidential nominee Gov. Palin to a pig," Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift said.

"That expression is older than my grandfather's grandfather," said Obama campaign spox Jen Psaki, "and it means that you can dress something up but it doesn't change what it is. He was talking pretty clearly about the fact that you can't just call yourself change when you've voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time."

So let me get this straight John McCain wasn't calling Hillary Clinton a pig when he used the exact same expression, but Barack Obama was calling Sarah Palin one when talking directly about John McCain?

Give me a break.

Gee, would John McCain really be that disengenuous?

Definitely!

The Beatles "Piggies" by George Harrison:

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their sties with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.


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