Yesterday (Tuesday), Barack Obama used the expression, "It's like putting lipstick on a pig" while making a policy point. Today, the McCain/Palin campaign and its various surrogates tied the remark to the V.P. nominee Sarah Palin. In effect, the Republicans called their own candidate a pig.
This has left me outraged! Not because the Republicans took the use of hackneyed expression -- one I've used several times myself in the past few weeks -- and put such a bizarre spin on it, but because Obama and the Democrats missed their chance to throw an even more blistering fastball right back at John McCain and the Republicans. Instead, what America was seeing this afternoon was Barack Obama back peddling in right field, looking like lost little Timmy Lupus in the Bad News Bears trying to catch that fly ball. In the movie, Lupus surprises himself by making the catch, but the Bears lose the game. Let's see if, now that Obama is chasing the ball, he can't do the opposite and turn around and win the game.
There's definitely more to be said on this subject -- like the use of "pork" by both camps and how it could insult Jewish, Muslim and vegetarian voters -- but I'll leave that for another post.
**The Judge**
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