Derek Bodner’s Blog

It absolutely amazes me how short of a memory politicians expect the general public to have.

The phrase is quite common. In fact, both candidates have used the line before. When asked about Clinton’s health care reform vs the 1993 attempt, McCain used the line, saying “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”.

So, McCain can use it when he’s talking about a woman’s platform, but when Obama uses it to discuss McCain, it’s disrespectful and offensive?

Ok.

Obama didn’t even bring up Palin (whereas McCain directly brought up Clinton).

“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 going to shake things up in Washington. 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.”

Yeah, John. Nice try.

I hate what US political campaigning has become. You haven’t heard talk about actual issues in months, and certainly nothing since the conventions.