McCain, Cheney Squealed Lipstick On A Pig First

The creaky McCain/Palin double-standard spin machine is clunking into high gear once again. Seems Barack Obama uttered one of John McCain's and Vice-President Dick Cheney's favorite phrases "lipstick on a pig" and now all of a sudden Obama is a sexist.

But in October of 2007, it was John McCain who used the phrase "lipstick on a pig" while talking about Hillary Clinton's healthcare proposals. Here is what McCain said:

"McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal." ...
Here is what Obama said:

Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, brought up lipstick on Tuesday in comparing the policies of McCain, his Republican rival for the White House, to those of President Bush. "You can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said during a campaign stop. "It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."

Same kind of thing if you ask me. No one needs to apologize for pulling out a tired but still popular cliche.

I am a dog lover, in fact we have two. But I don't really get the obsession with putting clothes on dogs and I don't really get the obsession politicians have lately with applying cosmetics to the lips of animals. But I do know this much: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is, in fact, a duck. Maybe Obama should have just said that.