{"id":2611,"date":"2008-09-10T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T00:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/iexlbasta\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T00:44:20","slug":"iexlbasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/iexlbasta\/","title":{"rendered":"¡Basta!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lipstick pig’ row hits Obama – Americas, World – The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Enough!” Senator Obama said yesterday, interrupting a speech he was giving on education. “I don’t care what they say about me but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phoney outrage and Swift Boat politics. Enough is enough.”<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The controversy had begun when Mr Obama engaged in a lively attack on the Republicans’ newly-minted mantra of bringing “change” to Washington politics. He likened it to trying to put lipstick on a pig. “It’s still a pig,” he said to loud applause from members of the audience who may have assumed he was referring to Governor Palin. <\/p>\n

Last week Mrs Palin electrified the Republican convention by improvising a joke about being a hockey mom: “What’s the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? Lipstick.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lipstick pig’ row hits Obama – Americas, World – The Independent<\/a> <\/p>\n

BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama rejects ‘lipstick’ charge<\/a> <\/p>\n

“The McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phoney and foolish diversions than about the future,”<\/strong> the Illinois senator said. Republicans may well try to keep the controversy going, although one difficulty for them is that John McCain has himself used the offending phrase<\/strong>, our Washington correspondent says. Mr McCain had used the same analogy to criticise a health care plan presented by former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama rejects ‘lipstick’ charge<\/a> <\/p>\n

Putting Lipstick On A Pig : NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Election 2008 Putting Lipstick On A Pig [3 min 29 sec]<\/p>\n

The phrase “lipstick on a pig” is commonly employed by politicians<\/strong> including<\/strong> Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, Vice President Dick Cheney<\/strong> and Rep. Charles Rangel. Joel Salatin, a farmer from Swoope, Va., talks about what actually happens when one attempts to put lipstick on a pig.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Putting Lipstick On A Pig : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lipstick pig’ row hits Obama – Americas, World – The Independent “Enough!” Senator Obama said yesterday, interrupting a speech he was giving on education. “I don’t care what they say about me but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phoney outrage and Swift Boat politics. … Continue reading ¡Basta!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}