Any idiot who watches the full clip of Barack Obama in his "lipstick-on-a-pig" speech knows that the senator was not referring to Sarah Palin in any way, shape or form. The Republicans know damn well that he didn't and I really hate this kind of false outrage when there are plenty of things going on in the world that warrant getting upset.
The folks at Politifact agree:
"It is simply impossible to view the complete remarks by Obama and conclude that he’s making a veiled and unsavory reference to Palin. Her name never is used in the preceding sentence. In fact, it’s hard to see how one could interpret Obama’s lipstick-on-a-pig remark as referring directly to McCain, either. We think it’s very clear that Obama was saying McCain’s effort to call himself the “candidate of change” is like putting lipstick on a pig, trying to dress up a bad idea to look better. Agree or disagree with Obama’s point, but his remark wasn’t the smear that McCain’s people have tried to make it.
If anyone’s doing any smearing, it’s the McCain campaign and its outrageous attempt to distort the facts. Did Obama call Palin a pig? No, and saying so is Pants on Fire wrong."
Link: PolitiFact | If there's lipstick on a pig, it's this McCain ad.
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