Pigs and Lipstick!
This campaign has devolved into a debate over whether Sen. Barack Obama was calling Sarah of Nazareth... uh... Sarah of Wasilla... a pig when he said McCain's policies are just like Bush's and trying to call those policies by another name is "putting lipstick on a pig."
Really? That's what we are talking about? Are you f--king kidding me!?!?! The McCain campaign now owns any reference to "lipstick" because Governor Mooseburger Crackshot used it in her convention speech?
Has the McCain campaign trademarked "family" or "maverick" yet? Can I say that, in the 1970's my "family" owned a Ford "maverick" and it sucked... or will I be accused by the McCain campaign of insulting their Rebel without a Core and the Great Gretzky in drag?
Is this an example of Grumpy McClueless' leadership? I hope not.
A real leader doesn't hide behind false analogies and innuendo, but instead tears them down. A real leader doesn't use surrogates as cannon fodder, but rather fights his own battle. A real leader isn't a coward and could never be mistaken for one. John McCain was once a hero, but his current campaign simply pROVEs once and for all, he is certainly not a leader. A real leader would have told campaign slime-meister Steve Schmidt to let the "pig/lipstick" thing go. Instead, John McCain says go get 'em. A real leader would debate the issues, not the personalities. Of course, a real leader would have told George W. Bush, Karl Rove and the rest of the right wing smear machine to go pound sand after claiming McCain's adopted Bangledeshi-born daughter was actually his "illegitimate, black child" in push polling during the 2000 North Carolina primary. But not Feckless McShame. He just gives Bush a hung, tells Schmidt to go get 'em and pretends that he's a leader, not a coward.
It is a shame that a man who proved his dignity, honor and valor in the Hanoi Hilton two generations ago is willing to surrender it all on the battlefield of the 2008 electoral map. But, it just proves that he's the same as Bush.