Perhaps this is why I'll never hold a public office, but the following would have been my response to the manufactured controversy over Obama's comment in reference to John McIwasaPOW:
I have to tell you, the Republicans are at it again, trying to make silk purses out of sow's ears. Really, they're just casting pearls before swine in another attempt to hog the headlines, hiding all the pork in their platform and the fact that their VP candidate simply doesn't have the chops. It's really a bore.
We know these people feed at the public trough and have turned Washington D.C. into their own private pen. Piggybacking on oil company profits while the same oil companies use Republican legislation to turn tiny tropical islands into mail-drop piggy banks. Meanwhile, our economy is hogtied, and our housing market is bleeding like a stuck pig. The Republican's elite corporate backers are going hogwild, living high on the hog with record profits quarter after quarter.
The system, my fellow Americans, is as crooked as a pig's tail, and the pigheaded Republicans tell us that 4 more years of the same failed leadership will fix it. In a pig's eye, it will!
They can't run on their failed policies, they can't run on experience; in point of fact, the only running they can do is straight to the media with twisted words, and to the right wing noise machine, begging them to manufacture a fake controversy.
It's all they have, and it's all hogwash.