McCain says Obama didn't call Palin a pig

[Bob Juch]

Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe?

"No," McCain said Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26724457/

[silverscreenselect]

The article goes on to say:

The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama "chooses his words very carefully." The implication: Obama was slyly up to something when he said McCain's call for change in Washington is "lipstick on a pig," days after Palin made a lipstick joke at the Republican convention. "He's very eloquent," McCain told The Associated Press and Florida newspapers in an interview, and "it was the wrong thing to say."

Obama said what he meant to say, a snotty, sexist putdown that would give himself arguable deniability if challenged. It's what passes for sophisticated humor in the Obama campaign and among eight-year-olds in the schoolyard. It shows a maturity level on a par with George Bush's "search" for WMD in the oval office ("No WMD here ha ha ha").

[TheConfessor]

The article goes on to say:

The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama "chooses his words very carefully." The implication: Obama was slyly up to something when he said McCain's call for change in Washington is "lipstick on a pig," days after Palin made a lipstick joke at the Republican convention. "He's very eloquent," McCain told The Associated Press and Florida newspapers in an interview, and "it was the wrong thing to say."

Obama said what he meant to say, a snotty, sexist putdown that would give himself arguable deniability if challenged. It's what passes for sophisticated humor in the Obama campaign and among eight-year-olds in the schoolyard. It shows a maturity level on a par with George Bush's "search" for WMD in the oval office ("No WMD here ha ha ha").

Since your theory is that Obama is a male chauvinist pig, I guess the lipstick quote was just a self-deprecating reference. Makes sense to me.