When will people learn? Democracy doesn’t work!
– Homer Simpson
John McCain’s campaign is outraged that Obama quoted the old cliché, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” in a campaign speech referring to McCain’s policies, the McCain campaign tried to spin it as a attack on Sarah Palin. But John McCain said the exact same thing in reference to Hillary Clinton’s health care plan in 2007, saying, “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
The Daily Show summarizes the rhetorical flip-flops coming from the Dittohead lobby nicely, but I have this horrible sinking feeling just the same that this Jerry Springer nonsense will trump reasoned discourse for yet another American election:
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