You Can Put Lipstick on the Election…
…but it’s still gonna roll in the mud.
I didn’t really have anything funny there. Sorry.
As for Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment… I reckon, totally on purpose.
I don’t think he used it to malign Sarah Palin, but rather to provoke a reaction from the McCain campaign and inject himself back into the news cycle.
The front of the nyt.com right now? About Obama’s remarks and his appearance on Letterman. The Palin scandal du jour is below that.
The predictable fireball reaction from the McCain campaign not only puts the spotlight back on Obama, it allows him to point to another instance of the McCain campaign’s lack of policy focus
Makes the McCain campaign look like they’re the ones who want to wallow in the mud.
So to speak.
And now, a moment to lament a political system where getting onto the news agenda is the main focus of both campaigns.
Update: I should do my political reading first. Nate at 538 wrote a similar post, along with an ad the Obama campaign might run in response to the McCain campaign taking the bait. I like when people think like me; when I link to them it makes me look like less of a crackpot.
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