Lipstick on a Marxist Does Not Work Either

This week, Senator Barack Obama used a common colloquialism to refer to the policies of the Bush Administration and of Republican presidential candidate John McCain who will continue on with most of them. He said that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. It is entirely interesting however that Obama would choose such a saying. Especially on the heels of Sarah Palin's comments at the Republican convention mentioning that there is only one difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull - that difference being only lipstick. Couple that with the fact that Obama associates and former sixties radicals (who are still radicals today) often refer to members of the establishment (such as police) as "pigs".

It will go down as one of those comments that will be hotly debated as to exactly what Obama meant. Was it just an ill timed remark given the recent joke by Palin? Or was it a deliberate jab at the Republican vice-presidential candidate? And whether he was referring to Palin as the "pig" or just the lipstick that is being used to sex up said pig, as is now being claimed by the left, does it really matter? Because either one is insulting.

I personally do not care which he meant. With Obama, what comes out of his mouth are "just words" that he rarely means anyway. Rather I care to address the assertion in general of referring to the poor policies and bad ideas as pigs wearing lipstick.