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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Lipstick on a pig’ — Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: … The crowd apparently took the “lipstick” line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: “lipstick.” — UPDATE: The McCain campaign is now saying Obama called Palin a pig, which he didn't.
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Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig — The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today: … Suddenly, common analogies are sexist? — The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don't think he is stupid.
Lee Speigel / Political Punch:
Obama Says McCain Is Offering Fake Change: 'You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It's Still a Pig' — LEBANON, Va. — “That's not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering. — “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it's still a pig.”
John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
The Hunt for Sarah October — City slickers invade Wasilla — Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women …
Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
DID OBAMA MEAN TO CALL SARAH PALIN A PIG? It's probably just a slip, but . . . “The crowd apparently took the ‘lipstick’ line as a reference to Palin.” — Reader David Schlosser emails: “This will endear him to all those disaffected Hillary voters.” And former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift is calling on Obama to apologize.
Sara Kugler / Associated Press:
No questions, please; Palin sticks to her script — LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — John McCain took a risk in picking little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate, but now the campaign's playing it safer. She's sticking to a greatest hits version of her convention speech on the campaign trail …
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Was McCain the stinky old fish? — In all the furor over the Obama “pig” quote, commentators forgot to examine his entire attack: — “You can put lipstick on a pig. ” It's still a pig. “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink.”
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Dumber Than A Stump — Holy pimento cheese on a cracker! Do these idiots even speak to regular Americans? Ever?!? — Jake Tapper, proving that even a blind hog can trip over an acorn while he's starving and smell nothing whatsoever and then keep on stumbling forward until someone hand feeds him dung and he thanks them for it:
Lee Speigel / Political Punch:
A Piggish Debate — McCain said Clinton's proposal was “eerily” similar to the ill-fated plan she devised in 1993, — “I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he said, “but it's still a pig.” — A common expression, right? — McCain surely wasn't calling Clinton a pig.
Don Dahler / WCBS-TV:
McCain Campaign Fumes Over Paterson's Racism Claim — N.Y. Governor Says Palin's Repeated Use Of ‘Community Organizer’ Is Another Way Of Saying ‘Black’ — ALBANY (CBS) ― On Monday, Gov. David Paterson angered some state lawmakers by comparing them to vampires, calling them a bunch of “blood suckers.”
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:GETTING ALL WHINY — McCain tries to whip up outrage …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
McCain Sex-Ed Ad Launched; Obama Camp: “Perverse” — John McCain is out with a response ad to Barack Obama's attacks today on his education policy, accusing the Democratic nominee of not accomplishing a single education-related goal other than to promote “comprehensive sex education” to kindergartners.
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Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
New McCain Ad Falsely Suggests Obama Wants Kids To Learn “About Sex Before Learning To Read” — The McCain campaign is up with a new ad attacking Obama on education that makes some rather strong insinuations about sex: — There's a lot to chew on here. But we want to focus on one particularly pernicious aspect of it.
Mark Hosenball / Newsweek:
Warned by the Court — A judge repeatedly told Palin and family not to badmouth her sister's ex — An Anchorage judge three years ago warned Sarah Palin and members of her family to stop “disparaging” the reputation of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten, who at the time was undergoing …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Comedy gold: Lefty radio hosts crestfallen as Palin defended by ... Mike Gravel — You don't hear their hearts actually start to break until he says, “Troopergate is going to come out in her favor.” Although the most traumatic part, surely, must have been the exchange about how the mayor …
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Reuters:
World wants Obama as president: poll — US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said. — All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer …
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Jonathan Freedland / Guardian:
The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for — An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse — The feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach.
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RushLimbaugh.com:
Family with Down Syndrome Child Meets John McCain and Sarah Palin — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: Kurt in Pittsburgh, hello, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, and how about the Steelers defense? — CALLER: How about those Steelers, huh? — RUSH: How about that?
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
An ‘uppity’ second look at the word — So over the weekend, there was much discussion over the word “uppity” — and whether its segregation-era connotation still lingers when applied to African-Americans. — Last Thursday, in a conversation with reporters, U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland applied the term to Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
NBC/WSJ Poll: '08 race turns into a dead heat — Barack Obama holds a narrow one-point lead over John McCain — Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin stand together on the stage during a campaign event at in Albuquerque, New Mexico on September 6, 2008. — Deputy political director
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The Politico:
Obama, Dems sharpen personal attacks on Palin — Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are intensifying their attacks on Sarah Palin, as her sustained and surprising central role in this race is upending Obama's strategy and often overshadowing McCain. — Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
LYING SARAH WATCH — Sometimes when you've got a liar as big as Sarah Palin on the line only a timeline will really do justice to her fibbing ways. — So a lot of you have written in to ask: Okay, she says she said ‘Thanks. But no thanks’ to the Bridge to Nowhere. But how exactly did it all come out?
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