'Lipstick on a pig': Attack on Palin or common line?

Late Tuesday afternoon, Obama made his controversial "lipstick" remark at a Virginia campaign stop. As quoted by cnn.com, "That's not change. That's just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing." To many, this remark sounded like a reference to Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, Sarah Palin. The controversial remark comes across as being sexist towards females. Though many might defend Obama in his statement towards change, he should have been more mindful in his choice of words. One might think that both Republican and Democratic speeches are reviewed before taking place. Obama's Democratic supporters defend him, stating that this was simply an unfortunate choice of words, others might argue that it was a brief reference to Sarah Palin. This article was intresting in more than one way, the most important way seemed to be, that rarely a Presidential Candidate might make discriminative comments on another. This means many might feel differently towards Obama, they mightagree with his statement, feel like it was attacking Palin, or even think there was no reference to her at all. Those are voters in which mightmake an impact on the upcoming Presidential Elections. I should care about this because it is important to realize both sides of a campaign and listen to all views.
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