Obama: Palin Like 'Lipstick on a Pig'
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 8:30 PM
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Democrat Barack Obama enjoys poking fun at his Republican opponents and their claims to being "agents of change."
But Obama's comments at a town-hall meeting in southwestern Virginia may have been misinterpreted by the audience.
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig," he said as the crowd cheered and yelled and eventually got to their feet.
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The audience, which had a particularly strong reaction whenever Obama mentioned Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, appeared to enjoy the "lipstick" comment the most.
When Palin gave her acceptance speech at the Republican convention in St. Paul she joked about being a hockey mom, saying the only difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom was lipstick.
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