Now that this phony scandal is long-gone, how about taking a moment to look at the actual content of the comment which the Republicans used to send the media into a 48 hour orgy of idiocy.
Obama said, "The Illinois senator used the lipstick on a pig analogy at a campaign event in Lebanon, Va., on Tuesday while describing his Republican opponents.
"John McCain says he's about change, too, and so I guess his whole angle is, "Watch out George Bush.' Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics ... That's not change. That's just calling something the same thing, something different," Obama said.
"But 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," he added.
Obama called the lipstick controversy "phony and foolish" and said that he was talking about McCain's policies, not Palin.
He accused the McCain campaign of "lies and phony outrage" and "Swiftboat politics." He said the "made-up controversy" was "catnip for the news media."
During an appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday, Obama said the backlash was all part of the "silly season in politics" as the campaign heats up.
"Keep in mind that technically had I meant it this way - she would be the lipstick" and McCain's policies would be the pig, he said."
McCain and Palin continue with their insulting belief that Americans are stupid, when they assert charges of 'sexism' from this comment. There is definitely a pig in that comment and some lipstick, but the American people would have to be stupid indeed to miss the metaphor. Palin's the lipstick; quite fetching. The pig, clearly is the McCain record. So let's take a look at that pig.