Word: lipsticked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that as proof that the election will be fought on his turf. His campaign will make adjustments--including a sharper focus on women voters, as well as harsher attacks by running mate Joe Biden and through television advertisements--but Obama's overriding message will still be a version of lipstick-on-a-pig: the 72-year-old Republican who supports Bush's foreign policies and economic policies is not the guy who's really bringing change. "No one is going to move him off his message in a manic moment," says Obama supporter Claire McCaskill, a Democratic Senator from Missouri...
...guaranteed the White House just because the fundamentals tilt his way. Whatever the mood, Democratic veterans warn, campaigns matter. And McCain's campaign has been much more aggressive about trying to define the debate and seize news cycles; when MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was asked during the initial lipstick-on-a-pig spat what the media would talk about in two days, he replied, "Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about, because the McCain campaign is assertive." The media have dutifully fact-checked the McCain campaign's mischaracterizations of Obama's tax plans and its howler that Obama...
...television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners. (Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching.) The accusation that Obama was referring to Sarah Palin when he said McCain's effort to remarket his economic policies was putting "lipstick on a pig" was another clearly misleading attack - an obnoxious attempt to divert attention from Palin's lack of fitness for the job and the recklessness with which McCain chose her. McCain's assault on the "élite media" for spreading rumors about Palin's personal life - actually, the culprits were...
...matter that McCain had prompted a backlash from the members of the press who repeatedly pointed out that both claims were wildly misleading. The sex-education bill in question had called only for age-appropriate instruction, and there is no evidence that Obama's use of the phrase "lipstick on a pig" referred to Palin. At the time he used the phrase, he was discussing the similarity of McCain's policies to those of President Bush...
...Palin has a consistent record of chasing the bacon that McCain has fought for years. She pulled in $27 million in earmarks as mayor, requested $450 million in earmarks as governor and even supported the state's notorious Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it. There isn't enough lipstick in Alaska to cover all that pork. (See photos of Sarah Palin campaigning here...