Word: lipsticked
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...time that the campaign sent out e-mail blasts featuring enthusiastic media blurbs of Palin's convention speech). After the convention, the indignation only intensified; in the course of 24 hours, McCain accused Obama of supporting "sex education" for kindergarten students and referring to Palin as a pig wearing lipstick. "The McCain campaign baited the outrage hook, and the Obama campaign and the national media bit," says Todd Harris, a Republican political consultant who worked for McCain in 2000 and Fred Thompson in 2008. "Hats off to the McCain guys for completely throwing Obama...
After three virulent days of pigs and lipstick, the presidential campaign shifted from overdrive to a measured idle on the anniversary of 9/11, as John McCain and Barack Obama answered questions separately about what they would do to bolster volunteerism and service among Americans. The candidates met briefly on a stage at Columbia University for a quick hug and a handshake in between interviews with TIME managing editor Richard Stengel and PBS correspondent Judy Woodruff at the ServiceNation Presidential Forum...
...Leader John Boehner also used the homespun phrase in April, telling reporters that Republican fundraising efforts were far from where they needed to be to ensure victory in November. "Right now our fundraising sucks," Boehner said. "There's no other way to put it. There's no use putting lipstick...
...Republicans, meanwhile, have sunk to familiar depths in accusing Obama of championing sex education for kindergartners and seizing on an innocent but perhaps ill-timed comment by Obama about lipstick and a pig to suggest that the Democratic nominee was making a sexist aside...
...softballs or spring a name-the-heads-of-state quiz to try to gin up embarrassing moments. (Of course, the World News segment was on foreign policy, so it didn't provide much opportunity to get into hot-button campaign questions; he still has another day to bring up "lipstick on a pig" if he chooses to.) Instead, Gibson interviewed her - imagine this - the way you might interview a candidate for Vice President about whom people still know very little...