Outright theft from Vodka Pundit because it is so right on:
Parsing Obama
Posted by Stephen Green on September 10, 2008 at 9:06 am
I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on the whole Lipsticked Pig Brouhaha. It is, after all, a very old expression. Comes from Wall Street — or at least that’s the first place I heard it, way back when. So I watched the video, and it’s pretty clear Obama was talking about McCain’s policies, and not Palin. Besides, no one who has seen her calves would ever think once about using the word “pig” to describe her.
UPDATE: Denise comments:
He wasn’t calling Sarah Palin the pig. The GOP is the pig. He was calling Palin the lipstick.
She’s right. And, right again, Denise says, “Which is if anything even more insulting.”
I stand corrected.
