Barack Obama responded this morning to the controversy that has erupted over the last 24 hours regarding his “lipstick on a pig” remark:
(CNN) — Barack Obama accused the McCain campaign of “lies” and “Swift boat” politics Wednesday, after nearly a day of claims his ‘lipstick on a pig’ comment was a sexist attack leveled at GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin.
“Spare me the phony outrage. Spare me the phony talk about change,” Obama said at the start of an education event in Virginia. “We have real problems in this country right now. The American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, not diversions, not manipulations. They want real answers to the real problems we are facing.
“I don’t care what they say about me. But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swift boat politics,” he also said. “Enough is enough.”
Here’s the full video of Obama’s statement:
Game, Set, Match, Obama.
Now, let’s talk about things that really matter.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:44 am
[...] I’ve already addressed the ridiculousness of the “lipstick on a pig” nonsense here, here, here, and here. [...]