Maverick's "lipstick" comments ignored?

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McCain Health Care Plan Puts Focus on Spending
By MARC SANTORA
Published: October 12, 2007

Mr. McCain also criticized the Democratic plans, but his comments were more in passing and were far less barbed.

But when asked about Mrs. Clinton his speech, he said her proposal was “eerily” similar to the plan she came up with in 1993, when she headed a health care reorganization effort during her husband’s administration. “I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he said, “but it’s still a pig.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/us/politics/12health.html?fta=y

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Linking to a separate report on Obama's comments, conservative Internet gossip Matt Drudge placed the words "OBAMA: 'LIPSTICK ON A PIG, STILL A PIG' " under a picture of Palin.

A video clip posted on YouTube contains part of Obama's comments leading up to the "lipstick on a pig" expression:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809090026

Obama Accuses McCain Campaign of ‘Swift Boat Politics’
by FOXNews.com
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

McCain’s campaign called Obama’s comments “offensive and disgraceful” and said he owes Palin an apology.

Obama’s campaign said the “lipstick on a pig” expression — frequently used in Washington D.C. — wasn’t referring to Palin, and GOP outrage is “a pathetic attempt to play the gender card.”

The common analogy is “the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run,” said Obama campaign senior adviser Anita Dunn.

In an appearance Wednesday on Fox News, McCain’s eldest daughter Meghan acknowledged that her father has said the phrase before, but objected to its use.

“I mean, I have heard my dad say that the term lipstick on a pig. I don’t like anyone being
referred to as a pig in any context. I think there is a lot more educated conversations we can have than these remarks,” she said.

The Obama campaign swiftly circulated a 2007 article that quoted McCain using the term “lipstick on a pig” to refer to a health care proposal from Hillary Clinton.

Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki also noted that Obama too has used the expression before — to criticize the troop surge in Iraq.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/10/obama-accuses-mccain-of-swift-boat-politics/