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Lying About Lipstick

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Lipstick on a pig. It’s absurd, but since our mission is to serve up smart citizen commentary from webworld, and since today everyone’s talking about the new McCain/Palin ad, here we go.

Yesterday, Obama said that McCain’s offer of “change” is like putting lipstick on a pig. No reference to Sarah Palin here. And it’s an expression McCain himself used in 2007 to describe Hillary Clinton’s healthcare plan.

Today’s McCain/Palin ad twists this into one dishonest knot. Obama has addressed the “swift boat politics,” but that denunciation clearly won’t go viral. The ad might.

The anonymous blogger from Black Men for McCain (featured in the previous post) — a Christian who is anti-Obama and pro-McCain — was floored. He also couldn’t believe McCain’s new ad about Obama and education.

I want to win, but I DO NOT WANT TO WIN LIKE THIS.

I can’t imagine that John McCain truly approves of these messages. This kind of blatant dishonesty is not just Un-American, it is Un-Christian. Sarah Palin, if Jesus Christ is truly your Savior and you wish to live your life by his Word, make them stop. […]

I have never in my life been so embarrassed to be a Republican. Conservatives and Christians alike, I beg of you, take a stand. We are better than this. Only months ago, we had agreed to campaign on the issues. What happened?

Um, this? See our archives for more posts on dishonest and negative campaigning from both sides of the aisle.

[Update 10 Sept 2008: We just noticed that the McCain campaign has pulled the lipstick/pig ad. Here’s what you see when you go to the YouTube link: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS Interactive Inc.”]