Lipstick on a pig

Nancy and I watched Sara Palin's speech the other night. At one point she asked the delegates if they knew the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom. "Lipstick," she said. We all laughed and knew she is or must have been a hockey mom at one point. "Pretty cute" we thought.

Now Obama gives a speech about change (nothing new here, especially since he's chosen a VP who is part of the "old political machine" he's trying to distance himself from). In the speech he says, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." WHAT??? You heard it right. In essence, he's called Sara Palin a pig.

I just decided who I'm not voting for. Any politician who says something like this shows an enormous lack of judgment and good sense. This was not a slip, but a planned dig. With Palin, the hockey joke was cute and funny. The trouble is that Obama's joke isn't nearly as funny as the idea of putting this clown in office!