Obama blasted for lipstick comment

Today, John McCain and Barack Obama both campaign in Virginia and lipstick appears to be the new catchword of the race.  Who knew the word “lipstick” would be so loaded.  The McCain-Palin camp is demanding Obama apologize for a lipstick comment he made yesterday. 

Obama aides called the reaction outright phony.

It’s a huge applause line for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Sen. McCain said “change is coming and it’s coming in next January to Washington DC.“

Barack Obama told supporters in Virginia don’t buy it and without mentioning Palin he turned her lipstick line around.

Sen. Obama said “you can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig… you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still gonna to stink.“

McCain’s campaign called Obama’s lipstick reference disgusting, comparing Palin to swine.

Aides to Obama called that a pathetic attempt to play the gender card and pointed to McCain’s description of Hillary Clinton’s health care plan late last year.

Sen. McCain said “they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.“

The back-and-forths are lightning speed.

Within hours of Obama’s promise in Ohio to double federal funding on charter schools, McCain was out with this ad, slamming Obama on education.

Obama has backed teaching kids, even kindergartners, about inappropriate touching, the campaign said last year to help protect children from pedophiles.

But while Obama’s camp defends, McCain’s stresses a record of reform.

Gov. Sarah Palin said “in our state we reformed the abuses of earmarks.“

Alaskans regularly get more federal money per capita than any other state.

This year twice as much as number two, Hawaii.

Today, both candidates are in Virginia, a red state in presidential elections for 44 years.  Obama sees a chance to turn that around, but today McCain and Palin had to move their rally from a high school gym in Fairfax to a park because of the expected crowd.