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br> Cape Coral, Florida /p> p> CULTURAL GAMECHANGER br> Re: W. James Antle III's Up from Murphy Brown : /p>

Let's all apply our investigative skills to find out if Mr. Obama has ever used the "lipstick on a pig" idiomatic expression before this instance. If he uses it frequently, then he might plausibly defend this recent use at his partisan rally.

However...

My instinct says he's never used this during his campaign -- primary or otherwise. I doubt it is an expression he's really ever used. As a Midwestern, I know it to be a common phrase, but we all know Mr. Obama is far too meticulous, calculating, purposeful and clever with his partisan prepared statements to choose this particular phrase to describe his thoughts on Sen. McCain's economic policy and feign innocence when confronted.

In other words, the junior Senator from Illinois (let's call him "JSFI") knew what he was doing when he chose to use this expression and deliver it with the cadence that allowed his partisan crowd to "eat the red meat", but he also knew he could rely on technicalities to maintain a preponderance of innocence.

p>...just like trying to understand what the meaning of "is" is, when deposed. We'll only see a new, constructive political discourse from the liberal left when lipsticked pigs start to fly. br> -- Bill Attinger

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