H. is under fire for one of his latest comments, the "lipstick on a pig" quip. Of course, he denies that he was referring to Sarah Palin when he said,""You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig." He further added, in reference to McCain, "you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years." The audience of Democrats laughed audibly when thy heard the word "lipstick," and took it as an obvious reference to Sarah Palin's line about lipstick being the difference between a hockey mom and a pit-bull.

You would have to be naive to think that H. didn't mean that to be an obvious reference to Sarah Palin. He swaggered a bit as he said it, and you can see the look of acknowledgment and satisfaction on his face when he hears the audience chuckle. Conversely, if he didn't mean to make the reference or draw a comparison to the two comments, then he must be pretty, uh, stupid not to know how that would be taken. I don't think he's stupid (if he is, that would be a good reason not to vote for him), so he meant it.

That's the guy the Democrats have put up; an audacious, petty and crass individual whose ego is bigger than his abilities. He does reflect a large part of his base: those liberals and Democrats who are mean-spirited and resort to dirty tricks to achieve their goals. He claimed to be a new kind of politician, but he is just as vile a mud-thrower as any that have come before him. And he has less class, and less grace than most that have come before him. These remarks, the latest in a long line pf petty and vulgar statements, show him to be a man not fit for the highest office in the land.