lipstick on a pig

Matt Bai’s long article on Sen. Barack Obama in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is already reverberating among news junkies. There’s plenty of political and racial points to debate.
One passage really caught my eye,  because I attended the same small-town Obama event in southwestern Virginia that Bai describes. Pardon the long excerpt, but Bai [...]

In an interview with The Associated Press today in Jacksonville, Fla., Sen. John McCain admitted what every rational person in the country already knows — that Sen. Barack Obama did not call Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a pig.