ON PIGS

“Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
Senator John McCain
(In New Hampshire in January after reporters asked him about Mr. Romney.)


"It gets down to whether you support what's being done in this new strategy or you don't. You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig in my view."
John McCain
February 1, 2007


"It's all about withdrawal or not withdrawal, okay? I mean that's what it's all about. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig."
John McCain
February 1, 2007


“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston Churchill


“If God blesses a Man, his Bitch brings forth Pigs.”
Benjamin Franklin


“There are too many pigs for the teats.”
Abraham Lincoln

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Poor, poor pigs---poor, poor maligned pigs!

We humans say, "She looks like a pig."

Or, "He or she eats like a pig."

Or simply,
"Don't be a pig!"

The poor pigs in the novel Lord of the Flies received the worst kinds of insults.

I am worrying about protons colliding at the speed of light, and about how the world might end
because of their collision, but the presidential candidates are talking about putting lipstick on
Pigs!

And what it means to each candidate.

What has this Republic come to?

Wars.
Deficits.
Wars.
Deficits.
Deficits.
Deficits.
More Wars.
More Deficits.

Both candidates should worry less about pigs and what to put on their lips (and the associations and innuendos thereof), and begin worrying about Wars and Deficits...and what they're going to do about them...and Education, Health Care, the Global-Environmental crisis
Etc.

Deeds...not words!

Actions...not talk!

Leave the pigs to us who love to fry and eat their bacon...

But no lipstick!



By Mad Plato


IT'S NOT THE PIGS STUPID!



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After Obama Jab, Pig Lipstick Sales Surge

by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace

(2008-09-10) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s growing popularity has spawned a booming cottage industry in Palin-esque items from hockey jerseys to her distinctive frameless eyeglasses. Now, an allegedly off-hand remark by Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama has sparked a run on another product, clearing the shelves of pig lipstick at farm stores across the nation

Yesterday, Sen. Obama mocked the McCain-Palin ticket’s “maverick” claim, at one point noting that “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig“. An explosion of laughter from his audience on the word ‘lipstick’ seemed to indicate that many people recalled the punchline of Gov. Palin’s convention joke about the difference between a hockey Mom and a pitbull, and thought he was ridiculing her.

The combination of Sen. Obama’s ability to mesmerize a crowd, and Gov. Palin’s endearing personality almost-instantaneously revived a once-moribund market in domestic animal beauty products.

So, while the debate over whether Sen. Obama meant the comment as a slap at Gov. Palin continues, at least one maker of cosmetics for horses, cows, sheep and pigs — Wisconsin-based Haybelline — is wallowing in record sales, not only of pig lipstick, but of porcine cosmetics in general.

“We’ve been flooded with calls from retailers,” said an unnamed Haybelline spokesman. “All of the lipstick in our Passionate Pigment line is just gone, and stores are dangerously low on stocks of other products like mascara, blush and our classic sparkling snoutliner.”

The Haybelline source said “the timing couldn’t be better” because the firm is about to launch a complete line of beauty products for use on wild animals, slain by hunters, which appear in trophy photos.

“I just got off the phone with our plant manager,” he said, “I told him to go round the clock on production of Magnificent Moose Mousse. I just have a gut feeling this is going to be big.”