Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig  —  The first McCain truthsquadding telephone call is taking place right now, and ex-MA Gov. Jane Swift is complaining about an idiom Barack Obama used today: … Suddenly, common analogies are sexist?  —  The McCain campaign has little respect for Obama, but they don't think he is stupid.

Obama Says McCain Is Offering Fake Change: 'You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, But It's Still a Pig'  —  LEBANON, Va. — “That's not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.  —  “You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it's still a pig.”

The Hunt for Sarah October  —  City slickers invade Wasilla  —  Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan.  The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women …

DID OBAMA MEAN TO CALL SARAH PALIN A PIG?  It's probably just a slip, but . . . “The crowd apparently took the ‘lipstick’ line as a reference to Palin.”  —  Reader David Schlosser emails: “This will endear him to all those disaffected Hillary voters.”  And former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift is calling on Obama to apologize.

No questions, please; Palin sticks to her script  —  LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — John McCain took a risk in picking little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate, but now the campaign's playing it safer.  She's sticking to a greatest hits version of her convention speech on the campaign trail …

Was McCain the stinky old fish?  —  In all the furor over the Obama “pig” quote, commentators forgot to examine his entire attack:  —  “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 stink.”

Dumber Than A Stump  —  Holy pimento cheese on a cracker!  Do these idiots even speak to regular Americans?  Ever?!?  —  Jake Tapper, proving that even a blind hog can trip over an acorn while he's starving and smell nothing whatsoever and then keep on stumbling forward until someone hand feeds him dung and he thanks them for it:

A Piggish Debate  —  McCain said Clinton's proposal was “eerily” similar to the ill-fated plan she devised in 1993,  —  “I think they put some lipstick on a pig,” he said, “but it's still a pig.”  —  A common expression, right?  —  McCain surely wasn't calling Clinton a pig.

McCain Campaign Fumes Over Paterson's Racism Claim  —  N.Y. Governor Says Palin's Repeated Use Of ‘Community Organizer’ Is Another Way Of Saying ‘Black’  —  ALBANY (CBS) ― On Monday, Gov. David Paterson angered some state lawmakers by comparing them to vampires, calling them a bunch of “blood suckers.”

New McCain Ad Falsely Suggests Obama Wants Kids To Learn “About Sex Before Learning To Read”  —  The McCain campaign is up with a new ad attacking Obama on education that makes some rather strong insinuations about sex:  —  There's a lot to chew on here.  But we want to focus on one particularly pernicious aspect of it.