It's possible that one of the reasons why the part of the speech before the lipstick comment was edited was because it would have caused another scandal for Obama.

He plagiarized a Washington Post cartoon in an attack on McCain/Palin and failed to attribute the comment to the original author.

Here is the part that was left out before the comment:

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John McCain says he's about change too. Exce- and and so I guess his whole angle is - watch out, George Bush - except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl-Rove-style politics, we're really gonna shake things up in Washington.

That's not change.

That's that's just calling something the same thing something different.

But you know, you can't, you know, you you can put, ah, lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
Here's the original cartoon by Tom Toles of the Washington Post:


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I guess Joe Biden does have an influence on him. wink

Remember that Joe Biden was forced to quit the presidential race in 1988 when he was forced to admit plagiarizing a source in a Law Review article and was using lines from former British Labour Leader Neil Kinnock in his speeches without attribution.

EDIT: cleaned up some misspellings in the original quote I got it from.

-- Roger

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