Muscatine

 There's lots of debate here in the comments thread and across the blogosphere about whether the McCain camp is overreacting, whether Obama should get the benefit of the doubt for using a common old metaphor at the wrong place and time, etc., etc.

Was he being malicious? Probably not. But it's yet another in a long line of rhetorical gaffes that demonstrate his ineptitude.

Or, as one commenter below summed it up succinctly: "The guy's a jerk."

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I should also note Obama's diss of McCain. Welcome to civility, hope, change, and new politics:

"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 crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,'" Obama continued, "it's still gonna stink after eight years.

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Kinda sad, seeing nobama shoot himself down in flames like that. Sad in a funny sort of way. Lol.

Yes, NObama is the gift that keeps on giving. SOME of his gems include:

"That was NOT the Rev. Wright I knew."

"Drilling off shore of the United States WILL NOT make a difference in oil prices for ten years."

"The surge DID make a difference in the Iraqi war...tho they should have listened to MY plan."

"I made a mistake on the Rezco real estate deal."

Now his big thing is to attack Gov. Palin and saying she does not have "experience" - talk about the pot calling the kettle black - and she is not running for the top of the ticket!! Basically, the attacks on Palin are sexism and he's scared!

Hahahahahahaha. This is the biggest joke of the campaign season yet. This is the bigbrother approach of "let's pretend we don't understand something so that we can then pretend to be outraged." Just because Palin used the word "lipstick" in her acceptance speech doesn't place the word off limits to her opponents. This is a phrase that's been used by politicians for years. Hell, McCain used the exact same phrase last October when referring to Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan saying "I think they put some lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig."

Faux outrage is all it is. If made up gaffes is all they've got then they're in some real trouble.