On Tuesday September 9th Barack Obama made the comment “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” Everyone immediately jumped to the conclusion that Obama was making an attack on McCain’s vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. These accusations were formed because in a speech Palin jokes about the only difference between a hockey mom and pit-bull is lipstick.

In response Obama immediately stated that his comment was taken out of context, he was referring to the McCain’s economic policies. Meaning, in my opinion, that you can change the Republican candidate but it still won’t make a difference. In other words if McCain is elected it will be like another year of Bush.

Obama is the only one who really knows how he meant that comment, but why does it matter when McCain used the same analogy against Hillary Clinton last year?

McCain and Palin now have a commercial about Obama’s comment. I personally think that this is a pathetic attempt at winning votes. I also find this commercial annoying because everyone knows what Obama said. How could we not? It has been all over the news since Tuesday.

I think everyone is making way too  much of this comment. Seriously, there are much more important things to be worrying about right now other than pigs. Maybe we should try worrying about how to lower gas prices and get the economy back on track instead of worrying about who compared whom to a pig.