"It is kind of like putting
lipstick on a pig," Abernathy said during Monday's village board meeting.
''You can put
lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.'' With a woman on the ticket, apparently all references to cosmetics -- or pork of the non-bridge variety, for that matter -- are forbidden.
IF Barack Obama intended to insult Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin with his "
lipstick on a pig" comment, it was a daft thing to do.
But Obama officials hit back, insisting McCain had previously used the "
lipstick on a pig" line to attack former Democrat contender Hillary Clinton.
DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Barack Obama's comments that "you can put
lipstick on a pig" were "offensive and disgraceful", John McCain's campaign said.
Time and again people seek sun-drenched lifestyles by doing the architectural equivalent of slapping
lipstick on a pig. In this case, however, the creature in question didn't even need make-up.
In her new book,
Lipstick on a Pig (Free Press, $26.00), which is part memoir, part how-to, Clarke says that pulling the wool over people's eyes is no longer an option.