McCain called Hillary's healthcare plan "Lipstick on a Pig".
Hillary didn't get all fucking offended about it... This seriously makes the Republicans look like bitches.
Hilary didn't use the phrase "They say the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull.........LIPSTICK", just a few days prior to McCain's statement, either.
That's the point. That phrase became rather catchy, to the point where any political association with lipstick flies immediately to Sarah Palin. Obama had to know that. Yet he, intentionally or not (and I believe it's not), walked right into that.
With Biden and an Obama spokesman, ALSO using a lipstick reference shortly after Palin's speech, Obama's comment didn't help matters.
At the end of the day, the Democrats are rattled. Even Democratic commentators on talk shows are getting flustered. They're worried that Obama keeps setting himself up to get hammered and may throw this election away. They're also frustrated that, so far, they can't get to Sarah Palin.