All this controversy over Barack Obama's use of the deep-South phrase about putting lipstick on a pig recalls that queen of folksy rhetoric, Ann Richards, who used to say it a lot. I was there her during the summer 1992,...
What do you get when you mix a folksy figure of speech, a female vice presidential nominee, a dead heat election, and a slow news day? No, it's not a dead fish, and it's not a pig with makeup....
Down South, we're familiar with the phrase "lipstick on a pig." As in, you can put some on one, but it's still a pig. Barack Obama of Illinois used the phrase today during a campaign stop in Lebanon, Virginia. "The...
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