Published 9/10/2008
by Mark Murray
at First Read
From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum and NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger and Adam Aigner-Treworgy The McCain campaign is calling on Obama to apologize after he said these harmless remarks mocking Team McCain's call for change.
"John McCain says he’s about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is ‘Watch out George Bush -- except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education, policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove style politics -- we’re really going to shake things up in Washington,'" Obama said today at a town hall in Lebanon, VA.
He then added, "That's not change. That's just calling the same thing something different. But you know, you can ... put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change; it's still going to stink. After eight years, we've had enough of the same old thing. It's time to bring about real change to Washington." Former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift , Chair of the newly found Palin Truth Squad, ...
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