He was trying to provoke his audience by comparing Palin to a pig and worse an old fish. He succeeded in it, but completely misjudged how this would spread virally over the political landscape.
The McCain campaign needs to let it go though and let the fire rage at the grassroots.
I am surprised that everyone had left off at the lipstick comment and ignored Obomber’s next breath about wrapping OLD fish in newspaper and how it still stinks.
He clearly was being provocative, but his mind-numb robots will argue otherwise.
My daughter found this appropriate movie clip from the 1940 movie “The Ghost Breakers”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzV5AIK8iM
0be is just showing that he will not be bringing a “new tone” anywhere and has been already coopted by the old Chicago Politics of stasis.