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  McCain Has Said "Lipstick On A Pig" At Least Three Times
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News DateWednesday, September 10, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionBy Greg Sargent - September 10, 2008, 10:04AM

As you know, the McCain campaign is pretending to be outraged by Barack Obama's use of the common phrase "lipstick on a pig," with McCain surrogates pretending that they believe that Obama was tacitly referring to Sarah Palin as a porker.

The McCain campaign even has a new Web ad (see video below) hitting Obama over the "pig" line.

As it turns out, however, McCain himself has used the same phrase not once, not twice, but at least three times.

The first one is the one that's gotten all the attention: McCain using the phrase last October to describe Hillary's health plan. But there are two more examples.
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