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Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has caused a stir after he implied that Governor Sarah Palin is a ‘pig in lipstick’.

Senator Obama was speaking in Lebanon, Virginia on Tuesday when he picked apart his rival, Senator John McCain’s Washington policies, “He 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!’”

He went on, “That’s not change … you know, you can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.”

This last remark was applauded and cheered by audience members who immediately thought it was a reference to McCain’s vice-presidential nominee ‘hockey mom’ Palin.

Governor Palin cracked a joke at the Republican National Convention last week Wednesday saying, “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”

Obama has been criticized for not choosing fellow Democrat and former presidential runner Hillary Clinton as his second in charge and has tried to win over the female contingent of the Democratic voting demographic, 18 million of whom were Clinton supporters.

Straight after the now-notorious lipstick remark, the Republican campaign immediately painted Obama a sexist, calling his analogy ‘disgusting’.

Robert Gibbs, chief Obama spokesman, scoffed at the notion that the remark was in any way directed at the 44-year old mother of five, saying, “The expression is timeless and it has always meant that though you may dress something up, it doesn’t change what that something is.”

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