The Herald Bulletin, Anderson, Indiana

Was Barack Obama aiming his "pig in lipstick" comment at Sarah Palin?

Are you kidding me? Obama is an eminently intelligent and well-spoken man. I'm sure that, if he wanted to directly, verbally attack Palin, he could come up with something much more devastating than calling her a pig.

For crying out loud, that's something you do on the playground. Then again, we are talking about American politics.

There are even clips of McCain referring to Hillary Clinton's legislative proposals by using that same phrase. It's an old phrase. Kicking up the dust with this when there are so many issues that Americans need to discuss is useless.

There's a phrase my mom used to use, kind of similar to the "pig in lipstick" phrase. Something to do with something being as useless as [DELETED] on a boar.

Smart woman, my mom.