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Obama attacks McCain's reformist credentials

AFP, Norfolk
Democrat Barack Obama late Tuesday launched a vitriolic attack on his Republican White House rivals' reformist credentials, likening their promise of change to putting "lipstick on a pig."
"We've been talking about change when we were up in the polls and when we were down in the polls," Obama said as surveys suggested John McCain and Sarah Palin have overhauled his lead for die November 4 election.
"The other side, suddenly, they're saying 'we're for change too.' Now think about it, these are ffie same folks that have been in charge for the last eight years," the Illinois senator told a crowd of 2,400 people in Lebanon, Virginia.
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up 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," he exclaimed to a standingovation.
The McCain campaign decried Obama's language as the latest example of sexism thrown at the little-known politician vying to be America's first female vice president.
Former Republican Massachusetts governor Jane Swift said Obama was guilty of "disgraceful comments, comparing our vice presidential nominee, Governor Palin, to a pig."
"It's clear to me -- as I'm sure it will be to fair-minded Republicans, Democrats and independents across the country - that Senator Obama owes Governor Palin an apology," she told reporters.
In accepting the party's vice presidential nomination, Alaska Governor Palin joked at the Republican convention last week that the only difference between a "hockey mom" like herself and a pitbull was "lipstick."
The Obama campaign retorted that "lipstick on a pig" was a well-worn phrase and, via senior adviser Anita Dunn, issued a stinging retort after spending days accusing McCain and Palin of playing fast and loose with the truth.
"Enough is enough The McCain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy -- the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year," Dunn said in a statement.
"This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly
dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run," she said.
True to her pitbull tag, Palin has been mauling Obama daily on the campaign trail as McCain presents their Republican ticket as true change that will shake up Washington, salvage the economy and protect the nation from foreign threats.
While Obama rallied voters in one Lebanon, the Republicans campaigned in another Lebanon, in Ohio, where Palin repeated her contentious claim that she had said "thanks, but no thanks" to an infamous "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska.
At the Ohio event alongside Palin, McCain proclaimed themselves a "team of mavericks" who would "return this government back to the people of this country."