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Here’s what Obama said Tuesday in Virginia, “John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different. You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.”
But what about the rest of what Obama said? Sound familiar? It should. It was ripped from a Tom Toles editorial cartoon in the Washington Post four days earlier. Toles drew McCain and Palin outside the White House. The gag line: “Watch out, Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and Supreme Court appointments and Rove-style politics, we’re coming in there to shake things up!”
