I don't believe it was intended by Obama as an attempt at likening Palin to a pig. Course not - from everything I've seen of him, that's not his style. (...sweetie
) But I do feel that he should have been savvy enough to see that using that phrase
after Palin's lipstick pit-bull analogy - and not paying attention to the new interpretation that was now open to be gauged from that - would be asking for trouble.
The whole kerfuffle is a stupid great big pile of poo, but there you go.....