Obama probably didn’t intend to personally attack Sarah Palin with that headline quote, but what is Obama thinking. Now you have a headline on Drudge, Obama and his campaign are going down like the Titanic:

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

“We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”

The crowd apparently took the “lipstick” line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: “lipstick.”

This goes to the larger point of why Obama is bringing back his John Stewart/Eddie Murphy comedy routine on the stump. He tried this earlier in the summer when the Republicans were mocking his tire inflation energy strategy. Obama doesn’t do comedy well, he comes off as arrogant and childish, especially with that annoying chuckle that he tries to pass off as genuine laughter.

This entire week Obama has been mired in attacking Palin, the other day he was laughing that Alaska was the only state he has not visited. Yesterday he said this:

Barack Obama: No, no it’s an interesting story (crowd laughs), no, no it is, I mean that sincerely. I mean I think you know, you know it’s uh, Mother, Governor, Moose Shooter. I mean uh, it’s cool. No that’s cool. (Crowd laughs)

So in Politics 101, what chapter is it that states you gain political points by making fun of hunters. Someone, anyone, Bueller, Axelrod, Axelrod. Perhaps after this campaign is over Axelrod and Obama will co-teach a class on how to lose an election when every single factor in the environment favors your party.

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