Obama Blasts McCain on Lipstickgate: Enough of the lies and distractions!

"Before we begin today I wanna say a few words about the latest made up controversy by the John McCain campaign. (laugh) What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw up an outrageous ad because they know it's catnip for the news media. Some of you may have....I'm assuming you guys heard this watching the news. I'm talking about John McCain's economic policies, I say this is more of the same, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. (laughter) And suddenly they say oh you must be talking about the governor of Alaska. (laughter) See, it would be funny, it would be funny except, of course the news media all decided that was the lead story yesterday. They'd much rather have the story, the McCain campaign would rather have the story be about phoney and foolish diversions than about the future. This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. We have an energy crisis. We have education, we have an education system that is not working for too many of our children, making us less competitive. We have an economy that is creating hardship for families all across America. We've got two wars going on. Veterans coming home not being cared for, and this is what they want to talk about. This is what they want to spend two out of the last 55 days talking about. You know who ends up losing at the end of the day? It's not the Democratic candidate, it's not the Republican candidate, it's you, the American people. Because then we go another year, another four years another eight years without addressing the issues that matter to you. Enough. I don't care what they say about me, but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swiftboat politics. (applause) Enough is enough. (applause) These are serious times and they call for a serious debate about where we need to take the nation. We can't take another four years that are like the last eight, where family incomes are going down at the same time as the costs of everything are on the rise. Where we keep on spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq in a times when our own infrastructure here at home is crumbling and the Iraqis have a 79 billion dollar surplus that they're not spending. We can't take another four years of the same trickle down on your own special interest first approach to economics that is killing the middle class in this country."

There's a little bit more but my wrist hurts and you get the drift.