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McCain's lipstick attacks on Obama smudge campaign

'Now it's getting really dirty," gasped the lead in one city paper.

"Now it's getting really stupid," might have been closer to the mark.

Barack Obama the other day equated John McCain's claim to represent change with putting lipstick on a pig - or wrapping old fish in a piece of paper and relabeling it.

Obama's statement was utterly conventional.

But in an audacious...

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