From an interview with Obama in Univision:

"Everything that's said in the campaign makes headlines and yesterday you said, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." Republicans are suggesting that it was an insult to Sarah Palin. What did you mean by that comment and in hindsight, do you regret saying that?"

-Absolutely not, this is nonsense....

"-You don't regret saying that...?"

-Of course not. I was talking about John McCain's economic policies, and I said, "He can call it change, but it's not change, and if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig." That is an old expression.

-"But, why use that metaphor when it's one of Sarah Palin's most famous phrases up to now."

-What do you mean?

"-The difference between a pitbull..."

-No, no, but listen...

"...and a hockey mom is lipstick..."

-I don't watch Sarah Palin's speeches. This is a metaphor...

"-You don't watch her speeches?"

-I'm not worried about what she is saying. This is an expression I've used; this is an expression John McCain has used. So the notion that somehow now that she uses an expression, that somehow you cannot use that expression as well, I think is just a fabrication.

This is an example of them not wanting to talk about those issues. What does that have to do with the lives of your viewers? What does that have to do with what they are going through right now? We have the highest foreclosure rate since the Great Depression. There are families in communities all across America that are losing their homes.

We were talking yesterday about education and making sure that we reduce the drop out rate, and this is what the McCain campaign wants to talk about? And unfortunately the media, this often times is what the media is interested in talking about, instead of talking about the things that are going to make a difference in people's lives. So, I have absolutely no regrets about it; and we are going to change how politics works in this country so we actually start dealing with the serious problems that we face.
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