I saw Obama respond pretty well but it still seemed like he was being too polite and nice about it. The Obama campaign still has it's face buried in sand and is playing right into the hands of the republicans with it's 'Let's copy Kerry's campaign strategy to the T' campaign strategy. Hit back HARD for god's sake and use this as an opportunity to show how the McCain campaign is knowingly mischaracterizing his comments and show clearly to the American public how low a road the candiates and the McCain campaign are taking to get elected. How about this as a rebuttal "There was no room for doubt from Mr. Obama's statements that he was very obviously talking about the economic policies of McCain in the same sentence that he talks about applying "lipstick to a pig" which referred of course to applying "lipstick" to Mr. McCain's economic policies. The fact that there is absolutely no way the sentence can be attributed as a remark against Gov Palin or a sexist remark under any stretch of imagination makes it obvious that the McCain campaign is knowingly mischaracterizing Senator Obama's statement and is taking a shockingly low road for the campaign. We credit the American people with a lot more sense than the McCain campaign does and we request that the American public and the media speak out strongly against using such lowly and cheap tricks as part of an election campaigns"

You get the idea. There's a lot more you can build up on that text above. This was their golden opportunity to turn the tables faster than they can say 'Lipstick on a pig'. Every attack from the feared GOP can be turned back just as easily and in fact can be used as ammuntion against themselves, if only the democratic startegists were a wee bit more brighter than the Mooses from Gov Palin's state.  Repeat after me "Hit back harder than you get"!! If any of the readers agree or have any inputs for the Obama campaign please write down your thoughts as they might help them (they certainly need all the help they can).