Haha.....I'd forgotten about that.

Johnson was a rough guy and his record is questionable but if he wanted to call you a pig he'd do it to your face and not try too-cute circumlocution.

>I agree the GOP should not have flown into high dudgeon, whatever was meant. I think they should have just said perhaps Obama wasn't as "articulate" as Biden claimed.
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>In the realm of pigs and politics, remember that classy guy - Lyndon Johnson ;-)
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>He used to advocate the "pig f*cker offense" - i.e. you call your opponent a pig-f*cker and make him deny it. :-)
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