"We've been talking about change when we were up in the polls and when we were down in the polls, The other side, suddenly, they're saying 'we're for change too'. Now think about it, these are the same folks that have been in charge for the last eight years.

"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough," he said to a standing ovation.

"Senator Obama uttered what I can only describe to be disgusting comments, comparing our vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, to a pig," Jane Swift said. Let's remember, Sarah Palin described herself as a "pitbull with lipstick" during her acceptance speech. Could this be another lame attempt to try to make Democrats look sexist?

McCain's Response: The McCain campaign is now saying Obama called Palin a pig, which he didn't. The Obama campaign notes that "lipstick on a pig" is a fairly common idiom Obama often uses, as in a recent Washington Post interview. McCain has also used the phrase.

Obama's Response: Enough is enough. The McCain campaign's attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy ' the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run. See more political news.