In an article about how Democrats are supposedly unloading on McCain's VP pick and are “intensifying their attacks on Sarah Palin,” Politico included reference to the fact that on Tuesday Obama derided the McCain-Palin reform rhetoric by saying, “You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.”

But even Politico conceded that comment was not targeted at Palin personally. (i.e. Obama certainly was not calling her a pig.) So why would Politico include that quote in an article about “personal attacks” on Palin?

We're not sure why. But we do know Politico got a Drudge link out of the deal.