Everything You Need to Know About Politics

It's not always easy to sum up a profession in just a couple of sentences, but I think a recent quote from a CNN article did a good job at capturing the 95% of the essence of politics.

"John McCain's campaign said Tuesday Barack Obama's reference to "lipstick on a pig" to describe the Republican's vow to bring change to Washington was offensive language, and a slap at VP nominee Sarah Palin "despite the fact that the Arizona senator himself used the phrase last year to describe a policy proposal of Hillary Clinton's."