This directly contradicts the claim made by a top surrogate, former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift, last week:

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Did Barack Obama really call Sarah Palin a pig, as a John McCain ad leads people to believe?



"No," McCain said Monday.



The Republican presidential nominee defended the ad anyway, saying Obama "chooses his words very carefully." The implication: Obama was slyly up to something when he said McCain's call for change in Washington is "lipstick on a pig," days after Palin made a lipstick joke at the Republican convention.

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