Beauty product PR releases that grab my attention are usually for unintended reasons.  Case in point is today's announcement by Hot Pants Cosmetics for a lipstick named after Senator Obama and Governor Palin.

I found the announcement depressing.  Do we have to commercialize everything? Now it's sound bites, before it was altruism. 

Perhaps this is the last piece of incontrovertible evidence that we've entered a New World Order suggested by conspiracy theorists.

You may get something more meaningful from reading about Hot Pants decision to rename 2 lipsticks (un)inspired by the media coverage associated with lipstick on a dog/pig.  So here is the blurb:

In 1988 the phrase “Read my lips, no new taxes” became an overnight sound bite. Two decades later Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Barack Obama both made reference to lipstick within a two-week timeframe.

So it seems fitting that lipstick continue to play a role in the electoral process. Miami-based Hot Pants Cosmetics is launching two limited edition shades in honor of Governor Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama. Palin Pink™ and Obama Berry™ Lip Lust ... Hot Pants renamed best-selling shades of its Lip Lust gloss in Baby Shimmer Pink and Berry and created new labeling in honor of this year’s lipstick-infused campaigns.