Forgive the "yeah, we know" nature of some of this; crossposted from my blog on myspace where this was actually news to an alarming number of people. I'm sure everyone here knows this already but I was having a slow day.
Anybody notice the McCain campaign stop the other day where he was touring a supermarket to show how the man who claimed to know nothing about the economy (until he claimed he didn't claim that) was so concerned with food prices?
Well, anybody notice where he stopped to talk for the cameras? Was it in front of the meat? Bread? Rice? Corn? Uh, no.
He was interviewed standing in front of the dairy section, particularly the part containing the CHEESE. Yes, cheese. Processed, dyed, individually wrapped slices of bland, nutritionally-valid but comically-charged American CHEESE.
Dewd, don't you have a single advance man who could have situated you in a slightly less comic part of the store? The only thing inherently funnier if he'd been standing in front of the bologna.
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