Breaking News: McCain Vs. Edwards?!

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What Do John McCain and John Edwards Have In Common?

Not much other than their first name. Then again they both spend a good deal of money to look stylish.

Remember how Republicans across America (come to think of it, it wasn't only Republicans) brought up the Edwards $400 haircut day after day after day?

Well guess what? John McCain has been wearing a $520 pair of Italian loafers. I guess this means all of those people just couldn't stop talking about 'pretty boy' Edwards being "out of touch" because he had and spent money are going to be consistent and bash McCain, right?

Or will they pretend it's COMPLETELY different. Really, is it?

Why, because the head and the feet are at opposite ends of the body? Sure, you can get an $8-12 haircut at SuperCuts or GreatClips or whatever but can't you also buy $20 shoes at PayLess? How in the world can I take McCain seriously if he spends over FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for his shoes!

PS---Oh, and did I mention they are Italian? What, he couldn't find Strong American Shoes? I don't know, I'm starting to wonder how much he really loves America...did you know he doesn't even wear a flag pin?
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my prediction (none / 0)
You won't see women bashing candidates for these expenditures ;)  Sexist remark, I know, but I hate these types of petty attacks.  (I know that isn't your point IHNB.)

by desertpear on 07/30/2008 03:24:24 PM EST

I don't care at all about his shoes (none / 0)
generally speaking.

I ONLY care because of the Republican tactic to label EVERY candidate "elitist" and "out of touch". Edwards was an outrageous example but you won't hear a peep out of the Edwards haters now.

PS---Has anyone seen Obama's shoes?

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 03:48:11 PM EST

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I hear they're black (none / 0)
and also Muslim.

by Spencer on 07/30/2008 03:54:01 PM EST

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What? (none / 0)
No shoe-bomb joke?

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 03:55:17 PM EST

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I thought saying they were Muslim (none / 0)
should have covered all of the possible terrorist/bomb jokes.  Yeah, I said it.  That's how I see it!!!

by Spencer on 07/30/2008 04:01:28 PM EST

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Touche' (none / 0)
eom

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 04:11:33 PM EST

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What does "eom" mean? (none / 0)
For those of us not so up on the "leetspeak" you damn kids are always using.

by Spencer on 07/30/2008 04:24:18 PM EST

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Wow? (none / 0)
You're joking right, you don't even know what eom means?!

I'm kidding, I didn't know until relatively recently either. It means "end of message". I had nothing to say in the message body so I just wrote "eom".

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 04:27:38 PM EST

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Also "Touche'"? (none / 0)
What's that, French or somethin'?

by Spencer on 07/30/2008 04:25:20 PM EST

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2-Shay (none / 0)
lol, omg, ur so crazee!!!*








*the sad thing is, some people actually write that way.

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 04:28:35 PM EST

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eom belongs in the (none / 0)

in your case since you said it all in the subject. if it were an email i wouldn't have to open it.

eom goes in the body when the body text contains information that needs no reply.

 john mccain, NOT for president. 

 I approve this message.

by Ronin Democrat on 07/31/2008 05:22:20 AM EST

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And so it goes (none / 0)
You are apparently a bigger net-nerd than I am. Carry on!

eom

by ihavenobias on 07/31/2008 08:39:39 AM EST

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that's funny (none / 0)

by desertpear on 07/30/2008 04:14:16 PM EST

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I know that wasn't your point (none / 0)
I don't think it is outrageous for a rich man to want $500 Italian shoes.  Or for a candidate to get a $400 haircut.  They are both rich and it's all relative of course. 

by desertpear on 07/30/2008 04:17:07 PM EST

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Listen here Pear (none / 0)
I've had enough of you being so argumentative and...oh wait, never mind.

:)

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 04:20:17 PM EST

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BTW weren't there special circumstances? (none / 0)
When Edwards got that haircut, it didn't bother me so much because these rich people live by such obscene standards every day so one more example is nothing.
 In his world, there were special circumstances that mad eth ehigh cost acceptable over the regular $100.00 hair cut. That was because, as I remember it, the hair stylist was brought out to the airport to do the cut on the campaign plane. So not only was the cut paid for but the travel time for the stylist to come to the airport in compensation for lost time at the salon. In those circumstances the higher cost of the hair cut was not normal and was acceptable given the priorities that Edwards has for how he looked in the campaign. Now I don't share those priorities and think Edwards is a dandy, but that's his thing and so he shouldn't be criticized any more than everyone else who shares that life style.

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 07/31/2008 01:20:28 PM EST

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Obama's shoes on Access Hollywood (none / 0)

According to Michelle, he needs new ones.

Access Hollywood interview A (shoe sighting at :39)

by pmdtrans on 07/31/2008 02:45:10 AM EST

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I wear Johnston & Murphy (none / 0)
They're expensive, but well worth it, because they can be reconditioned, resoled, reheeled, and last forever. That's why men buy expensive shoes. On the other hand, John Edwards is a pussy, and that's why he spends 30 minutes primping like a girl in front of the mirror. He is sickening.

by KenTX on 07/30/2008 04:39:53 PM EST

Primping is not sickening (none / 0)

I'd venture most do quite a bit of primping before going on camera.

Want to talk sickening?  How about a man who would change the details of his heroic POW confinement and torture just to grab a few more votes in Pittsburgh.  That is truly sickening. 

by pmdtrans on 07/31/2008 02:49:46 AM EST

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Man Primp (none / 0)
"I'd venture most do quite a bit of primping before going on camera."

Here is how George Bush prepares his hair before the camera is turned on.

Here is how John Edwards prepares his hair before the camera is turned on.

by KenTX on 07/31/2008 02:24:28 PM EST

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Yeah (none / 0)
But Edwards is having an affair.  How manly is THAT?

by Spencer on 07/31/2008 02:47:11 PM EST

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But Ken (none / 0)
Which one is getting laid more often? 

by desertpear on 07/31/2008 02:48:07 PM EST

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Still not sickening (none / 0)

McCain lying about details of being a POW for a few votes... sickening. 


by pmdtrans on 08/01/2008 01:56:44 AM EST

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Let me be the first to clue you in. (none / 0)
John Edwards' political career is over.

If that makes you sad, then it makes me even happier.

Do we understand each other?

by KenTX on 08/01/2008 02:21:58 AM EST

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No we don't (none / 0)

Because what I'm saying to you, and what you are not understanding is that your idea of what is sickening is ridiculous.

What I am saying to you is that your guy is a disgusting liar who is willing to piss all over his POW record to grab a couple of votes in PA. This seems to be what you are not willing to understand or accept.

I have never expressed any sadness for Ecwards in this exchange. You know what makes me sad?  McCain being a sickening, disgusting, pathetic liar. 

Calling Edwards playing with his hair sickening is ridiculous when compared to what McCain is done.  Keep your clue. You're painfully short of them already.

 

by pmdtrans on 08/01/2008 07:38:10 AM EST

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Wow , he is out of touch. (none / 0)

Oh, and did I mention they are Italian? What, he couldn't find Strong American Shoes?

That is hard...90+ percent of shoes are made in overseas..except some of the top end stuff.

BUT most big time politicians and business men wear Johnson and Murphy shoes. They ( except for the "foo foo" styles,)are made in the good old US of A. They are  expensive  250.00 and up, but...they last almost forever and can be be refurbished at the factory. You send in a pair , J&M reworks them for about 75$. You wear them for 5-10 more years...You send in a pair , J&M reworks them...

Bob Dole had two pair he bought in 1950..still wears em...

All of these guy wore J&Ms:

Millard Filmore, 1850
Franklin Pierce, 1853
James Buchanan, 1857
Abraham Lincoln, 1861
Andrew Johnson, 1865
Ulysses S. Grant, 1869
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877
James A. Garfield, 1881
Chester A. Arthur, 1881
Grover Cleveland, 1885
Benjamin Harrison, 1889
William B. McKinley, 1897
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901
William Howard Taft, 1909
Woodrow Wilson , 1913
Warren G. Harding, 1921
Calvin Coolidge, 1923
Herbert Hoover, 1929
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
Harry S. Truman, 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
John F. Kennedy, 1961
Lyndon B.Johnson, 1963
Richard M. Nixon, 1969
Gerald R. Ford, 1974
Jimmy Carter, 1977
Ronald Reagan, 1981
George Bush, 1989
Bill Clinton , 1993
George W. Bush

Quite a client list.

If they only made flip flops I'd be all set.

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 04:47:16 PM EST

No excuses (none / 0)
How can we trust someone to be president if he/she doesn't buy American?!

We have to ask ourselves where his allegiances really lie...*

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 04:50:53 PM EST

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No excuses made (none / 0)

Hey..I have a couple of pair of J&Ms I wore when I would go on business trips. They are kinda dusty now..but before I semi retired they were pretty much all I wore.

J&M's are from a different era...if your on your feet a lot or care more about solid craftsmanship than cutting edge fashion...they are the only way to go.

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 05:02:10 PM EST

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What does "J & M" stand for? (none / 0)
eom

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 05:05:08 PM EST

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Oy vey.... (none / 0)
Johnson and Murphy.

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 05:14:59 PM EST

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Don't you dare go Jewish on me now! (none / 0)
Some of us are closerin age to MTV than to Matlock and Murder She Wrote.

;)

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 05:19:59 PM EST

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A good shoe knows no generation... (none / 0)
Some things transcend flashs in the pan like MTV and youth.

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 05:31:22 PM EST

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Oh come on (none / 0)
You're telling me that Flavor Of Love and Sweet 16 won't be classics that will last generations??

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 05:40:33 PM EST

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Only in (none / 0)
a special hell reserved for Fox News correspondents and commentators.

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 05:47:51 PM EST

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That reminds me (none / 0)
If Cenk had lost the race to Ana he should've been made to dress up like Neil Cavuto.

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 05:49:01 PM EST

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Wow thats cold (none / 0)
Cenk as Mr Stay Puft

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 06:05:33 PM EST

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I can't see the pic (none / 0)
It's just an "image hosted by Angelfire" thingie.

What IS Angelfire anyway?

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 06:13:41 PM EST

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Fred and Ken are old school (none / 0)
Feast your eyes on these, young sportsmen.

Wingtips! Burgundy is my preferred color.
wingtips 
And when you’re going out for a casual evening with your best girl, there’s nothing like a seersucker suit, a pink carnation, and white bucks.
bucks

by KenTX on 07/30/2008 10:22:56 PM EST

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Ken is styling (none / 0)

Pink carnation sounds a wee bit San Francisco though...

yeah, let's see it young sportsmen--can you guys compete?  

by desertpear on 07/31/2008 02:54:56 AM EST

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I think I understand the problem. (none / 0)
You've never heard of Marty Robbins.

by KenTX on 07/31/2008 03:25:11 AM EST

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While Ken and I may bash each other heads in... (none / 0)

 

 

over politics, but an appreciation of the finer things...seersucker...wingt ips...best girls and, yes, just good old value transcends the more mundane things in life.

I'm telling you young guys( and gals), save the coin and buy a pair of J&Ms for your "interview" shoes... not only will you feel top drawer...your potential boss will notice and immediately see a young man or woman with a solid head on his/her shoulders... and that's swell!

Ladies, don't feel left out!

 

 

 

 

by MRFred on 07/31/2008 08:30:31 AM EST

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Those would be perfect for (none / 0)
Spotted Owl surveys.

by desertpear on 07/31/2008 02:50:49 PM EST

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Of course (none / 0)
and they are scat proof.

by MRFred on 07/31/2008 05:44:15 PM EST

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Speaking of... (none / 0)
I hear Obama is Jewish.  Can you say Barack Jewsein Obama?

by Spencer on 07/30/2008 06:08:58 PM EST

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My guess is (none / 0)
people are confusing his first name with this guy Ehud Barak

by MRFred on 07/30/2008 06:26:57 PM EST

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Yeah (none / 0)
All of those names look the same to me.

;)

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 08:31:52 PM EST

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Me and Ken have been workshopping some (none / 0)
nicknames based on this whole Jewsein Obama thing.  Mr. Chicago Cojewnity Organizer, Mr. Harvard Law Rejew, and Gay Wad (that one was Ken's).  We're pretty clever.  McCain's gonna have this election in the bag.

by Spencer on 07/30/2008 08:40:58 PM EST

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That link (none / 0)
You know, I had never seen that link and comment until now.

I knew Ken could could say stupid things, but he really lowered the bar there.

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 08:44:23 PM EST

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Goyem.... (none / 0)

Barak Hasidim O-bris

There ares so may Jewish references in that..

by MRFred on 07/31/2008 08:42:10 AM EST

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I'm not Jewish (none / 0)
but Phillip Roth is my second favorite author after Vonnegut.

My Life As A Man is an awesome book.

by ihavenobias on 07/31/2008 10:34:28 AM EST

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Oh my god (none / 0)
What's next?  Are we going to start comparing penis sizes among candidates?

by bfaul on 07/30/2008 05:23:04 PM EST

If there was a video (none / 0)
showing Edwards below the waist I'm guessing the answer to your question would be "yes", because the right wing would put it on youtube.

Just in case it's not obvious (should be but you never know) let me make it clear again that I don't give a shit about McCain's shoes. 

What I *do* care about is how every dem candidate for president is slammed as an out of touch elitist, all the while Ivy League rich kid Bush gets a pass, fake red pick-up truck Fred Thompson gets a pass, McCain and his $500+ Italian loafers get a pass and the list goes on and on and on.

Either we stay away from these bullshit issues altogether OR we cover everyone equally.

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 05:33:36 PM EST

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I know but (none / 0)
Isn't the real problem that this kind of crap is discussed at all? 

by bfaul on 07/30/2008 06:13:40 PM EST

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It depends (none / 0)
Some on the left have the same attitude regarding Media Matters, NewsHounds, Crooks and Liars, BraveNewFilms and other sites that dissect conservative media bias.

Personally I LOVE those sites because I don't believe in ignoring bullshit, I believe in shining a bright light on it.

Again, the key is to raise this issue *in the context* of how Republicans always try to frame Dems as out of touch elitists. If I or someone else were to raise the issue of McCain's shoes outside of this context, then yes, I'd agree 100%, there is no reason to do it. It's petty and irrelevant.

by ihavenobias on 07/30/2008 06:17:12 PM EST

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