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.
But then it got funnier. Obama goes to Berlin and speaks in front of 200,000 of his closest friends. McCain goes to the German Village in Columbus, Ohio (which is I will freely admit really fun) and eats at a German restaurant, just to prove he can connect with our Teutonic friends as well.
Oh, and then the photo op. Waitresses in pretty dirndls? Happy, well fed patrons? Nah. In front of a big sign saying "Schmidt's Fudge Haus." Fudge. Just what you expect from a politician, fudge and cheez. Srsly, is he TRYING to look as gormless as possible? Because it's working, REALLY working.
No wonder the late night guys are having so much trouble with this one. The candidate's writing his own damn material.