Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Confusion on the Trail

An unlucky charm?

Though the fund raiser had been called off earlier this week, Cindy McCain did in fact visit a fund raising event in Seattle's Eastern Suburbs earlier today. Turns out, it was a simple miscommunication/confusion among McCain's aides. Husband John McCain, had originally expressed his desire to suspend the campaign in order to concentrate on the current economic crisis. On the bright side, Cindy's visit was successful and did raise an undisclosed amount of money.
Unfortunately, the McCain's are being blasted from all sides. Their honesty was called into question after it was revealed that they own 13 cars, only one of which happens to be an American model. This may not strike you as significant, until a certain John McCain quote is brought into play. "I've bought American literally all my life and I'm proud." It's difficult to imagine that Mr. McCain misspoke, after all but one of the cars are registered under Cindy's name. Funny how that works.

Michelle Obama earned some major mileage this week.

The potential first-lady made three stops in Wisconsin including West Allis, Madison and Wausau. During her campaign stop in Madison, Mrs. Obama focused on the women and young. Today Michelle was back in North Carolina. Once again she was joined by former Hillary Clinton supporter Maya Angelou. Angelou introduced Mrs. Obama to the loud and excited crowd in Greensboro.

Michelle's next campaign stop will be on Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida. There she will be joined by Jill Biden, wife of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden. This will be Michelle's first time back to Florida since this past July where she meet officials of the Adult Literacy League. The focus of the trip will be to encourage younger voters and to display the importance of registering to vote.

Must-see Potential First Lady Moment of the Week:

Dr. David Sire, an expert cosmetic doctor recently is one of many who believes Cindy McCain has received cosmetic treatments of some sort recently. However Dr. Sire recommends that Cindy go a little further in her "touching up."Then Dr. Sire's says, "She would look great!"
Before and After (From Left to Right)

3 comments:

sjunnarkar said...

The foreign cars comment is pathetic. Attacking McCain for owning a couple foreign cars is simply ridiculous. This is predicated upon a few points.

1) Part of being American is being able to CHOOSE whichever car you want.
2) Obama owned a Chrysler 300. Chrysler was owned by Daimler (a German Company); So...McCain is not the sole "perpetrator of betrayal."
3) I'd be willing to bet a pretty penny that every single man and woman in D.C. owns some sort of foreign-made good. Whether it is a t-shirt that is made in China or a Crayon that was smelted in Brazil, this is a sign of Globalization. The very thought that either candidate is unpatriotic is nauseating, and anyone referring to McCain's foreign vehicles in a negative manner fails to appreciate the fundamentals of global economics.


As for someone owning 13 cars, that's another issue...but in all honesty, if you own something like 7 houses, you kinda need a couple of cars to drive around when you are at a specific location.

Besides, we have a service-based economy...Detroit is decaying...in fact, I'd encourage Mr McCain to but 13 more cars.

hclausner said...

Sammy, not to ruin your rant or anything but the only reason the foreign car comment even came up is because McCain specifically said he only buys American cars.

Its not a matter of being patriotic or anything of the sort, but its a matter of HONESTY.

Kees Thompson said...

Henry, not to ruin you rant ruining Samir's rant, but we should examine the quote closely...

McCain stated, "I've bought American literally all my life, and I'm proud."

He didn't say he "only" bought American or "literally bought American all his life," but rather that he's bought American over the course of his life (and his proud). That doesn't mean he exclusively bought American. I believe the placement of the comma is by far the key component of the sentence.

I think this is one of the most important issues of the campaign, right up there with flag pins. I think we've heard enough about the financial crisis that will actually effect us all, and we really need to get down to real issues such as these.

Besides...at least all 7 of his houses are American (even though one of his daughters isn't).