This election will be decided, unfortunately, like all the other recent elections before it. It will be decided by inane issues like whether a candidate likes to wind surf or what kind of coffee he likes to drink. And John McCain and the Republicans are making sure of that yet again. We're getting endless McCain statements about Barack Obama's favorite energy bar for working out (only the McCain people would try to paint exercise as a negative). If McCain is going to make this election about ancillary details, then so be it. The man has 9 houses and wears $520 shoes. To be fair, his wife can't really recall how many houses they own, it may be 8 or it may be 10. But we do know that McCain loves his ridiculously expensive Italian loafers. I don't know a lot of macho vets who wear $520 Italian shoes. And I'd put them up against an energy drink any day.
August 12, 2008 5:08 AM