Official McCain '08 Collectible Golfer's Ballsack
-Headline of the day-
"McCain belatedly scrubs mocking comments from Web store."
John McCain's website runs an online store as both a fundraiser and as Googlebait. Among the items you can buy are a $50 "golf pack," water bottles, and coffee mugs. So far, so good. But forward planning didn't really happen here and it seems like no one played out possible problems beforehand. Signs of how a McCain White House would operate? I sure hope not. Presidents have to do things like plan ahead.
According to the report, "In what now seems a misguided attempt to achieve some Web 2.0 street cred, the McCain campaign had encouraged users to post reviews of the memorabilia on the page. Problem was, apparently nobody thought to moderate the reviews that were posted, resulting in a slew of insults hurled at McCain from online pranksters." The phony "reviews" stayed up for two days before staffers noticed that many of them were -- well -- unkind.
A sampling:
"The 2000 Father’s Day McCain Golf Pack had more balls. This golf pack is too much like the George W. Bush golf pack I got last year. But, I will show those Obama supporters that i’m no elitist when I knock a hole in one," one read.
Another wondered when "a Joe Lieberman Certified McCain Ballwasher" would be available.
Still another said, "I bought fifteen of these bottles, filled them with hot water, and gave them to all of the dehydrated babies I know." Yes, McCain really said we should do that.
Of course, now that the reviews have been detected, the feature's been disabled. Too bad, I could spend all day thinking up reviews... (Raw Story)
-I think he's trying to lose...-
John McCain seems to be running some sort of failure-based scam like in The Producers. Earlier this morning, McCain told the TODAY Show that wondering when troops could come home from Iraq is something "that's not too important."
Oops...
Later, it came out at Politico that McCain's considering a place for Dick Freakin' Cheney in his administration. In an interview for a book about the Big Dick, McCain told author Stephen Hayes, "I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah."
Dude, people hate Dick Cheney. Polls show that jock itch is more popular. Seriously, this could knock a few points off McCain's approval right there.
Maybe McCain enjoys being a candidate, but doesn't think he really wants the job or something. It's got to be something like that. (Think Progress)
-A McCain trifecta-
Meghan McCain, daughter of John and second wife Cindy, is writing a children's book. Subject; Daddy.
"I am truly excited about the opportunity to write a children's book about my father, who is not only a fantastic dad, but also a great American," says Meghan, who blogs Pappa's campaign. "This book will offer children the unique opportunity to see the character building events that happened over his lifetime, experiences that led up to his current bid to become the future president of the United States."
Considering Dad's history, a bio for kids might be a recipe for sleepless nights, wet beds, and frequent nightmares. "Here's Pop-pop being shot down over Vietnam. Oh no! He's captured by the Vietcong! They're bad people. Really bad people..."
Imagine The Cat in The Hat, only with Nazis. It'd kinda be like that. (AP)
