Shirtless at the Beach? My stars!
By Nate • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Politics
In what has to be the stupidest attack on anyone, ever, the McCain campaign has gone after Barack Obama for taking his shirt off and bodysurfing WHILE ON VACATION IN HAWAI’I.
To quote the campaign’s attack: “You know you may just be a global celebrity when you get this headline in Reuters, “Obama Takes Shirt Off Again, Goes Body Surfing In Hawaii.”
I could almost understand the attack if Obama had done this while in a Dennys in Des Moines, because that would show signs of a complete break with reality, which, despite past precident(*cough*George Bush*cough*), we cannot abide in a presidential candidate in 2008. Plus, I don’t need to see anyone shirtless while I’m enjoying my Grand Slam.
That is an actual Reuters headline, by the way; “Obama Takes His Shirt Off Again, Goes Bodysurfing in Hawai’i“. I used to have such respect for you, Reuters. I would tell all my friends that you were way better than AP and were totally cool to hang with, but now…sigh.
I’m not even sure what McCain is getting at with this attack. Taking off your shirt at the beach makes you a celebrity? I guess that makes me George Clooney, or at least Topher Grace, cuz I take off my shirt almost every time I go to the beach. Y’know why? Because I’m at the motherf*$#ing beach, that’s why! That’s what normal guys do when the go to the beach, they take off their shirts. Unless they’re obese and ashamed, in which case they keep their shirts on, but go into the water, anyway, treating everyone to the fat-guy-wet-tshirt-contest experience, which is doubly bad as the simple alternative.
Don’t tell John McCain this, but there are even some beaches where women also take off their tops. Scandalous, I know, but it’s true.
Of course, this might all just be a ploy to distract the press and public from this little nugget about McCain and his staff having monetary ties to the prosperity of the Georgian government. One million of them, in fact.
Nate is pretty sure Mark Twain said it best, "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."
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So apparently Obama was actually in Hawaii visiting the ocean where his mother’s ashes were scattered. I can’t believe the McCain Camp let that one slide. Lots of opportunity for ridicule there.
“Only the biggest celebrity in the world could possibly miss his mother. Not John McCain. He doesn’t miss his mother at all, because she’s still alive and kicking at the age of 128. America needs a real leader, and a real leader can’t have a mother who’s dead.
I’m John McCain, and I approved this horrifying campaign.”
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He TOOK off his SHIRT!? No wait… he was naked from the waist up!? That doesn’t work either… We could see his abs?!
Okay, no matter how I say it, I don’t see any big deal, cause there isn’t one. McCain just lost another few votes for that one. I don’t want him elected because Johnism doesn’t have the same ring to it as Bushism.