If Obama is dubbed a 'rock star' it is virtually the same as 'elitist'...just my thoughts

I agree with your premise, that that is what they were going for, I still think it's a bad strategy.

To reuse my Beatles and Elvis analogy, it's usually only the "elistists" that look down on the popular trends, that wouldn't be caught dead listening to a Top 10 hit. Girls fainting in NY did NOT turn off girls in Nebraska.

The rest of us, frankly, get that a Big Mac tastes good, can sing along with most "pop" music, actually does watch TV, including reality TV and Desperate Housewives. The reason things get "popular" is because they do have mass appeal...even if we sometimes do not admit to it.

Showing that people love Obama (and trust me, there are people in Kansas that looooove him as much as there is on the Coasts) just makes people intrigued as to what all the fuss is about.

The thought of having fish nibble on the dead skin of my feet makes all the hair on my arm stand straight up. I cringe thinking of it. If it were given as a gift, I'd definitely regift...and fast.

As to spa days, Lurker, I'm with you. I have done a few, usually as a big day for one of my friends.

I'd rather spend the day lounging around the pool with friends drinking than lounge around the same pool and have to go get up and get my toenails done and then my pores cleaned by a bored woman who wants to sell me a $100 lip treatment balm.

I don't find it that fun, let alone rewarding.

One of Glenn's admirers is having a bad day

Yeah, the freaks. Why would someone that like's GG's writings and ideas follow his blog?

Turley on KO was good, and made me think that KO recognizes where we are coming from, but it's a little late to be shocked and outraged by potential Bush pardons that no one could have foreseen.

By the way, the latest headline article here at Salon is pretty good and right up many of the regular postr's here alley.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/index1.html

The author thinks it's bigger than Watergate, but I would argue that threshold has already been passed.

Damn. You're pretty good. I say that with sincerity, even if I cringe a bit in embarassment for those you go after.

No wonder so many men here bow down to your prowess. (g)

Obama stays home, McCain supporters criticize him.

Obama goes abroad, McCain supporters criticize him.

The McCain's will have to throw a few more barbecues to get his Base back in line.

I think the McCain camp's little hissy fit about how mean and unfair the media has treated them with outright attacks on a few specific personalities might make it even harder for McCain to get favorable coverage in the long run.

Chris Matthews liked McCain quite a bit, talked about him well all the time, but it was Chris they repeatedly used in their Obama Love video to show how in the tank the media was for Obama. Somehow I don't think Chris will make all the over the top nice comments about John now...not even comments about "straight talk" and maverick and smart hawk for him anymore.

Let John McCain find out how a neutral (let alone offended) press feels about him, he'll understand what bad press can really feel like.

They are probably trying to get McCain more practice to sticking to the script...he is not as easy to manage as Bush was who would just repeat talking points no matter the question.

What's funny is they whine that the national newscorp is following Obama around to get interviews, and now they limit the national news from getting to get interviews from him.

It makes sense that you don't want your spy to draw the attention of every man and woman in the room when they walk in the door, unless they have a reason that explains the flashiness, like being the wealthy spouse of a handsome ambassador.

Otherwise, my bet is you want the spy to be unassuming, under the radar. As the poster above said, completely unthreatening.

One of the last big spy cases here in the US involved a Chinese-American woman who was middle aged and looked like an accountant in face and fashion sense. She was a fundraiser for the Republican party in CA and even got invites to events that put her around V.P. Gore. She managed to have affairs with a couple of high ups including one in the FBI. If she looked like a bombshell they might have wondered what she saw in them, she didn't and was probably successful at getting a number of secrets from Lawrence Livermore to the Chinese. I guess that makes her a honeypot...but I doubt there are many tht could pull that kind of stuff off.

Your points would be better served if you stuck to the truth and didn't just make shit up.

Obama was wrong when he said his great uncle helped liberate Auschwitz, it was Buchenwald. But you had to go on and say that there was no uncle, etc...

http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/holocaust-museum-confirms-obamas-uncles.html

unless they have a reason that explains the flashiness, like being the wealthy spouse of a handsome ambassador.

umm, like Valerie Plame

Not this gotcha garbage about a timeline "gaffe."

If all your mistakes are designed to make you look better, and you repeat the same info after being corrected, it's no longer a gaffe, it's either a complete lack of understanding or an outright lie.

If Obama had kept saying Auschwitz, 57 states or some other thing, he definitely should be called out.

McCain decrying the amount of attention Obama is getting at the same time as shutting down access is also a sign that things aren't going so well.