Photographic PROOF: Reuters is focusing EXCLUSIVELY on the TOUGH ISSUES surrounding this campaign

[Amerigo Vespucci]

:eyes:

The shoes of Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (L) and his vice presidential running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are shown as they stand at a campaign event in Dayton, Ohio August 29, 2008.
(John Gress/Reuters)

[RagAss]

1. Reuters understands we've become a National cartoon !!!!!!!

[DJ13]

2. "Theres no place like home! Theres no place like home!"

Auntie Emm, Toto!

[dkf]

5. lol. I didn't catch that until you mentioned it.

Very metaphorical indeed.

[Kutjara]

3. Don't you love the way the caption pretends...

...the photo is focusing on both McCain's and Palin's shoes? When's the last time they published photos of a male candidate's shoes? 1952?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. The media recently gushed over Cindy McCain's "jeans & bare feet" in the Vanity Fair pics...

...like I said, ALL of the important issues.



:eyes:

[ingac70]

4. OMFG.

:wtf:

[madeline_con]

6. The well heeled. Eat your hearts out, taxpayers! HAHAHAHA!

[CherokeeDem]

9. Well Heeled Indeed...

In 2004 I met a young woman who was a reporter for her college paper: a staunch Dem, she decided she wanted to attend the Republican Convention as well as the Democratic Convention. When we asked what her impression of the Repubs was, all she said was, Oh my...you should have seen the shoes!" Not much else impressed her. But it is good to know they are living up to their shoe fetish.

[Muttocracy]

8. so that's the pair of shoes Maureen Dowd was invoking. nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. Apparently...

Vice in Go-Go Boots?

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 31, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31dowd.html?hp



Sarah is a zealot, but she’s a fun zealot. She has a beehive and sexy shoes, and the day she’s named she goes shopping with McCain in Ohio for a cheerleader outfit for her daughter.

As she once told Vogue, she’s learned the hard way to deal with press comments about her looks. “I wish they’d stick with the issues instead of discussing my black go-go boots,” she said. “A reporter once asked me about it during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wearing my hair on top of my head and these schoolmarm glasses.”

This chick flick, naturally, features a wild stroke of fate, when the two-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one.

The movie ends with the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait. Putting away her breast pump, she points her rifle and informs him frostily that she has some expertise in Russia because it’s close to Alaska. “Back off, Commie dude,” she says. “I’m a much better shot than Cheney.”

Then she takes off in her seaplane and lands on the White House lawn, near the new ice fishing hole and hockey rink. The “First Dude,” as she calls the hunky Eskimo in the East Wing, waits on his snowmobile with the kids — Track (named after high school track meets), Bristol (after Bristol Bay where they did commercial fishing), Willow (after a community in Alaska), Piper (just a cool name) and Trig (Norse for “strength.”)

[Doremus]

23. Heh, and here I thought her toes looked peculiar

because she was wearing pantyhose with reinforced toes. :rofl:

A fashion expert I'm not ... nor young enough to be "up" on the latest fads like "French-style pedicures." Speaking of which, what the hell are they? ;)

[redqueen]

10. There is precious little real news anymore... it's mostly entertainment.

Idiocracy...

[doublethink]

20. Ha Ha ..... you've seen that movie I take it?

My first post yesterday when McCain announced Palin his running mate ...

check it out ..... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3878341&mesg_id=3878341

[RadicalTexan]

12. I MUCH prefer these:

[pansypoo53219]

13. OH MY!

toe cleavage!

[pansypoo53219]

14. OH MY!

toe cleavage!

[la la]

15. notice the pedicure?

all the high class b*tches in Orange County,CA ( mostly repubs) have this same pedicure.

it's the in thing, don't cha know~

[nyccitizen]

16. [message deleted]

[la la]

17. notice the pedicure?

all the high class b*tches in Orange County,CA ( mostly repubs) have this same pedicure.

it's the in thing, don't cha know

[nyccitizen]

18. If she clicks her heels 3 times and says "there's no place like home" will she go back to Alaska?

nt

[Barack_America]

19. To be fair, I noticed them immediately on Friday...

And they sent me into full catty mode.

They're simply not very professional. To me, they represent a perfect summary of her Washington naivete.

[Heather MC]

21. I like the shoes, the shoes get my vote

[NatBurner]

22. *sigh*

the world is TRULY coming to an end...

[AzDar]

24. Is it just the photo, or is that one seriously biffed spray-on tan?

[Warren DeMontague]

25. The worst part is, she stole those shoes from Rudy Giuliani.

Just sayin'.